Mad With Much Heart

London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]., 1945. First edition. First edition. Very good copy in a colorful, bright dust jacket with tiny nicks to the spine ends and extremities. A detective meets up with a criminal and is ready to arrest him, when local townspeople want to take the law into their own hands. The detective finds himself fighting in… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1946. First U.S. edition. When a little girl is murdered in a small English village, townspeople vow vengeance. James Wilson is sent up from London to see that justice is done and finds his growing love for a pretty blind woman greatly complicates matters. Basis for the 1951 Nicholas Ray movie "On Dangerous Ground" starring… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Jarrolds Publishers, 1945. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, possibly a reprint although "First published 1945" only statement, 136 pages; black cloth covers with yellowish/green spine lettering, hardly a trace of shelf wear, large circular rubber stamp inside front cover of "Canadian Auxiliary Services" with four Canadian charities named around edges (possibly a giveaway wartime copy?), overall… Read more about this item