Detective Henri Bencolin, the prefect of police, is called in to solve the grisly murder of the Duc de Saligny at a fashionable Parisian gambling house
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Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 17611074-20
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0241895030I3N10
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 17611074-20
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Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, boards nibbled and stained at bottom edge, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges with a stain along the bottom edge. 168 pages. A Fingerprint Book. Seller Inventory # 70003
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Seller: Augustine Funnell Books, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Graham Tucker (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). 1st thus. Carr's first novel, originally published in 1930. This edition offered Henri Bencolin to a new generation of readers to see if they could solve the mystery of who beheaded the Duc de Saligny in a locked room of a Parisian gambling house. Cerulean cloth w/gilt spine lettering/fingerprint design, 168 pages. A 3/4" bump to bottom right corner of front cover, previous owner's signature neatly across top edge of first end paper, in dust jacket w/just a bit of edgewear. A pretty nice copy of a 1st Thus title that can hold that spot in your collection until you scrape up a few thousand dollars for the 1930 first printing. Seller Inventory # 018519