It Happened at the Lake
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937.
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine and bright dustwrapper with slight tanning at the spine, and a touch of rubbing at the crown. Inscribed by the author to noted mystery author, George Harmon Coxe: "To George Harmon Coxe, who wields a mighty pen and a nasty niblick – Joseph T. Shaw." Mystery set in New York City. Aside from his work as an author, Shaw was the extremely influential publisher of *Black Mask*, the pulp magazine which defined the hardboiled style of writing, and furthered the careers of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul Whitfield, among many others, including Coxe.
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