Dead or Alive (The 28th Department Z Mystery)

240pp. Hardback with cloth-covers (heavily rubbed at edges, to point of discolouration, mildly marked). Ex lending library with markings on front endpaper only, else neat and clean internally barring very occasional fingering and some softening. In its original period pictorial dust jacket ( rubbed and chipped at edges, creased on spine with some chapped loss at head and heel). Popular crime writer John Creasey (1908-1973) wrote more than 600 novels under 28 different pen names. The Department Z mysteries, of which this is the 28th, where among his most popular. 12mo