Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

192pp. Blue cloth covered boards (worn, rounded at corners and spine ends, heavily marked). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, else no other library markings. Internally neat, clean barring a little spotting. Pages well-thumbed. Tightly bound. In its original dust jacket (rubbed and a little chapped at edges, shelf wear visible on verso). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. The detective fiction novel upon which the 1948 film of the same name, starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine, was based.