JAIL & FAREWELL. by SHANE, Mark" - [NORWOOD, Victor (Victor George Charles), 1920-1983] :

London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. Red Miller, reformed con-man turned private eye, witnesses an old pal fall to his death in a police siege. In a secret pocket inside the dead man's shirt is a book - "I had more than a vague idea that the book was old, very old - and maybe valuable". Bookseller gets murdered. Some other "guys claimed to be antiquarian booksellers, but didn't know Aristotle from a hole in the ground". Originally published in 1953 under Reg Carter's earlier Comyns imprint, but here under the Moring imprint he acquired on his release from prison in 1955. Crown 8vo (19cm). 143,[i]pp. Original pictorial wrappers; some minor wear; upper wrapper with some creasing and a repaired 4cm tear, but otherwise a very good and clean copy. No copy of this Moring edition located in any major library worldwide.