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Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W[illiam] E[arle]**: : MURDER BY AIRLONDON.LATIMER HOUSE,1951. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published by Newnes in 1937,this edn completely revised and reset,1951.]VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,price intact and
present to dw/dj,but still corner clipped.
Colour,pictorial illustrated upper wrap by Stead,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Small,closed
tear to bottom edge of front wrap towards foot of spine/backstrip,other small,closed
tears to top edges;one each to either side
of head of spine/backstrip,two small nicks
to front edge and a small one centrally, to the rear edge - all with no loss.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely rubbed with some light,usual chipping.Rear
wrap lightly grubbed.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal,fore-edge brighter and cleaner but lightly,sporadically foxed/
spotted;contents bright,tight and clean -no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners -an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain blue cloth bds with bright,
black ink stamped letters to spine/
backstrip and generally clean and bright plain white eps,book slightly cocked.12mo,
5-150pp [paginated] includes introduction,
21 chapters, plus[unpaginated] half-title+
title pages.
Being the further adventures of Deeley Montford "Steeley" Delaroy,gentleman adventurer,sometime air-smuggler,more recently unofficial police agent.Told by his war-time comrade,and partner in his adventures,Captain Eric "Tubby" Wilde.
A Scotland Yard investigator on the trail
of a gang of international crooks and dope-smugglers dies in a plane crash - but
not before he has given a vital clue to Brian Ballantyne,a newspaper reporter and
a friend of 'Steeley' Delaroy.
Brilliant amateur detective work by
Steeley causes suspicion to fall on a Greek millionaire,one Count Cortusoides.
Subsequent events confirm his suspicions and by boasting of their former exploits as contraband smugglers,Steeley and Tubby
Wilde join the Count as pilots.
Forced down in France on a flight to Germany,they discover that they are carrying stolen Air Ministry papers.On meeting the Count a fight ensues for the papers,but Steeley is able to ensure their
safe return to the Authorities when he meets an R.A.F squadron-leader.
Steeley and Tubby then return to England,
where the Count surprises them at his headquarters.Another gun-fight,the police
arrive in time to capture some of the gang
and the rest,including the Count,are killed in trying to escape by plane.
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