The Bellamy Trial.

FRANCES NOYES HART

Publication: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927, Garden City

First edition. Former owner's name else very good in dust jacket with light professional restoration to spine ends and extremities. This novel is based upon the famous Hall-Mills case, and "unfolds the totally absorbing story of the misalliances and crossed lives of two couples from the gentry of upstate New York; one wife has been murdered, and the husband and the other wife are the accused," so say 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers. The Bellamy Trail was a pioneering work which defined the genre of the court-room mystery drama. The author's fame is based largely on this book. Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone title.

Inventory Number: 6892