Deadly Mermaid
By: by James Atlee Phillips.
Series: Dell First Edition
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Subjects: Haiti -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Harry Donner was sent to the Caribbean to smother a revolution about to blow up in America's back yard.  He had not expected to meet anyone he knew.

When he walked into his hotel room, a spear gun went off, and the projectile quivered in the wall by his head.  On the couch was a woman, flushed with excitement, a Cernia gun clutched in her hand.

He knew this person.  She was his ex-wife!  "Welcome to Haiti," she said...
Notes: Dell First Edition #26.
Cover art by Bill George.
A shorter version of this novel was serialized in Collier's Magazine.