Gateway to Hell
Wheatley, Dennis

Published by Hutchinson, London (1970). Signed and Inscribed on the title page by the author to 'E Simons;'. First Edition hardcover with an unclipped jacket. Spine ends bumped. Jacket unclipped. Bound in red boards, gilt titles to the spine. Dust wrapper designed by Edward Mortelmans. Illustrated map end-papers. 319pp. Cr 8vo. Jacket with creasing and edgewear, rear flap edge with a closed tear. Closed edges with some foxing spots and toning, heaviest to the upper edge, pages are otherwise clean and tight. Good to Vg-/Good- overall. 

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The Duke de Richleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia, Spain and Nazi Germany. Now a new and unexpected menace confronts them: the fourth, Rex van Ryn is missing - and he has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence - and a trail that leads straight to the Devil himself.

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Dennis Yates Wheatley was born in London, the son of a wine merchant. In 1926 his father died, leaving him as the sole owner of the family wine business. In the early thirties he had to sell the business and became nearly bankrupt. His first published novel The Forbidden Territory was an immediate success. It was translated in many languages and the film rights were bought by Alfred Hitchcock. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors in the 1950s and 1960s.

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