MARACAIBO MISSION

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in generally clean bright condition, but has noticeable rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamped Property of U. S. Navy on the bottom edge of the text block - but there are no other marks of any type of library on the book. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks, and a chip to the top spine end. "By 1927 a chance meeting with one of his college professors, John Gallishaw, encouraged him to try writing. He attended Gallishaw's course in short fiction on the condition that he pay for the course out of future sales. He married socialite Dorothy L. MacReady in New York City during November of that year. [9] By May 1928 he had his first story published. He enjoyed immediate success selling to the pulp magazines, and sold 18 stories before his first rejection. The magazines paid well at that time, and he was soon able to build a comfortable home outside of Baltimore, Maryland. In 1930, he published his first novel, The Seeds Of Murder, which introduced Captain Hugh North, an agent of U. S. Army Intelligence. North was the hero in a long series of "intrigue" novels. By 1931, he had settled into a career as an author of novels as well as short fiction, publishing his first historical novel in book form, Captain Nemesis, which was republished from an earlier pulp serial. The historical novel apparently did not sell well, because he resumed the mystery/intrigue genre, publishing a dozen or so volumes during the next seven years, including nine more about Hugh North. " (from Wikipedia) .