Jimmie Dale And The Blue Envelope Murder.

FRANK L. PACKARD

Publication: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930, Garden City

First edition. Former owner's name and date written in ink on front and rear paste down sheet, but covered by the dust jacket flap, and a minor closed tear to fore-edge of front fly leaf, else near fine, tight copy in a sharp dust jacket. Dust jacket art by Alfred N. Simpkin. Jimmie Dale, the wealthy dilettante clubman who cracks safes at night as the Gray Seal, finds in his card tray a blue envelope with a note inside that leads to the murder of Ray Thorne found dead beside his ransacked safe. An exceptional dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 46964