DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME
Language: English
Published by The Armchair Detective Library, New York, 1991
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since October 10, 2002
Condition: Used - Fine
£ 9.34
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The second of a three mystery trilogy written by Gore Vidal under the pseudonym of Edgar Box. Originally published in the early 1950s, the books feature a young PR man and amateur sleuth, Peter Cutler Sargeant II. In "Death Before Bedtime," Sargeant is hired by a Senator with presidential ambitions and travels with the politician's beautiful daughter to Washington, D.C., where the Senator himself is murdered shortly after Sargeant arrives, presenting the PR man with a locked room mystery and a house full of suspects. With an introduction by Vidal explaining his three-book venture into the mystery genre. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a 3/4-inch tear at the bottom of the fold between the back panel and the dj's rear flap, and a second tear of the same length with a crease on the top edge of the front panel as other minor edge-wear. None of the wear significantly affects the jacket's design or lettering. It is not price-clipped. A decent reading copy of an interesting byway in Vidal's career.…
Seller Inventory # 005104
- Title
- DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME
- Author
- Box, Edgar (Gore Vidal)
- Publisher
- The Armchair Detective Library, New York
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Good Plus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0922890900
- ISBN 13
- 9780922890903
- Edition
- First Printing, Second Edition.
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: Peter Cutler Sargeant II
- Seller catalogs
- Amateur Sleuth, Mystery, New York
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Review
"The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box." --"The New Republic"
Clever and lively. Anthony Boucher, "Los Angeles Times"
The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box. "The New Republic""
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H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
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