WHAT A BODY!
by Green, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. Book Club. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This humorous locked room mystery won its author the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery in 1950. The body in question belongs to Merlin Broadstone, the health and fitness guru, shot to death about 6:30 in the morning at the brand new Broadstone luxury hotel and health resort on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico near St. Petersburg, Florida. "What we're looking for," one of the investigating officers opined, "is a murderer who can walk on the surface of a body of water six feet deep while remaining invisible. What we are also looking for," he added, "is a murderer who would put pajamas on his victim after shooting him and walk through the walls of a locked room to do so." First book club edition. 239 pages in orange paper-covered boards and yellow lettering on spine and Inner Sanctum mystery logo on front cover. A slight spine lean, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, binding is tight. Remarkably little wear to boards or text, no tears, no creasing or chipping. Sorry, just a reading copy with no dustjacket, but if you're looking for a break from crime noir and in the mood for an evening of entertainment with a humorous mystery, you can't do much better than this.
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Details
- Seller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005446
- Title
- WHAT A BODY!
- Author
- Green, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, FLORIDA, LOCKED ROOM, INNER SANCTUM, HUMOR, SATIRE, EDGAR AWARD,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Satire; Cozy Mystery;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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