New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 173pp. Light edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, boards bowing a bit at fore-edge, brief tape residue to jacket verso, textblock margins a bit foxed, else a Very Good, bright copy overall. The author's first mystery to feature Callan, "the most efficient killer in Europe." First published in the U.K. under the title A Magnum for Schneider.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

A Red File for Callan: An Inner Sanctum Mystery [alt. title: A Magnum for Schneider]

Publisher

Simon and Schuster, New York

Publication Date

1969

Language

English

ISBN 10

0671210203

ISBN 13

9780671210205

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Synopsis

Callan is washed up. The most efficient killer in Europe is working as a book-keeper for a small, dusty merchant. But Circumstances force Hunter to employ him for one last operation.

Schneider. Cheerful, friendly, affluent Schneider with his innocent passion for model soldiers. Callan hunts again And again his tool is Lonely, the most frightened little man in the underworld.

It is Lonely who gets him the gun, a Noguchi Magnum 38 calibre. A magnum for Schneider. The operation is studded with leathal booby-traps, but Callan's own inhibitions are the most dangerous.

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