London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939

8vo, pp. 336. Original black boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Contemporary ('May 1939') ownership inscription to title page, otherwise a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with traces of strengthening tape residue to reverse at spine ends, which have some unobtrusive closed tears.

First edition.

A thriller set at sea -- the specialism of the British naval officer and journalist Captain H. Taprell Dorling [1883-1968], who wrote under the 'Taffrail' pseudonym.

HUBIN, p. 397