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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine
Seller: Murder By The Book

United States
About Item: N.Y.: The Viking Press, 1961. 1st edition. Red cloth with blue lettering at spine and viking symbol at front. Some very light wear at extremeties, couple of corners bumped, a couple of early pages (no text) have minor stains. Dust jacket is lightly sunned at spine, small chips at head and foot of spine, a few wrinkles, not price clipped, $2.95 intact, else very good-near fine in protective mylar cover. Ms. Althea Vail, a rich socialite and a retired actress, offers Nero Wolfe an exorbitant fee if he manages to get her kidnapped husband back, alive and unharmed. Wolfe has a notice put in the paper addressed to the kidnapper to make sure of this outcome, which does happen. But then the husband turns up dead the day after he returns. Was it murder or an accident? . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by English, Bill. Book.
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