Physical description

251p. ; navy blue cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted to front cover;

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Stamp 'Mooroopna Mechanics Institute'; stamp 'Mac's Hygeinic Library 740 High Dtreet Regent' stamp 'The Little Gem Library 73 Murrumbeena Rd Murrembeena'

Summary

Alec Maitland returns from abroad down and out, till he meets a friend of his who happens to be an official in one of the chief Government offices and in need of a secret agent whose connection with the Ministry would not be suspected. A story of wits pitted against wits, of bloodshed, of hairbreadth escapes, finishing with a piece of neat detection and a surprise both for Maitland and the reader.