A Yellow Sleuth - Being the Autobiography of "Nor Nalla" (Detective-Sergeant Federated Malay States Police)

Nor Nalla; (Ronald Allan)

Verlag: Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931

Beschreibung

Original gilt-titled red cloth 16 x 23cm, without the jacket. Printed at the Anchor Press, Tiptree, Essex. 288pp numbered i-x, (11)-288, complete with 8 b/w photo plates including the frontispiece. Ex-library copy with number and label to spine tail, labels to front endpapers, and some small ink stamps within. The covers are otherwise very good, a little worn to the extremities, securely bound with a slight lean to the spine; the interiors very good, foxed to first and last leaves, spotted, with some creasing and a couple of short tears. The author is not named, although he is visible in the frontis photo. In the 2017 reissue, it was revealed that "Nor Nalla is an anagram, and the author has been identified as Ronald (Ron) Allan, who worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya shortly before World War I". He may have obtained inside information on undercover police operations from Captain Lindsay Vears, Aide de Camp to HH the Sultan of Perak, to whom he dedicates the work. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4033

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Yellow Sleuth - Being the Autobiography of...

Verlag: Hutchinson & Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1931

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition