MURDER LOVES COMPANY. by Mersereau, John - (2004.)

Boulder, Colorado: : Rue Morgue Press,, (2004.). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First thus- a trade paperback. Reissue of this mystery originally published in 1940 and set at the 1939' San Francisco World's Fair, the Golden Gate Exposition. When James Yeats Biddle, the youngest professor at Berkeley sees two Japnese laborers hurled from a speeding car crossing the newly constucted San Francisco Bay Bridge, he is upset, but he was even more irked when someone killed his beloved olive trees. With the help of attractive reporter Kay Ritchie and Inspector Angus McDuff, Professor Biddle turns detective. A great picture of a long-vanished San Francisco. This edition includes a new introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. 157 pp. Cover art by Rob Pudim.