Kane (Henry) Nirvana can also mean death
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London & New York, T.V. Boardman, 1959.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
Kane was a New York lawyer who defected to crime fiction and produced, across four decades and several pseudonyms, some sixty novels, most featuring the martini-fluent Manhattan private eye Peter Chambers, for whom this is the sixteenth outing, published in America under the flatter title Death Is the Last Lover. The Boardman edition offers the better title and, frankly, the better object: number 28 in the American Bloodhound series, with jacket art by Denis McLoughlin, whose designs have made Boardman Bloodhounds a collecting field in their own right.
In stock
Ownership stamp to front free endpaper; cloth slightly dulled and softened at head of spine; some edge wear to jacket with some loss.
Jacket artwork by D. McLoughlin.
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