Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages in an unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy. The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.
 "Sneaky Peopleby: Berger, Thomas")