The Greek Coffin Mystery
by QUEEN, Ellery
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. . Cloth. About Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, FIRST PRINTING of the FOURTH Ellery Queen mystery series.About Fine w/owner info front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked/No DJ (in mylar cover). 370pp. Nice example of the First Printing.
Synopsis
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility . With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , a 'B' for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre , and a 'C' for Willa Cather's My Ántonia . It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves. Q is for Queen. Ellery Queen is a fictional detective regarded by many as the definitive American detective-hero, rivaling Nero Wolfe as the successor to Sherlock Holmes. "Ellery Queen" also serves as the joint pseudonym for the creators, cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee. In a successful series of novels and short stories that covered 42 years, Ellery Queen was the best known American fictional detective during the 1930s and 1940s. The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932) is considered one of the earliest, most popular, confounding, brilliantly plotted classic whodunit mysteries of the Ellery Queen series, involving a dead and blind art dealer, a slain forger, a stolen priceless painting and the disappearance of a mysterious will from a New York townhouse full of suspects. During the funeral of famous art dealer Georg Khalkis, the metal box containing his last will and testament had vanished from the library safe. Son of a New York cop, Ellery Queen, a young master of deduction, orders a search of the coffin. To the horror of both detectives and mourners, when the coffin is unearthed, a second corpse, strangled and decaying, is found with the late Georg Khalkis.
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- Bookseller
- Basement Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040831
- Title
- The Greek Coffin Mystery
- Author
- QUEEN, Ellery
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY NEW YORK DETECTIVE ELLERY QUEEN FICTITIOUS CHARACTER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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Basement Books
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