Thorne (E.P.) The Moscow File:
£275
A ‘Man on the Spot’ Story
London, Wright & Browne, 1967.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6 but with publisher’s price sticker ’13/6′ overlaid.
Thorne’s career ran from 1935 to at least 1968, encompassing exotic adventure novels set in India and the Far East, a long-running series of detective mysteries featuring a character called Q.E.D., a “Brains” Cunningham series, and a later group of Cold War thrillers. By the 1960s he had settled into two overlapping series: the Q.E.D. detective stories and a spy/adventure series featuring a character called “Man on the Spot,” a recurring subtitle that appears on both Assignment Haiti (1963) and this one The Moscow File.
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Boards softened at head of spine; jacket very good.
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