Gold Comes In Bricks
New York: Triangle Books, 1944. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered and stamped in yellow with an image of a gold brick. 280 pp with text block edged in red. First Triangle printing, reissue of the original 1940 Morrow edition. Fine, typical embrowning to the page edges as usual with these wartime publications, in original dust jacket with some loss to the extremities and some rubbing to the front panel,. The creator of Perry Mason here offers the third mystery/suspense novel featuring private eye Bertha Cook and her detecting partner Donald Lam. The trouble started when Bertha decided that pint-sized Lam would be more profitable if her learned jujitsu. Signing up at the gym, the pair met millionaire Ashbury and got a $100-dollar-a-day job. Donald move into the family mansion, ostensibly as a physical instructor hired to get the aging millionaire sire into better condition. But his real job is to find out why Alta, the beautiful daughter, was making out $10,000 checks, why the attractive Mrs. Ashbury was seeing so much of a flashy, loud-spoken promoter, and why the step-son, who had never displayed either talent of energy, had risen from a mere salesman to the office of president of a mysterious corporation named Foreclosed Farms Underwriters Company. Fine / very good. Item #E36856
Price: $45.00