The Prince of Plunder
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1934.
First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with foxing and soiling to textblock edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with darkening and a pencil check-mark to the spine, light edge wear and toning. Uncommon.
A crime novel by the prolific British thriller writer. "A master blackmailer, operating in London's higher walks, has been shaking down his opulent victims by threat of publicly exposing their private sins. When one of his agents kills the colleague of a secret service man, the latter, lonewolf avenger fashion, takes up the trail and finally brings the leading rogue to book."
Price: $550.00