DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME
by Box, Edgar (Gore Vidal)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0922890900
- ISBN 13
- 9780922890903
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1991. First Printing, Second Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Good Plus. The second of a three mystery trilogy written by Gore Vidal under the pseudonym of Edgar Box. Originally published in the early 1950s, the books feature a young PR man and amateur sleuth, Peter Cutler Sargeant II. In "Death Before Bedtime," Sargeant is hired by a Senator with presidential ambitions and travels with the politician's beautiful daughter to Washington, D.C., where the Senator himself is murdered shortly after Sargeant arrives, presenting the PR man with a locked room mystery and a house full of suspects. With an introduction by Vidal explaining his three-book venture into the mystery genre. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a 3/4-inch tear at the bottom of the fold between the back panel and the dj's rear flap, and a second tear of the same length with a crease on the top edge of the front panel as other minor edge-wear. None of the wear significantly affects the jacket's design or lettering. It is not price-clipped. A decent reading copy of an interesting byway in Vidal's career.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005104
- Title
- DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME
- Author
- Box, Edgar (Gore Vidal)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, Second Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0922890900
- ISBN 13
- 9780922890903
- Publisher
- The Armchair Detective Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, AMATEUR SLEUTH, NEW YORK, POLITICS, PUBLIC RELATIONS,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; New York; Amateur Sleuth;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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