Lady Can Do
by Merwin, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1929). Reprint. Hardcover. [nice clean book with minimal wear; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, a couple of tiny closed tears]. Mystery novel about a young social secretary/companion for the wife of a "rich Orientalist," who arrives at the couple's home in the country (a bit outside NYC, although we're not told in precisely which direction) to take her duties -- which arrangement is immediately upset when the gentleman is found brutally murdered the very next morning. Elsie, who's described by others and herself as "the mental type," takes a keen interest in the investigation, which eventually leads her back into the city and into Darkest Chinatown in search of a solution to the murder. (There are lots of Chinamen in this storyAccording to his New York Times obituary, Merwin (1874-1936) was an "ardent chamption of women's rights," and indeed his fiction is populated with spunky working girls like Elsie Penn. This one, however, didn't spawn any follow-ups, and remains the only Exploit of Elsie. The wrap-around jacket art shows her commanding the rapt attention of a roomful of men. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24916
- Title
- Lady Can Do
- Author
- Merwin, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1929)
- Keywords
- Woman Detective, Twenties, Fiction: Vintage, Mystery Fiction
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- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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