Beeding francis pseud john leslie (3 Ergebnisse)

First American Edition. First Printing. [Feb. 1934] Octavo (19cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; 276pp. Light shade of toning to spine; very faint splashmark on lower front board; several pages have short closed tears to the margins only of the text; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Alistair Granby is an agent with the British Secret Service. In his sixth book, one might hope that getting married and going on a skiing honeymoon might be a reason to let Alistair Granby go without trouble but that is not the case when his festivities are interrupted by a mission." (from the publisher); HUBIN, p.28. …

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black; 328pp.; five leaves of illus. Slightly sun faded spine, cover with some fading and soiling, tapped corners. Clean interior with sound binding and no signs of foxing. By Francis Beeding (pseud. John Leslie Palmer) comes a tale of murder and suspense. Valerie Beauchamp, alias Vera Brown, is a successful novelist of trashy romance novels who has recently found love in the form of a mysterious paramour who has swept her off her feet with his love letters. However, Valerie has just found out that her suitor is not only not a real person, but a joke concocted by her so-called friends. To get back at them Valerie decides to add a tontine to her will, the final survivor to inherit a fortune in the end. But before Valerie can enact her plan she is found brutally murdered. And soon after her former friends find themselves the next targets. Released in the US under the title "Murdered One by One".…

FIRST EDITION, inscribed on the flyleaf: ' To Vernon Bartlett with the authors' love H. St. George Saunders, John Palmer, Francis Beeding, November 1940' (see below), endpapers slightly toned, pp. 286, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, several spots to cloth, backstrip faded, good. Francis Beeding was the pseudonym adopted by John Leslie Palmer and Hilary St George Saunders for their espionage-related novels. Both had attended Balliol College, Oxford and worked together at the League of Nations in Geneva, where Vernon Bartlett, journalist and author (most famously, co-authoring Journey's End, 1930) led the League's London Office before joining the BBC. The novel, set in the ongoing War, is dedicated, 'with his consent, in admiration', to Winston Churchill.…