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Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230755ISBN 13: 9780915230754
Seller: The Sly Fox, Virden, IL, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Printing. Nice, unsold, unread first printing of this Golden Age mystery first published in 1942. Ships in a box, fast service by a real bricks and mortar independent bookstore open since 1998. No remainder marks.
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Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870086ISBN 13: 9781601870087
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A comic mystery, first published in 1942, in which a professor investigates the death of a colleague. Gently bumped.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2003
ISBN 10: 0915230607ISBN 13: 9780915230600
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A rich Greek builds a replica of a Minoan palace on an isolated island off of California. When a priceless statue is stolen, and the theft turns into murder, Professor Theocritus Lucius Westborough is called in. Reprint, first published in 1939. Gently bumped.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, 2008
ISBN 10: 160187023XISBN 13: 9781601870230
Seller: The Sly Fox, Virden, IL, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Am. Ed. Nice, unsold, unread first American edition of this Mrs. Bradley mystery originally published in 1949. Ships in a box, fast service from a real bricks and mortar independent bookstore open since 1998. No remainder marks.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, 2008
Seller: Ebeth & Abayjay Books, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
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Published by Lyons, Colorado: Rue Morgue Press, (2009), 2009
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition - First thus- a trade paperback. The first US edition of a book originally published in 1947, featuring Mitchell's formidable sleuth, Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley. 192 pp. Cover art by Sarah Elizabeth Taz Schantz. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 091523095XISBN 13: 9780915230952
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. 1st Ed. AS NEW. Scotland Yard looks into the connection cbteween five suicides in Long Greeting and Miss Tidy, the white -haired owner of the village teashop. It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police." The owner of the Minerva, a combination hat, tea, and beauty shop, Miss Tidy is a tiny, white-haired lady whose Dresden-doll daintiness conceals a cold and calculating heart. As everyone in the village is quick to point out, she is not a person who inspires affection in others. Five people had died in Long Greeting and its environs in the past months, all by their own hands, and their deaths are the talk of the small village. Although Miss Tidy doesn't realize it until she makes her statement to the police, Detective-Inspector Raikes of Scotland Yard has already been called down to Long Greeting to work with the local constabulary, in particular Superintendent Lecky. The villagers don't take kindly at first to an outsider in their midst, but as poison-pen letters and then murder follow upon the inexplicable suicides, they gradually begin sharing their secrets with Raikes and Lecky, until finally the sharp-witted detectives are able to make some sense of the puzzling events. A superb example of the classic English village mystery, The Bells of Old Bailey is the last book Dorothy Bowers published. She died at the age of 46 of tuberculosis the following year, 1948, shortly after her induction into England's prestigious Detection Club. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870043ISBN 13: 9781601870049
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. First US Edition. 1st US edition (originally published in England in 1952). Shakespearean actor Abercrombie Lewker turns sleuth when a fellow climber dies in an explosion in the shadow of Mount Snowdon. Since he knew David Webhouse, a member of Parliament, only slightly and never much cared for him, Abercrombie Lewker is surprised to be invited to Plas Mawr, Webhouse's estate in northern Wales, for a long weekend houseparty on the eve of their impending knighthood. The day after he confides in Lewker that he believes his life to be in danger, Webhouse dies while crossing a nearby footbridge that has been boobytrapped with explosives. Lewker and his old friend Detective-Inspector George Grimmett are perplexed: although nobody liked Webhouse and many would benefit from his death, it's impossible to find a logical suspect who could have engineered the fatal explosion. Reluctantly Lewker turns his attention away from the enticing mountain scenery and digs deep for a murderer. This is the fourth case for Lewker, considered the foremost Shakespearean actor-manager of his day as well as a noted mountaineer. First published in United Kingdom in 1952, it makes its first American appearance here. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2010
ISBN 10: 1601870450ISBN 13: 9781601870452
