THE MUSIC LOVERS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.A title from the Collins Crime Club imprint/series.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic upper panel of dw/dj,with white,orange and yellow capitalised lettering,b/w lettering to an orange spine/backstrip and a b/w illustrated Collins Crime Club logo to head of same,rear panel with black lettered,assorted other author's published titles in this series,publisher's b/w advertisement of assorted other authors' recent titles from the same imprint,to a white background; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip. Top+fore-edges bright and clean - a single tiny blemish/spot on fore-edges; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornedred,original red cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and similarly bright crisp,blocked Crime Club logo to same and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-183pp,includes 25 chapters; plus [unpaginated] 4pp blanks,half-title with story precis and a list of author's previous published titles to its reverse,title page,and to the rear,a further 4pp blanks.
Author's 6th title,this a Harry Stoner novel.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
In mid-January,with business slower than a crawl, private ey Harry Stoner is virtually hibernating.The only problem is that he's been living off credit cards and Christmas cash,and both sources are running dry. Enter Leon Tubin,collector of vintage LP recordings, who is sure another member of his music-listening group is ripping him off.They're all jealous of his record library,especially his Wagnerloving rival, Sherwood Loeffler.Harry thinks the whole thing's peanuts,but Leon insists that the recordings in question are worth $10,000.Moreover,he's prepared to offer Harry a cash advance.Harry takes the case.
After intrerviewing Leon's music-loving cronies,Harry is struck by their obsessive audio compulsions,but finds it hard to believe any of them guilty of grand theft.It's Leon's blonde bombshell of a wife,Sheila,who has Harry doing a double-take.What's a woman like her doing with a wimp like him? Sheila's confession of a past from which Leon saved her doesn't exactly clarify matters,for what has Sheila's past to do with a bunch of stolen records? A bizarre trail of clues emerges,but neither Harry nor anyone else is convinced they'll lead to a solution.
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