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The Quick Red Fox. JOHN D. MACDONALD

The Quick Red Fox.

JOHN D. MACDONALD

Other works by JOHN D. MACDONALD

Publication: Robert Hale Limited, 1966, London

First U.K. and First hardcover edition. Fine in dust jacket with minor professional restoration to spine ends. Film-star Lysa Dean calls in McGee on a top secret and very sensitive job. Dean was at a party with nine other people when some compromising pictures were taken. The actress has been blackmailed once over these photos, and a year after the original blackmail scheme, she receives more photos and a threatening letter. Afraid that the release of these pictures will jeopardize her film career and interfere with her planned marriage to husband number five, she asks McGee to investigate. It would be difficult to describe the scarcity of the MacDonald first hardcover editions. Robert Hale was a publisher whose books were largely aimed at the library market with the print run being approximately 1,000 copies. Virtually all of which found their way directly into Britain's library systems, making copies that turn up to be either ex-library or in used condition. Cheaply produced, collectible copies are among the greatest rarities of the past half-century in the world of mystery fiction.

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