BABCOCK, DWIGHT V. A Homicide for Hannah. 8vo, publisher's orange cloth stamped in blue; price-clipped dust jacket, spine panel with minor rubbing to folds and head and foot, small nicks to fold corners, short closed tears; endpapers toned. First edition. The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature. The English edition appeared as Murder for Hannah published the same year. Hubin, p. 39. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941