The Curse of Khatra (1947, first edition)
One of T C H Jacobs' Superintendent John Bellamy crime classics
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Printing Details
Undated [1947]. First edition. Hardback, bound in black cloth, gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 224pp.
A classic murder mystery from the prolific T C H Jacobs, inland revenue inspector by day and thriller writer by night who wrote under many different pseudonyms (Jacques Pendower, Penn Dower, Tom Curtis, Marilyn Pender, Marilyn Pendower, Kathleen Carstairs to name a few). One of his series was cases involving Superintendent John Bellamy of Scotland Yard of which this is one, and in which he works with Monsieur Dillon of the Paris Sûreté.
Condition
A reading copy. Covers dulled, foxing to page edges, tanning to the economy standard paper but remaining in good readable condition.
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£20.00
