Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix by Lupoff, Richard A - 2008-03-28

Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A signed and numbered limited edition. Copy number 44 of a print run of 200. Contains separately-printed loose pamphlet entitled 'The Laddie in the Lake' by Richard A. Lupoff. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 2008. 1st printing, 2008. #169 of this signed and limited First Edition of only 200 copies. New in dj with accompanying pamphlet.. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2008. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES BOUND IN CLOTH AND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY LUPOFF (this being #130). Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet "The Laddie in the Lake". The Era of Wonderful Nonesense was over, replaced by the grimmer, grittier world of the Great Depression. But millionaire autodidact polymath Akhenaton Beelzebub Chase and his brilliant, lissome associate Claire Delacroix, live on comfortably in their neo-Tudor mansion in the hills above Berkeley, California. It is a milieu reminiscent of the surrondings of Philo Vance, young Ellery Queen, and other amateur sleuths of that bygone era. But their luxuriant lives are interrupted when the head of the San Francisco Police Dept.'s detective bureau, calls on them to solve bafflling cases. They must unravel the mysteries of a famous Hungarian actor found dead in his dressing room, two tiny puncture wounds in his neck; a… Read More