The Glass Too Many Jack Mann 1973 Bookfinger 1st US ed. Occult Detective Gees

Description: Author: Jack Mann (pseudonym of E. Charles Vivian)Title: The Glass Too Many Publisher: BookfingerEdition: First US Edition Date: 1973Format: HardcoverSize: 8vo 8" - 9" tallPages: 284The Glass Too Many (1940) is sequel of sorts to The Maker of Shadows in that it also deals with a descendant of Mann's completely made-up "lost race" of the Azilians. There is also some more lurid business as in Maker of Shadows with ritual sacrifice in the catacombs beneath an ancestral home and some impossible poisonings that John Dickson Carr might envy. Gees is hired to discover who might be poisoning a British lord. He has started to tremble and shake uncontrollably just like a parlor maid had weeks earlier. Five weeks after her tremors she attacked another maid in a homicidal rage and was sent off to an asylum. As part of his investigations Gees, along with young Claire, discover an underground altar where very recently someone had been burning hallucinogenic herbs as part of a ritual to "the Unnamed."- Pretty Sinister BooksReginald 14704. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 271]. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering,Condition: Very good with spine somewhat cocked and light bumping to the ends, very slight spotting to the black cloth on the front board, top edge foxing, front free end paper creased twice at outside corner. See photos 868991/clph

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