After discovering that his prospective client has been mudered, Paul Shaw gets involved with a group of bungling young criminals, a questionable magazine editor, a night club swinger, and attempts on his own life
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Seller: Bookmarc's, La Porte, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. CB6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with a mark in black ink across the top outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with some very light scattered rubbing. This is a title in the publisher's Paul Shaw mystery series. 218p. Size: 6"x8.5". Seller Inventory # SCW11106
Seller: Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
1st printing of 1st edition. Light dust soiling along top edge otherwise near fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 651534
Seller: Symbilbooks, Longwood, FL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used: Very Good. Very good, with brand new bookplate under-cover, and good jacket. 1986 First Edition, 1st printing HB. Seller Inventory # dinn-pf-aqn
Seller: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Walker & Co, 1986. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Seller Inventory # 546902
Seller: Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A.
hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine Dust Jacket. A Paul Shaw mystery. Seller Inventory # 000783
Seller: Barnes & Nooyen Books, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: New. New Condition, Seller Inventory # 2608190004
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition by number code. Dust jacket is protected by mylar. Seller Inventory # 328305
Seller: Ebeth & Abayjay Books, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. But for a small red remainder dot at the bottom of the block of pages the book would be in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 002585
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing. Paul Shaw travels to California to meet a prospective client, but finds his dead body. Spine a bit cocked, bumped on the ends, with light foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Jacket flaps tanned, in mylar. Signed by Sadler on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # D150283
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The sixth and last novel of the Edgar Award-winning Lynds (writing as Mark Sadler, one of several pseudonyms) in this mystery-crime series featuring New York-based private detective Paul Shaw, called this time to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of a client; a Fine copy in like dustjacket of a first-rate novel by a badly under-appreciated writer. Collectable. Seller Inventory # 003659