Drink the Green Water A Sultans Harem Mystery Hugh Austin

Drink the Green Water
 or Young Caldwell's Toe
Hugh Austin
A Sultan's Harem Mystery
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright 1948
First edition A
212 pages

The front hinge is cracked, otherwise the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but tanned. The gold cover has some edge wear and the top of the spine is frayed. The jacket is edge worn, especially along the top and chipping along the spine and the spine is darkened. Acceptable in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Sultan, Sultan & Sultan, Counselors at Law was the mustiest and most dignified of New York law firms. Its only earthly representative was Wm Sultan, an old-young man of extreme decorum who busied himself with the preparation of his uncle's Life & Letters. Only in one respect did the office differ from the other aged and decorous offices which were its neighbors, and that was Sultan's Harem (though the phrase would have horrified Wm). The Harem was Sultan's office staff which Wm had chosen with unconscious, yet certainly unerring, taste.

The three were pretty, gay, irrepressible-and bored to death with the Life & Letters. They wanted excitement and, most of all, a livelier Wm Sultan. They got both, along with several murders, in the affair of Young Caldwell's Toe.  .13 (#0000260)