Baltic Convoy

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, First Edition HB, Faber & Faber, London, 1979. A very good, clean and sound copy with DJ. Dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust Jacket unclipped and very good. 189 p. ;. . . ;

Showell Styles was born Frank Showell Styles in 1908. His childhood was spent in the Welsh hills and he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the war, Styles joined the Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could.An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out toe make his living as an author. His first novel, Traitor's Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published. As well as books on mountains such as The Mountaineer's Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.Showell Styles died in 2005.