The Tragedy Of Z.

BARNABY ROSS

Publication: The Viking Press, 1933, New York

First edition. Signed on front free fly leaf as "Barnaby Ross" and "Ellery Queen" in Frederic Dannay's hand. Front and rear endpapers are darkened because of bleed-through of binder's glue to front and rear endpapers, especially at the gutters, else a near fine copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. A Drury Lane mystery. The third in the four book series that make up the Drury Lane cases. The four books are THE TRAGEDY OF X (1932), THE TRAGEDY OF Y (1932), THE TRAGEDY OF Z (1933), and DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE (1933). In THE TRAGEDY OF Z Drury Lane, retired actor and criminal investigator, is called into the case of the murder of Senator Fawcett which he shares with an attractive and ingeniously deductive young girl, daughter of Inspector Thumm. Together they solve the strange mystery of the double murder and the meaning of the fragmentary clues, which pieced together, literally as well as figuratively, build up a startling tragedy. A very scarce book, especially in dust jacket, in sharp condition and signed.

Inventory Number: 48472