Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of international intrigue, betrayal and danger, featuring Peter Manning, who arrived in New York City under a false passport with instructions to meet a fellow agent at the reading room of the New York Public Library, only to be kidnapped and involved in a chase for his life - and for freedom for his small country. The third crime novel ( fourth book)by this New York City writer, best known as the author of "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." 187 pp.