F.O.B. Murder by Bert and Dolores Hitchens 1955 HCDJ

F.O.B. Murder
Bert and Dolores Hitchens
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 
Copyright 1955
222 pages
Book club edition

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanned. The maroon cover has a small amount of wear, the jacket is lightly edge worn and faded. Good in acceptable dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Collins and McKechnie, special agents of the railroad police in Los Angeles, had a number of problems on their hands. There was the matter of that starving, badly beaten young Mexican whom Collins had found in the refrigerator car. He had whispered, "Joya" - Spanish for "jewelry." And then there was the blonde who reported seventy-five dollars' worth of baggage stolen. It was only later that she admitted, under questioning, that she had undervalued her loss by many thousand dollars. She had neglected to mention those diamond baubles. McKechnie's case involved a shapely, violet-eyed number who demanded to know what had really happened to her father in the freight yards. And what had happened to his money. When the cases merged into one, Collins and McKechnie found that they were up against something far from routine--large scale racketeering with side effects of theft, brutality, and murder. (#0000253)