Palmer stuart 1905 1968 (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 186 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt label to spine and black pictorial stripes to cover un original pictorial jacket. First edition. A violent man is killed in a hit and run, and his wife is accused of the crime. In the inky Los Angeles twilight, a man takes his dog for a walk. They are crossing the street when a station wagon comes charging around the curb, crashing into man and beast. Both are killed. The dog might have been innocent, but the man had it coming. It only takes a day for the district attorney to accuse the dead man's wife of the crime. Deirdre Charteris, a former starlet who has lost none of her looks, had every reason to want her husband dead: He was psychotic, violent, and refused to agree to a divorce. But Dee swears her innocence, and Howie Rook believes her. A retired newspaperman with a detective's sixth sense, he will do whatever he can to prove her innocence. But he will find that asking questions can be just as dangerous as going for a walk in the dark. Rook Takes Knight is part of the Howie Rook Mysteries series, which also includes Unhappy Hooligan. Condition: Points lightly rubbed. Jacket price clipped, spine ends rubbed with some small chips else near fine in like jacket.…

Cloth. Condizione: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. G to VG Dust Jacket. Ex-Library Copy. INVENTORY = B >> 1956; Harper & Brothers, New York, USA; Book-Club Edition; 191-Pages; 300-Grams; Hardcover with Dust Jacket; Goodreads: The Big Top in California is the background which Howie Rook, ex-newspaperman and collector of murder cases, takes on for protective coloring when he is tossed an impeccable suicide by the dead man's widow. Objectively observing, taking part in the clown acts, getting the walk around from two and four legged performers, he sweats it out to prove his verdict. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket >>> Book = Ex-Library Copy, Overall decent copy, but with: Paper-Pull to inside front end-page, Clear Vinyl Tape down spine with Library sticker, thus FA/G. Dust Jacket = Creasing & scuffing; paper pull to paper spine. Edge-Tears and Wear at top and bottom thus G/VG; Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket (illustratore). Book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. Very Good DUST JACKET. Book Club Edition. INVENTORY = B >> 1956; Harper & Brothers, New York, USA; Book-Club Edition; 191-Pages; 300-Grams; Hardcover with Dust Jacket; Goodreads: The Big Top in California is the background which Howie Rook, ex-newspaperman and collector of murder cases, takes on for protective coloring when he is tossed an impeccable suicide by the dead man's widow. Objectively observing, taking part in the clown acts, getting the walk around from two and four legged performers, he sweats it out to prove his verdict. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket >>> Book = Pen to front end page; spine slant; = VG/FN. Dust Jacket = Creasing & scuffing; wear to edges = Very Good; Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tony Palladino art on front of the Dust Jacket / PHOTO the Author in Clown Make-Up on back of the Dust Jacket (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 254 pages. (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with black brown lettering to spine and decorate square with initial to cover over red marbled boards in original pictorial jacket. Introduction by by Ellery Queen. First edition. Intermittently from the late Forties into the early Sixties, Palmer and his good friend and fellow mystery writer Craig Rice, with whom he had worked on the scripting of the 1942 film The Falcon s Brother, collaborated on half a dozen novelettes for Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine. Each story teams the crusty Miss Withers, that tall, angular person who somehow suggested a fairly well-dressed scarecrow, with Rice s hard-drinking, womanizing Chicago lawyer, John J. Malone. And all six are collected in this volume. Working in tandem, Withers and Malone solve what the dust-jacket blurb describes as hectic, hilarious homicides. A fair assessment: Both Palmer and Rice wrote cleverly constructed, fair-play whodunits flavored with (sometimes wacky) humor, and the blending of their talents produced some memorable stories. One is the title novelette, in which Hildegarde and John J. hunt for a missing witness in the murder trial of a Malone client and wind up pulling off some courtroom pyrotechnics to rival any in the Perry Mason canon. In Cherchez la Frame, the two sleuths travel to Hollywood to look for the missing wife of a Chicago gangster and find her strangled with Malone s tie in his hotel bathroom. But the best of the stories is probably the first Withers and Malone collaboration, Once Upon a Train (original title: Loco Motive ). This spoof of the intrigue-on-the-Orient-Express genre takes place on the Super-Century en route from Chicago to New York and features a dead man lurking sans clothing in Miss Withers s compartment, the murder weapon conveniently planted in Malone s adjoining compartment, and a combination of quick thinking by the little lawyer and a bizarre dream by the angular spinster that unmasks the culprit. Once Upon a Train was one of two Withers and Malone stories sold to MG resulting finally, Stuart Palmer writes in his preface, in Mrs. O Malley and Mr. Malone, a starring vehicle for James Whitmore, in which Miss Withers mysteriously changed into Ma Kettle. Palmer and Rice were two of the scriptwriters on that 1951 film. Each of these six stories is enjoyable light reading and should appeal not only to fans of either or both series, but to anyone who enjoys what Ellery Queen refers to in the book s introduction as madcap capers full o fun. Condition: Pages age toned. Jacket spine sunned else a better than very good copy in like jacket. …

dj. First Edition. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with mottled orange paper over boards, and black titles to spine. Top edge orange; others untrimmed. With the orange pictorial dust-jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, printed price $3.50. Heavily toned throughout to low quality paper. Some light sunning to jacket spine, and minor wearing to edges. A near fine copy. An Inner Sanctum Mystery.…