Helen Mc Cloy Changeling Conspiracy First and 12 similar items

THE CHANGELING CONSPIRACY by Helen [Worrell Clarkson] McCloy. New York: Dodd, Mead Company, (1976). First edition, first printing. A stand-alone mystery by the Edgar and Nero Awards winning author of the Basil Willing series. A new husband with a hidden past, finds his younger wife kidnapped by Muslim terrorists, pays the ransom, doesn't get her returned, strikes out alone to save her, and finds a double plot. An elusive first printing collectible, more commonly seen in Book Club Clement Stone PM editions. Some tiny pin-head dots to the outer upper page edges, else very nearly fine and square in polished blue linen boards with silver embossed titles to the spine, deckle page fore-edges; in a very good dust jacket with a half-inch crimped tear to the upper rear panel at the spine fold, some mild tan stains to the lower rear panel and lower spine panel; original printed $6.95 price still intact to the front inner flap, NO remainder mark. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!