The Mystery of Tumbling Reef
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #14990
Spine sun, edgewear, rubbed, light cock, light tone, owner's signature, readers list glued to rear free endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; South Pacific mystery by prolific Irish-born, Australia-resident author with fascinating life-history. "Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw achieved considerable prominence in the first half of the 1900s for her travels in the South Pacific, her non-fictional travel books on that area, and her novels set in exotic tropical locations. She was born in Ireland to a member of the “Irish” line of Grimshaws and traveled extensively in the Pacific region, including a stay of over 30 years in New Guinea. Her many nonfictional works and novels were widely published during her lifetime and remain the object of extensive analysis by modern scholars. She died in New South Wales Australia in 1953 at the age of 82." Allen J Hubin; Crime Fiction IV 1749-2000: A Comprehensive Bibliography; page 648. Hard-to-find First American Edition, First Printing.; 294 pages.
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