A Pint of Murder (Signed and Inscribed Association Copy)

Craig, Alisa (Pseudonym of Charlotte MacLeod)

ISBN 10: 0385158386 / ISBN 13: 9780385158381

Published by The Crime Club - Doubleday & Co, New York, 1980

About this Item

8vo., 184pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth with titles in black on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear to extremities. No toning to pages. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($8.95), has mild surface rubbing and a 1/2" closed tear at the heel. Still fresh and bright with no creases or chipping. Inscribed and signed on the dedication by the author to her aunt, who the book is dedicated to, "This Aunt, of course, being Aunt Marian! With love from Charlotte, (who also happens to be "Alisa Craig"). A very pretty collectable copy, scarcely found signed, and a terrific association.

Seller Inventory # 017902

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Pint of Murder (Signed and Inscribed Association Copy)
• Publisher: The Crime Club - Doubleday & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385158386
• ISBN 13: 9780385158381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Mystery/Suspense/Crime Drama

About this title

Synopsis

VEGETABLES CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH! Old Agatha Treadway baked her own bread, canned her own vegetables---and died of botulism in her very own kitchen. Accident, says Dr. Druffitt. Murder, says neighbor Janet Wadman. And says it again when she finds the doctor dead, too. Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys, of the royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees. But who's the killer...the town miser, who wants the one thing only Mrs. Treadway could have given him?The miser's son who's panting for the doctor's daughter? Widow Druffitt, who's holding secret meetings with unlikely people? The hired girl who listens at keyholes? The hired man who hides in haylofts? It's an awful mess...and when Rhys gets it sorted out, he faces an even tougher problem of his own.This is #1 in Madoc & Janet Rhys Series.

About the Author

Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called Mystery of the White Knight.