Physical description

192p. ; crimson cover with original just jacket cut and pasted onto front cover, featuring sketch of man holding a gun

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Stamp 'J.R. Lahn Maldon'; stamp 'Inverlock Mechanics Institute and Library'; stamp 'Murchison Mechanics Institute'; stamp 'Mooroopna Mechanics Institute anf Free Library'stamps 'Trainor & McBride'; stamp 'Please note This book may be kept for a period of one week, after which time a charge of 4d per week, or part of a week, is made'

Summary

Norman Conquest - killer! The fact that the deceased is a double-dyed skunk does not make Conquest's position any the less precarious. The Gay Desperado has been in many a tight corner, but never one quite so tight as this. It takes all the efforts of his pretty young wife, Pixie, aided by Superintendent Williams to hoist him out of the soup. A miniature earthquake in Mayfair involving the sticky end of Double-Dyed Skunk No 2 and lots of high pressure action lead to the breathless sort of climax for which Mr Gray is justly popular