Hardback, 1st edition. Contents include : Book One - Blackmailers; Book Two - Dramas and Comedies of the Prison World; Book Three - When Truth is Stranger than Fiction; Book Four - Four Unsolved Murder Mysteries and An Attempt to Solve Them (G.H. Storrs, Dr. Harvey Burdell, the Murder of Jane Roberts, Manchester, The Cannon St. Affair, Sarah Millson); Book Six - Six Almost Perfect Crimes (Allaway, Daniel Good, Carlyle Harris, Henri de Tourville, Thomas Hocker, Carlo Matetti). 288pp. 8vo. h/back. Fr. hinge beginning to show, lightly foxed edges and eps, lightly soiled covers. but still Vg.