LITTLE CLEWS

Hardback. SIGNED. The author worked for the United States Post office Department, New England Division as consulting expert, resulting in his successful ferreting out of hundreds of forgeries and black-hand cases, some of which are chronicled in this book. Chapter headings include : The Dollar Mark; The Maroon Blotting Pad; Three Links in a Chain; The Pencil Dot; The Sixteeenth Dot; The Literary Fly; A Tale of Two Lenses; A Corner in Glue; Where the Lines Crossed; The Cancelled Check; The Autograph Finder; A Gilt-Edged Clew; A Matter of Spacing; That "Ten Dollar" Secretary; A Mere Cipher; A Simple ","; Just a Smudge of Ink; A Cigarette Stub; Devious By-Ways. With Portrait Frontis. 139pp. 12mo. h/back. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fr. hinge just beginning to show, patchily faded gilt lettering to fr. cover and sp. Vg.