by Richard A. Lupoff

Introduction by Donald E. Westlake.

Dust jacket art by Michael McLaughlin.

(Martinez, Ca): Offspring Press, (1992).

First edition, first printing.

Bares publisher's statement "First edition" to the copyright page.

Contains a thick-stock tipped-in page with the author's information of real local facts, about the car, an existing art Deco society, and an existing historical mansion.

The second of eight books in a mystery series featuring the detecting couple African-American police woman Marvia Plum and Caucasian insurance claim investigator Hobart Lindsey, involves a missing collectible 1928 car, a Duesenberg Phaeton.

Very tight and fine in black leatherette with silver embossed illustration wrapped around both covers and spine depicts the formally dressed detecting pair sporting a 1928 lengthy classic car; in a near fine dust jacket with the same cover illustration more flushed out, in silver, red and black; original $18.95 printed price still intact to the front inner flap.

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