Decoys: A John Benson Mystery [Inscribed and Signed]
- SIGNED
- New York: M. Evans and Company, 1980
New York: M. Evans and Company, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: M. Evans and Company, 1980. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Jack Ribik with $8.95 price intact; 203pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, flaps a shade toned, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else a Very Good copy overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper, dated 1991 in his native Portland, Oregon.
The prolific mystery author's first book, and the first to feature the so-called "soft boiled-sleuth" John Denson, "a detective for the '80s, who loves screw-top wine, refuses to carry a gun, and holds a firm belief that Philip Marlowe never would have stood for having some dame quote Betty Friedan to him.
The prolific mystery author's first book, and the first to feature the so-called "soft boiled-sleuth" John Denson, "a detective for the '80s, who loves screw-top wine, refuses to carry a gun, and holds a firm belief that Philip Marlowe never would have stood for having some dame quote Betty Friedan to him.