Bishop in Check by Rattray, Simon - 1961

E-177: M. S. Mill Co. & William Morrow & Co.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. M. S. Mill Company/Willian Morrow, New York. 1961. 224 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Larry Hoffman DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf wear present. No ownership marks present. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. The third Hugo Bishop mystery, and the first published in the U. S. Investigating the beautiful and mysterious Melody Carr, whose lovers have a habit of dying in suspicious circumstances, Hugo Bishop enters her life posing as a potential lover, but is soon caught by her deadly powers of seduction. Elleston Trevor (17 February 1920 – 21 July 1995) was a British novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms. Born Trevor Dudley-Smith, he eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor. Trevor worked in many genres, but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix, written as Elleston Trevor, and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the pseudonym Adam Hall. E-177; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .