The Crystallised Carbon Pig

New York: Walker and Company, 1967. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, [1967]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 256pp. Light wear to margins, dark glue residue to jacket corners and racing endpapers from having been previously tipped down, shallow paper scar at jacket spine crown, cloth edges unevenly darkened, textblock toned due to inferior paper stock, else Good to Very Good and sound.

The excessively prolific (three books a year!) author's first novel following a convoluted diamond heist with undercover Detective Sergeant Pewter at the center of the action.