Raffles and the Key Man -
Barry Perowne (pseud. Philip Atkey)
1940 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia New York - First Edition
‘The peerless Raffles returns to continue his thrilling career outside the law. Raffles, who is well known as a second-story burglar of outstanding ability, a cracksman, a lone wolf always one jump ahead of the police, runs afoul of a master crook known as the “Key Man”” [from the dust jacket]
Barry Perowne, the pseudonym for Philip Atkey (1908-85), was a British author who continued the A. J. Raffles series originally penned by E. W. Hornung.
First published the same year by Hodder & Stoughton, London.
References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1167.
Octavo (book size 20.8x14cm), pp. 300 [4]. In publisher’s blue-green cloth, red lettering to spine and upper boards, with Lippincott Mystery logo to spine and gun to upper board also in red, top edge tinted red, lower edge trimmed, foredge untrimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to lower corner of front flap and with colour touch up to spine, upper flap fold and lower edge of front panel. Condition: Near fine, split and mark to upper edge of front board, in near fine dust jacket with colour touch up to spine, upper flap fold and lower edge of front panel. Ref: 110536 Price: HK$ 1,500
First published the same year by Hodder & Stoughton, London.
References: Reilly, ’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 1167.
Octavo (book size 20.8x14cm), pp. 300 [4]. In publisher’s blue-green cloth, red lettering to spine and upper boards, with Lippincott Mystery logo to spine and gun to upper board also in red, top edge tinted red, lower edge trimmed, foredge untrimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00’ to lower corner of front flap and with colour touch up to spine, upper flap fold and lower edge of front panel. Condition: Near fine, split and mark to upper edge of front board, in near fine dust jacket with colour touch up to spine, upper flap fold and lower edge of front panel. Ref: 110536 Price: HK$ 1,500