![]() ![]() One suspects that these price-less jackets were issued on the copies sold to Crime Club subscribers, who received their books by mail. The only other copy of this book that your cataloguer has seen also does not have a price. The price is typically printed below the clipping. All four corners of the jacket are slightly clipped, as are most jackets from the Crime Club in the mid-1930s. ![]() ![]() The dust jacket is very good with several closed tears and some chipping along to the top edge, just touching the "T" in "The" at the top of the spine. A very good copy in the original black cloth blind embossed with a skull design. Contact seller Seller Rating: Used - SoftcoverCondition: Good US 5.46 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. He was particularly interested in Mexico and the Spanish language (he also spoke Choctaw, French, and Italian) and wrote a book on the history of Mexico from the indigenous perspective, The Mexican Earth (1940 republished 1996). Stalked by Death Hashway, Kelly Published bySpencer Hill Press, 2013 ISBN 10: 1937053512ISBN 13: 9781937053512 Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A. He was the first commercially successful Native American and Oklahoman mystery writer. Downing was a member of the Choctaw Nation, born in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1902. Like most of Downing's novels, this one is set in Mexico, in this case among the American ex-pats in Taxco. ![]() The second novel featuring Downing's recurring character, the US Customs Service inspector Hugh Rennert. ![]()
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