The After House, A Mystery Story
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial blue cloth, near fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket, very rare in jacket, light rubbing and edgewear. A mystery aboard a yacht, involving an axe murderer. As one Goodreads reviewer wrote, "Most people don't realize that this book is based on a true event that happened in the 1890's aboard a lumber ship called the Herbert Fuller. Though Ms. Rinehart changed many of the details, her book brought a new attention to the case and lead, eventually, to the capture of the real criminal, releasing the mate who had been wrongly convicted of the ax murders." Near fine / very good. Item #H30836
Price: $300.00