London: Hutchinson and Co.. 1942.
Rare supernatural crime
First edition. 184x130mm. pp. 184. Pale blue cloth, lettered in red. Original illustrated dustjacket. Top and bottom edges of jacket a little chipped and two small closed tears to foot of jacket. Internally very good but with some toning to the edges. Overall a very good copy. Rare (Worldcat recording ten copies) and especially so in the dustjacket.
Margaret Long wrote under seven pseudonyms, principally as Marjorie Bowen. As Joseph Shearing she wrote crime mysteries, based on true stories overlaid with the supernatural. The Fetch is set in 1870 England and concerns a young aristocrat's obsession with the murder of a girl committed by one of his forebears. Unsurprisingly, this causes the girl's spectral double (her "fetch") to be stirred up and the novel charts the hero's descent into madness and the thwarting of the romantic plans of his fiancée Adelaide Fenton.
