Product Description
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
First edition, first printing.
"First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1961 to the title page, $3.00 to the jacket's flap.
A standalone mystery featuring professional gentleman gambler Neil MacFarland on the Riviera, who is enlisted to pay his debts by playing in a high stakes private game--but his debt-payers are a group of criminals who violently rob the game players, and the suspenseful mystery really begins.
The fifth mystery by the author and educated criminal, who wrote several of his mysteries in jail.
Hairline crack to the front inner hinge as usual, else very good plus in polished black linen with bright yellow embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, upper page edges yellow; in a near fine dust jacket with art by Milton Glaser, with a still bright and UN-faded violet spine panel, with minuscule rubbed crimps to the upper and lower spine edges, and a tiny creased tear to the front panel's upper edge; original printed $3.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.
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