The Murder of Miranda by Margaret Millar - 1979

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UsedGood. **STOCK PHOTOS AND CATALOG INFO MAY VARY FROM ACTUAL BOOK, PLEASE REFER TO SELLER PHOTOS AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FOR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION. THE SELLER PHOTO SHOWS THE EXACT COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE** This is a used book in GOOD condition. May have minor defects such as wearing to outside cover, a name written on inside cover, or a few notations throughout. Hardcover edition. Includes original dust jacket.

Random House. 1979. 0394505093 Bij-Mystery, M-This is a regular size hardback is in NEAR NEW condition with NEAR NEW dust jacket. It has a black spine with white/silver lettering on it. .

New York: Random House, 1979. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 x 9 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; mild wear, edges sunned. Binding tight. PO's address sticker on ffep. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped, clean but a touch wrinkled. Fic. Stax. JL.

New York: Random House, Inc., 1979. Book appears unread. DJ shows minor shelfwear. First Edition. Cloth & Boards. Ri/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel. Rich widow and lifeguard!

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1st printing of 1st edition; signed by author. Fine hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Cream and black boards, silver titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; inscribed on title page 'For Kate Mattes | With best wishes | Margaret Millar'; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; lightly scuffed. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore (Kate's Mystery Books). This is a new, unread book. 8vo, 240 pp.

240+[1 biography] pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine over beige boards with Random House blind-stamp to cover in original jacket. Inscribed by the author. First edition.There has been a satiric wrinkle in most of Millar's work since the late Fifties, but here the comic energy just about swamps everything else--mystery included. The detective is again lawyer Tomas Aragon (Ask for Me Tomorrow), but mostly Tom just plays straight man for all the flaky folks who hang out at Southern California's posh Penguin Beach Club: impossibly precocious nine-year-old Freddy; the girlish, aging, semi-retarded daughters of a retired Admiral; a senile rumor-monger; and vain, fiftyish widow Miranda, who runs off with the Penguin's macho lifeguard, followed by Tom--who's working on her late husband's pathetic estate. Where's the murder, you ask? Not till the last 50 pages, when impoverished Miranda, deserted by her lifeguard, takes a job as… Read More

Appears as unread, unblemished copy in Fine yellow/black boards, with DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown, with small , open "V" tear on back, bottom edge.
Margaret Millar, Edgar Award author, was also the spouse of Ross MacDonald and winner of writing awards. Miranda Shaw was a rich and recent widow in her early fifties. When she vanishes at the same time the head lifeguard at the Penguin Beach Club does, the rumors start to circulate. What happened to her?
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