The Case Of The Runaway Corpse

ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

Publication: William Morrow & Company, 1954, New York

First edition. Inked inscription on the front fly leaf "With all best wishes of the author, Yours, Erle Stanley Gardner, November 1954." Fine copy in dust jacket with a small closed tear to bottom of front cover and a few minor rubs to the front cover. A Perry Mason mystery. Ed Davenport, on his deathbed, accuses his wife of poisoning him, then he expires. When Tragg arrives to investigate, the corpse has vanished, only to be found later, buried in a slit trench several miles away. Sharp copy.