A flat tyre in Fulham

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963.

First Edition. Publisher's original light maroon cloth boards with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, designed by Von Briesen, rubbed and edges of corner tips, but without tears or nicks. Top edge of pages slightly dust stained. A VG+ copy. "The flat tyre belonged to a Jaguar car stolen from London Airport. On the way to the scene of a planned wages raid in Wandsworth the car had to be abandoned, The raid failed. The car, however, became the subject of important investigations both in Scotland Yard ad by the eminent barrister Claude Warrington-Reeve, Q.C." (from the summary)