Cleopatra's Tears by Keeler, Harry Stephen - 1940

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1940. Ex-library with stamps internally and on the lower edge of the text block, letters on the spine. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of fraying and soiling. Damp stain to the darkened spine and over to a portion of the cover. Glue residue on the pastedowns where a jacket had been attached. Good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 310pp. Yellow cloth with dark green lettering. Near Fine with foxing to spine cloth and a bit of wear along top edge in unclipped original dust jacket with rubbing and tearing along folds, creased spine panel, but generally presents well. Another absolutely ludicrous Keeler mystery featuring implausibly-named characters like protagonist Yoho tenBrockerville spouting pitch-imperfect dialogue, with a goofy, goofy, goofy plot about some Egyptian jewels known variously as "Cleopatra's Tears," "Czar Nick's Death Gift," and "Pizarro's Rape." The second novel in the illustrious Big River Trilogy following The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1940., 1940. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor professional restoration to the extremities. A magnificent emerald necklace known as Cleopatra's Tears and also as Czar Nick's Death Gift and as Pizarro's Rape is stolen from a shop in Paris. Many want to get their hands on the necklace and some must die in their attempt to obtain it. An attractive copy of an elusive title.