THE GOLD SKULL MURDERS
Garden City, N. Y. The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First American Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, black cloth with red lettering on spine and cover plus stylized small figure of a man shooting, red pictorial endpapers, [viii] + 303 pages. Very Good / None. Item #1374
Murder mystery set along the dangerous waterfront with tentacles reaching halfway around the world. Ronald Ward struggles to solve a murder that had struck fear into Malaysia and the Far East. A dying man's last words give a critical clue . . . that leads to a solution with a surprising twist.
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Very Good copy of this SCARCE mystery. The half title is beginning to split cleanly (~3/4") from its lower edge.
Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. After working for the Canadian Pacific Railway, his experiences led to him to write a series of mystery novels, the most famous about a character called Jimmie Dale.--Wikipedia
Hubin, Bibliography of Crime Fiction 1749-1975, p.316.
Price: $35.00