Books Update: 3 Vintage Crime Mystery hardcovers with attractive dust jackets
*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: This week, three hardcovers from the late 50s/early 60s, all with attractive dust jackets. The Body In The Basket involves a mysterious corpse turning up in Madrid for the author’s Inspector Schmidt. In Assignment To Vengeance, somewhere in Europe, 15 years after the end of WW2, the hunt for escaped Nazi leaders goes on. And Week-End With Maxwell is a murder mystery, where the suspects are the victim’s four ex-wives.
As always, our catalogue gives further information, including condition notes.
PICTURED: ALL SOLD
GEORGE BAGBY: THE BODY IN THE BASKET Macdonald 1956 1st UK HC VG £12 With DJ (FA)
BRIAN CLEEVE: ASSIGNMENT TO VENGEANCE Thriller Book Club 1962 1st UK HC thus VG/FN £5 With DJ (VG/FN)
E G COUSINS: WEEK-END WITH MAXWELL Thriller Book Club 1961 1st UK HC VG £6 With DJ (VG)