BELASCO, DAVID

The Return of Peter Grimm

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1912. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rae, John. The Return of Peter Grimm has been novelized by the play by David Belasco. The play was also made into an opera. Peter Grimm is referred to also as the Dead Man, who comes and visits a child frequently in the course of the novel. The child is taken to doctors and so forth because it appears he is talking to himself, but rather mysteriously he is speaking to his departed friend, Peter Grimm. 344 pages, includes frontispiece. The cover has a paste-down of a woman losing herself in scented blossoms, and the faint vision of a man in the background. There are a few tiny white spots where the picture has been scratched. The rest of the binding is red cloth; there is a slight bump at the front right top corner, and the spine bottom is folded up. There is a tiny white spot on the back binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ; 12mo 7" - 7 3/4" tall; 344 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 001892

Catalogue: Fiction: : Mystery and Crime

Keywords: Children Ghosts Clairvoyance

CONDE, NICHOLAS

In the Deep Woods

St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. NYPD Detective Eric Gaines is part of a special interstate task force that is tracking a serial killer, so far with maddeningly little effect. There are just too many suspects - but when one more is added to the list, he realizes that book illustrator Carol Warren is in mortal danger. Book is crisp. Appears never to have been read. ; Octavo (standard book size); 306 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 004329

Catalogue: Fiction: : Mystery and Crime

Keywords: Novel Horror Suspense Terror 61

QUEEN, ELLERY

The Murderer Is a Fox

Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 231 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 004706

Catalogue: Fiction: : Mystery and Crime