GUNN, Victor - Death on Bodmin Moor - [Ironsides Cromwell # 33] - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

This is an ex-lib and the dust-wrapper as been very neatly laminated to the boards - Book remains very presentable - Victor Gunn is a pseudonym for Edwy Searles Brooks (1889-1965). Brooks also wrote under the pen names Berkeley Gray, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. - This Scotland Yard thriller features Inspector Cromwell, better known to his fans as "Ironsides". A young nurse, Stella Pemberton, lands a high-paying job at a private clinic on the lonely moor where she's to provide close personal care for a rich Spanish lady who's convalescing there. Her new boss, Dr. Mayhew is an autocratic tyrant who desires to totally control both the professional and the personal lives of all the employees at his clinic.- As Stella approaches the moor in her aging car, a heavy fog sets in around her and she hears a scream just as she's stopped at a signpost. She walks on to the moor through the fog .....