Murder Up My Sleeve Erle Stanley Gardner [Very Good] [Hardcover]

GARDNER, Erle Stanley. Murder Up My Sleeve. London, Cassell, 1938. First UK edition, very rare, of this crime novel set in Chinatown. Jacob Mandra has been murdered by a queer device, a Chinese sleeve-gun . Gardner rose to become one of the world s best-selling authors, primarily known for his series featuring detective Perry Mason. Murder Up My Sleeve is one of his two novels centred around Terry Clane, a new sleuth with new methods . Octavo, pp. 280; some spotting to edges but generally very good; green cloth, titles printed in black to spine, in very good illustrated dust jacket (some fading to spine, especially at head, dust jacket with a few nicks to top edge).