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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1955). First edition. Young gangster loses his nerve and a night-watchman is killed. Later published in the USA as “The Gelignite Gang”.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 192pp. Original dark red boards, blocked and lettered in black; a very good, clean and sound copy in the original Chrichard dust-jacket – a design in orange, green, pink, black and white – just a touch tanned and very slightly nicked, but in very good order.

£20

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1955). First edition. Thrills on the physical level, shudders on the psychic” (Birmingham Daily Post, 19th April 1955). A Doctor Palfrey thriller – “against an enemy who moved in a white, insidious mist, the vapour that brought death to all but one”.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 222,[ii]pp. Original blue boards, ruled, blocked and lettered in black; a few slight edge-spots, but a very good copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket – the jacket just lightly worn.

£25

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