Murder Under Blue Skies; In Colt Blood; A Pair for the Queen

Due to a tear in the cover at the lower front edge of the spine, visible in the picture, this volume is being offered at a 20% discount. The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Willard Scott, with Bill Crider: Famous as the long-time weatherman on the Today Show, not to mention being the first Ronald McDonald and one of many to play Bozo the Clown, Scott is also an author. Scott has written six works of nonfiction and two mysteries (with Bill Crider). These mystyeries, reasonably, involve a crime solving weatherman. Now 86, Scott is retired to Florida, a place with lots of weather. (Crider, an author of nearly 70 books in his own right, passed away in 2018.) This is the first of those two mysteries.

Jody Jaffe: A long time journalist for the Charlotte Observer, as well as a rider and shower of horses, Jaffe has also written five novels, all involving horses. This is the third of three novels in her Nattie Gold series.

B. Comfort: Barbara Comfort is a painter of portraits and landscapes who splits her time between New York and Vermont. She has put down the brush often enough to write five mysteries featuring the female sleuth Tish McWhinney. This is the final McWhinney novel.