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 contents clean throughout. In the bright dustwrapper, rubbed to edges and corners and with a short (c. 1 cm) closed tear to the lower spine tip. Small abrasion (c. 1 x 1 cm) to the upper edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (10s. 6d. net to the front flap).

The nineteenth Tommy Hambledon thriller. "[E]verything 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).