Hardcover. An important early detective crime/mystery short story collection about detectives in Victorian England. Featuring 13ss : One Night in a Gaming House; Guilty or Not Guilty; X.Y.Z.; The Widow; The Twins; The Pursuit; Legal Metamorphoses; The Revenge; Mary Kingsford; Flint Jackson; The Monomaniac; The Partner; The Conspiracy. With Frontis. 309pp. 12mo. h/back. Rebound in black cloth/gilt titles. Browned edges, lightly browned eps. Vg+. QQ & Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Scarce.