The Lady of China Street

1st edition, 1st impression. 204pp. Blue cloth covered boards with silver titles on spine (boards worn along spine and mildly marked but strong and firm). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, no other library markings, else internally neat, clean and tight, with a hint of tanning. In its original, vintage dust jacket (rubbed and chipped at edges, bumped at corners, crumpled at head of spine, where there is also an old interior tape repair). In an archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Corrigan is on vacation in Marseilles when he is approached by a representative of the Criminal Air Force, a trilateral group aimed at fighting smuggling via aircraft. The work involves putting a stop to a gang led by the Albino. Then the agent doing the offering is murdered and Corrigan is on his own. Corrigan was a pen name of Norman Lee who also wrote as Raymond Armstrong and Robertson Hobart.