Innocent Bystander.

Frost (Barbara)

Innocent Bystander.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few tiny spots to borders of prelims, and the odd one further in, pp. [viii], 184, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in red, a little rubbing at extremities, dustjacket with a small amount of nicking and creasing at extremities, very good

Publication Details: New York: Coward-McCann, [1955]

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf by the author: 'To Professor A.M. Low, with very best wishes, Barbara Frost'. The recipient was presumably the author and inventor, Archibald Montgomery Low – though it is late in his life, and the connection with Frost is obscure.Her third and final mystery novel with Marka de Lancey, a New York lawyer, as its protagonist; a brief comparison of the portrait of the heroine by John J. Shiveley (Frost's husband) on the dustjacket's rear flap and the author photograph on its rear panel illustrates a high degree of identification....moreInscribed on the flyleaf by the author: 'To Professor A.M. Low, with very best wishes, Barbara Frost'. The recipient was presumably the author and inventor, Archibald Montgomery Low – though it is late in his life, and the connection with Frost is obscure.Her third and final mystery novel with Marka de Lancey, a New York lawyer, as its protagonist; a brief comparison of the portrait of the heroine by John J. Shiveley (Frost's husband) on the dustjacket's rear flap and the author photograph on its rear panel illustrates a high degree of identification. HIDE