Thomas Walsh EYE OF THE NEEDLE First Edition and similar items

THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE By Thomas Walsh. New York: Simon and Schuster, An Inner Sanctum Mystery, 1961. First edition, first printing. The fifth well-plotted, suspenseful mystery by the Edgar Award winning author who had three books adapted to successful films, including the 1950 film Noir 'Union Station' starring William Holden. This novel featuring a NYC police detective, and a Priest who worried about convicting the innocent or protecting the guilty by disclosing too much or too little information, won the Inner Sanctum's Mystery Contest Award. A presentable first edition in dust jacket. Mild age-toning to the cover borders as usual, tiny tear to the lower spine edge, else tight, square and very good plus in linen-textured cream boards with hot-pink titles to the spine, Inner Sanctum book-reading face patterned end-papers; in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with art by Tony Palladino, with some mild wrinkle-lines to the right side of the lower front panel, hot-pink spine titles are faded-out to the spine panel that only shows the author's name in black, minute crimps to the upper and lower spine edges. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear protective, removable sleeve after scanning for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!