Murder By The Yard

MARGARET TAYLER YATES

Publication: The Macmillan Company, 1942, New York

First edition. Inked gift inscription on front fly leaf by the author and also signed by her husband, who was stationed at Pearl Harbor as a Commander of the U. S. Navy and both were there during the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Near fine in dust jacket with professional restoration to the spine ends, corners and extremities. Two young women who are planning for the marriage of one of them, accidentally uncover a sinister plot by the Japanese and take the information to Navy Intelligence. They are told to leave it all for Navy Intelligence to handle, but their determination leads them to the cellar of a lonely house on Oahu as December 7th approaches. The author and her husband were in Honolulu during the raid of December 7, 1941. Her husband, Commander R. R. Yates, U.S.N., remained in Pearl Harbor while Mrs. Yates returned to take temporary residence in New York. An interesting mystery published shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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