Nibbled to Death by Ducks: A Jimmy Flannery Mystery.
[1989] · New York
by Campbell, Robert.
New York: Pocket Books, [1989]. First Pocket Books Trade Hardcover Printing. Octavo, purple cloth & gold boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 220 pp. Fine, in a like dust jacket. “I felt bad when I found out Chips Delvin’s housekeeper, old Mrs. Banjo, died while me and Mary was on vacation down in New Orleans. I felt worse when I found out that Chips was so broken up by it he nearly collapsed at the funeral and had to be taken over to one of them nursing homes, by the name of Larkspur, way over to the Fourteenth Ward. But what I didn’t understand was who was this cousin Francis Carmody who took charge of Chips...I’m getting the feeling something stinks here worse than the Chicago sewers, and if I don’t find out what, my old pal Chips could end up leaving the Larkspur in a box...” (Inventory #: 00072s)