The Dutch Blue Error: Attorney Brady Coyne's second case

TAPPLY, William G.

ISBN 10: 0002319829 / ISBN 13: 9780002319829

Published by Crime Club/Colllins, 1985

About this Item

London, 1985; red cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; illustrated jacket with mild wear, housed in a Bro-Dart like cover; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 206 pages.

Seller Inventory # SKU1162927

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dutch Blue Error: Attorney Brady Coyne's second case
• Publisher: Crime Club/Colllins
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002319829
• ISBN 13: 9780002319829
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First British Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Weight: 13 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

To solve a murder, Brady must find a copy of the world’s rarest stamp. It is a small paper square with uneven edges, dark blue in color, and bearing a smudged portrait of a long-dead king. It doesn’t look like much to Brady Coyne, but the stamp known as the Dutch Blue Error is one of a kind - a philatelic freak worth at least one million dollars. It is the prize possession of Ollie Weston, a wheelchair-bound Boston banker, and it is valuable enough that for its sake, several good men will die.

A fellow collector contacts Weston, claiming to have found a second copy of the Error - a claim that, if truthful, would destroy the stamp’s value. Weston sends his attorney, kindhearted Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, to purchase the rogue stamp for two hundred fifty thousand dollars, but just before the hand-off, the collector is killed and the stamp disappears.

Find the stamp and Brady will find the killer - but that will involve risking another one-of-a-kind item: his life.

About the Author

William G. Tapply was the author of dozens of books, including more than two dozen New England-based mystery novels and nearly a thousand magazine articles, mostly about fly fishing and the outdoors. Tapply died in July 2009 after a battle with Leukemia. He lived and wrote in Hancock, New Hampshire.