Queen's Quorum 21 An African Milionare Grant Allen 1897 1st VG

Description: Queen's Quorum 21 An African Milionare Grant Allen 1897 1st VG. Publisher: First printing of this elusive Queen's Quorum title. 8vo (over 7¾" - 9¾) viii, 317pp. With sixty-six drawings in the text. Publisher's original green cloth with with gilt lettering. Illustratior is uncredited. Condtion: Used. Very Good. First edition with spine rebound. The boards are shelf rubbed, edge toned. No inscriptions and the pages within are neat and complete. The binding has been professionaly repaired and is sound. Spine leaning. Very light foxing. Some browning to rear end paper. Corners are in excellent condition. The twelve stories featuring Colonel Clay "the first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, and villain or anti-hero" - Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection. This important collection of short stories featuring Colonel Clay, "the first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, villain or anti-hero" (Steinbrunner and Penzler, *Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection*). Posing alternately as a seer, a curate, and a German professor, the master of disguise swindles a South African millionare, Sir Charles Vandrift,who is repeatedly fleeced by the clever con artist. Colonel Clay chases Van Drift through three continents and poses a serious risk to his South African diamond fortune. Colonel Clay who is portrayed as the notorious con artist and thief, has triumphed. The most sought-after of the novels by this prolific writer Grant Allen: 'More successful were the detective stories, written later in his life, many of which appeared in the Strand Magazine, and volumes of detective fiction, of which the most notable is "An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay".

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