Tom stacy london (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Green cloth with spine imprinted with title and author in silver. . 316 pages. Charlie Chan Mysteries, No. 6. In the 6th and final book in the mystery series featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, we find our hero in Lake Tahoe, California. Chan has been invited as a house guest. He meets a glamorous Out of Printera singer, Ellen Landini, and she is murdered by a gunshot during a party. Her servants and four of her ex-husbands are suspects in the case, all with weak alibis. It is up to Chan to solve the murder. The clues are cryptic and misleading by nature: the singer's own revolver, two scarves, two cigarette boxes with mismatched lids, and the actions of a little dog named Trouble. Part of the solution to the mystery involves an elderly Chinese servant named Ah Sing--the keeper of the keys. Chan solves the case in his usual understated, spectacular fashion.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Tight binding as if never read. Unmarked.

Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. 8vo pp.192. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. book.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Part of copyright page inked out.

reprint dust jacket Fine octavo 288pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, The Officers' Plot, July 1944. Orig. pub. as 'The Shirt of Nessus'.