Stopover Tokyo

by John. P. Marquand

£95 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Collins, 1957. Thriller FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp.254. Publisher's blue cloth in original pictorial dust wrapper priced at 12/6. Some minor dustiness. A crisp, fine copy of this Mr. Moto mystery. Earl Derr Biggers' Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was a popular success for the Post journal. When the author died, the magazine's editors searched for a writer who could create a similar sleuth. They offered a number of writers the

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