Murder after Christmas by Rupert Latimer, pen-name of Algernon Victor Mills (English, 1905-1953).
First edition by MacDonald & Co., London, 1944.
The first edition of this vanishingly scarce 1940s novel, in illustrated price unclipped dust wrapper.
Murder after Christmas is an unusual and amusing Christmas mystery novel that has been out of print for three-quarters of a century.
The vanishingly scarce first edition, of this novel by Rupert Latimer, the pseudonym of Algernon Victor Mills, who became a writer following his career as a stage actor. Latimer published three novels, with this being preceded by Jam Today, and The Unenchanted Circle in 1933, both published in 1933. He followed those with the 1943 work Death in Real Life. All author's lifetime editions are exceptionally scarce.

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