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Published by International Polygonics, Ltd., N.Y., 1984
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pocket paperback, a clean, tight and square copy; see our other titles listed in this series.
Published by International Polygonics, Ltd., N.Y., 1987
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pocket paperback, a clean, tight and square copy -- see our other titles listed in this series.
Published by International Polygonics, Ltd., N.Y., 1987
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pocket paperback, a clean, tight and square copy.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1989
ISBN 10: 1558820523ISBN 13: 9781558820524
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st pbk ed. Oversize wraps., spine slant else very good. Originally published in 1937 as by Peter Coffin. A classic country-house mystery written by one of the masters of the hard-boiled genre. The novel opens with a scholarly professor arriving at a remote Michigan mansion at night during a storm. He is there at the invitation of his wealthy great-uncle, as are numerous other relatives, presumably to learn about their inheritances. Quite soon the great-uncle is found dead in his study. His head is--well--missing--along with his new will. Everyone assumes the murderer is an escaped lunatic who killed his family by decapitation. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, Ltd., N. Y., 1991
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First IPL Printing. slight cocking to the spine, otherwise fine in mylar wrapped dust jacket.
Published by International Polygonics, Ltd., N.Y., 1985
Seller: Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. pocket paperback; see our other titles listed in this series, this is in clean, tight, uncocked condition, probably not read.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1983
ISBN 10: 0930330080ISBN 13: 9780930330088
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Sweny, Stephen (illustrator). 2nd Printing. 2nd printing, October 1987. Pages lightly age toned else a fine , tight copy. In eighteenth-century England, Dr. Johnson and his biographer, James Boswell, investigate nine mysteries which involve highwaymen, hidden treasure, and murder. These delightful, cerebral mysteries which have more in common with Sherlock Holmes. The stories are related by James Boswell, the real life biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Some are based upon actual events with Johnson and Boswell added by literary license. In all of the stories the language and surroundings ring true to the period. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1985
ISBN 10: 093033034XISBN 13: 9780930330347
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Sweny, Stephen (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st eition, November 1985, with complete number line beginning with 1. Illustrations by Stephen Sweny. Seven stories, including one recounting the famous first meeting of Johnson and Boswell, and de la Torre has added a new introduction explaining how she came to write them. "De la Torre makes Samuel Johnson, the 18th century lexicographer and author, and his biographer, James Boswell, into detectives who, like Holmes and Watson, solve crimes with their superior intellects and the aid of science. Boswell narrates the adventures in a style familiar to readers of the Life of Johnson, and de la Torre notes actual cases that inspired the stories: a missing heir who suddenly reappears to claim his fortune; a "servant wench" who is kidnapped and then returns with no memory of what has happened to her; body-snatchers apprehended; a triple murder discovered in a locked room. This is the first Johnson book since 1960 and, with its provocative literary twist, makes for an enjoyable mystery read." -- PW. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1991
ISBN 10: 1558820906ISBN 13: 9781558820906
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). 1st Prtg. 1st prtg [1st US edition; originally published in England in 1976). Part of the "Library of Crime Classics", cover art by Nicky Zann. Page edges lightly soiled else about fine. In England, Kyrll Bonflglloll's first novel "Don't Point That Thing at Me" received rapturous reviews, won the first John Creasy Memorial Award and was the Sunday Telegraph's Crime Book of the Year. The narrator is once again the Hon. Charlie Mortdecal, now married to the exquisite Johanna. This time, however, while staying In Jersey, he is on the side of the angels, helping to track down a rapist who appears to have invoked some of the ancient forms of evil that were manifest in the crimes of the so-called -Beast of Jersey. As the horrors mount Charlie's Incorrigible humor keeps pace as he tells the tale, so that a wildly comic narrative mixes with tragedy and cruelty-sometimes veiled, sometimes explicit-with bewildering speed. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1991
ISBN 10: 1558821112ISBN 13: 9781558821118
