The Blunderer.

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

Publication: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1954, New York

First edition. Author's second mystery novel and third book. Fine in dust jacket with light restoration to the spine ends and corners and a few minor creases to top and bottom of rear panel. A man incriminates himself in his wife's accidental death by going on many occasions to visit a man who murdered his own wife under circumstances that are all too similar to the accidental death. 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers say, "--spins an enthralling suspense plot involving all her recurrent themes of coincidence, guilt, complicity, rationality, and neurosis. In many of her subsequent novels, she takes these basic elements, and reformulates them to powerful effect, without her books ever seeming merely formulaic." Handsome copy.

Inventory Number: 42210