The Eight Crooked Trenches

New York: A Burt Book / Blue Ribbon Books, Inc, 1936. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No jacket. Front board soiled, surface tear on paste-down endpapers, ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1936 Hard Cover. v, 278 pp. Pseudonymous mystery novel by John Leslie Palmer. Another novel co-written under the name Beeding (The House of Dr. Edwardes) was adapted to film as Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock. "Gottfried von Falkenberg is the storm center. Caught in a plot to overthrow the powers that rule Germany, he is imprisoned and sentenced to death, but cheats a firing squad by escaping in a coffin to Geneva. There his destiny becomes entangled with the activities of the Nazis' secret agent, Krause, and with a certain mysterious Colonel Granby. Who is this simple British tourist who has his finger deep in the diplomatic pie?--who is spirited off to Germany in a spectacular kidnapping that rocks international circles and brings things to a smashing climax?"--blurb page