arthur gordon maling (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 244 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound quarter grey cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Brock Poetter, of Price, Potter and Petacque, depended a great deal on his secretary, Helen Doyle. And so one evening, when Helen, looking unusually flustered, asked if she could see him on a personal matter, he was puzzled. He figured that she had finally decided to invest some of her savings. But wanted to talk about her niece, Andrea Doyle, her only living relative. "Andrea's getting married," she said. And she asked him how to hire a detective. It wasn't the girl's fiance she seemed to be worried about. It was his father. Soon after that, the young bridegroom-to-be was found murdered on New York's Upper West Side. Condition: Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Book Club edition. (mystery, fiction, crime, detective) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good Condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 243 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red gilt lettering to spine over black blind-stamped Harper insignia to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. In stockbroker Brock Potter's previous unseemly entanglements with crime, some forbidding financial complications intruded upon Brock's mightily appealing narrative manner and swank-nervous milieu. But here Maling has at last gotten his storytelling priorities in optimum balance, and even if you don't know your Dow from your Jones, you'll tag along and watch the pieces fit when an elderly Jewish widow turns up at the morgue, having been pushed off a subway platform--with Brock's name in her pocketbook the only clue to her identity. The connection is Brock's sterling assistant Irv Silvers, the corpse is Irv's ""Aunt"" Sarah, and soon mild-gone-wild Irv takes off for Salt Lake City to track down the murderer. And when Irv nearly dies in a hit-and-run out there, Brock and Irv's family also go west--to find out about Aunt Sarah's supposedly worthless stock (50,000 shares) in the Lucky Devil uranium and silver mines. In addition to the insider market stuff and tersely arranged flares of violence, Maling offers a handful of vulnerably memorable characters, not the least of which is Brock himself, the Swinging Bachelor Who Has Everything but Maybe Nothing After All. Lean, sharp, funny, fast--. Condition: Remainder strike to heal end pages, pages beginning to age toned. Jacket closed tear at front head edge else near in like jacket.