MARIGNY, COUNT ALFRED DE. More Devil than Saint. The Beechhurst Press, New York 1946. 3rd printing. 256 pp. Orig. cloth in dust wrappers. Very good in good only wrappers with some tears and sunning to spine. ¶ With a personal dedication on the fly-leaf from the author to the Danish newspaper editor Georg Andresen: »To Mr. George Andresen. From a saint to the Devil Himself! Fred de Marigny 1947«. The notorius playboy de Marigny was narrowly acquitted for the murder of his wealthy father-in-law Sir Harry Oakes, but later refused immigration into Canada, the native country of his wife. Cut-out from »The Standard«, Montreal April 24, 1946 relating to the story enclosed.
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