Physical description

189p. ; red cover; colour illustration of man on horse being filmed from original dust jacket cut and pated onto front cover; blurb from original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front endpaper

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Stamps 'Ruskin Book Club130 Hawthorn Rd Caulfield' ; '8 days time limit' ; 'The charge for this book is 6d for eight days'

Summary

When Archibald Cloyd visited Hollywood as a consultant and expert on a Napoleon film and later went on location with the company in Arizona, the little man met his Waterloo. The black market activities of a gang of tyre thieves, an abandoned gold mine, a kidnapping, a determined widow named Hammer, an attractive young ranch owner, Archibald's own mysterious and resourceful male secretary, and a bizarre assortment of Western and Hollywood characters are all ingredients of a plot that involves Archibald in difficulties as tense as ever encountered by his famous prototype.