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). First Printing. 1st printing, October 1991, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Broadway producer Peter Duluth's actress wife Iris is out of town for a while visiting her ailing mother. Peter is induced to go to a party held by their overweening upstairs neighbors, belle dame actress Lottie Marin and her subjugated husband Brian. There he meets Nanny Ordway, a young wannabe writer who seems like a fish out of water. Because he's lonely and she's broke and hungry, he takes her out for a burger. They see each other a few more times, always strictly platonically, and finally he lends her the key to the Duluth apartment so she can write there during the day, while he's out, rather than try to do so in the dumpy Greenwich Village apartment she shares with another girl. It never dawns on him that others might regard his friendship with Nanny rather differently until, on Iris's return, they go back to the apartment from the airport to find Nanny, dressed in pajamas, dead and hanging from the chandelier in the master bedroom, having apparently hanged herself. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1989
ISBN 10: 1558820175ISBN 13: 9781558820173
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). First Printing. First IPL printing New Edition July 1989, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback. Cover Illustration by Nicky Zann. Locked Room Mystery [Locked Room Murders by Robert Adey #333]. Near fine copy. Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, Lesley Grant, the mysterious newcomer to the village. When Grant accidentally shoots a fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair - following a very strange reaction to his predictions - Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller - and chief accuser - is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1991
ISBN 10: 1558820760ISBN 13: 9781558820760
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). 1st Prtg. First IPL printining, January 1991, with complete number line beginning with 1. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A class trip to a Manhattan aquarium leads Miss Withers to her first case. Although the stock market had crashed recently, it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get under way. For 39-year-old spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, it's business as usual. And part of her usual business is taking her class for an outing to the aquarium to see the penguins. Instead, she spots the floating corpse of Wall Street broker Gerald Lester and quickly realizes that Inspector Oscar Piper ofNYPD Homicide isn't up to solving this tricky case, especially when he appears ready to accept the confession of an obviously innocent young man. Red herrings as well as penguins abound. Miss Withers has a number of questions that need answers before she can reel in the real murderer: Who did Lester's wife meet behind the stairs? What did the pickpocket see? Who was man in the fedora? And just how did Miss Wither's hatpin turn into a lethal weapon? First published in 1931, The Penguin Pool Murder was as big a hit with readers as it was with moviegoers when it was filmed the following year starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Withers and James Gleason as Inspector Piper. Trade Paperback.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1984
ISBN 10: 0930330099ISBN 13: 9780930330095
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Sweny, Stephen (illustrator). 1st Prtg. Light soiling at spine else near fine copy. Eight short stories written in the richly ornate style of Boswell, in which the sage of Fleet Street and his biographer devote their prodigious learning to the detection of 18th century crime and chicanery. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1990
ISBN 10: 1558820639ISBN 13: 9781558820630
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. No Jacket. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). First Printing. First IPL printing June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. [Originally published in 1945 by Simon.] Oversize trade paperback. An unread, new copy. Peter Duluth; Reno, NV. Lieutenant Peter Duluth and his actress wife Iris are spending his leave at the Lake Tahoe home of wealthy Lorraine Pleygel. Other guests include Lorraine's brother, and a group of women who are establishing Reno residence in order to obtain divorces. However, Peter, though worldly he may be, is uneasy when their hostess produces the estranged husbands in the whimsical belief that she is pinch-hitting for Cupid. The first lovely lady dies in Peter's arms while dancing. Book.
Published by International Polygonics, LTD, N.Y., 1990
ISBN 10: 1558820701ISBN 13: 9781558820708
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). First Edition. 1st printing, June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. (Orig. pub. by Simon, 1944). Pages just starting to age tone else a near fine copy of this trade Paperback. Sanders, as himself, is finally getting a break from playing The Falcon and The Saint films by making a Western. Someone is shot during a scene, despite all the guns supposedly being loaded with blanks. When it's quickly discovered it may have been Sanders' gun that did the killing, he removes the evidence. He's suspected anyway, yet can't reveal what he's done because it will only make him look more guilty. So Sanders must use everything he's learned playing The Falcon and The Saint in order to find the real killer. Book.