Rare copy of The Little White Hag by Francis Beeding. This 1st good edition copy was published by Little, Brown & Company in 1926. The Little White Hag is a fictional mystery which involves an arch criminal from the East, a clever American, and cocaine (a.k.a. little white hag!). A great adventurous thriller!
The author's name was the pseudonym used by a pair of writers, John Leslie Palmer and Hilary Aidan St George Saunders. Both were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". And Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI, worked for the Air Ministry in WWII writing the famous pamphlet The Battle of Britain and also was the librarian at the House of Commons from 1946-1950. The duo also wrote mainstream fiction under the name David Pilgrim.
This writing team is best remembered for such novels as "Death Walks in Eastrepps" and "The House of Dr. Edwards" which Alfred Hitchcock filmed as "Spellbound".
Great copy in very good condition - all pages and spine intact. The original owner signed their name on one of the blank pages preceding the publisher's page.
Product code: 1st Edition - good 1926 **RARE** ~ The Little White Hag by Francis Beeding