Murderer by Quentin Patrick (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Condition is Good to VG. Square & tight with clean text pages. Yellow boards have moderate soiling.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. #890. PB. G-VG. Cv creases detract light-mod.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Good/Good with edgewear and chipping to Dust Jacket and no marks to text. Pages toned, insect damage to top edge of some pages, not affecting text. Vintage Mystery; An Inner Sanctum Mystery; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. Page age. --- --- (A book in the Peter Duluth series) --- Lt. Timothy Trant meets Peter Duluth's brother, Jake Duluth, with his unshakable faith in the innocence of his son when he is accused of murder. Spurred by his faith Peter and Trant unmask the real murderer. . .See photos for additional content. . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. first edition. 890 good, many creases Cover by Walter Brooks. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Walter Brooks (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of a PB edition of a a mid 1950s mystery. Dell Book 890. "All he had was the son he loved, a man the world called killer!" Light edge wear with rubbing to the covers and spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A good copy.

Paperback. first edition thus. G-1267 very good - fine, crease, name stamp reprints dell 890 paperback,

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket is scuffed and sunned with heavy edgewear and small tears. Cover is scuffed with light edgewear. Pgs. are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. first edition. 890 very good, creases Cover by Walter Brooks. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Condition: Collectible - Very Good. Hardcover edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket. Book Club Edition. A well kept copy for 60+ years. A near pristine copy with very minor wear -- black boards, clean and tightly bound; top edge of text block tinted yellow, as published, unblemished; unmarked, pages clean with age toning (lower grade paper used in production). Dust jacket illustrated by H. Lawrence Hoffman, light shows edge wear, spine a bit sunned, light crease to rear panel, clean and now protected in a clear archival cover. An excellent copy in the hardcover book club edition for the choosy reader/collector (or as a gift). Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

Condition: Good. . Stamped on inside. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate inside front cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (Mystery, Detective Fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good in very good jacket. Former library book. Spine tight, pages clean. Book club edition.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club Edition. Dust jacket rubbed, edges chipped; flaps detached. Pages toned and brittle. (mystery stories).

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Wraps lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.

Paperback #890 CONDITION: g+ NOTE: 25c.

Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket with Mylar. Book Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.

paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book is like new in a near-perfect jacket. Splendid copy of a Peter Duluth mystery.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Ed. Fine in purple pictorial wraps with white & yellow lettering & cover art by Walter Brooks picturing a drawing of a guy's face. Mystery about a publisher who goes out to clear his son of murder. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. A crime novel. Minor chips to dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. first printing. Yellow cloth Octavo, 247 pages 20 cm. Purple illustrated dust jacket in archival mylar wrap. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. Jacket housed in archival mylar. Very good+; owners' stamp to endpaper; light spotting to endpaper and edges, else clean and tight in very good but for sunned spine, chipped corners dust-jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. Nominal Edge/shelf wear. 1st printing [no number line]. Page edges sprayed aquamarine- nominal fade. Pages toned with age. Corner bumped lightly. Creased at spine. 890. Original price 25 cents. Purple pictorial wraps with white & yellow text picturing a drawing of a guy's face. Cover art by Walter Brooks. Shelved in plastic.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing stated on copyright page. In original, unclipped, jacket with edge wear including shallow chipping and sunning to the spine. Bound in yellow cloth over boards with black designs and lettering. Solid and square. Along the long edge there is some green toning that looks to have been part of the paper used in manufacturing (minor, but noted), otherwise the book is in fine condition. Pages:(8) 247 Dimensions:7¾ x 5(1/8) x (15/16).

First Edition. Near fine bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some mottling to the rear panel and some small chips, tears, and creases. Patrick Quentin is the author of ÔGarden Clubs and Spades,Õ ÔA Puzzle for Fools,Õ ÔPuzzle for Pilgrims,Õ ÔThe Ordeal of Mrs. Snow and Other StoriesÕ (a Queen's Quorum title), etc. Patrick Quentin was one of the pseudonyms of author Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912 - 1987), a Tony Award-winning English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. Wheeler won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for ÔA Little Night MusicÕ and ÔCandideÕ (operetta), and won both again for his book for ÔSweeney Todd.Õ.