The Case Book of Ellery Queen. Part 1, The Adventures: Problems in Deduction

A thrilling anthology of eight detective fiction short stories starring 'Ellery Queen', in the publisher's original and very scarce price unclipped dust wrapper. The first impression of this omnibus edition of the works of American crime fiction writer Ellery Queen, the pseudonym for writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and the name of their fictional central character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve crimes. In the very scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.An anthology of eight Ellery Queen stories, featuring those that previously appeared in 'The Adventures of Ellery Queen', first published in 1935, and 'The New Adventures of Ellery Queen', first published in 1940. The first edition thus to feature these two works combined, the dust wrapper notes that these two volumes have both 'long been out of print'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with a touch of fading to back strip and minor shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Dust wrapper rear wrap and flyleaf neatly detached from back strip, front wrap, and front flyleaf. Sunning to front wrap and back strip. Chipping to back strip head, with two significant closed tears to back strip tail. Significant closed tear to rear wrap. Small tape repair to head of reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. …