The Pawns of Fear [aka No Halo for Me]

New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo; [vi],184pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; publisher's brown cloth with red and black lettering. Red topstain. Jacket is bright and crisp with some rubbing and creasing along edges, scuffs along folds, a few shallow tears and tugging at spine ends, and light toning to rear panel. Boards lightly shelfworn with bumping to bottom rear corner and very slight cocking to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Per Baird & Greenwood's Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction: "Private detective Steve Summers sets out to avenge the death of a fisherman friend in a southern California town and tangles with a group called America Incorporated." Re-titled in paperback as No Halo for Me (1956).

[BAIRD & GREENWOOD 1011].