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Dewey, Thomas B : Portrait of a Dead Heiress: An Inner Sanctum Mystery

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1965

Original publisher's green cloth binding with pink and white dust wrapper in mylar. Silver foil lettering on the front cover and spine of the book. A couple small silver foil decorations on the front cover of the book. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. 5 1/4" x 8." 187 pages, complete. Other books by the author are listed on the page facing the title page. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Book is seemingly hardly read. Dust wrapper has a few small closed tears at the top and bottom edges of the front and back panels. One measures about 1/2" from the bottom; the rest are shorter in length than this one. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good dust wrapper. "Inner Sanctum Mystery" is a designation given to Simon & Schuster's mystery novels. Thomas B. Dewey (1915-1985) was an American author who wrote detective crime novels. Most of his novels are part of two series; one series follows Mac, a private investigator; the other follows another detective named Peter Schoefield. This book is from the Mac series. Excerpt from the front flap of the dust wrapper: "Somewhere in Chicago stands the unfinished portrait of a beautiful woman. In a North Shore apartment the woman herself lies dead in a bathtub. Lorrie King has committed suicide on the eve of her marriage. Her fiance, Dr. Peter Kramm, hires Mac to find out who drove Lorrie to her death, and why.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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