WHAT A BODY! **LOCKED ROOM/IMPOSSIBLE CRIME**
by Green, Alan
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
1951: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st pbk printing, February 1951. Dell # 483 [.25 cover price]. Reading crease, long shallow cover crease, spine edges rubbed, lightly soiled at rear. Cover illustration by Gil Darling. Rear cover is interesting. Instead of the usual Map this one has "A Comparison Test Chart between this book and a woman. Why is it more interesting to spend an evening with this book than a beautiful woman?" This is the only such "chart" in the Dell series. (see photo). The first John Hugo title; Florida. "What we're looking for," said police officer Hugo, "is a murderer who can walk on the surface of a body of water six feet deep while remaining invisible. He must also be a guy who had a compulsion to put pajamas on his victim after shooting him and who would walk through the walls of a locked room to do so." Locked Room / Impossible Crime; Adey #847. 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 Darling, Gil. Vintage Paperback.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020859
- Title
- WHAT A BODY! **LOCKED ROOM/IMPOSSIBLE CRIME**
- Author
- Green, Alan
- Illustrator
- Darling, Gil
- 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
- 1951
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Florida, Vintage Paperback, GGA, Locked Room, Impossible Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- FLORIDA; Locked Room;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...