Frank L. Packard - The Big Shot

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first UK edition of Frank L. Packard's thrilling 'story of a gang war and love&apos. The very scarce first UK edition, first impression. First published earlier the same year in the US by Doubleday, and serially in 'The Argosy&apos.The work of Canadian novelist Frank Lucius Packard, remembered for his mystery novels, and for railroad stories based upon his own work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.A thrilling and wildly entertaining crime novel about tapped wires, coded messages, and a 'girl bandit&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail. Externally, excellent, with a touch of fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd light spot. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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