Skeffington, the original publisher, sold mainly to libraries, so a first edition of the novel would be extremely valuable, if such a book were still in existence.
In his introduction to the revived novel, which came out in 2014, author Martin Edwards writes that the original print run of the novel in 1935 was very small and there was no paperback edition. The Cornish Coast Murder, in which the setting plays an important part and is very well described, was the first in a series of 30 detective novels by John Bude, whose real name was Ernest Carpenter Elmore.īude (Elmore) died on 8 November 1957, 64 years ago today, having celebrated his 56th birthday four days previously.įifty-seven years later, The Cornish Coast Murder, was reprinted by the British Library in their Crime Classics series. Bude’s talent for detective fiction is now entertaining new readers
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