MURDER BY MANDATE
By ALLAN VAUGHAN ELSTON and MAURICE BEAM, Published by the Diamond Library, New York, 1945.
 
Fiction Novel - Mystery / Detective
 
Murder by Mandate is the story of an American newspaper man who, while recently visiting a French controlled island in the Pacific, becomes involved in a thrill-packed, breath-taking situation. A criminal is at large in a little community where everyone knows everything about everyone else, except who is committing the murders - or why! 
 
First Edition. Graphic illustrated softcover book. Some creases to the cover and a small pencil mark. Secure binding with clean pages, one page with heavy fore-edge creases and owner name/address at the inside front. Digest size about 7-1/4 x 5 with 178 pp. plus ads.