9781613161012 - Death from a Top Hat: A Great Merlini Mystery: 0 (An American Mystery Classic) de Rawson, Clayton (10 resultados)

Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Illustrated. Used - Very Good.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. This is the rare 1938 Mercury Publication edition (Mercury Mystery 155). It measures approx 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. It has blue-green illustrated wraps with white titles on the front cover and spine. The pages are clean & unmarked but very tanned from age. The front cover has significant edge-wear including chipping at the top & bottom right corners and the top left corner by the spine. The back cover also has edge-wear and chipping at the corners. Diagonal crease in the back cover. Binding is tight. Nice gift for fans of vintage mysteries! Images available upon request. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!

Pictorial Wrappers. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ross, Andy Ilustrador. First Printing. First printing, thus. (Originally pub in 1938). Cover by Andy Ross. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Light notations at title page by previous owner and minor underlining throughout. A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists. Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing to have been murdered under similar circumstances. The list of suspects includes an escape artist, a professional medium, and a ventriloquist, so it's clear that the crimes took place in a realm that Merlini knows well. But in the end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical ones, to apprehend the killer. Reprinted for the first time in over twenty years, Death from a Top Hat is an ingeniously-plotted puzzle set in the world of New York stage magic, which was at its pinnacle in the early twentieth century. In 1981, the novel was selected as one of the top ten locked room mysteries of all time by a panel of mystery-world luminaries that included Julian Symons, Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen's co-creator Frederic Dannay, and Otto Penzler. Book.

Condición: New. NEW! paperbackNew2018.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Fine. First Edition Thus. No spine crease. Full number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 293 pages. American Mystery Classics. A clever magician tries to solve the case of a locked-room murder that only a talented escape artist could have committed. Freelance scribe Ross Harte is working on an essay about the sad state of the modern mystery novel when a scream comes from the hallway: There is death in that room! Harte finds a trio of conjurers trying to get into the apartment of his neighbor, the mysterious Dr. Cesare Sabbat, famed occultist and, for the past few minutes, a corpse. They break down the door to find Sabbat lying in a pentagram, face twisted from the agonies of strangulation, but with no bruises on his neck. All the doors were locked, and the windows drop straight down to the river below. Only an escape artist could get out of that room, and Sabbat knew quite a few. To make sense of this misdirected muddle, the police bring in the Great Merlini, an illusionist whose specialty is making mysteries disappear.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 293 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.