Cop Lover (Mystery Book Guild)

184pp. 12mo. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine (very slightly rounded at edges, dusty top edge). In a matt, decorative dust jacket in Mystery Book Guild style (a little shelf wear). First published by John Long in 1963. Peter Malloch was one of several pen names used by William Murdoch Duncan - others include Neill Graham, John Cassells, and Lovat Marshall. The Mystery Book Guild republished leading mystery novels at the rate of two a month, building an attractively uniform series of classic crime and thrillers. Its diamond design dust jackets are both sought after and pleasing. A little gem for lovers of vintage crime fiction. Some of the novels in the series are now hard to find in this or any other edition. Book covered in non-adhesive mylar wrap to archival level.