Madman on a Drum by "N.R. De Mexico"(Pseudonym of Robert Campbell Bragg) Paperback, first edition, first printing published in 1944 by Cavalcade Publishing Company. Pages are toned, tight, and book appears unread. Chipping to spine, otherwise no writing or tears. See pics. 

   This 1944 noir suspense novel and paperback original was issued by a small paperback publisher out of New York. Madman on a Drum would be the first full-length book written by one N.R. De Mexico, pseudonym of Robert Campbell Bragg.  De Mexico later wrote a book in 1951 that would put his name into the Congressional Record, front and center in a debate about the negative effect of paperback literature on American culture. That book, "Marijuana Girl", would become Exhibit A in Rep. Ezekiel C. Gathings' Congressional Sub-Committee's mini-crusade against drug use in popular literature.