Author: GRIMES, Martha
Title: The Man With a Load of Mischief
Publication: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981
Edition: First Edition
Description: First Printing. Generic bookplate, signed in ink by the author, loosely laid-in. Octavo (21cm); brown boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 263pp. Very Good in the original boards, leaning slightly and a touch soiled at base of spine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped and with a faint ring-stain to bottom portion of front panel; Very Good.
Author's first book and the first title in the Richard Jury series. "Inspector Richard Jury of Scotland Yard...with an admixture of gruesome murders and eccentric antics in The Man with a Load of Mischief. Jury, along with his hypochondriac sergeant, arrives to investigate two unidentified murdered men whose bodies were found on consecutive nights at different Long Pid pubs." PROZINI & MULLER, 1001 Midnights p.321.
Seller ID: 62927
Subject: Great Britain, Modern Fiction, Mystery, Crime, and Detective Fiction, Women