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THE D.A. GOES TO TRIAL.
by GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940., 1940. First edition. First edition. Lower front and rear corners lightly bumped, else near fine, tight, crisp copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket, light wear to foot of spine, and some ink loss to bumped corner of front panel. "The case started with a corpse. Nobody knew who he was. Next, a man named John Burke disappeared. But D.A. Doug Selby could not find his body. Then Mrs Burke swore that the corpse and her missing husband were one and the same man. This should have solved both mysteries. All it did was run the D.A. up two different trees. Sure, the faces of the dead man and John Burke were exactly the same. The only trouble was that their fingerprints were different! Impossible? That's what Doug Selby thought too - until the killer struck again ..."
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Details
- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24787
- Title
- THE D.A. GOES TO TRIAL.
- Author
- GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, 1940.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
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BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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Greencastle, Pennsylvania
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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and rare books dealing with Mystery and Western Americana. Books in the mystery field include not only Mystery, but also Detective, Espionage, and Adventure Fiction. Our Western Americana Section offers books about the development of the American West. All books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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