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Summer Adventure - Special Signed Copy - Alan Thomas
1933 UK hardback first edition, first impression published by Ernest Benn in London
Signed and inscribed by the author to his mother ! Dated Christmas 1932 so a pre-publication copy
Also comes with a letter to, I presume, the author's mother speaking of her husbands death: From the London Playing Fields Society
A VG+ book in VG+ 7/6 unclipped dustwrapper
Book has a tight solid binding with no lean to spine, clean contents
The jacket has some light wear to extremities and a bit of age tanning
A Maurice and Cyril mystery
Synopsis - About this Book
Alan Thomas was one of the few novelists to satisfy Arnold Bennett's plea that characters in detective stories should be real. On the appearance, in " The Stolen Cellini" of Maurice and Cyril, those essentially humane and unmechanical inquiry agents, they delighted everyone. Here, in their latest adventure, they appear as fresh and efficient as ever. No sooner have. they arrived on -the Continent for a rest cure than they are faced with circumstances which quickly convert this holiday into a thrilling adventure, and incidentally afford them— and the reader—a glimpse behind the scenes of European politics. That Cyril and Maurice triumph in the end goes without saying, but the story of their experiences makes capital reading.
Obviously a rare book in jacket but this must surely be the ultimate copy !
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Death of the Home Secretary - SIGNED - Alan Thomas
1933 British hardback 1st edition, 1st impression published by Ernest Benn in London
Signed and inscribed by the author Christmas 1933. Also the author has added something in French underneath
A VG indeed sadly lacking dust jacket
A solid book in first issue cloth, a few marks to boards, light scattered to to edges
Nice tight binding and square spine
A solid copy
Sample
THOSE WHO WERE LOOKING FOR SENSATIONAL READING m the luncheon and early evening editions on the day of Judy Perrin's execution were not disappointed. But it was not any lurid descriptions of the ' execution scenes' that claimed their attention. It was something far more sensational and exciting. For splashed across all the papers in the heaviest type were the words:
DEATH OF THE HOME SECRETARY SIR DAVID HYSLOP FOUND STRANGLED
This was indeed news.
The sequence of events that morning at Number 7A Smith Square was described—or rather, garbled —at great length in the news sheets, and was lapped up avidly by their readers. What in fact happened was this. At a quarter to seven Mary Davidson, the hOuse-parlour-maid, got up, dressed, and went from her bedroom to the kitchen. There she made tea, drank a cup herself and took another up to Mrs. Paddock, the cook, who slept on the top-floor. Mary then came down again to the kitchen, busied herself with domestic duties, laid the breakfast in the dining-room (which was the front room on the left of the house as you came in at the street door) and then at a quarter to eight went up to the bathroom on the first floor
A very rare book unsigned but signed and inscibed . . .
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	Summer Adventure - Special Signed Copy - Alan Thomas 1933 UK hardback first edition, first impression published by Ernest Benn in London Signed and inscribed by the author to his mother ! Dated Christmas 1932 so a pre-publication copy Also comes with a letter to, I presume, the author's mother speaking of her husbands death: From the London Playing Fields Society A VG+ book in VG+ 7/6 unclipped dustwrapper Book has a tight solid binding with no lean to spine, clean contents The jacket has some light wear to extremities and a bit of age tanning A Maurice and Cyril mystery Synopsis - About this Book Alan Thomas was one of the few novelists to satisfy Arnold Bennett's plea that characters in detective stories should be real. On the appearance, in " The Stolen Cellini" of Maurice and Cyril, those essentially humane and unmechanical inquiry agents, they delighted everyone. Here, in their latest adventure, they appear as fresh and efficient as ever. No sooner have. they arrived on -the Continent for a rest cure than they are faced with circumstances which quickly convert this holiday into a thrilling adventure, and incidentally afford them— and the reader—a glimpse behind the scenes of European politics. That Cyril and Maurice triumph in the end goes without saying, but the story of their experiences makes capital reading. Obviously a rare book in jacket but this must surely be the ultimate copy ! For Sale at £SOLD - SORRY, CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK (approx $SOLD) - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Death of the Home Secretary - SIGNED - Alan Thomas 1933 British hardback 1st edition, 1st impression published by Ernest Benn in London Signed and inscribed by the author Christmas 1933. Also the author has added something in French underneath A VG indeed sadly lacking dust jacket A solid book in first issue cloth, a few marks to boards, light scattered to to edges Nice tight binding and square spine A solid copy Sample THOSE WHO WERE LOOKING FOR SENSATIONAL READING m the luncheon and early evening editions on the day of Judy Perrin's execution were not disappointed. But it was not any lurid descriptions of the ' execution scenes' that claimed their attention. It was something far more sensational and exciting. For splashed across all the papers in the heaviest type were the words: DEATH OF THE HOME SECRETARY SIR DAVID HYSLOP FOUND STRANGLED This was indeed news. The sequence of events that morning at Number 7A Smith Square was described—or rather, garbled —at great length in the news sheets, and was lapped up avidly by their readers. What in fact happened was this. At a quarter to seven Mary Davidson, the hOuse-parlour-maid, got up, dressed, and went from her bedroom to the kitchen. There she made tea, drank a cup herself and took another up to Mrs. Paddock, the cook, who slept on the top-floor. Mary then came down again to the kitchen, busied herself with domestic duties, laid the breakfast in the dining-room (which was the front room on the left of the house as you came in at the street door) and then at a quarter to eight went up to the bathroom on the first floor A very rare book unsigned but signed and inscibed . . . For Sale at £SOLD - SORRY, CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK (approx $SOLD) - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart