{"product_id":"the-killing-strike-john-creasey-1st-us-edition","title":"The Killing Strike, John Creasey — 1st US Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. 192.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Very Good. The book presents exceptionally well, tightly bound in the original publisher's woven tan cloth, which remains robust and square with virtually no shelf-wear or bumping to the boards. The green stamped lettering to the spine is wonderfully crisp, bright, and entirely unoxidised. Internally, the pages are uniformly clean, bright, and completely free from foxing or previous ownership inscriptions, exhibiting just the faintest hint of natural age-toning to the upper edges. It is housed in a highly presentable dust jacket that retains its striking, vibrant colours without sun-fading. The jacket exhibits only very minor rubbing along the panel extremities and trivial, shallow nicks at the extreme spine ends, standing as an excellent, well-preserved example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This is the true First US Edition of the novel, definitively identified by the publisher’s code \"A-2.61[V]\" printed on the copyright page, indicating a February 1961 printing by the Vail-Ballou Press. The novel was initially published three years prior in the United Kingdom under the alternative title \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"319\"\u003eStrike for Death\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThe book is an unillustrated, standard trade hardback from Charles Scribner's Sons' mystery line. True first printings of Creasey's Scribner editions from this era are becoming increasingly uncommon on the open market, particularly when found with their original dust jackets in such sharp, unsunned condition. The volume bears no formal provenance, bookplates, or significant internal inscriptions, leaving the text block exceptionally clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003eIn this gripping instalment of the Inspector West series, Scotland Yard’s finest is called to defuse a volatile labour dispute at a major automobile plant that rapidly escalates into a brutal murder investigation. What begins as a resentful strike—marked by rotting fruit thrown at the chairman's wife—turns deadly when a ringleader is fatally beaten. As Roger West delves into the toxic animosity between management and the workers, two more bodies surface, revealing a sinister, calculated conspiracy that proves far more dangerous than simple industrial unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54363109392723,"sku":"4689","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260717_184831.jpg?v=1784622357","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/the-killing-strike-john-creasey-1st-us-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}