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Etat : very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : very_good. The book is clean and shows minor shelf ware.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Etat : Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1951. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Red buckram boards and spine with black lettering on the spine and front board. Tinted textblock top edge. Deckled fore edge. 219 pp 8vo (5 3/4" x 8.5"x 7/8"). Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. A clean very presentable copy.Having escaped New York with the hopes of finishing his latest mystery novel in peace in Los Angeles, Ellery Queen is shocked when a knock on his door lands him right in the middle of yet another mystery. Leander Hill, a prominent Hollywood jeweler, recently died of a heart attack after receiving a package containing a dead dog, a sight that literally frightened him to death. Hill's daughter is convinced the act was premeditated murder and enlists Queen's help to catch the killer. Now Queen must harness all of his skills to prevail over this unscrupulous mind. A clean very presentable copy.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good.

mass_market. Etat : Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of a Dell POB edition of a collection of mystery stories from the mid 1950s previously published in the American Weekly. Dell 2260. Light edge wear. A very good copy. Kaline (cover illustration) (illustrateur).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Queen's Ransom: The Roman Hat Mystery Calamity Town Cat of Many Tails (Mystery Guild Lost Classics Omnibus) Edition: first This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. The dust jacket is soiled and discolored. The book has signs of age. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Clean Tight And Square. No Markings. With Little Shelf Wear.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 2nd printing stated of a very good softcover, with no jacket as issued. This is an ex-library copy with the usual stamps and stickers, but barely read, if at all. Six short stories collected here for the first time, including one new story published here for the first time celebrating 70 years of Ellery Queen books. The contents are on the copyright page in the seller images.…

Etat : NEAR FINE. Book club edition. Omnibus volume with five shorter works originally published between 1956 and 1965. 173 pp. Near fine in yellow boards, lacking the dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 238 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing at the spine; previous owner's name inside. This story collection contains: The Inner Circle; The President's Half-Disme; The Ides of Michael Magoon; The Emperor's Dice; The Gettysburg Bugle; The Medical Finger; The Fallen Angel; The Needle's Eye; The Three R's; The Dead Cat; The Tell-Tale Bottle and The Dauphin's Doll. Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus #471 (preceded by the 1936 Cosmopolitan magazine publication among others) 3rd printing stated with a different cover than the first printing, of a near fine softcover with minor wear to the extremities and pages toning. The 12th novel in the Ellery Queen mystery series, a mystery author working in Manhattan NY USA, usually aiding his father Inspector Queen of the N.Y.P.D. This series has been adapted many times for radio, films and TV.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Reprint. Reprint, First Printing; orig. c.r. 1942. Hard cover 8vo in black paper covered boards. As New and unread book in Fine DJ, now in clear protective cover. 357pp. inc. About the Author. Part of the series, "The Best Mysteries of All Time". Book. …

Soft cover. Etat : Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The July 1966 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, vol 48, # 1, #272. Contains a short novel by Rex Stout (The Dazzle Dan Murder Case - Squirt and the Monkey, See No Evil, published earlier in the novella collection Triple Jeopardy), and stories by Cornell Woolrich (It Only Takes a Minute to Die), Lilian Jackson Braun (The Dark One), Julian Symons (Murder on the Race Course), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee - Payoff), Thomas B Dewey (Lucien's Nose), William Brittain (The Woman Who Read Rex Stout), Lawrence Treat (H as in Hint), Anthony Boucher - William Anthony Parker White (Best New Mysteries of the Month), and others. Light edge wear and overall wear to the covers. Ball point pen circle around the date on the front cover. .5" closed tear at the bottom right spine hinge. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good copy.…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1951 hardcover release among others) first printing of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. the 21st or 24th novel (depending on what list you look up) in the Ellery Queen mystery series, a mystery author working in Manhattan NY USA, usually aiding his father Inspector Queen of the N.Y.P.D. This series has been adapted many times for radio, films and TV.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. Vintage Hardcover with Scarce DJ, 1941 Triangle Books 318 pages. Very Good+, in a VG+ DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to tan tweed cloth boards with red titles and accents - corners sharp. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean, unmarked and lightly toned (due to cheap wartime paper). Endpapers are clean and unmarked. This the 12th Ellery Queen mystery. Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murders. Dannay and Lee wrote most of the more than thirty novels and several short story collections in which Ellery Queen appeared as a character, and their books were among the most popular of American mysteries published between 1929 and 1971. A very handsome wartime copy in DJ. LOC SSS-03.…

