Before the Fact
by Iles, Francis
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. The cloth/top edge has mild scattered dampstains, spine sunned, corners bumped. A small blurb is glued to the ffep from The New Yorker, Feb 4, 1933. PO info pencilled to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles". Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective novel", with Iles being "the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today" for his authorship of Malice Aforethought (1931) and Before the Fact (1932).
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31731
- Title
- Before the Fact
- Author
- Iles, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1932
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