London: The Crime Club, by Collins, 1954. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's cloth binding in dust-wrapper. An unpriced example for export with some trivial edgewear; a lovely fine copy. Secret Service thriller from the Queen of Crime; When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the intelligence agency. When the only possible lead dies in a plane crash, a British spy must persuade a potential suicide that if she must die, it may as well be in the service of her country. Published as 'So Many Steps to Death' in the USA. Item #50574

Wagstaff and Poole p.205. See also Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction.

Price: £125.00