Illustrated by e t reed (2 Ergebnisse)

hardback, 8vo, 328,(2)pp, b/w illustrations by E.T. Reed, slight browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, gilt-decorated blue cloth, slight soiling on the boards, Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [sound copy, but with some deterioration to the cloth at both ends of the spine and bumping with exposure of boards at three of the four tips; there are also a previous owner's name and inked notes at the top of the front endpaper, and signs of some old (mostly erased) notes on the rear pastedown]. (Dutton Clue Mystery) The author's second (and last) mystery featuring "the brilliant Leighton Swift, man of the world, connoisseur and scientific criminologist, [who] has the Police Department playing Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes," as he "relentlessly pursues the murdere of the beautiful dance hall girl, whose charred body is found on a lonely Long Island road." NOTE that this copy no longer contains the special "Dutton Clue Mystery" page formerly at the end of Chapter XVI (which the reader was invited to mail in to the publisher with their solution of the mystery). Also NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. Illustrated by (dj) "W.T.E." (illustrator).…