PUZZLE FOR WANTONS: A Peter Duluth Mystery
by Quentin, Patrick (pseudonym of Hugh C. Wheeler)
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1558820639
- ISBN 13
- 9781558820630
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1990. First IPL printing June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. [Originally published in 1945 by Simon.] Oversize trade paperback. An unread, new copy. Peter Duluth; Reno, NV. Lieutenant Peter Duluth and his actress wife Iris are spending his leave at the Lake Tahoe home of wealthy Lorraine Pleygel. Other guests include Lorraine's brother, and a group of women who are establishing Reno residence in order to obtain divorces. However, Peter, though worldly he may be, is uneasy when their hostess produces the estranged husbands in the whimsical belief that she is pinch-hitting for Cupid. The first lovely lady dies in Peter's arms while dancing.... First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Zann, Nicky. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020970
- Title
- PUZZLE FOR WANTONS: A Peter Duluth Mystery
- Author
- Quentin, Patrick (pseudonym of Hugh C. Wheeler)
- Illustrator
- Zann, Nicky
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1558820639
- ISBN 13
- 9781558820630
- Publisher
- International Polygonics, LTD
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Reno, Nevada, Paperback,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nevada; Reno;
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