Bedeviled by Block Libbie (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Detective Book Club. Tan cloth binding. The pages are tanned. There is a name label on the front end paper. There is foxing on the end papers. The dust jacket has a few small edge tears (some have been repaired with clear tape), a few small soil spots and is darkened on the spine area. Included in this book: The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Silver Leopard by Helen Reilly; and Bedeviled by Libbie Block. 495 pages in total.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dell 344. Light creases to the spine. A little wear to the edges.

Paperback. first PB. 344, very good -fine, reading crease (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dell 344 mapback. Very Good softcover. Clean, lightly scuffed covers and spine with short dark scrape on rear cover; light creasing; very slight edge wear; tightly bound; clean interior with some general age darkening; leaves remain supple. 16mo, 189 pp.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Good-Very Good. First Printing. First printing, November 1949. Vintage Paperback, Dell Mapback #344. Reading crease, light edgewear, spine edges rubbed with sligt loss at head and foot. Back cover map of "The Murder Apartment of the Himberts on Park Avenue, NYC." "The malicious, exploitative and deeply disturbed wife of Willem Himbert, symphony conductor, becomes the target of Elizabeth Beel's undying animosity when the wife begins to concoct a fantasy in which she is the object of John Maicey's desire. John is Elizabeth's boyfriend, perhaps soon-to-be husband, but Coca has other plans for the promising composer. Elizabeth's deep seated hatred is further fueled by the fact that she knows that Coca has infiltrated herself into the romantic lives of other musicians who at one time were Himbert's proteges. She will not see John's chances at fame in the music world destroyed by Coca's petty and devious scheming. She plans Coca's murder in her head almost nightly, various methods and means, until she doesn't know the difference between her fantasies and reality. When Coca ends up dead Elizabeth is unsure if she carried out her murderous plan and turns detective to find out if it was she --or someone else -- who put a permanent end to Coca's twisted soap opera-like machinations." -- J.F. Norris on his blog "Pretty Sinister Books". [Highly recommended]. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Vintage Paperback.

Paperback. first PB. 344, almost near fine, (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. Near Fine to Fine in pictorial wraps with white &yellow lettering & cover art picturing a blonde woman behind a curtain watching a pianist performing.Mystery about a young woman with a slowly building obsession to kill. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Three excellent mysteries in one volume. With some small staining to boards, but otherwise very crisp and clean and covered in a near fine jacket. Scarce in jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- THE CASE OF THE FAN-DANCER'S HORSE --- (Book 29 in the Perry Mason series) --- Mason finds he may be dancing dangerously close to a killer, when two dazzling dead-ringers claim to be the same famous fan-dancer. --- THE SILVER LEOPARD --- (Book 15 in the Inspector McKee series) --- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- It was ten minutes past five on the afternoon of November the thirteenth when Catherine Lister left the doctor's office on Upper Park Avenue. . . . .The sun had gone and dusk was sifting down over the city. Traffic was heavy on the wide dim street, but the pavements were almost empty. The lights were beginning to come on. In the country, she thought, the leaves would be gone and the tree branches would be black against the sky. --- BEDEVILED --- Surprisingly, this is the only mystery novel that Libbie Block ever wrote - a one-hit wonder, and it is a doozey. Right from the first page. Right from the first sentence: "I am Elizabeth, and I want to kill a woman named Coca Himbert.". . . . .Elizabeth tells most of the story herself, and it's like being inside a diseased mind, as she slowly becomes aware that her husband, a struggling young classical composer, is being stolen away from her by the maestro conductor's young wife (this is a recurring pattern) and murder becomes her only solution, an obsession she cannot remove from her mind. . . . . And when the woman is eventually murdered, Elizabeth confesses, even though she does not actually remember committing the crime. But the police have no other suspect. Did she do it, or can she find the person who did? It's a mystery like no other. . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A woman's jealousy and hatred for a rival has her plotting murder. When the rival is killed, she is not sure whether she did it. Bumped and rubbed with wear to the lower edges, tape residue to the boards and end papers. Front hinge cracking but still solid, upper corner of the front end paper cut off. Jacket shows very light wear at the edges, wrinkle across the middle. Spine just slightly sunned, light foxing to the flaps, in Brodart.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black cloth titled in yellow. Stated First edition. Spine a bit softened, slight soil to cloth. Bookplate to ffep, with large pencilled letter Y (erased) adjacent to bookplate. Slightest foxing. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, chipped, edgeworn with clear tape repair to crown and top points. Flap price $2.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 217 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pub by Doubleday / Crime Club, 1947, stated 1st Edition. NOT exLib. VG cond. hardcover w/ VG unclipped ($2.00) pict dustjacket now in archival grade Brodart. Black cloth over bds w/ Yellow lettering on cover & spine. Bottom edges scuffed & worn through, o/w complete, intact & unmarked. Fore-edge deckled. Possible very faint mustiness. Lt-mdt peripheral chipping & wear to dj, still 95+% intact & displays very well. 217pp. Square, straight, tight & clean, overall VG/VG or better cond. same or next day shipping. NOTE: We are fortunate to have a large number of these Golden Age mystery / detective titles in stock, some listed online, some not, & we'd be happy to answer any questions.