Paperback 972: The Doctor Died at Dusk / Geoffrey Homes (Dell 14)

Paperback 972: Dell 14 (1st ptg, 1943)

Title: The Doctor Died at Dusk
Author: Geoffrey Homes
Cover artist: William Strohmer

Estimated value: $15
Condition: 5/10

Best things about this cover:

• "I LOVE MY DESK BLOTTER SO MUCH!"
• I wonder about his right hand. What was he ... doing ... when he died? Loving his desk blotter?
• Those are terrible, monstrous, pseudo-aquatic fingers.

Best things about this back cover:

• Mapback!
• Morgantown! Winner: Most Rectangular Town in America, 1943!
• Morgantown! Winner: Most Sparely Appointed Town in America, 1943!
  Morgantown: Enjoy Our Vast, Vast Open Spaces and Seven Trees!

Page 123~

Ingram wasn't looking in the microscope now.

Be sure to catch the sequel to this book, entitled "No Time For Microscopes" (Fall 1944)

~RP

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