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DARK DUET.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-240 [241-242: blank], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore-edge uncut. First U. S. edition. WW II espionage book. The first of the "Dark" series. "Cheyney does an excellent job of conveying the world of spying, with all its twists and double crosses. No one is what he seems, and everyone knows that; but no one is sure just what anyone else really is. Readers of John le Carré and William Haggard would recognize Cheyney's world at once." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 136. [Reference: Hubin, pp. 160-161].
THE URGENT HANGMAN.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., n.d., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-247 [248: blank], original cream cloth, spine lettered in pink, top edge stained green. First edition. The first in the Slim Callaghan, London based private detective. "...one of the most popular storytellers of his time, and his time and his success inspired a long line of British hard-boiled writers such as James Hadley Chase, Hartley Howard, Peter Chambers, Hank Janson and Carter Brown." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 185. Basis for the stage play Meet Mr. Callaghan, later filmed (in 1954). Hubin, pp. 160-161.