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. New papberback. Dagobert and Jane Brown came to the Basse-Alpes to improve their Procençal. During their stay they become embroiled in a murder. The question is: did the intended victim die or did someone else die in his place?. Book.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 160187040XISBN 13: 9781601870407
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). First Printing. 1st printing. Paperback. As new, unread copy. Death is inevitable, or is it.George Arrow, a good-looking, independently wealthy and single man of 36, has just been diagnosed with a weak heart. A heart so weak, his doctor tells him, he must go to extraordinary lengths to avoid putting the slightest strain upon it. On his doctor's advice, George packs up his life in Dublin and boards a train to the Bay of Galway where he intends to live quietly in a hotel and await the inevitable end. On the train, he meets John Burden, and as they chat, George realizes that his new acquaintance is an odious man. So, it is with some alarm that he realizes the very unpleasant John Burden is, just like George himself, about to start a new chapter of his life at Crane's Court. As that new life progresses, George realizes that all of his first impressions of Burden-that he is a selfish, nasty man-are entirely correct. And George is not the only person who thinks so. So, when Burden is found dead, stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife, it's not a matter of finding out why he was killed but of narrowing down the field of people who wanted him gone. Inspector Mike Kenny must identify the killer, but where to start?. Book.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2010
ISBN 10: 1601870442ISBN 13: 9781601870445
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). First Printing. 1st printing. Paperback. An unread, new copy. Since his retirement from King's University, life has been rather quiet for Professor Daly . . . .In fact, a peaceful retirement, even when that retirement has been punctuated by helping the police to solve the odd crime, may be slightly over-rated: at least in Daly's opinion. So when he is invited back to King's University to deliver a series of prestigious lectures, his heart leaps. But on arrival he discovers that he has not been called back to the university on account of his literary knowledge.On the contrary, he has been called upon purely because the retired professor has experience of solving crime. And somebody has been sending the president of King's threatening letters. Somebody within the university, it seems, wants him dead. Perhaps aware of his own arrogant, materialistic, and bullying nature and the effects it may produce, President Bradley seems genuinely worried for his safety. And so Daly, assisted by Inspector Mike Kenny, sets about finding the author of the poison pen letters. Until Bradley dies. Poisoned. At which point, Daly and Kenny find themselves seeking a murderer among the university's population. First published in 1956, this third and final mystery by the author is a witty and perceptive look at professors behaving badly, a subject as a faculty wife herself she had ample experience of. Book.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230658ISBN 13: 9780915230655
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. What's a little bigamy here and there when you're trying to catch the person who murdered you? Dick Rouston claimed Jane Cowrer murdered his fiancée, which made for a pretty awkward situation, since Jane was equally convinced that Dick had murdered her. No, this isn t a ghost story, although there is an old black piano that appears to play by itself every night and can only be heard by Jane. Of course, Jane isn t really Jane. She s wealthy Gloria Rouston--or at least she was until someone pushed her off a bridge one night while she was vacationing with Dick and several gold-digging friends and relatives. She managed to escape that attempt on her life with only a concussion and a few scratches. She figured the killer(or killers) would just finish her off if she returned home, so she used the wad of money in her purse to pay for a little plastic surgery and went back to her home town to do a little sleuthing, hoping that no one would see plain old Gloria in the new body and face sported by the now glamorous Jane. And she didn t really set out to marry John Cowrer, the nephew of the woman who helped nurse her back to health, but she had to admit that a new husband provided excellent cover, provided you didn t think too much about the bigamy laws. It s another outrageous plot from two of the most inventive mystery writers of the 1930s and 1940s, although the tone in this 1948 novel is a bit darker than usual. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230712ISBN 13: 9780915230716
