The Master Spy - Arthur Gask 1937 - The Macaulay Company, New York - First American Edition Featuring detective Gilbert Larose. As a last resort the Secret Service recruits Larose to track down an unknown agent who is stealing secrets from arsenals and aircraft factories throughout Great Britain.   Assumed American First Edition, published in London the same year by Herbert Jenkins. Date ‘1937’ to both title and copyright page with no mention of further printings.

Arthur Cecil Gask (1869-1951), was a British dentist and prolific novelist who emigrated to Adelaide, Australia, in 1920. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for the publication of his first novel,
The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success. Most of his novels featured the detective Gilbert Larose. Admirers of Gask’s novels include H. G. Wells and Bertrand Russell, the latter visited Gask in Adelaide.

Thick octavo (book size 19.6x13.6cm), pp. 312 [8]. In publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in dark brown, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket price-clipped to upper corner of front flap, all other corners with decorative trim.
  Condition: Fine, toning to endpapers, in fine price-clipped dust jacket, with the exception of light rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine with small patches of rubbing and thin vertical crease.   Ref: 110571   Price: HK$ 1,200