Death of a Revolutionist

New York: Gateway Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with only light shelfwear, small tape marks on both endpapers and pastedowns, old bookseller's tiny stamp on front pastedown (The Book Shop, 295 Chestnut St.); the jacket is bright and colorful, with minor edgewear, two old yellowed tape marks on each flap, matching those on pastedowns]. Mystery novel centering around a group of officials of a fictional Central American republic (or maybe South American; it's fictional, see?) named "Quillada," who take it on the lam to England following a revolution "engineered by an American group," taking a lot of the country's wealth with them. (But not their leader: him they leave behind to be promptly assassinated, even though his own wife is among the fleeing group.) After settling into a life of leisure in London, they begin to quarrel amongst themselves over the spoils; soon enough, one of the leading figures of the group dies by suicide -- or was it? .