Corgi, London, 1981, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-552-11817-6.  MMPB, 169 pages plus ads for other Chase books.  Good reading copy; wraps show edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, fore-edge tear on rear wrap repaired on verso, price sticker.  Binding sound; initials in marker on verso of front wrap; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘When Claude Kendrick, owner of a shadily-run art gallery in Paradise City, was approached by Ed Haddon, the King of art thieves, to find a buyer for the priceless icon of Catherine the Great, he thought his greediest dreams had come true!  For Herman Radnitz, the multi-millionaire, was prepared to pay six million dollars.  But there was a catch – Radnitz wanted the icon delivered to Zurich as part of the deal.  To his joy, Kendrick learnt of a couple travelling to Europe.  All he had to do was make sure that the icon was planted on them unawares… the couple in question were none other than Detective Tom Lepski and his pretty wife…’ (from rear wrap)