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BEFORE THE FACT.

BEFORE THE FACT.

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BEFORE THE FACT.

by ILES, FRANCIS

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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932., 1932. First edition. First U. S. edition. Former owner's name label at top of front pastedown sheet and inked name at top of front fly leaf, else a fine, bright copy with red top edges bright in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners, and extremities, and a corner torn off the top edge of the rear flap. After eight years of marriage, Lina Aysgarth discovers that her husband is a murderer. Haycraft- Queen Cornerstone and basis for the 1941 Oscar winning Hitchcock classic Suspicion, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. A rare book in collectors’ condition.

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Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles". Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective novel", with Iles being "the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today" for his authorship of Malice Aforethought (1931) and Before the Fact (1932).

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Bookseller
BUCKINGHAM BOOKS US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
41667
Title
BEFORE THE FACT.
Author
ILES, FRANCIS
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932.
Place of Publication
Garden City
Date Published
1932

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