Etat : VERY GOOD. Early book club edition. This is Ellery Queen's "25th and most unusual mystery novel." It opens with Queen standing by the window, sipping rum from a frosted glass, a still squirming corpse at his feet. The deceased? the Hollywood movie business. The cause of death: television? 219 pp. Very good in red boards (light toning to pages), no dust jacket.…

Etat : NEAR FINE. Early book club edition. When Dane McKell discovers his father having an affair, he attempts to break it up, only to fall in love with the woman himself - and when she is found murdered, he is the prime suspect. 183 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (toning to the spine of the dj).…

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 48 # 1, #272, of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1966. Contains stories by Rex Stout (The Dazzle Dan Murder Case - Squirt the Monkey, See No Evil, published early in the Triple Jeopardy novella collection), Cornell Woolrich (It Only Takes a Minute to Die), Lillian Jackson Braun (The Dark One), Julian Symons (Murder on the Race Course), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee - Payoff), Thomas B Dewey (Lucien's Nose), Lawrence Treat (H as in Heist), Anthony Boucher - William Anthony Parker White (Best Mysteries of the Month), and others. Light wear at the edges with a 3" diagonal crease at the top right of the front cover. 1.5" closed tear at the bottom left of the front cover.Light damp stain ring at the lower center of the front cover. A good copy.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing; mass-market paperback. "First printing November 1970" statement to the copyright page, code T4422 and .75c to the front cover. Originally published in 1938, this edition shows a distinct 1970s style with fun girly cover photo-art. Set in Hollywood, Ellery Queen is hired to write a screenplay. A decently presentable collectible. Elusive with this cover art. Mild hairline creases to the spine, minor surface stain spots to the upper rear cover, faint pressure-bend crease to the lower front cover, else very good in stiff-card wraps with cover photo art comprising a posed modern female wearing nothing but earrings and high-heel shoes and holding a giant, skull-and-cross-bones adorned 4 of Hearts playing card; original printed .75c price and code T4422 still intact to the front cover. Mass-market paperback; 223 pages.…

Etat : VERY GOOD. Early book club edition. Mystery novel featuring NY Police commissioner Richard Queen and his son Ellery Queen - unlike the other books in this series, it was writtn by the noted scrience fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. 213 pp. Very good in grey boards with red lettering on the spine (light toning to pages), in a very good dust jacket.…

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. First Thus. New York: Golden Press. 1969. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. First printing thus. "Ellery Queen's nephew traces the curious clues to a baffling mystery". Pictorial wrappers, 220 pages plus ads at the rear. Good to Very Good copy with cover creasing, 1/4" area of surface wear to the rear cover, text paper tanning. See photos 8/2.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Acceptable. Pages unmarked. Paper tanning. Covers discolored along edges. Rusty staples. Saddle-stitched. Binding firm. George Salter (cover) (illustrateur).

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition. Chips at spine on front cover and at bottom of back cover plus two short closed tears . 166 pages. Despite her name, Princess O'Shea is not a spoiled brat. When her father's death leaves her an orphan, she goes to live with her old uncle, Slater, and is horrified by what she finds. She knew the O'Sheas were a family of scoundrels, but Slater and his awful brood are the laziest bunch of nitwits she has ever met. From her moronic cousin Twig to the daffy Peet, every one of Princess's new relations is driven by greed, lust, and a desperate fear of work. The only thing holding them together is the promise of their father's fortuneand Uncle Slater is not long for this world. When Princess finds Slater lying facedown on his bedroom floor, she assumes he's sleeping off a bender. In fact, he will never wake again. His bourbon was poisoned, and if Princess isn't careful, she'll be the next O'Shea to die.…