Ein Mann namens Tauber : Kriminal-Roman

Published by AWA - Verlag E. F. Flatau & Co., 1942

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AWA-Verlag E. F. Flatau & Co. Munchen, [Published date: NO date listed]. German Translation of "The Sunday Pigeon Murders" originally published in English in 1942. Hard cover, 280 pp. No other printings listed. Acceptable+ in acceptable+ dust jacket. Glossy illustrated paper over boards have bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing, aging and soiling. Binding tight. Pages are aged, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along the edges. Moderate overall scuffing, soiling and aging to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Great cover art on both dust jacket and hard covers by H. [Hannes] Limmer. Craig Rice; born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig (1908?1957); was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction."? This?is the 1st book in the Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Mysteries,? in which two Two New York City street photographers develop a fool-proof get-rich-quick scheme that quickly backfires as they come up against mobsters, a dodgy chorus girl, multiple murders, a refrigerated corpse, and many others oddball characters. [From front jacket flep] Bingo Riggs und Jim Kuzak, zwei mittellose Stra?enfotographen in New York, f?hren trotz ihrer Armut ein idyllisches, friedliches Leben in einer m?blierten Zweizimmerwohnung im Hause der Witwe Harrigan; und ihrer reizenden Tochter Mary. Bingo schmiedet immer wieder hochfliegende Pl?ne, um mit einem Schlage reich zu werden, die sich aber leider nie verwirklichen lassen ? und Jim folgt ihm vertrauensvoll auf allen Pfaden; freilich ist es oft gerade- er, der mit seinem gesunden Menschenverstand in peinlichen Situationen eine?berraschende L?sung findet und durch seine unbestechliche Rechtschaffenheit Bingos manchmal nicht ganz einwandfreie Ideen auf den Boden der Wirklichkeit zur?ckf?hrt. Als die beiden ganz zuf?llig den reichen- Antiquit?tenh?ndler Tauber, der seit sieben Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist, im West-Park entdecken, fa?t Bingo- einen verwegenen, wenn auch gesetzlich etwas anr?chigen Plan, eine Viertelmillion Dollar zu erringen. Aber kaum- machen sich die beiden an die Verwirklichung dieser phantastischen Idee, als: sie unversehens in einen Wirbel von seltsamen und gef?hrlichen Ereignissen hineingeraten.…

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Title
Ein Mann namens Tauber : Kriminal-Roman
Author
Craig Rice (pseudonym of Georgiana Ann Craig);
Publisher
AWA - Verlag E. F. Flatau & Co.
Publication year
1942
Condition
Acceptable
Dust jacket
Acceptable
Binding
Hardcover

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