Buy this book on-line LYALL**, GAVIN TUDOR: : THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMELONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1964. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Pictorial,colour decorated,laminated upper
wrap and b/w author portrait photograph to
rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear to edges and minimal creasing.Lightly bumped/
creased and chipped with minimal loss head
of backstrip/spine and lightly bumped top two corners.Dust-soiled and foxed top edge
with light sporadic foxing to fore-edges also.Contents bright,tight and clean with some minimal foxing.Maroon paper/cloth(?) boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip.Minimal water stained foot of rear board with some light ink bleeding to bottom edge of plain white endpapers.Front endpaper has light water stain to foot of front hinge and bottom 1/3rd of front free endpaper's fore-edge.
The water stain has affected internal bottom edges of front,rear and spine/
backstrip edges,with rear,top edge of the dw/dj also internally affected.Described hard but fair! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6- 255pp.Author's 2nd novel,preceded by US edn in 1963.The book was a runner-up for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964.
As a former RAF pilot,a former Air Correspondent for The Sunday Times,Lyall certainly knows about flying.Combining his
expertise with fast-paced,well-written plots has made him one of the most popular
writers of action thrillers.An adventure story,influenced by the works of Hammett and Chandler.See also rja988.
Bill Cary is a bush pilot living in Lapland in northern Finland,making a precarious living flying aerial survey flights looking for nickel deposits,and occasional charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy in his beat-up old de Havilland Beaver.Towards the end of the flying season,a wealthy American hunter hires him to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border in order to hunt bear.Subsequently,he is assaulted by thugs when he refuses a charter contract to search for a lost Tsarist treasure,comes under suspicion from the Finnish police for smuggling when Tsarist-era gold sovereigns start turning up,and from the Finnish secret police for espionage.
However,things get more serious when the wealthy American hunter's beautiful sister turns up to search for her brother,and his fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents.Cary suspects that the events he is increasingly involved in may stem from an incident in his wartime past.
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