THE RINGER (The Ringer #1; Original Title: The Gaunt Stranger; Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard) (Book #378 in the Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback series)
Published by Harlequin Books., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada., 1957
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, CanadaComic World
AbeBooks seller since March 24, 1999
Condition: Used
US$ 25.00
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#378 - THE RINGER (The Ringer #1; Original Title: The Gaunt Stranger; Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard) (Book #378 in the Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback series) (February 1957; First Edition by Publisher; Mystery; HARLEQUIN-PAN Book, Complete and Unabridged; NORM EASTMAN painted cover; Goodreads: The chief protagonist a typical Wallace anti-hero vigilante, one Henry Arthur Milton, aka The Ringer, a legendary assassin who killed for personal vengeance. The main character Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard, who is having a very bad day. It is his first day as the new commander of Deptford Division; his immediate superior, the brutish, inappropriately named Chief Inspector Bliss, is back from America full of ideas like Tommy guns on the streets of London and a British his fiancée has just taken a job as secretary to a local lawyer Maurice Meister, an outwardly respectable but actually murderous criminal who Wembury knows - but cannot prove - was responsible for his fiancee's impressionable younger brother ending up doing a 4-year jail term for a robbery. Wembury's day is made miserably complete when the news is received that The Ringer, having been "confirmed" dead in Australia, is back in London and desiring vengeance against Maurice Meister, for Henry Milton left his only sibling, a much younger sister, in Meister's wardship when he left London and after Milton was supposedly confirmed dead her body was found floating in the River Thames. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a prolific British crime writer, journalist, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals; 192 Pages; #378 is a RARE Number for completionists of the Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback series; Creasing to Covers, >> We have A GIANT selection of Harlequin books in stock, in many difference grades. (If you prefer a different grade ask we might just have it.)>>>Heavy Cover scuffing & creasing; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE RINGER (The Ringer #1; Original Title: The Gaunt Stranger; Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard) (Book #378 in the Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback series)
- Author
- WALLACE, EDGAR (1875-1932)
- Publisher
- Harlequin Books., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Publication year
- 1957
- Condition
- Good to Very Good.
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Illustrator
- Norm Eastman - Panited Cover Art
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing;.
- Seller catalogs
- Canadian Vintage PB Harlequin Collins White Circle, Mystery, Detective, Action, Adventure, Suspense
Comic World
Steinbach, MB, Canada
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