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Cassell & Company. 1947. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. light shelf wear, mild spine lean.
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Death Out of Thin Air
by Stuart Towne
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DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR
by Towne, Stuart (pseudonym of Clayton Rawson)
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New York: Coward-McCann, [1941]. First edition. A very good plus copy, some mild soiling to cloth, tear to cloth (mendable) at upper rear cover in a very good dust jacket with some edge wear, wrinkling to upper front panel stain marks to upper rear panel. Uncommon in jacket. (9869). Octavo, cloth. Two novelettes featuring Don Diavolo, The Scarlet Wizard-magician detective. These were first published in separate issues of the pulp Red Star Mystery in 1940. This is the first of two books published with the Towne pseudonym (and the only one in hardcover).
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DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR.
by TOWNE, STUART.
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New York: Coward-McCann, [1941]., 1941. First edition. First edition. 0riginally published serially in Red Star Mystery magazine under the titles GHOST OF THE UNDEAD and DEATH OUT OF THIN AIR. A pseudonym of Clayton Rawson and the first appearance using this pseudonym. These two pulp novelettes feature a magician-sleuth called Don Diavolo and the titles are DEATH FROM THE PAST and DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN. In the story DEATH FROM THE PAST, Diavolo must solve a murder of a frightened female medium, committed in his own backstage dressing room, apparently by a vampire conjured up during a seance. In DEATH FROM THE UNSEEN, an inventor claims to have invented an invisibility machine. A few weeks later an invisible man murders a detective at police headquarters and then challenges Diavolo to find him. If you are unfamiliar with Don Diavolo, he is an illusionist who gets involved in crimes only a magician could commit. The stories are thoroughly entertaining and readable. Fine, tight copy in a bright,…
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