Educated Evans.

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A scarce, early Collins paperback from the febrile early thirties, before Penguin revolutionised the market, and short-lived series and cover designs proliferated. This is the 20th in Collins' 'black-out thrillers', as listed on the advert to the rear wrapper, which splits them into the genres, and uses the Crime Club branding for their crime titles which was first instituted in May 1930. Within a year or so the 'black-out thrillers' branding would be abandoned and the orange colour scheme would be given over for a green one, which was in turn abandoned in 1935, when the Penguin innovation of colour-coding the genres was taken up by rival publishers.
Educated Evans is categorised here as a Romance, and is a series of lightly humorous horse racing stories. Wallace's popular thrillers were doing great business for Collins' rivals Hodder and Stoughton, but he was so prolific in the 1920s - 'it has been estimated that by 1928 one in four of all the books printed and sold in England, apart from the Bible, was written by him' (ODNB) - that his other work was sometimes available to other publishers. It uses the artwork from the dustjacket of the 1924 first edition except that, oddly, the blonde's hair has been recoloured brunette.