The Secret House Of Death

RUTH RENDELL

Publication: Doubleday & Company, Inc 1949, Garden City

First U.S. edition. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket, lightly sunned on spine and with minor wear to spine ends. "Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight, telling everyone a cockamamie story about him being a central heating salesman. Still, it's a shock when she's found shot dead, covered by the equally dead body of the "salesman." Now Susan Townsend -- the Norths' next-door neighbor, who discovers the bodies -- must help Louise's husband, Bob, get back on his feet. But is she helping a neighbor . . . or a murderer?" Crime Club murder mystery.

Inventory Number: 35651