The jaws of the watchdog

Norrington, Di Ganzarello & Tucker #4

by Ivor Drummond

First American Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the upper page block. The dust jacket has dust soiling on the rear panel.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published May 17, 1973

About the author

This is a pseudonym of Roger Erskine Longrigg

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

A surprisingly tense and involving 1973 quasi-Avengers-type novel in which the author describes action and ratchets up the suspense most effectively, even if characters are standard and anything other than action is a little clumsily done. Lady Jennifer Torrington and her two upper-class male friends, one American and one Italian, are caught up in the crimes of a private army, first stealing from a luxury yacht, then from the rich at an opera, and, after capture and rescue, culminating at Royal Ascot. Unexpectedly, this holds up well today