Palmer; The Rugeley Poisoner
London: Duckworth, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (4) 5-192 : orange cloth boards : lettered in black to spine : INSCRIBED to author's mother.
Spine is sunned; three small chips to tail of front joint (2mm and 4mm); edges of top board also sunned; edges of block are toned. Item #3271
Dudley Raymond Barker (1910-1980) was a British journalist, editor and author of fiction, nonfiction, and literary essays. He was born in London and educated at Oxford and served in the RAF during WWII. He married Muriel Griffiths in 1935 and worked as a journalist and literary agent before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 1965. As well as writing under his own name he penned a series of crime fiction novels under the nom de plume Lionel Black and also a few as Anthony Matthews.
Barker was twenty-five when this, his first biography, was published. It is inscribed on the title page, "To my dear Mother, With love, from her son, Dudley. 12.10.'35"
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