THE DETECTIVE'S NOTE-BOOK

Hardback. Rebound Yellow-Back. A collection of 14ss. of Victorian detective fiction, Yellow Back format. Contents include : The Marked Money; The Button; The Forger's Cipher; How Sergeant Bolter's Prisoner Escaped; The Absconding Debtor; The Ebony Box; The Closest Shave of My Life; The Libertine's Victim; The Wrong Burglar; Caught in His Own Trap; Hanged by the Neck; Esther; The Ex-Policeman's Story; The Doctor's Story. 312pp. 16mo. rebound h/back. Half-calf brown leather with gilt title and bands to sp. Browned edges, covers and sp. rubbed and worn. Nr. Vg. Scarce 1st edn. early detective/mystery fiction.