Her Heart in Her Throat

New York: Harper and Brothers, (1942).

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Hardcover. First American edition. Sunning to the spine and light wear at the edges, near fine without the dustwrapper. Rex Stout's copy with his pencil signature "Rex" on the front fly. Apparently the book did not hold Stout's attention, and instead of Stout's usual practice of "grading" the book with a letter grade in pencil on the front pastedown, he has penciled a note there that states "surrender on p59." Published in the U.K. as *Midnight House*, this novel was the basis for the 1945 Lewis Allen-directed film *The Unseen* (a follow-up to his celebrated *The Uninvited* of the previous year) with a screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Hagar Wilde, and featuring Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, and Herbert Marshall. One of a number of books that came from the carriage house of Stout's home when it was resold.

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Item #64772 Her Heart in Her Throat. Ethel Lina WHITE.