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Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W[illiam] E[arle]**: : THE MURDER AT CASTLE DEEPINGLONDON.LATIMER HOUSE,1951. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published 1937,this edn completely revised
and reset,1951.]VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,
price-clip to dw/dj.Colour,pictorial illustrated upper wrap by Stead,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to
edges and corners.Closed tear to bottom edge of rear wrap,one towards foot of spine/backstrip,another on the corner and
a tiny one to centre of bottom edge.Small tear,with reciprocal loss to upper,top corner.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally rubbed with some light,usual chipping.Rear wrap lightly grubbed.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,lightly aged/
tanned - as usual/normal and lightly, sporadically foxed/spotted,fore-edge similar,but less so and therefore brighter; contents bright,tight and clean
- no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners
- an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's
original,plain blue cloth bds with bright,
black ink stamped letters to spine/
backstrip and lightly foxed/spotted eps.
12mo,5-152pp [paginated] includes contents
list/table,15 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Being the further adventures of "Steeley"
Delaroy,gentleman adventurer,sometime air-smuggler,more recently unofficial police agent.Told by his war-time comrade,and partner in his adventures,Captain "Tubby"
Wilde.
Worried by the activities of a gang of smugglers of dope and of cosmopolitan crooks,Scotland Yard enlists 'Steeley' Delaroy and 'Tubby' Wilde as special investigators.
Their search leads to Castle Deeping,an old moated ruin in Hampshire and the scene
of a recent,and unsolved murder mystery, where they are ambushed in the cellars.
Steeley and Tubby escape from a watery grave when the crooks flood the moat but not before the identity of the leader is discovered.
Steeley's plan to get accepted into the gang by posing as a crook just released from prison is successful,but an exciting
fight ensues when he and Tubby are recognised by the Boss.Escaping once again
after a series of clashes with members of the gang,they follow the crooks to a yacht
off Gravesend and police reinforcements arrive to find a desperate gun-fight in progress.
The death of the Boss and the capture of the remaining members finally breaks up the gang to Scotland' Yard's great satisfaction.
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