Penguin Main Series 1060. 1st Edition, published 1955.
A globetrotting detective always one step away from cracking the case, and one smaller step from having his skull cracked open, in this dazzling mystery from the author of ‘To Catch a Thief’. Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker’s mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can’t tap the family coffers without proof of death. The case sounded routine enough, right up his alley, but the trail for the missing Mr. Parker leads Colby down a rabbit hole winding through a number of South American countries, each one a dead end…
Condition grading: Good. Very light creasing to bottom edge of rear cover. Some foxing to right edge of front cover. Some creasing and wear to grubby spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series 1060. 1st Edition, published 1955.
A globetrotting detective always one step away from cracking the case, and one smaller step from having his skull cracked open, in this dazzling mystery from the author of ‘To Catch a Thief’. Al Colby, an American expatriate working as a private investigator in Mexico City, is contacted by an old acquaintance in Los Angeles who hands him a cold case involving a missing person. Robert Parker’s mysterious disappearance is tying up a family fortune and is enraging his abandoned wife who can’t tap the family coffers without proof of death. The case sounded routine enough, right up his alley, but the trail for the missing Mr. Parker leads Colby down a rabbit hole winding through a number of South American countries, each one a dead end…
Condition grading: Good. Very light creasing to bottom edge of rear cover. Some foxing to right edge of front cover. Some creasing and wear to grubby spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
