first edition Hardcover
1949 · Garden City
by LEONARD, Charles L.
Garden City: Doubleday/Crime Club, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Pages browned else fine in a very slightly spine faded, fine dustwrapper. Kilgerrin, in Buenos Aires, tracks a ring of smugglers of illegal immigrants from Europe to South America to the United States. Leonard was the pseudonym of M.V. Heberden, one of the few woman writers to adopt a hardboiled tone in that era. (Inventory #: 19097)