F.O.B. Murder by Hitchens,Bert and Delores - 1956

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company , 1955 Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY. 1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP (Dot). Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to front lower tips; light wear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: wear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; light rubbing to flap folds and spine shoulders. Maroon grained paper over boards and spine with yellow lettering on the spine. Yellow tint on textblock top. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 222 pp 8vo. Collins and McKechnie, special agents of the railroad police is Los Angeles, had a number of problems on their hands. There was the matter of that starving, badly beaten young Mexican whom Collins had found in the refrigerator car. He whispered, "Joya" - Spanish for "jewelry." And then there was the blond who reported $75 worth of baggage stolen. It was only later that he admitted, under questioning,… Read More