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The Black Piano

The Black Piano

by Conyth Little

Publisher Collins Crime Club

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  • Hardcover

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    A very good first edition in the original red cloth binding. A small sticker from a previous owner (shop) is affixed to the inside of the front cover. In a fair dust jacket. Unclipped, with damage to tops of both folds, a tear to the font cover, and 2 large tears on the spine.

About the book

Gloria Rouston is pushed off a bridge one dark night. It is only by a mircale that she is nto killed, and not unnaturally when she recovers she determines to find out who wanted to murder her. She is suspiscious of her husband and his ne'er-do-well family, who have sponged

About the Author

Conyth Little

Jessie Constance Little (1899-1980) together with her sister Gwyneth Little, wrote mysteries in the screwball-comedy fashion. The Little sisters are referred to as "queens of the wacky cozy." They were sometimes published as Conyth Little, a portmanteau of their names.

Their youngest sister Iris wrote under the pseudonym Robert James.

Constance Little married Lawrence Baker, a men's clothing designer for the Dubois Uniform Company in New York City.

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