The Green Ace: A Hildegard Withers Mystery
Author: Palmer, Stuart (1905-1968)
Year: 1950
Publisher: M S Mills and William Morrow and Company
Place: New York
Description:
241 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Miss Withers has nine days to save a press agent from death row. On a steamy day on Staten Island, a speeding car tears past a couple of beat cops and smashes into a delivery truck. In the front seat is Andy Rowan, pale and unconscious. In the back is a blonde—beautiful, naked, and dead. She was an aspiring Miss America, minted in the wilds of Brooklyn, and he was the press agent who wanted to make her a star. Now she will never walk a runway again. Police, judge, and jury all consider the case open and shut, and a year later, Andy’s awaiting his turn in the electric chair. But Hildegarde Withers, a retired schoolteacher with a zest for crime, believes the frightened little man innocent of the killing. She has nine days to save his life. It will take a miracle, but Miss Withers has worked miracles before.
Condition:
Spine ends moderately rubbed, front heal corner bumped and rubbed. Jacket corners chipped, some edge wear with closed tears and creases, spine heal with a 1/2" in chip and head with 1/4" chip else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket.
Year: 1950
Publisher: M S Mills and William Morrow and Company
Place: New York
Description:
241 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Miss Withers has nine days to save a press agent from death row. On a steamy day on Staten Island, a speeding car tears past a couple of beat cops and smashes into a delivery truck. In the front seat is Andy Rowan, pale and unconscious. In the back is a blonde—beautiful, naked, and dead. She was an aspiring Miss America, minted in the wilds of Brooklyn, and he was the press agent who wanted to make her a star. Now she will never walk a runway again. Police, judge, and jury all consider the case open and shut, and a year later, Andy’s awaiting his turn in the electric chair. But Hildegarde Withers, a retired schoolteacher with a zest for crime, believes the frightened little man innocent of the killing. She has nine days to save his life. It will take a miracle, but Miss Withers has worked miracles before.
Condition:
Spine ends moderately rubbed, front heal corner bumped and rubbed. Jacket corners chipped, some edge wear with closed tears and creases, spine heal with a 1/2" in chip and head with 1/4" chip else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket.
