The Naked Face by Sheldon, Sidney - 1984

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, top fore corners lightly bumped. ; Later printing, 1984. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. DJ design uncredited. ; 216 pages; Sheldon's first novel. Dr. Judd Stevens, an attractive and successful Manhattan psychoanalyst, is accused of murdering a patient as well as his own receptionist. To prove his innocence and track down the real killer, who he believes must be one of his other patients, Stevens hires a private investigator by the name of Norman Z. Moody. But is soon led to believe that Moody himself is the killer and that he will be Moody's next victim... .