A Three-Pipe Problem : Sherlock Holmes : American edition : First printing : No jacket

Symons, Julian

ISBN 10: 006014193X / ISBN 13: 9780060141936

Published by Harper & Row, New York, U.S.A., 1975

About this Item

American edition, first printing, 1975. No jacket. A Harper novel of suspense. A Sherlock Holmes mystery. Yellow boards with light blue binding to spine with silver lettering are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd small mark, odd small bump/rub to edges and minor wear (pushing/rubbing/fading) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges. Pages little tanned. Odd small mark/minor foxing to top edge of pages. Odd small mark/spots of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Three-Pipe Problem : Sherlock Holmes : American edition : First printing : No jacket
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006014193X
• ISBN 13: 9780060141936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

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.