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MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles.

MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles. Signed first edition - 2022

by Edwards, Martin, editor

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Naperville, IL:: Poisoned Pen Press,, (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First US printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of short stories which meet Otto Penzler's definition of a bibliomystery: 'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' - "A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a murder that seems increasingly to be a work of non-fiction; an irate novelist puts a grisly end to the source of his writer's block. There is no better hiding place for clues - or red herrings - than inside the pages of a book. But in this world of resentful ghost writers, indiscreet playwrights and unscrupulous book collectors, literary prowess is often a prologue to disaster." Edited and with an introduction by Martin Edwards. The stories by author's ranging from E. C. Bentley to A.A. Milne, Gladys Mitchell, Christiana Brand, Ngaio Marsh and more feature Golden Age detectives such as Nigel Strangeways, Philip Trent and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. SIGNED by Edwards on the title page. A title in the British Library Crime Classics series. 288 pp.
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  • Title MURDER BY THE BOOK: Mysteries for Bibliophiles.
  • Author Edwards, Martin, editor
  • Binding SIGNED first edition -
  • Condition Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Poisoned Pen Press,, Naperville, IL:
  • Date (2022)
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 88450
  • ISBN 9781728261157 / 1728261155
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.37 x 0.83 in (20.27 x 13.64 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022006963
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.087

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2022, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/18/2022, Page 0

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