DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME

Box, Edgar [pseud. of Gore Vidal]

ISBN 10: 0922890900 / ISBN 13: 9780922890903

Published by Mysterious Press, N.Y., 1990

About this Item

2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician.

Seller Inventory # 019929

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME
• Publisher: Mysterious Press, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922890900
• ISBN 13: 9780922890903
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 2nd Ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Washington, D.C.
  • XBX 43
  • Politics
  • Mystery and Detective

About this title

Synopsis

Viewing his daughter's promiscuity as a threat to his presidential campaign, Senator Rhodes hires Peter Cutler Sargeant II to handle the problem

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-three novels, five plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His United States: Essays, 1952–1992 received the National Book Award.