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THE DRAGON'S TEETH, A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION
by ELLERY QUEEN
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
PHILADELPHIA: TRIANGLE BOOKS, 1945 NICE LOOKING GRAY COVER, DARK RED DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE WITH PRINT SPINE. JACKET IS FAIR WITH A PIECE MISSING TOP EDGE SPINE AREA AND OTHER WEAR, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY GOOD SHAPE. Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 ¿ September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 ¿ April 3, 1971), to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a police inspector in New York City, solve baffling murders. The Dragon's Teeth (also published as The Virgin Heiresses) is a mystery novel published in 1939 featuring the popular fictional character Ellery Queen, which is also the pseudonym of the book's authors, Daniel Nathan and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky. It is primarily set in New York City, United States. An eccentric millionaire, Cadmus Cole, visits the newly-founded offices of Ellery Queen, Confidential Investigations, in a rare incidence of disembarkment from his yacht. The investigation company is actually the brainchild and sole responsibility of his partner, "Beau" Rummell, an established private eye. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000736
- Title
- THE DRAGON'S TEETH, A PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION
- Author
- ELLERY QUEEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- TRIANGLE BOOKS
- Place of Publication
- PHILADELPHIA
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Famous Authors;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- New
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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