Trouble in Bugland - A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries. SIGNED ADVANCE READING COPY

Kotzwinkle, William; Joe Servello, Illustrator

ISBN 10: 0879234725 / ISBN 13: 9780879234720

Published by David R. Godine, Boston, 1983

About this Item

Advance Readers Copy with publisher's inserts. SIGNED on the title page by both Kotzwinkle and Servello (with his sketch, see scans). As New hardback in un-clipped As New illustrated jacket (in clear protective cover), 152 pages, Profusely Illustrated in color and line drawings by Joe Servello. Inserts include a folded color illustrated broadside with excerpt and imprint info, two illustrated bookmarks, and an un-used Reading Copy reply postcard. All are in near pristine condition. A virtually unique and entirely gift-worthy copy of Kotzinkle's clever, insect-populated, Sherlock Holmes-inspired mysteries.

Seller Inventory # J2343

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trouble in Bugland - A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries. SIGNED ADVANCE READING COPY
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Boston
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879234725
• ISBN 13: 9780879234720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. By Joe Servello
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Editions Fiction
  • Signed First Editions
  • Humor

About this title

Synopsis

A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

From the Inside Flap

Now in its third printing: a collection of five detective stories with an all-insect cast of characters. Follow Inspector Mantis, of brilliant mind, supersensitive antennae, and iron grip, and his faithful sidekick Doctor Hopper, an accomplished violinist and long-jumper, along with a bevy of buggy bandits, as they solve entomological cases with clever sleuthing.

Going forth from his little cottage at 221B Flea Street, Inspector Mantis, accompanied by his trusted colleague Doctor Hopper, solves "The Case of the Missing Butterfly," "The Case of the Caterpillar's Head," and three other antennae-bending mysteries puzzling the populace of Victorian Bugland. Criminal detection, combined entomology, makes this, in the words of The Horn Book, "the most engaging and cleverest reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson yet." Joe Servello's color and pen-&-ink drawings bring exquisite period detail to these tales: steam engines, deerstalkers, fog, and mandibles have never been more lovingly crosshatched.