Lazarus # 7 by Sale, Richard - 1950

Toronto, Ontario, Canada..: Harlequin Books., 1950. 192 pages. ""Lazarus #7 is a chilling and exciting story of a murder written by a fine novelist. The reader will find a plot as absorbing and baffling as any he had matchin wits with and a background that is an authentic, almost unbelieveable American phenomenon: behind-the-scneen Hollywood. There is a macabre fascination to this city of predatory stars, ex-novelists turned back of Art and brood about Budgets - the Hollywood that will travel any road to success, that acknowledges only one law: Bow Office." >>> Fantasy elements. >>> SCARCE Title, & RARE number in the original vintage Harlequin series. ** Re-Glued at Spine. Covers are Creased. Still makes a great Reading copy. . First Edition By This Publisher,. Soft Cover. Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Illus. by PHOTO Cover!. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Spine-ends and corners are lightly bumped and a bit rubbed..

Harlequin Books. Toronto: Harlequin Books, Inc. , 1950 first edition . 79 about very good, some spine roll, creases Photo cover. paperback,

Toronto: Harlequin 79 [79] [1950]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 192pp. Spine slightly cocked, with minor edgewear. (Mystery).

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid, square copy, a couple of mildly bumped corners, very faint beverage ring stain on front cover; jacket heavily worn at extremities (a bit of paper loss at all corners), a few small edge-tears, wrinkling]. Excellent Hollywood mystery novel with elements of the fantastic, revolving around a quack doctor's experimental raising of dogs from the dead. The author was a pulp writer turned novelist/screenwriter, who later turned to directing as well. .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. First edition. Abrasions from label removals to front and rear free end papers, library discard stamp to rear free end paper, no other library markings, a good copy in a good dust jacket with shelf wear to edges, closed tears to upper and lower front panel at spine edge. (22920). Octavo, cloth. A leper commits several murders in an attempt to prevent the discovery of the affliction. Science fiction element is doctor's successful experiments to revive dead animals and, for a short time, one of the murder victims. "Sale also wrote LAZARUS # 7 (1942), set entirely in Hollywood, which is as light and fast as PASSING STRANGE (1942), and may be the only mystery novel featuring leprosy." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 705-06. Hubin (1994), p. 714. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2168.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is near fine, with a name on the front pastedown and light foxing to the endpapers. The dust jacket is mildly tanned and has small chipping at the spine ends and the flyleaf corners; there is a one-inch, triangular chip at the top spine fold on the front panel. See and Brooker. A humorous Hollywood mystery involving four dead people, a doctor who's trying to bring dead dogs back to life and a homicidal actress with leprosy.

NY: SIMON & SCHUSTER.. Very Good. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A very good copy in bright Vg. + or better jacket. (A few tiny chips at spine ends. Light shelf wear to jacket. Top edge faded & gilt titles rubbed on cloth) A scarce title. .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942, 1942. First edition. First edition of the first Daniel Webster, Hollywood Private Eye mystery novels. Inked letters to top of front pastedown sheet, else a fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor restoration to the spine ends and corners. Dr. Max Lekro, staff physician for Al Roche studio, was trying to talk, but it was difficult because he had been murdered, like several others before him. But he came back to life just long enough to provide the vital clue to his murderer. Detective Daniel Webster was provided with the needed clue when like Lazarus, Dr. Lekro for ten precious seconds of life, provided the clue that meant the end of a murderer.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small closed tear to the upper right front corner and mild rubbing to folds, edges and corner tips with an uncommonly bright dust jacket. (23583). Octavo, cloth. A leper commits several murders in an attempt to prevent the discovery of the affliction. Science fiction element is doctor's successful experiments to revive dead animals and, for a short time, one of the murder victims. "Sale also wrote LAZARUS # 7 (1942), set entirely in Hollywood, which is as light and fast as PASSING STRANGE (1942), and may be the only mystery novel featuring leprosy." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 705-06. Hubin (1994), p. 714. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2168.