Gordon Ashe [John Creasey] — Murder Most Foul

London, John Long, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the very scarce first edition of this murder mystery, the sixth novel in the Patrick Dawlish series. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work.Written by John Creasey, under his pseudonym Gordon Ashe. Signed 'Gordon Ashe' to the title page, in Creasey's hand and with the stamp 'From John Creasey' to the half title.The sixth Patrick Dawlish mystery, a series of novels authored between 1939 and 1975.Lacking the front free endpaper, and with bookseller's stamps to the half title and title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip and board perimeters. Shelf wear to back strip tail. Front free endpaper removed. Stamps to half title and title page. Internally, firmly bound. Signed and stamped to title page. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Worming between page 209 and rear free endpaper, obscuring a few words of text on each leaf. Good . Ill.: None. Good .