BASLE EXPRESS

First edition, first printing. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, ruling and illustration to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with some toning and spotting to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains remarkably bright and without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (10s. 6d. net to the front flap).

The nineteenth Tommy Hambledon thriller. "Everything had not gone according to plan for Eugene and his friends, because Tommy Hambledon had shared a sleeper with the dead man on the Basle Express" - from the jacket. (Hubin).