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. Fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Murder shows an artistic flair in this 1941 mystery set in a fictionalized version of Taos and its Luhan House and introducing Pat and Jean Abbott. Mona Brandons artist hushand disappeared several months ago. Had he just grown tired of his domineering, artsy wife or was it his body lying out there in the desert, rendered unrecognizable by turkey vultures? And was it just a coincidence that a handsome private detective from San Francisco just happened to pick that time to show up in Santa Maria to pursue an art career? Young Jean HoIly, owner of The Turquoise Shop, hasn't much use for Mona. who uses her wealth to dominate this small New Mexio community. Mona isnt very popular with much of the local Mexican population, especially after she sent one of their own -- a beautiful teenager -- to prison. When murder strikes a second time, this time at Mona's enormous adobe mansion at the edge of town. suspicion falls not only on her but on several of the artists and writers she had encouraged to move to Santa Maria. Mona is loosely based on Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy Easterner who came to Taos in 1918 and turned the town into a mecca for the arts, luring D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe. Robinson Jeffers, Ansel Adams, and many others there. Mona's hacienda is also modeled after Luhan's own home. Inspired by an actual event in Taos, it was the first mystery by Frances Crane and introduced the world to Pat and Jean Abbott, one of the most popular husband-and-wife sleuthing teams in detective fiction. The scarecest of her books, it was reprinted by Popular Library during WWII but has not been in print for over 60 years!. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 1601870396ISBN 13: 9781601870391
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: As New. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). First Printing. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. First published in 1946. When a man of many aliases turns up as the fifth of a party of British prisoners to be landed on the south coast of England from a German submarine, Tommy Hambledon takes a special interest in his activities. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230836ISBN 13: 9780915230839
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. First published in England in 1957, this third Ringwood novel garnered rave reviews from the British press. A body in an Oxford haystack sends Inspector Ringwood to France where memories of the Resistance are still very fresh. Oxford murders always present problems, mused the Scotland Yard official, especially when there's a Frenchman involved. So it was only natural that the Praefect of Pentecost College asked the Yard to send an Oxford man to look into the matter. Inspector Richard Ringwood, with the aid of his bloodhound, traced the body in the haystack back to an Oxford undergraduate's ancient car. But the boy has disappeared, along with his older brother, whose exploits behind enemy lines in France during the Nazi occupation have made him a national hero. He just might also be a murderer trying to relive his glory days of high adventure. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230720ISBN 13: 9780915230723
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy. A gypsy woman's vision puts a gentleman copper on the trail of a kidnapper in the streets, gardens and halls of Oxford. When two month-old Perdita Link goes missing from her pram in an Oxford don's garden, Inspector Richard Ringwood is asked to interrupt his courting to track her down. It's a very perplexing case. There are almost as many suspects as leads, including a gypsy woman, a mysterious foreign intruder, an observing young thug, a conscientious nanny, and even an eccentric don or two. All Inspector Ringwood knows for sure is that his chances of finding young Perdita alive lessen with each passing hour. With the help of his fiancée, Claire Liddicote, and Sam Plummer, a resourceful, if plodding, Oxford policeman, Richard explores every corner of this ancient university town, from its academic halls to nearby gypsy encampments. An Oxford graduate himself, Richard is equally at home trading witticisms in Latin with the dons as he is in using his limited Romany (book-learned, he has no idea how the words are pronounced) to converse with an old gypsy woman. He's taken aback when she goes into a trance and tells him he is to deal with "a single loss, a double find." Written by the w ife of Austin Farrer, described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as "'possibIy the greatest Anglican mind ol the twentieth century," this very cleverly titled 1952 traditional English mystery offers up a marvelous portrait ot life in Oxford, where the Farrers were intimate friends to CS. Lewis, Charles Williams, .J.R.R. Tolkien, and Dorothy L. Sayers. While there's plenty ot attention paid to the coming and goings of the dons, much of it with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Farrer also depicts the daily doings of their families, as well as the townspeople. with an insider's quiet humor. The action comes to a head during a very avant garde performance of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale,' leading to Richard's gripping fnial battle with a most fiercesome adversary. 192 pages. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0915230909ISBN 13: 9780915230907
