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A 22.6b
Ask for me tomorrow
New York : International Polygonics, 1991

MARGARET | MILLAR | Ask For Me Tomorrow | [in a semicircle] LIBRARY OF CRIME CLASSICS ® [underneath:] [device : man in trenchcoat with submachine-gun, with rules beneath and at the sides] | MISTER E’S [raised TM sign in oval frame] | INTERNATIONAL POLYGONICS, LTD. | NEW YORK CITY

Collation: 93 leaves ; [i–vi] [1–2] 3–179 [180–186]

Contents: p. [i]: TOMORROW AND TOMORROW | “Millar excells ....Superlative!” | —Publishers Weekly | “Her writing is a delight of clarity and pungency ... tantaliz- | ing ... exciting.” | —Saturday Review | “One of or best writers.” | —Philadelphia Inquirer ; p. [ii]: Novels by MARGARET MILLAR | available in Crime Classics ® editions: | AN AIR THAT KILLS | ASK FOR ME TOMORROW | BANSHEE | BEAST IN VIEW | BEYOND THIS POINT ARE MONSTERS | THE CANNIBAL HEART | THE FIEND | FIRE WILL FREEZE | HOW LIKE AN ANGEL | THE IRON GATES | THE LISTENING WALLS | MERMAID | THE MURDER OF MIRANDA | ROSE’S LAST SUMMER | SPIDER WEBS | A STRANGER IN MY GRAVE | VANISH IN AN INSTANT | WALL OF EYES ; p. [iii]: title page ; p. [iv]: copyright page: To Charles Barton Clapp | ASK FOR ME TOMORROW | Text copyright © 1976 by Margaret Millar. Introduction copyright | © 1985 by Margaret Millar and Kenneth Millar 1981 Trusts. Reprinted | with permission of the author and Harold Ober Associates, Inc. | 425 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10017. | Library of Congress Card Catalog # 91-73853 | ISBN 1-55882-115-5 | Printed and manufactured in the United States of America. | First IPL printing April 1985. | New edition November 1991. | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3  1 ; p. [v]: INTRODUCTION | Most books are knitted, stitch by stitch, starting with a skein of | yarn and a pair of needles. Others are made of whole cloth and all | the author has to do is add some pleats and piping and deep | mysterious pockets, and there is the book, complete in a way the | knitted book rarely is. | I knit my books, (Dare I say, casting pearls before swine? | Probably not.) I unravel, change yarns, drop a few stitches here | and a few there, until the garment is finished. | ASK FOR ME TOMORROW is the only book of mine | that was truly made of whole cloth. The plot came to mind in its | entirety. I added some false flounces and portentous plicature, and | the resulting garment was exactly as I had planned when I wrote | the first sentence. | Sticking to one’s knitting can be tedious. The writer | presented with a whole piece of cloth is lucky indeed. So is the | reader. | Santa Barbara, CA [Facsimile of Millar’s signature: M. Millar] | April 6, 1984 ; p. [vi]: blank ; p. [1]: Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. | Romeo and Juliet | Act iii, Scene I ; p. [2]: blank ; p. 3–179: text ; p. [180–186]: blank

Typography: 10p Times (16,7 x 9,8 cm), 39 lines per page

Paper and binding: Adhesive binding, softcover ; all edges trimmed ; 21 x 14 x 1,4 cm. — Front cover: Picture of man in wheelchair (seen from behind) besides a swimming pool, MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA GRAND MASTER | [red] MARGARET | MILLAR | [green] Ask For Me Tomorrow | [black] “Ay, Ay, Ay, Margaret Millar” | —The New York Times. — Spine: vertically top to bottom: [red] MARGARET MILLAR [green] ASK FOR ME TOMORROW | horizontally: [red] IPL. — Back cover: $8.95 Mystery | [picture: man in wheelchair] [to the right of it:] “People have been tell- | ing me about Margaret | Millar for years and now | I am glad I didn’t listen | to them. Now that I have | finally read one of her | books (ASK FOR ME | TOMORROW), I have | 21 more to look forward | to.” | —Anatole Brojard | The New York Times | Meet Mrs. Millar’s most engaging hero, Tom Aragon, a young | Chicano lawyer. Aragon is hired by Gilda Decker to find her | first husband, who, after reportedly amassing a fortune, disap- | peared in Mexico. | But when Aragon travels to Mexico, he finds the past shrouded | in mystery, and as he approaches his elusive quarry, people | start dying, one by one by one. | Front cover: Copyright © 1991 by Roger Roth | [device in red] [to the right of it:] LIBRARY OF | CRIME CLASSICS® | INTERNATIONAL | POLYGONICS, LTD. | New York City [to the right of it:] [barcode 9781558821156 50895] | ISBN 1-55882-115-5

Notes: Copy examined: own

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