Latimer Jonathan Writing Peter Coffin (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First 1989 edition of this hardcover book. White cloth on red boards. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. Light foxing on page edges. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped. Some shelf wear, corners of dust jacket rubbed. Couple chips, couple slits edge of dust jacket. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now for pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. The Search for My Great-Uncle's Head is a mystery by Jonathan Latimer, written under the pen name Peter Coffin."When Peter Coffin's mysterious great-uncle Tobias summons the family to his manor in the wilds of Michigan, his aunt warns him to stay away." Wading through the estate's muck at midnight, Peter crosses paths with a singing, escaped lunatic who recently decapitated his own family. Upon reaching the house, Peter is greeted by hostile cousins bearing shotguns, who initially mistake the mud-covered professor for the madman. Shortly after his arrival, his wealthy and cruel great-uncle Tobias is murdered and decapitated in his study. In a classic twist of puzzle plotting, "both his head and his will go missing". While the local police assume the escaped ax-wielding maniac committed the crime, Peter suspects his own greedy, Coffin-named relatives. With the missing will dictating the family fortune, the hunt becomes a race to find both the killer and the patriarch's severed head before the family tears itself apart.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition under Latimer's name. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-297 [298-302: blank], original light green cloth, spine stamped in black, top edge stained green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. The author's only book using this pseudonym. The author Peter Coffin is also the main character and narrator of the novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 175]. Bookplate to front paste down, some sunning at the base of the spine, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good to very good dust jacket with light rubbing and edge wear, closed tears and creasing along the lower front panel, jagged chip encompassing the lower spine panel, 45 mm deep at the apex. An uncommon book in dust jacket. (31388). …