Return Trip Ticket by Hall, David C - 1992

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Nice clean tight copy. All hardcovers are shipped in protective Demco mylar..

St Martins Press, 1992-12. Hardcover. Good.

St Martins Press, 1992. hardcover. Like New. 5x0x8.

St Martins Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: St Martins Press, 1992. First U.S. edition; introduction by Donald E. Westlake; three small closed tears to top of DW, along with wear to spine ends; small, faint gouge to front end of spine; 146pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+.

x+146 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's bound in blue boards with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Intro by Donald Westlake. First edition. What begins as one more missing-heiress case swiftly develops into a postmodern homage to the Continental Op, as first-novelist Hall flits backs and forth between a fat, disillusioned p.i. named Wilson, of the Ajax Detective Agency in Chicago, on the trail of Elizabeth Dantry--who took off from Barcelona shortly after bolting director Ramon Munet's experimental theater/orgy--and repeated flashforwards stateside, after Wilson's caught up with Elizabeth and they're on the run to California a whisker ahead of two unsavory pursuers who call themselves the police. Was Elizabeth kidnapped by the Apocalypse, a new terrorist group, or is the kidnapping a private enterprise arranged by her lover Juanjo Silvestre--or is it a hoax? And will reading Gibbon's Decline and Fall really help beyond-it-all Wilson outwit the cops,… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A classic mystery featuring a "tarnished knight"--private detective hired to find a rich man's daughter missing in Spain; introduction by Donald E. Westlake; originally published in Spain where author resides; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Donald E. Westlake. Near fine with a stain at the bottom of the spine in a near fine dustwrapper with a similar stain. Author's first book to be published in the U. S.