GRAY, Berkeley - Killer Conquest - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book and wrapper still very good - 192 pg' - Berkeley Gray, is a pseudonym for Edwy Searles Brooks (1889-1965). Brooks also wrote under the pen names Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross.   >>>  Norman Conquestkiller ! 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 before, but never one quite so tight as this. It takes all the efforts of his pretty young wife, Pixie, aided by Superintendent WilliamsSweet William to you to hoist him out of the soup. A miniature earth-quake 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.