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Mrs. Otis Carver walked into Link Simpson's gun and antique shop one hot August morning and shot herself. At least that's what everybody thought. Those delightfully mad interior-decorator sleuths - the Bryces - were upstairs conferring with Link about the legality of selling guns to hysterical women without permits when they heard the shot. When they got downstairs, Mrs. Carver was dead. Link's lawyer suggested suicide because Mrs. Carver was so unattractive. The Bryces had their hearts set on murder. By the time they had uncovered a pink glove, poisoned toothpaste, glass on the stairs, and several motives-including a luscious TV actress who was an intimate friend of Mr. Carver-the plot had thickened considerably. And the Bryces were happily off on one of the zaniest cases in the history of homicide. "Glass on the Stairs" was fIrst published in 1954 and is the third of the four mysteries featuring the Bryces to be reprinted by The Rue Morgue Press. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230763ISBN 13: 9780915230761
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback originally published in 1950. When Judith took a job at a country hospital, she didn't expect her "reputation" would follow her. Or that "the Black Smith" would once again walk the corridors. The Black Smith is vintage Little, complete with a couple you just know will bicker all the way to "I do," a corpse that won't stay put, a cast of characters that would do any loony bin proud, and a closed setting this time a country hospital where the staff works, lives and engages in a little mayhem on the side. Judith Onslow took the job as head nurse to start life over again after she was named corespondent in a messy divorce, only to discover that the brother-in-law of her ex-lover is the doctor in charge of the hospital. Then there's Shirley, the new switchboard operator, who arrives looking just a bit on the trampy side and then proceeds to turn herself into Miss Prim and Proper. If these aren't enough ingredients to fuel a potent homicidal cocktail, toss in a doctor who drinks, an amiable playboy who's always hanging around, a birdlike woman who is the former head nurse, some demanding patients, one elderly doctor who's crippled by arthritis and another, even older doctor who likes to wander the halls of the hospital wielding a very sharp knife. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 1601870418ISBN 13: 9781601870414
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First US Edition. 1st US edition. (Orig published in England in 1947). A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. When former banana-grower Edris Tidson hears of a possible sighting of a water-naid he insists that his wife, her aunt Prissie and Prissie's young ward Connie, travel with him to Winchester in search of the nymph. As tensions rise between Connie and Edris, Prissie invites part-time Freudian Mrs Bradley to join them and unofficially observe Edris and his growing obsession. Then two young boys are found drowned and speculation mounts that the naid is luring them to her deaths. Can Mrs Bradley unravel the mysteries hidden within the river?. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2009
ISBN 10: 160187037XISBN 13: 9781601870377
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). First Printing. 1st Printing. New, unread copy of this trade Paperback. First published in 1949, it's the second in this lighthearted series of screwball mysteries. In this second entry in the Jane and Dagobert Brown series (this one written in 1949), the couple is traveling across the U.S. and ends up in New Mexico, where Dagobert insists that they drop in on his old acquaintance, Miranda, whom Dagobert knew when in the Army in Europe. Miranda is beautiful, intelligent, rich--and married, but when the Browns arrive at her ranch, they soon learn that she's not loved by the family she's supporting or even by some of the friends who are also visiting the ranch. But it's still a surprise when she's found stabbed to death the next morning. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0915230887ISBN 13: 9780915230884
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. First US Edition. 1st Us edition. (Originally published in England in 1951). A fine, unread copy. Introduction by Tom & Enid Schantz. Clifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers, being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only to name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its comforts and unique services. Unfortunately, there isn't room at the club for Benji Cann, a gentleman's outfitter newly acquitted-to his great surprise-of murdering his mistress. So Flush arranges for Benji to be temporarily quartered next door in a ratinfested house inhabited by two artistic couples. When Benji and a female member of the Asterisk Club turn up dead, the two households both have reason to avoid the police and dispose of the bodies. This is the first American edition of this witty tale of misadventure sure to appeal to fans of Robert Barnard, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Sarah Caudwell. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0915230968ISBN 13: 9780915230969
