A Three-Pipe Problem

Julian Symons

ISBN 10: 006014193X / ISBN 13: 9780060141936

Published by Harper & Row, 1975

About this Item

Stated first U.S. edition. First printing. Unclipped ($6.95), mylar protected dust jacket. Fine except the spine's crown has a slight crease. The DJ has no tears or chips but does have a hint of creasing to the spine's head and very sparse soiling overall.

Seller Inventory # 7494

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Three-Pipe Problem
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006014193X
• ISBN 13: 9780060141936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sherlock Holmes

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Synopsis

A fading actor is playing the detective Sherlock Holmes in a TV series. Persuading himself that by following in the master's footsteps he can solve a string of apparently unrelated murders - the "Karate Killings" - he begins to investigate the crimes.

About the Author

Julian Symons is primarily remembered as a master of the art of crime writing. However, in his eighty-two years he produced an enormously varied body of work. Social and military history, biography and criticism were all subjects he touched upon with remarkable success, and he held a distinguished reputation in each field. His novels were consistently highly individual and expertly crafted, raising him above other crime writers of his day. It is for this that he was awarded various prizes, and, in 1982, named as Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America – an honour accorded to only three other English writers before him: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and Daphne Du Maurier. He succeeded Agatha Christie as the president of Britain’s Detection Club, a position he held from 1976 to 1985, and in 1990 he was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers for his lifetime’s achievement in crime fiction. Symons died in 1994.