Murder in A-Flat Tapa dura - 1988

193 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with purple gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. All Ed "Fitz" Fitzgerald had in mind was fiddling around with Ariel Ryan, the fetching violinist of the Mozart String Quartet. How was the ink-stained wretch of the New York Daily Press to know that a little night music would turn into a funeral dirge? Because of the lovely Ariel Ryan, Fitz meets fiddler Erik Halvorsen at the Algonquin, where Erik is buying drinks all around and showing off what he says is a priceless Stradivarius violin. And then Erik is lying in his Greenwich Village flat with six bullets in his chest, and what happened to the Stradivarius? Condition: Remainder mark at heal end pages, end pages lightly soiled. Jacket light rubbed, spine sunned else a very good to fine copy in a near fine jacket.

NY: Walker, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. Mystery featuring NY reporter Ed Fitzgerald & a stolen violin. Small bump on bottom board corner. First printing.

New York: Walker and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 0802757162 . DJ is price clipped. .

Walker & Co, 1988. First edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition. As new book in as new dust jacket. Nice! S4D

Walker & Co. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Walker & Co. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Walker & Co. hardcover. Like New. 8x5x1.

New York: Walker, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Angela Arnet dj. Purple-stamped black bds. No names, clean text. Unchipped lightly aged dust jacket.Solid. 34,000 PB shelf

Walker & Co, 1988-11. Hardcover. Good.

NY: Walker and Company . NF. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's sli p laid-in. .