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: As New. First Edition. 1st edition. An unread copy of this trade paperback. First published in 1944, this was the fourth book to feature Jeff and Haila Troy whose exploits were popular with readers and movie goers six decades ago. "Photographer Jeff Troy and his wife Haila are visiting Central Park and run into a group of adult enthusiasts for model boats, which they sail in the lake. When one of them is found impossibly murdered (he's sitting on a rocky knoll and no-one approaches him before he's stabbed), the wife of one of the suspects hires Jeff for the princely sum of $1000--well, it's 1944 and that's a lot of money. Jeff doesn't want to investigate, but Haila insists, and they find themselves questioning a lot of different suspects and getting in a lot of trouble. Humorous, light-hearted, sometimes spooky--the Troys cover a lot of ground until they identify the not-at-all lighthearted motive for murder." -- Goodreads. Book.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230747ISBN 13: 9780915230747
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Pudim, Rob (illustrator). 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Cleo Delaphine was the Lentement Decorating Shop s most disagreeable customer but that didn t mean the staff was exactly glad to see her dead, even if she did have a reputation for being slow-paying. The Lentement s owner, Emily Murdock, was far more interested in talking employee Henry Bryce into marrying her. Henry, on the other hand, had other ideas. His last wife had cried a lot and ended up throwing a cup of hot coffee in his face. He wasn t anxious to go there again. Still, Emily and Henry couldn t help but wonder if the gun they discovered in the bust of Daniel Webster had anything to do with Cleo s murder. After all, the cops hadn t found the murder weapon. Emily figured the gun could have been there for the entire year the bust had sat on the shelf waiting for her to make some repairs, so she reattached it inside the bust and sent Henry to the Belasco Theater on Broadway where it was to be used as a stage prop in a new play--only someone socked Henry and stole the bust before he could make the delivery. It was then that Henry and Emily decided to visit the cops, who at first didn t show much interest in their theories. That was all to change after a second body showed up in the stairwell leading up to the shop. The cops took a long hard look at Emily and Henry, as well as some of their other friends, including Cleo s ex-husband and Henry s sister, Cornelia, a woman with a penchant for attempting suicide. First published in 1949, this lighthearted comedy of manners and errors is the first of four books to feature Emily and Henry. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230739ISBN 13: 9780915230730
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First US Edition. 1st US edition. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. When Sir Alban found a Minoan ring where a Minoan ring shouldn't be found, it made his reputation. It may also have cost him his life. Inspector Richard Ringwood and his new wife Clare, a fellow Oxford graduate, enjoy reading between the lines of the obituaries in the London Times over breakfast. They were especially delighted to discover a particularly nasty notice. Sir Alban Worrall's obituary contained all the usual flattering words but it's pretty obvious that the author thought the dearly departed had bought, rather than earned, his reputation as an archaeologist. Shortly afterwards, a young woman who had come to the dead man's defense in an impassioned letter to the Times is nearly killed in a knife attack. Ringwood's investigation moves from the streets of London to the halls of the British Museum before it eventually winds its way back to a trench in Corfu and a most surprising murderer. The author and her husband, Austin Farrer, described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as "possibly the greatest Anglican mind of the twentieth century," lived in Oxford where Austin was a Fellow at Trinity College and later Warden of Keble College. The Farrers were intimate friends to CS. Lewis, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien. and Dorothy L. Sayers, a group collectively known as the Inklings. The Cretan Counterfeit was first published in England in 1954 and makes its first appearance in the U.S. in this edition. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230801ISBN 13: 9780915230808
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Printing. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Why does everyone suddenly want to get their hands on Bonnie Prince Charlie's trousers? Emily Bryce was complaining that life had been a bit dull since she and Henry got married. That was before she went to England on a decorating job and brought back to New York not only an entire eccentric (is there any other kind?) English family but a pair of Bonnie Prince Charlie's green plaid trousers. The pants weren't much to look at, but it seemed like just about everyone wanted to snatch them away from Emily. As an historical rarity the pants weren't particularly valuable and probably not even genuine. Emily was quite puzzled by all the fuss and decided the pants no doubt concealed a fortune. All her probing, however, yielded little more than some dubious royal lint. The cops didn't seemed too concerned about the pants. They were far more interested in how one of the Brits met an untimely death at the edge of a sword. Since the victim didn't know anyone in the United States, it seemed likely that the swordsman was a member of the entourage from England. And somehow those multi-colored pants of Charlie's seemed linked to his death. Emily does a bit of unorthodox sleuthing and gets knocked on the head for her trouble while Henry is nearly poisoned. Then the last person in the world you'd suspect pulls a gun on our heroes. It all adds up to another sparkling comedy of mismanners by one of the funniest mystery writers of the twentieth century. "The Green Plaid Pants " was first published in 1951 and was the second book to feature Emily and Henry Bryce. The first, "The Gun in Daniel Webster's Bust", was reprinted by The Rue Morgue Press in 2004. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0915230941ISBN 13: 9780915230945
