SET-UP FOR MURDER: Slim Callaghan, Private Eye by Cheyney, Peter - 1950

N.Y.: Pyramid Books, 1950. First printing, originally titled "It Couldn't Matter Less". Pyramid #16, GGA, front cover has creases, reading crease but still bright. Rear cover has large chip out (see photos). All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Private Eye Slim Callaghan. The setting is wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, longtime friendly rival of Callaghan’s, has been clubbing and happens to call Slim to ask if he’s seen Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie’s Place. It’s Slim’s birthday but Callaghan knows Gringall has something up his sleeve . He goes anyway. Backstage Doria asks him to take on a job, to find her boyfriend Lionel Wilbery, a poet with the wrong friends and a drug problem.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Vintage Paperback.