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Adam and Eve on a Raft: Mystery Stories Paperback - 2001
by Ron Goulart
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- Title Adam and Eve on a Raft: Mystery Stories
- Author Ron Goulart
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st US -1st Prin
- Pages 214
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crippen & Landru Publishers, Norfolk, VA
- Date 2001
- ISBN 9781885941589 / 1885941587
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.1 x 0.65 in (22.71 x 15.49 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002284601
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT
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Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru, 2001. 1st paperback printing, fine, unread copy, still in shrink-wrap. Trade paperback.. Sixteen stories plus a checklist of Goulart's work. Ron Goulart's first collection of mystery short stories features two of his most famous characters. Five of the stories are about Scrib Merlin, a would-be comedian and disgruntled advertising copywriter, who seems always to be present whenever someone expires with a cryptic dying message on his lips. When a murder victims gasps "ninety-nine clop clop" or "six tablespoons molasses" or "Adam and Eve on a raft," Scrib becomes a sleuth hoping not only to solve the murder but also (often in vain) to feather his own nest. The Scrib Merlin tales are genuine challenge-to-the-reader mysteries. The unnamed California Adman, who narrates seven wry (and, some might say, wicked) stories, has an impressively large number of homicidal acquaintances, most of whom find that the table can easily be…
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US: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001. Paperback. New. WRY AND WICKEDLY MURDEROUS Ron Goulart's first collection of mystery short stories features two of his most famous characters. Five of the stories are about Scrib Merlin, a woul d-be comedian and disgruntled advertising copywriter, who seems always to b e present whenever someone expires with a cryptic dying message on his lips . When a murder victims gasps "ninety-nine clop clop" or "six tablespoons m olasses" or "Adam and Eve on a raft," Scrib becomes a sleuth hoping not onl y to solve the murder but also (often in vain) to feather his own nest. The Scrib Merlin tales are genuine challenge-to-the-reader mysteries. The unnamed California Adman, who narrates seven wry (and, some might say, wicked) stories, has an impressively large number of homicidal acquaintances, most of whom find that the table can easily be turned on them. The Adman listens, tries to dissuade them, and then records their often inanely murderous plans for our entertainment.
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