Teed (Hamilton) Voodoo Island
£375
London, Columbine Publishing Co, 1939.
The world-renowned detective Grant Rushton takes on his most sinister foe yet, High Priestess of the terrible cult of the Voodoo, Marie Galante.
First UK edition, original cloth, with dust-jacket correctly priced at 3/6 on front flap. A pleasing copy of a work very much of its time but a classic of its genre nevertheless.
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