The Twentieth Day of January

First edition, first impression (true first). Prelims plus 222pp. In blue cloth covered-boards with silver lettering to spine. (Boards strong and clean but somewhat cocked, lightly shelf worn at edges, top text block edge a little dusty).). Internally neat, clean bright and tight barring light spotting on front free endpaper and some neat writing on rear endpaper. In its original dust jacket (very slight shelf wear on lower edge). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of adhesives or tape. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.