The Opium Murders.

BARON, Peter [Pseudonym of Leonard Worswick Clyde].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 112463

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1930.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the spine tips. Jacket design by Beth Krebs Morris.

The Opium Murders revolves around Scotland Yard's attempt to solve the mystery of a dope ring whose members are being killed off one-by-one in increasingly bizarre ways. Like many similar books of the era dealing with taboo topics, the drug ring spends surprisingly little time dealing or using drugs.