Stars, Starlets, Floozies and factotums to the film world - Gervase Fen suspects them all... The young actress, Gloria Scott, drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge. The news sends shock-waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen, Oxford Don and amateur criminologist, just so happens to be working. With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby, the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places. Young Ms. Scott's apartment has been searched, and all signs of her real identity have been ...
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Stars, Starlets, Floozies and factotums to the film world - Gervase Fen suspects them all... The young actress, Gloria Scott, drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge. The news sends shock-waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen, Oxford Don and amateur criminologist, just so happens to be working. With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby, the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places. Young Ms. Scott's apartment has been searched, and all signs of her real identity have been removed, and what's more, minutes before Humbleby interrogates her co-workers, one of them, a lecherous cameraman, is poisoned. Equal parts compelling, witty and ingenuous, this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction. First published in 1950, Frequent Hearses was Edmund Crispin's seventh novel.
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Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0802754570. A fine hardcover copy in jacket with small blemish front panel else a seemingly unread first edition copy now in mylar.; MCF04430; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 223 pp.
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First THUS, first printing of this edition with full number line in near fine / very good condition. The pages of the text are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Tanning on the Free endpapers, and the inside of the boards, but not on the pages of the text. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has some wear, with several nicks and small tears at the edges. Attractive book with minimal signs of use, an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Very good; Collectible. Near Fine HC in VC DJ. 1st printing thus. Light brown paper over boards, gilt letters. Bright, clean covers and spine; slightly bumped at front cover top fore corner-small (1/32") split in paper; tight; crisp, clean interior. DJ is faintly scuffed.