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1940s Jonathan Press digest (UK)
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1950 Pocket Books edition (UK)
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1957 Panther edition (UK)
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1963 Pyramid edition (US)
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John P. Marquand
Ming Yellow
Serialization
Saturday Evening Post
8 December 1934 -- 12 January 1934
Hardcover editions
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935
London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935
Digest edition
New York: Jonathan Press, 1940s
127 pages, digest (Jonathan Press Mystery, J54
Paperback editions
London: Pocket Books (G.B.), 1950
211 pages, paperback (B1)
Cover art by Max Bacon
London: Panther, 1957
190 pages, paperback (664)
Cover art by Cy Webb
New York: Pyramid Books, 1963
173 pages, paperback (R-873)
A Green Door Mystery
Pyramid paperback blurbs
Open the cover of the Pyramid edition and read this.
MENACE
Rodney Jones cursed himself for a
fool for agreeing to shepherd
the Newall party deep into China in
quest of the fabulous Ming Yellow
porcelain. There was danger there --
in the rivalry of bandits and
warlords, the the swave assurance of
their guide, in the very country itself --
and in the impetuousness of the
much-too-beautiful Mel Newall. . . .
But nobody would believe in the
danger -- until the trap was
sprung! And then, of course, it
was too late. . . .
The blurb on the back of the same Pyramid edition raises goose pimples on the skins of American readers while arousing their fantasies about saving the world.
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WHO |
Was the Ruler in This
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Was it the General, a laughing giant who could break a
dancing girl's body in a fleeting moment of anger? Or was it the
bandit, a mysterious wraith who could joke in the echo
of her screams? Or was it the guide, who juggled four lives
while he walked a fragile tightrope of deception?
For the four Americans, helpless strangers in a forbidden land,
the answer could be the key to freedom and wealth --
or a sentence of death!
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