Here’s To Crime

By Courtney Ryley Cooper. Circus performer Cooper, considered an authority on the topic of crime by J. Edgar Hoover, wrote extensively on it generally and on the dangers of marijuana specifically. His death, considered a suicide by authorities, may have been a murder itself. This 1937 hardcover has no jacket, and the boards are work, especially at spine and corners, with some rubbing as well. Pages are very toned, although clean/unmarked; the book, a veteran of a beauty salon as you can see on the flyleaf, has a weakened front hinge, but the pages are fairly snug. An interesting pickup for a genre reader.