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Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First Edition, August 1940, so stated. Blue cloth with red lettering, with just a hint of wear, spine is slightly darkened else a fine, tight copy . "The murder of a lawyer found in a studio apartment in Greenwich Village is tied to the death of a marine biologist in the Bahamas in the unusual and action-oriented sophomore effort The Case of the Frightened Fish (1940) by playwright and journalist William DuBois. Tabloid reporter Jack Jordan who first appeared in The Case of the Deadly Diary (repeatedly referred to throughout the course of this one) is worried for his friend Dave Yates, a PR man for a millionaire with interests in marine life. See, the studio apartment belonged to an artist and a painting that Jordan recognized as the work of Dave's fiancee Elsa Ulrich was found near the body. Jordan is worried Elsa may be implicated in the poisoning of the lawyer. Elsa, we will soon learn is also the daughter of famed ichthyologist Dr.… Read More

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition, December, 1957. Paperback Original. Dell First Edition #D-112. [.35 cover rice]. Vintage Paperback. Covers lightly age toned else about fine, tight copy. Edges of text block have lmost of its dye still bright. Cover illustration by Victor Kalin. Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporation to his long list of conquests. Lots of the Travis McGee character in Sam. This is a very good story mixing corporate greed, character strength & weakness, good & evil. Set mostly in the Bahamas.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Kalin, Victor. Vintage Paperback.