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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: Jan.1946. * Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton. * Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth covered boards, black title to face & gilt title to spine. Corners bumped, edge wear to edges and corners, some rubs to head and tail of somewhat faded spine. VG.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear but no tanning to text. Slight spotting marks and considerable age to all edges. No other visible faults. GD++.* Illustrations: NONE. * Pages: 320 pp. text. ii pp. blank at rear.* Description: The fifth and final full length novel in the Inspector Hanaud series by Mason. Julius Ricardo is on holiday in France when he gets a telegram telling him to meet his friend Inspector Hanaud in London. He hitches a lift in a yacht belonging to a friend Philip Mordaunt. On the way they are caught in a storm and pick up an Englishman from the water who has an extraordinary story about a Venezuelan revolution. A dead MP a Scotland Yard inspector and various other twists in the tale make this one of Mason's more complicated fictions. * A NEAR VG text copy with some considerable age and wear reducing it to GD++. No dust jacket.*