THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: A Dr. Basil Wiling Murder Mystery **LOCKED ROOM**
by McCloy, Helen
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket
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About This Item
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st pbk. printing July 1951. Dell Mapback #519 [.25 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Rear cover 2-part map: 1) Miss Faustina Crayle's, Brightsea, N.J.: 2) the area surronding the cottage. Reading crease, couple of light cover creases else near fine. Locked Room , Adey #1240. Gisela von Hohenems joins the teaching staff of an exclusive girls' school in upstate New York, where she befriends fellow newcomer Faustina Coyle. But a climate of fear surrounds Faustina, and after several strange incidents which defy rational explanation, she is forced to resign. Gisela asks her fiance, detective-psychologist Dr Basil Willing, to investigate. A puzzle in the supernatural tradition of John Dickson Carr, Through a Glass, Darkly is one of McCloy's most widely admired novels. US mystery writer Helen McCloy (1904-94) was the first woman to serve as president of Mystery Writers of America. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Stanley, Robert. Vintage Paperback.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020858
- Title
- THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: A Dr. Basil Wiling Murder Mystery **LOCKED ROOM**
- Author
- McCloy, Helen
- Illustrator
- Stanley, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystert, Crime, Locked Room, Impossible Crime, Vintage Paperback, GGA,
- Bookseller catalogs
- NEW JERSEY; Locked Room;
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