The Affair Of The Splintered Heart.

CLIFFORD KNIGHT

Publication: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942, New York

First edition. Winner of the first Red Badge Mystery Prize, winning out over a field of more than 300 entries. Fine, bright, copy in a colorful dust jacket with light restoration to the head of spine. Huntoon Rogers arrives in Honolulu two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor and is confronted with a strange case of murder. A man is brought to the house where Rogers is staying after being thrown from a surfboard off Waikiki Beach---and while still unconscious is killed by the thrust of a wooden splinter into his heart---murdered in the presence of several people.

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