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Book Condition: Used Very Good+
Seller: Louise Aird

Canada
About Item: This is a first edition (1929) of The Bellamy Trial, by the American writer Frances Noyes Hart (1890-1943). It is the first legal drama written by an American author and defined the genre of the court-room mystery dramas. It was made into a film in 1929. Noyes wrote the book in 1927. In 1929, it became part of the Front Page Mystery Series, published by Doubleday Doran. So this is a first edition from that series, rather than from the book's original printing. The Bellamy Trial is an "absorbing story of the mis-alliances and crossed lives of two couples from the gentry of upstate New York; one wife has been murdered, and the husband and the other wife are the accused," so say 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers. It is based on the infamous Hall-Mills murder case of 1922. Only the Lindbergh kidnapping received more media attention than this case; The Bellamy Trail also illustrates American society of the 1920s and depicts the first 'media circus'. It is 324 pages. Red boards with very minor wear to… Read More
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