DR. SAM: JOHNSON, DETECTOR
by LILLIAN DE LA TORRE
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1946 GOOD LOOKING BOOK, LIGHT BLUE COVER, SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE, GOLD DESIGN COLONISTS ON FRONT, PRINT AND HAT SPINE. A LIGHT-HEARTED COLLECTION OF RECENTLY REVEALED EPISODES IN A CAREER OF THE GREAT LEXICOGRAPHER NARRATED AS FROM THE PEN OF JAMES BOSWELL. INCLUDING: THE UNMASKING OF THE FLYING HIGHWAYMAN; THE SINGULAR EPISODE OF THE MONBODDO APE BOY; THE RECOVERY OF PRINCE CHARLIES VANISHT RUBY, THE STOLEN CHRISTMAS BOX, THE MACABRE AFFAIR OF THE WAX-WORK CADAVER AND OTHERS. Lillian de la Torre was an American novelist and a prolific writer of historical mysteries. Her name is a pseudonym for Lillian de la Torre Bueno McCue. Born in Manhattan in 1902, Miss de la Torre received Master's degrees from Columbia University and Harvard. Her first novel was 'Elizabeth Is Missing, or Truth Triumphant', published by Knopf in 1945. Her most popular works were in a series of stories she wrote about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, under the title 'Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector'. GREAT BOOK, NO MARKINGS, TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000608
- Title
- DR. SAM: JOHNSON, DETECTOR
- Author
- LILLIAN DE LA TORRE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- ALFRED A. KNOPF
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, HISTORICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Fiction; Famous Authors;
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