The Black Spectacles (The Problem of the Green Capsule)
Language: English
Published by Remploy Limited, London, 1981
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, Suffolk, United KingdomRaymond Tait
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 27.90
Quantity: 1 available
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Remploy Reprint Edition of a book originally published in 1939 in the US by Harper under the title 'The Problem of the Green Capsule'. The first UK edition from Hamish Hamilton in 1939used the title 'The Black Spectacles.' The jacket covering suggests the book was intended for a lending library but it has no stamps or other marks associated with this. Light browning to endpapers and a small tear in the edge of page 147. The book has an odour - probably from the home of a smoker - but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has quite heavy fading to the spine and browning along the right side of the rear panel.
Seller Inventory # 016276
- Title
- The Black Spectacles (The Problem of the Green Capsule)
- Author
- Carr, John Dickson
- Publisher
- Remploy Limited, London
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Original Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0706608852
- ISBN 13
- 9780706608854
- Edition
- Reprint
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 94 of 107: British Library Crime Classics
To prove his point, Chesney set up a test. With witnesses looking on, he calmly sat still while a sinister scarecrow of a man entered the room, walked over to him...and murdered him!
All the suspects were witnesses; each could alibi another. Logically, therefore, no one could have murdered Marcus Chesney. But then why was he dead?
It take Gideon Fell to unravel this Golden Age classic.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Raymond Tait
Beccles, Suffolk, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2007
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