Murder Up My Sleeve by Erle Stanley Gardner

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. Murder Up My Sleeve. London, Cassell, 1938.

First UK edition, very rare, of this crime novel set in Chinatown.

‘Jacob Mandra has been murdered by a queer device, a Chinese sleeve-gun…’.

Gardner rose to become one of the world’s best-selling authors, primarily known for his series featuring detective Perry Mason. Murder Up My Sleeve is one of his two novels centred around Terry Clane, a ‘new sleuth with new methods’.

Octavo, pp. 280; some spotting to edges but generally very good; green cloth, titles printed in black to spine, in very good illustrated dust jacket (some fading to spine, especially at head, dust jacket with a few nicks to top edge).