Shakespearean actor Ambercrombie Lewker turns detective when a member of his climbing party is killed on what was supposed to be an easy route on a mountain in Wales. First U.S. publication, Pub. in UK in 1951.
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Shakespearean actor Ambercrombie Lewker turns detective when a member of his climbing party is killed on what was supposed to be an easy route on a mountain in Wales. First U.S. publication, Pub. in UK in 1951.
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Seller's Description:
First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 285. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black on spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Lacks front endpaper and half-title page with hinge slightly cracked. Inner flap of dust jacket attached to front pastedown. Covers slightly marked and faded; good copy.
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VG. Nd. [c. 1952]. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, paper stock a little tanned, spine a little canted); pp. 256 with a crag diagram. A very good copy of a rare book, uncommon in any edition, first published in 1951. [Neate X69: Milestone Buttress is a well-known crag in Snowdonia]. The first Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery, set in Snowdonia.
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VG- No Jacket. 12mo. burgundy cloth (ex-library, erased rsm to verso title page, vestiges of labels to front endpapers, else unmarked; cloth rubbed, paper stock a little tanned & thumbed, occ. spots, some paperstock tanning; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 286 (last blank), with a crag diagram. A very good copy of an uncommon title in a sturdy library binding. [Neate X69: Milestone Buttress is a well-known crag in Snowdonia]. The first Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery, set in Snowdonia.
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VG in G+ jacket. VG/G+. 12mo. original red cloth (cloth a little rubbed & marked, paper stock a little tanned & thumbed, some wear to FFE) in dustwrapper (some rubbing, marking and closed tears, chipping at spine ends, restored in neat facsimile); pp. 286 (last blank), with a crag diagram. A very good copy of an uncommon title. [Neate X69: Milestone Buttress is a well-known crag in Snowdonia]. The first Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery, set in Snowdonia.
Interesting to read murder mystery involving mountain climbing. Mr. Lewker is an enjoyable sleuth. Sort of low keyed. Great descriptions of the Welsh countryside.
