Thank You, Mr. Moto
- Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's teal cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in red; [6],277pp. Light shelf wear, bump along top edge of upper cover, spine lightly cocked and sunned, very faint evidence of glue residue to front pastedown, contemporary bookseller ticket of the Junior League Shop to rear pastedown, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy, albeit lacking jacket.
The author's second spy novel to feature the Japanese secret agent Mr. Moto. The action centers primarily around Tom Nelson, an American in Peking who also narrates the action. Nelson finds himself embroiled in a plot to steal a collection of Chinese scrolls which is thwarted by the ingenuity of Mr. Moto himself.
Marquand, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize two years later for his novel "The Late George Apley," condemned this series of Eastern exoticism later in life, writing "Mr. Moto was my literary disgrace. I wrote about him to get shoes for the baby. I can't say why people still remember him." Whatever the reason, early Mr. Moto novels continue to command prices ten times as high as that of his Pulitzer Prizer winner.
Reference: "St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers," pp. 695-7.
The author's second spy novel to feature the Japanese secret agent Mr. Moto. The action centers primarily around Tom Nelson, an American in Peking who also narrates the action. Nelson finds himself embroiled in a plot to steal a collection of Chinese scrolls which is thwarted by the ingenuity of Mr. Moto himself.
Marquand, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize two years later for his novel "The Late George Apley," condemned this series of Eastern exoticism later in life, writing "Mr. Moto was my literary disgrace. I wrote about him to get shoes for the baby. I can't say why people still remember him." Whatever the reason, early Mr. Moto novels continue to command prices ten times as high as that of his Pulitzer Prizer winner.
Reference: "St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers," pp. 695-7.