The Case of the Smoking Chimney
by Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cassell, London, 1945. First Edition. Red Cloth. Good/Good. black titles spine. A crafty businessman arrives incognito in a small town, where he takes up residence at a cabin. Using another name he starts buying up property. When he is found dead in his mountain cabin there is no shortage of suspects. Amateur detective Gramps Wiggins has to piece together the clues; a neat copy although the front endpaper may have been removed (so carefully that it is hard to tell), the D/J. is complete with slight edgewear & two closed tears to the spine & has an advertisement for the B.B.C. printed on the rear flap, 183 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction. Inventory No: CRM00013. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CRM00013
- Title
- The Case of the Smoking Chimney
- Author
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Red Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Crime/Gardner Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction. Unbranded Gardner, Erle Stanley The Case of the Smoking Chimney
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