JITTERY DAME.

London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Chicago gangland boss has a stunning new girlfriend - but his colleagues haven't been told. Although earlier "Hans Vogel" titles had mainly been written for the Glasgow publisher John Watson by Norman Lazenby, after Watson sold the rights in the name to Scion in 1952 authorship becomes less clear. In this instance, a contemporary American copyright registration attributes the work to Dail Ambler and Herbert Victor Lowes (i.e. Lowe) - Dail Ambler was the regular pseudonym of Betty Williams, also known by her married name of Betty Uelmen, who under her "Dail Ambler" and "Danny Spade" personas, became one of the most successful of all of the British pulp-writers. Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers - brunette, gun, bed - a design by Roger Davis; lightly worn and a little creased; short nick to upper wrapper; a few faint marks and spots; text lightly tanned; faint stamp of a Vancouver bookseller on title-page, with American copyright stamp on verso; American price over-sticker on upper cover partially removed, but overall a very good copy of a scarce and fragile production. Just three copies (Bodleian, National Library of Scotland and Trinity College, Dublin) located in major libraries worldwide.