Miller (Wade, pseud. Robert Allison Wade & H. Bill Miller) Uneasy Street
£75
London, Sampson Low, 1949.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
When a phony count, a weird artist, and a dazzling blond beauty relentlessly dog his footsteps, hard-hitting private investigator Max Thursday knows his charming personality isn’t the attraction.
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Very good; jacket clipped at inside front flap but price present.
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