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THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY

by W.E. Johns

Published by John Hamilton Ltd..

Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper. Dark orange boards with black title to spine. 254 pages.

Slight bumping to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Address label to top of front pastedown. Foxing to prelims, outer page edges and page margins. Browning to page edges. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with several tears and a couple of small areas of loss. Brown tape has been stuck to verso at top edge and down spine. Wrapper is grubby. An early reprint.

Stock no. 1405410

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Contents

  • Is an individual entitled to redress his wrongs when legitimate means fail? That is the question facing Captain Nigel "Gunga" Deane on his return from India to find his brother had been murdered, although the coroner's verdict was "Accidental Death". But the victim, Peter Deane, a Fleet Street reporter had left a letter to his brother in which he revealed the activities of a crime ring with its headquarters in London. The vast ramifications of the ring made it unsafe for him even to trust the police, So he wrote to his brother, who taking a younger brother into his confidence sets about fighting the crime with its own weapons. Each member of the organisation to which he finds himself opposed is known by a number. Having no number, "Gunga" Deane calls himself the Unknown Quantity and under this name pursues a vendetta, slaying his brother's murderers and working all the time nearer to the centre of the ring. The climax comes in a country house where the final battle is fought with pistols, neither side asking nor expecting a quarter.

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