Arthur Gask

	The Poisoned Goblet - Arthur Gask 1935 UK hardback first edition, first impression, published by Herbert Jenkins in London A VG book in first issue 7/6 dust jacket The book is tight and square, no stamps. Mark to top edge but no foxing etc The dust jacket has loss around spine ends and edges, a patch around the 7/6 suggests a later label was cleanly removed   Synopsis: To readers of detective stories, the publication of a new Gilbert Larose story is always something of an event. When Arthur Cask created Larose he created a character who was destined to be one of the most popular in detective fiction. Larose has figured in a number of successful stories but in none so successful as The Poisoned Goblet, which tells of the efforts of a gang of men to kidnap the child of Lady Ardane, Larose takes a hand and immediately finds himself faced with one of the most puzzling and certainly one of the most hazardous cases of his career. A very rare book indeed, still a clean tidy solid copy, a rare opportunity and priced to sell For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	The Storm Breaks - Arthur Gask 1949 UK hardcover 1st edition, published by Herbert Jenkins in London A VG+ books unfortunately no longer with jacket Light scattered foxing and edge rubbing to boards Better suited to the reader than collector but still a decent copy An uncommon title long out of print For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) *b3 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart

Arthur Gask ~ Brief Biography Born 1869 he created Gilbert Larose, still popular with collectors and enthusiasts of Golden Age Crime Fiction.

Sample from The Tragedy of the Silver Moon by Arthur Gask  PROFESSOR PARIS STARBANK, for so he called himself, had a long string of letters after his name, but they did not indicate diplomas which had been granted to him by any recognised university or college and were quite worthless as far as his ability in any walk of life was concerned. Their meaning was of course, unintelligible to most people, but they meant that he belonged to the Society of Natural Healers, was a member of the Dietetic Brotherhood, and had joined the Union of Universal Therapeutists. The Professor was a man of varied attainments, and in his time had been a chemist's errand boy, an employee in the Zoological Gardens, a kennelman to a veterinary surgeon, a conjurer, and a chauffeur and handyman to an East End practitioner of medicine. From the experiences gained in these occupations he now carried on a very successful practice as a quack doctor, styling himself " Professor " to avoid trouble with the police. Sample from The Man of Death Agatha Wandsworth never learnt who her parents were, which, under the circumstances, might perhaps have been considered a good thing, as her father had been a dissolute Norwegian sailor and her mother a disreputable and decidedly coarse young woman who had many times strayed from the paths of virtue and part of whose calling was that of an artist's model. Agatha owed her surname to having been found by a patrolling policeman, one night when only a few-days-old baby, upon a seat on Wandsworth Common. Her Christian name had been given her because the date of her entry upon the books of the institution to which she had been taken was that of the fifth of February, the day of the Feast of the Virgin Martyr, St. Agatha.

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