The Nine Waxed Faces (1st ed.)

1st paperback edition/1st printing – 1950 – Popular Library #268

“Scatter!”

As the guide’s warning rang out Bob Hardcastle heard the crack of a gun. Dark figures lunged toward him. He fled downhill through the storm. Suddenly his left ski checked in the snow and he fell. then a gun was thrust in his back and a hard voice said: “Try any tricks and you’re a dead man….”

Bob had come to Austria to meet an Italian painter with secret data for British Intelligence. But Bob and his guides had walked into a trap. Berthold, the man he was to meet, escaped the ambush then vanished. Colonel Granby, British Intelligence Chief, hurried to the scene. And while the fate of Central Europe hung in the balance Granby battled against time to find Berthold and get the vital information he carried!

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