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Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Cover has light rubbing and edge wear. Reading crease to spine. Tanning to page edges. Kept in plastic sleeve for protection. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

Hardcover textured. Condizione: Near Fine. 21.5 cm. 182 blue textured boards. Top edge painted dk. blue. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears. Susan Brooke has everything going for her. Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did. Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor. The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas. Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.…

Book club reprint. [4], 184 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed and stained; tears, creasing, and shallow chipping at edges; abrasion at head of rear flap fold. Black boards. Foxing to text block edges; muted yellow top edge; deckle fore-edge. Endpapers toned/foxed; ink ownership inscription and name-address label on front free endpaper; moisture staining to last six leaves or so diminishing inward from endpapers; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.…

Hardcover_buckram spine. Condizione: Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 156 numbered pages. Blue vinyl board w/gold foil letters on front. Red buckram spine w/gold letters. Belonging to a set of various titles & authors printed by Orange Graphics of Orange, VA and stamped on last page. Q43 in gutter on next to last page specifically for BCE. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Faint foxing to top edge. Secure ship w/track #. Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats.…

Hardcover textured. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 5.75"x8.5" 502 numbered pages. Black textured boards w/yellow ink on spine. Author photo: Jill Krementz. DJ design by Applebaum / Curtis. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Severe edge wear to dj w/mended tears, soil spots, and chips. Secure ship w/track #. Nero Wolfe #13 And Be a Villain, #15 The Second Confession, #17 In The Best Families. AND BE A VILLAIN: Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests collapses at the mike after drinking a glass of the sponsor's beverage. THE SECOND CONFESSION: When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter's boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprotective father. But when a powerful gangland boss "counsels" the detective to drop the matter, Wolfe receives a warning: a burst of machine-gun fire through the windows of his orchid room. Then the lawyer boyfriend turns up dead, leaving Archie the number one suspect. Throw in drugged drinks, two man-killing debutantes, and officials of a highly un-American party and Wolfe finds himself involved in a case where he must quickly solve one murder to prevent another: his own. IN THE BEST FAMILIES: The aging millionairess has a where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood . . . and a letter bomb from a powerful crime boss makes Nero Wolfe do the unthinkable-run for his life. Suddenly Archie finds himself on his own, trying to find a killer without the help of his old mentor. For to all appearances, Wolfe has vanished. The career of the world's most famous detective has ended in cowardice and disgrace . . . or has it? Goodreads.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Faults: No dust jacket, owner's signatures on front pastedown and first page, front board has a bump to lower corner. Otherwise, square spine, strong binding, clean pages. Stout was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives.".…

paperback. Condizione: Befriedigend. Seiten; Heyne 1190 - 1. Auf. 1966 - tb - 10-42-2 CM-ETEI-DQO9 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Gut. 1. 273 S. Alle Bücher & Medienartikel von Book Broker sind stets in gutem & sehr gutem gebrauchsfähigen Zustand. Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Altersentsprechend nachgedunkelte/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 150.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Befriedigend. 1. Altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren, evtl. auch Mängelexemplar---. nein.

dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (21cm); red cloth covered boards titled in blue on the cover and spine; blue topstain; dustjacket by BIll English; 182pp.; remainder copy with red streak to lower edge of textblock; top stain slightly faded at spine; Very Good+. The dustjacket is price-clipped with rubbing to the exteriors; minor nicks and few short closed tears to jacket edges; Very Good+. "Archie not at his best and not amusing, though we get information about his mother and Wolfe has some fair repartee. The kidnapping and ransoming for once dully treated. JB enters an amendment to the effect that Nero is ingenious in getting his fee, Archie subtle as well as useful, and Inspector Cramer able to work off his anger outside the home." AHEARN, APG, 058a; BARZUN & TAYLOR, 1984.…

First Edition. First Printing. [colophon on copyright page] Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards titled in red on the cover and spine; 271pp.; spine ends are pushed with tiny tear at crown; mild toning to the spine; minor spot of biopredation to upper rear board edge; dusty upper textblock; mild toning to gutters; Very Good or better. First appearance of Albert Hicks. "Where Wolfe is sedentary, Hicks is a dynamo of energy, where Wolfe is subtle, Hicks is brusque and direct; only in one thing are alike eccentricity." (from the dustjacket); BARZUN & TAYLOR, 2003; HUNIN, 393; AHEARN APG 020a.…

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