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THE CHINKS IN THE CURTAIN: The Story of a Most Unlikely Spy
by Porter, Joyce
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Scribners, 1968. 1st American edition, so stated. light wear at extremities, else near fine in dust jacket, unclipped, $3.95 price intact, has some minor rubbing and soiling, a few small nicks along edges. "The Chinks in the Curtain" features the return of that most reluctant spy Edmund Brown, first met in SOUR CREAM WITH EVERYTHING. Returning ignominiously from Russia to England, he is dispatched to Paris to discover why a source of information has dried up. He infiltrates the household of a Russian émigré through the salacious, if somewhat skeletal, embraces of the Prince’s niece. There he uncovers a plot to restore the old regime to Russia, hatched by the Prince and a Rasputin-like priest whose motto is -- Give God something to forgive you for. -- But the underlying sinister implications of the plot elude our hero until the eleventh hour. Joyce Porter irreverently juggles the familiar paraphernalia of midnight tiptoeing, hidden microphones and conniving seduction into a hilarious travesty of the spy story. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015376
- Title
- THE CHINKS IN THE CURTAIN: The Story of a Most Unlikely Spy
- Author
- Porter, Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Espionage, Paris, Humour
- Bookseller catalogs
- Espionage; France; Humorous; Paris;
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
In business since 1978 specializing in Mystery, Detective Fiction both in hardcover and collectible paperbacks.
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