The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (A Novel of Mystery)
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. hardcover. 229 pp. Set in the foggy gaslit streets of turn of the 20th century San Francisco, this mystery by Dianne Day introduces the plucky, independent heroine Fremont (nee: Caroline) Jones. A proper Bostonian and Wellesley graduate, she buys a ticket to San Francisco to escape her mother's meddlesome matchmaking and embark on a career as an independent "type-writer". But she becomes personally embroiled in the lives of her clients including a young lawyer who sweeps her off her feet and lands her in mortal danger, a strangely disturbed and wildly frightening fellow with phantasmagoric autobiographical manuscript, and an elegant and deferential Chinese man whose untimely death is linked to the paper Fremont typed for him. Fine / fine. Item #E33300
ISBN: 0385475497
Price: $24.50