first edition Hardcover
1956 · New York
by NORTH, Eric
New York: Roy, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition, from British sheets. Fine in an attractive, price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with several small internally repaired nicks and tears. First book by this Australian author of hardboiled detective fiction, a pseudonym of Bernard Charles Cronin. Crime reporter attempts to gain revenge for the murder of a detective killed trying to crack Australia's biggest narcotics ring. (Inventory #: 76321)