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Twentieth Century Detective Stories...Together with Queen's Quorum [Dust jacket title: 20th Century Detective Stories]
Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1948. Very Good+ / Very Good. Item #50444
Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, [1948]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket (no price as issued); 288pp.; black and white illus. Textblock uniformly toned, dust jacket a bit chipped and worn at margins with brief tape repair to verso. Very Good and sound overall.
Collection of fourteen detective stories "never before published in book form," including "Vampire of the Village" by G.K. Chesterton; "Tom, Dick or Harry," by Dashiell Hammett; and "The Double Clue" and "The Perfect Maid," both by Agatha Christie. Concludes with Queen's Quorum, the "101 most important books of detective-crime short stories."
Price: $150.00