"The Dead Lie Still," a first edition published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. in New York in 1945, introduces William L. Stuart’s taut mystery, wherein a web of deception unravels amid a wartime backdrop, probing the shadows of human motive. This fine copy, free of owner inscriptions, exhibits no foxing or toning to contents or uncut edges. Encased in a VG+ dust jacket, unclipped, it bears minimal wear. A noteworthy example of mid-20th-century American detective fiction, this volume, with its well-preserved state, offers collectors a refined specimen of Stuart’s narrative craft, evocative of its era.