{"product_id":"the-rumble-murders-a-golden-age-mystery-reprint-paperback","title":"The Rumble Murders: A Golden-Age Mystery Reprint - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Ware Eliot  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCurtis Evans\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDavid Chinitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen George Palmerston Gaynleigh (\"the 'Palmerston' was silent, in so far as George could preserve silence on that painful infliction\"), author and \"spasmodic\" detective novelist (you will of course recall his two excellent published mysteries, \u003cem\u003eThe Sheaghan Shillelah \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Murder at the Microphone\u003c\/em\u003e), arrives in the wealthy and seemingly contented suburban development of Randall Green as a guest of his friend Ed Marsh, he little suspects that he will soon be embroiled in a crime problem more intricate than anything he ever dared put down on paper. It seems that someone in the area has picked up a nasty habit of shooting men and then stashing their stripped bodies in the rumble seats of local cars--most emphatically not a practice calculated to heighten property values  Soon George joins a neighborhood \"homicide squad\" --comprised of himself, Ed, a journalist and, wonder of wonders, an actual detective--which tries, with help from Ed's winsome wife, Jeanie, to crack a fiendishly complex murder case. Will the squad solve the baffling mystery of the bodies in the rumbles?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rumble Murders was first published in 1932, as by Mason Deal, the pseudonym for Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. (older brother of famed poet and mystery-lover T. S. Eliot). This new edition includes a bibliographic introduction by detective fiction historian Curtis Evans and an afterword on T. S. Eliot's mystery fiction interest by David Chinitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42112420348039,"sku":"9781616464059","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/29be677c7d861a6a440b53b316326224.webp?v=1732483823","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-rumble-murders-a-golden-age-mystery-reprint-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}