From MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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First edition, Yellow cloth shows some light wear and soiling, spine foot is crushed, with a small tear at head of spine. In cluses is a laminated book mark of the complete dust wrapper. Only four men had ever been permitted a sight of the complete Todd collection of jewels. Two of them had died: one, the owner, under auspicious circumstances on the eve of showing his son, Jerry Todd, his newest acquisition - the Kathaba ruby, looted centuries before from a sacred dagoba. For six years Jerry has not been able to find the collection. A Chinese lavender jade bowl, bearing the carved Wu-Fu symbol of the five bats of good luck and longevity, found in the hands of a murdered jockey on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, gives the clew which brings a series of ruthless murders right to the door of Jerry Todd, a world wanderer, adventurer and crime investigator, who is suspected of the murders he is trying to solve. The trail leads from Kentucky to Jerry s boarded-up, ancestral mansion on Fifth Avenue; to London, where death strikes again and again until the solution is found in the unfrequented jungles of southern Ceylon. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the George Cloos collection of detective fiction. Seller Inventory # 020488
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE YELLOW ROBE MURDERS
Publisher: The Macaulay Company, N.Y.
Publication Date: 1935
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
Book Type: Book
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