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Four Lost Ladies - Stuart Palmer
1950 British hardcover first edition, first impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG+ book in VG+ unclipped dustwrapper Neat small inscription verso endpaper Tightly bound and square, clean contents and cloth The jacket has some wear to edges, clean and bright A Miss Hildegarde Withers mystery A nice bright copy of a very scarce book in jacket For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
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Miss Withers Regrets - Stuart Palmer
1948 UK hardback first edition, first impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG book in wrecked unclipped dustwrapper Neat small inscription to front pastedown A tight and solid book The jacket is wrecked, half of rear panel missing, spine loss, tear to front panel We have priced the book as an unjacketed copy, cheaply at that! The School-marm had promised Inspector Piper that she would keep her nose out of official police business - easier said than done An extremely rare book, shame about the jacket, but very difficult to locate, almost impossible in a decent jacket For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
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BY THIS TIME Inspector Oscar Piper was resigned to the fact that a policeman's lot is not a happy one. Moreover, it seemed to the grizzled little Irishman that nowadays he was continually running,, into added proof that things weren't what they used to be. Except Manhattan's climate, of course. For the second straight day snow was falling heavily upon the city, great soft flakes that threatened to surpass the blizzard of '47, and as usual during storms the crime index had taken a sharp rise. Just to add to his burdens he found himself forced into the rocky and unfamiliar paths of literary endeavour, and had spent most of the afternoon composing on his ancient upright a memorandum which began : " Departmental Bureaux, Realignment of, Objections Thereto |
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