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg., (originally published in 1951). Fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Joe Crolliz wanted his memory back. He just didn't expect to remember a murder.When Joe , who suffers from amnesia, answers an advertisement to be a paid companion to a blind woman, he recognizes the house and everything in it, and is at first pleased that his memory seems to be coming back. But he doesn't much like what he's starting to remember. Madame Rose, his imperious employer, was once a great ballerina, and she's determined that her beautiful daughter, Colina, follow in her footsteps. But Colina seems more interested in Richard, a brash young lawyer whose firm has been managing their relatives' affairs and who has become a houseguest in Madame's genteel but shabby home. When he injures his ankle, his overprotective parents arrive at Madame Rose's and move into another of the rooms. Meanwhile, questions arise as to the whereabouts of Joe's alcoholic wife, Lily, who herself was once Madame Rose's companion but seems to have disappeared. As Joe's memory gradually returns, he becomes a desperate man. And Madame Rose's long-suffering maid, Aggie, becomes equally desperate, wondering how she's going to feed all those extra mouths. Little fans will recognize the authors' favorite ploy of assembling a wide and divergent group of suspects into the closed confmes of a selfcontained dwelling. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0915230992ISBN 13: 9780915230990
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. Trade paperback. When a UN ambassador's apartment gets an unexpected makeover, decorators Emily and Henry Bryce find themselves mixed up in murder faster than you can shake a martini. Pierre Marie Cloche, the United Nations ambassador from Gaad, is at a loss as to why somebody presented his wife with a lavish decoratingjob on their apartment, including a piano done in gold leaf and a secretary adorned with portraits of Marx and Engels. The media are quick to assume that he's living in luxury while his people are starving and that he's in the pocket oftheSoviets as well. So when the decorator responsible, Camille Lorenz, is found strangled to death, Cloche is naturally a suspect. But Henry and Emily Bryce, who helped Camille on the job, aren't so sure Cloche is to blame, and neither is their friend Detective Burgreen, who agrees with them that the ambassador is a gentle soul who is probably the victim of a plot to discredit him and his country. But why? A single pearl missing from Camille's broken necklace provides the final clue to solving the puzzle, but not until many drinks and meals have been consumed in the company of their good friends and neighbors in the little piece of Manhattan that the Bryces call home. It's another light-hearted caper in this frothy series, first published in 1963. Trade Paperback.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons/ Boulder, Colorado, 2009
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Softcover Edition. (First Softcover Edition) Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons/ Boulder, Colorado, 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230860ISBN 13: 9780915230860
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Softcover Edition. (First Softcover Edition) Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
Published by Rue Morgue Press, Lyons, Colorado, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0915230828ISBN 13: 9780915230822
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback (orig pub in 1940). The victim knew the identity of his potential murderer but the clues he left behind were too obscure even for Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard. Three times young Archy Mitfold escaped murderous attacks. Knowing the identity of his would-be killer and anticipating further attempts, he contrived to leave behind clues that would lead Scotland Yard to his killer's doorstep. Of course Archy thought himself clever enough to avoid actually being murdered and assumed these clues-mostly bird sketches-would never actually be needed. Archy was wrong. Unfortunately for Inspector Dan Pardoe and Sergeant Tommy Salt, Archy's clues were so obscure that they defied intepretation. World War II was only weeks old and it looked like Archy's brief flirtation with the pro-Nazi Nordic Bond might be behind his murder. Anti-German feelings were at their height during this "phony war" period as Londoners blacked out their windows to German bombers that were months away from attacking. On the other hand, Archy's death also seemed somehow connected to the disappearnce of a camera-shy British philantrophist. It will take all of Pardoe's celebrated ingenuity to nab the killer. Trade Paperback.