London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1958). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [ex-rental library book (W.H. Smith & Son; marked as such only by a bookplate on the front pastedown), minor shelfwear, faint foxing and very light soiling to edges of text block, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath jacket flap); jacket has tiny bits of paper loss at several spine corners, otherwise quite nice]. A mountain-set murder mystery with a filmmaking angle. The plot involves a movie being shot against the background of Mont Blanc, and features "Sir Abercrombie Lewker, that well-known actor-manager and amateur detective." The was one of the author's seventeen Lewker adventures; most are set in mountainous regions, reflecting the author's self-described lifelong recreation of mountaineering and rock-climbing. (He also wrote numerous book on those topics, usually under the name Showell Styles.) .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27756
Title: The Ice Axe Murders
Author: Carr, Glyn (pseud. for Frank Showell Styles)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (c.1958)
Keywords: Mountaineering, Fiction: Mystery/Detective, Filmmaking

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