Hasty Wedding

MIGNON G. EBERHART

Publication: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1938, Garden City

First edition. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf : "For Irma Merrick / With very best wishes / Mignon G. Eberhart." Fine, bright copy in a sharp copy of the rare dust jacket. Basis for the 1945 Republic Pictures film noir "Three's A Crowd." When her fiance is mysteriously murdered, heiress Diane Whipple reluctantly agrees to marry Jeffrey Locke. Since both Diane and Jeffrey visited the dead man just before the murder, both are under suspicion and neither completely trusts the other. Housed in a two-tone quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. An exceptional copy of an elusive title.

Inventory Number: 49407