Rue morgue press lyons co (7 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. Fine, fresh, like-new copy. Softcover. Reissue of the 1953 original printing.160 pp.George Arrow is a bachelor of independent means who, when diagnosed with a weak heart, is urged to live out his days at Crane's Court, a comfortable hotel on the Bay of Galway. When the hotel manager, John Burden, is found stabbed through the heart, Inspector Mike Kenny is called to investigate. He soon discovers that practically everybody at the hotel has good reason to want the manager dead, and Kelly vows to discover the true killer among these guests.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition, trade softcover. Published Lyons: Rue Morgue Press, 2012, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 191pp. Fine. The only door open to Hezekiah Morse's study was under observation when someone slipped in and stabbed the bibliophile to death. To the police, it looked like only his granddaughter could have done the deed, especially since she was to be disinherited—except for a terra-cotta statuette of a purple parrot—if she defied Morse in her choice of a marriage partner. Her real love, lawyer Barry Foster, didn't believe she was capable of murder. Fortunately, for both of them, neither did Theocritus Lucius Westborough, professor of Roman history and sometime amateur sleuth. But the aged, tiny professor must first determine what is so significant about the seemingly worthless piece of statuary from New Zealand or how bottles of rare wine and expensive first editions fit into the case.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First published in 1944. A Pat and Jean Abbott mystery. ; 8vo; 159 pages.

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Pat and Jean Abbott #9; first published in 1946. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. book.

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Pat and Jean Abbott #5, first published in 1943. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. book.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. The title refers not to apartheid or any other form of racial segregation bur rather to the tendency of wealthy newcomers to push the earlier residents off the dark soil of the fertile alluvial plains of (the fictional county of) Durshire, onto the barren chalk hills above -- a history which (in this tale) now seems to be repeating itself. This is a modern trade paperback reprint of a mystery originally published 1937. A trove of ancient giants' bones seems to also include the recent bones of a (smaller) boy who disappeared 10 years ago. 191 pp., reduced from $177. Cover art by Rob Pudim (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition, trade softcover. Published Lyons: Rue Morgue Press, 2012, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 158pp. As new. Book 2 of 14 - The John J. Malone Mysteries. Lawyer John J. Malone and pals Jake and Helene chase a corpse that won't stay put across 1940 Chicago while attempting to put rye whiskey on the endangered species list.…