Richard Lockridge; Frances Lockridge
Death and the Gentle Bull
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy this Captain Heimrich mystery, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Richard and Frances Lockridge were American writers of detective fiction during the twentieth century. They created the most famous American mystery series, Mr. and Mrs. North, which was adapted for radio, television, film and the stage. In the second Mr. and Mrs. North novel, Murder Out of Turn (1941), the couple and their detective friend, Lt. Bill Weigand, encounter murder near Brewster, New York. There they meet an officer of the New York State Bureau of Criminal Identification , Lt. Heimrich, later achieving promotion to Captain. Heimrich then became the star of his own series of twenty-two novels. This is the seventh book in the Captain Heimrich series, in which death surrounds an Aberdeen Angus worth six figures. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very bright and smart, with a small bump to the lower extremity and to the head of the spine. Light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper is bright, with a little shelf wear to the head of the spine and chipping to the tail of the spine. Small tidemark to the rear and reverse of the wraps. Otherwise very smart. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

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Keywords: Captain Heimrich Mystery Crime fiction Mystery Not Stated