KEEP COOL, MR. JONES

Boston: MA: Atlantic Little, Brown , 1950. 1st ed. stain at spine head, foot, edgewear, about very good in dust jacket chipped at corners, spine head, foot, soiled at rear, front bright. Price-clipped. This story is the fifth and final entry in Timothy Fuller's series starring Jupiter Jones. Jones starts his sleuthing career as a graduate student in Harvard Has a Homicide when his advisor, Professor Singer is murdered. The detective bug sticks with him through grad school through his term as a professor himself and then, when a convenient relative dies and leaves him enough money to exit the academic world, in semi-retirement. He's supposed to be working on a book in the relaxing little town of Saxon, but he quickly sets that aside when a murder rears its ugly head. Somebody decides to lock Jack Maney and three of his guests in the walk-in freezer when he takes them on a tour to show them his pheasants. There are many people in the community who may have wanted to get their own back on Jack Maney--whether through a practical joke or an attempted murder. But who could have wanted it so badly that they would include three innocent people? What may have been at best an ill-considered practical joke soon leads to definite murder and revived rumors of a long-lost treasure add a certain spice to the speculations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book.