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Thorne, E. P. [Ernest Pollett]
The Smile of Cheng Su.
Publisher: Wright & Brown Ltd. London;
Date of Publication: 1949
Stock Code: 10211
Second printing. Small octavo, pp. 192. Bound in green cloth with black titles to spine. With original illustrated dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Two small closed tears to bright, clean and unclipped dust-jacket. Near fine book in a very good dust-jacket. Pulpy who-dunnit set on Saiwei Island with a colourful list of murder suspects including a “drug-soaked artist”, a “flabby bejewelled millionaire” and the “swamp-devil”, by classic crime writer Ernest Pollett Thorne. £85.00