Ken Holt #18 The Mystery of the Sultan's Scimitar by Bruce Campbell 1963

Book is in good condition there are some wear marks and edge rounding from shelf life.
The pages have minimal yellowing and has a name “Olivia McGee” after the illustration page when opening the book and an ink scribble on the back of page 177. Also there is a pen line drawn across the cover, noticeably on the word scimitar. Last theses a felt tip red dot as seen in the pictures

There have been other copies with/without dust jackets that have been in a poor state and the price is higher than what is being asked on this listing

Ken Holt, reporter, and his photographer friend, Sandy Allen, are vacationing in southern Europe. They are drawn in by the theft of the Knossos cylinder, the Golden Key to the language of the ancient Cretans, just after viewing it at the Athens Museum. Although they are strangers in Greece and don’t know the language they find themselves involved in a bizarre mystery with lots of twists and turns