Queen's Quorum 36 Alfred Henry Lewis Confessions of a Detective 1906 1st VG

Description: Queen's Quorum 36 Alfred Henry Lewis Confessions of a Detective 1906 1st VG. New York: A. S. Barnes 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding with white ink lettering panels, designs, and white lettering on the spine. No dust jacket. "October 1906." 8vo. 280p. Illustrations in black and white by E. M. Ashe. A police emblem in gilt to the front cover comprising a gun, baton, chains and a prison door, and a gilt lantern device used on the spine. Condition: Very Good. Lacking the jacket. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Spine and font cover clear and bright. Tightly bound. Clean text; Corners very lightly bumped. A Queen's Quorum title containing five detective stories featuring Inspector Val. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. Lewis was considered a muckraker of NYC crime with his books. Collection containing the title fictionalized memoir and half a dozen detective tales of Inspector Val of the Mulberry Street police. Queen's Quorum 36 says, ". the author of the celebrated Wolfville stories introduced Inspector Val, a 'hickory knot' of a man. The five tales are mostly in the romantic pattern of the day; but underlying the romance is a tough realism far ahead of its time. The first story in the book, told in real-life style, can be interpreted as a precursor of the hardboiled school minus the present-day preoccupation with sex." Includes the short stories:Confessins of a DetectiveThe Washington Square MysteyThe Man Who FlewThe Murder at the Santa MarieThe Stolen Red Diamond

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