MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles.
by Edwards, Martin, editor
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 1728261155
- ISBN 13
- 9781728261157
- Seller
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About This Item
Naperville, IL:: Poisoned Pen Press,, (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First US printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of short stories which meet Otto Penzler's definition of a bibliomystery: 'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' - "A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a murder that seems increasingly to be a work of non-fiction; an irate novelist puts a grisly end to the source of his writer's block. There is no better hiding place for clues - or red herrings - than inside the pages of a book. But in this world of resentful ghost writers, indiscreet playwrights and unscrupulous book collectors, literary prowess is often a prologue to disaster." Edited and with an introduction by Martin Edwards. The stories by author's ranging from E. C. Bentley to A.A. Milne, Gladys Mitchell, Christiana Brand, Ngaio Marsh and more feature Golden Age detectives such as Nigel Strangeways, Philip Trent and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. SIGNED by Edwards on the title page. A title in the British Library Crime Classics series. 288 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88450
- Title
- MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles.
- Author
- Edwards, Martin, editor
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 1728261155
- ISBN 13
- 9781728261157
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press,
- Place of Publication
- Naperville, IL:
- Date Published
- (2022)
- Keywords
- anthology, golden age, short stories,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliomystery and crime fiction;
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