Michael Dred Detective: The Unravelling of a Mystery of Twenty Years
New York: Brentano's, 1899. Very Good. Item #12378
New York: Brentano's, 1899. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in three colors; viii,328pp.; frontispiece, five leaves of plates. General shelf wear including some brief exposure at corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, rear hinge cracked but holding, textblock a bit brittle from poor paper quality. Still, overall Very Good.
Relatively early novel for the prolific English author Marie Connor Leighton. Deemed by one contemporary critic "the sort of detective story that chains you to your chair till you have finished it," the story opens with a murder with three (!) potential causes of death.
Price: $150.00