The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree Tapa blanda - 2008

Lyons, Colorado: The Rue Morgue Press, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. Independent press reprint of 1933 original with cover art by Boris Artzybasheff. One corner has experienced a harsher bump that caused a burgeoning fraying of the cover edge. Other edges have minor wear in places. Stress mark to center of cover from having been read. Clean interior. Packed and shipped with care.

Rue Morgue Press, October 2008. Paper Back . 3 PB standard 50%.

Rue Morgue Press, 2008-10-01. paperback. Used: Good.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. The queen of spinster detectives, Miss Hildegarde Withers, looks into an impossible murder on board a plane bound for Catalina in the early 1930s. "I don't want to die," said the man in the brown suit, who was the last passenger to board the little airplane, but he did. The other passengers thought he was just airsick and the pilots of the Dragonfly assumed it was a heart attack, but when they landed on Catalina Island where Miss Hildegarde Withers was enjoying her first vacation in five years, they bowed to her insistence that the body be examined by the island doctor as well as the chief of police. And they eventually were forced to agree with her suggestion that the man might have been murdered-but how, in midair in plain view of eight other passengers? It turns out that Hildy's old friend Inspector Oscar Piper has an interest in the case, as the dead man was scheduled to… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.