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  • THE WAR OF THE WORLDS MURDER. by Collins, Max Allan.
    Collins, Max Allan.
    THE WAR OF THE WORLDS MURDER.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Berkley, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The sixth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, the author is Walter Gibson, best known as the creator of "The Shadow". "In 1938, while working with Gibson on a film project, Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, which causes widespread panic and places him in the center of a murder investigation when his mistress is murdered and he is accused of the crime." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a prologue in which Collins talks about meeting Gibson at the first…

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    New York: Berkley, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The sixth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, the author is Walter Gibson, best known as the creator of "The Shadow". "In 1938, while working with Gibson on a film project, Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, which causes widespread panic and places him in the center of a murder investigation when his mistress is murdered and he is accused of the crime." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a prologue in which Collins talks about meeting Gibson at the first Bouchercon he attended, and a bibliographic essay. 246 pp. . ISBN: 0-425201014.

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    Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 79264
    Keywords: Mysteries: historical, orson welles, the shadow
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  • THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL. by Malmont, Paul.
    Malmont, Paul.
    THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, a bibliomystery set in the years of the Great Depression with two authors of pulp fiction - Walter Gibson, the creator of "The Shadow" and Lester Dent, creator of "Doc Savage" - put aside their rivalry to track down the killer of H. P. Lovecraft, joined in this quest by another young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard. Introduction and epilogue. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287852.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock, light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 64765
    Keywords: bibliomystery, Bibliomystery and crime fiction, china, depression era, doc savage, historical fiction, l ron hubbard, lovecraft, providence, ri, the shadow
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