The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

NY: Pantheon Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394409213 . Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over tan boards, gilt and blue lettering on spine, blue lettering on cover. From the polished elegance of the Waldorf Astoria to a rough-and-ready Nevada railroad town, from the crime-ridden underworld of thieves and murderers to the crime-ridden over-world of corporate monopolies and wire-tapped political campaigns - Hugh Greene has mined the gold from the hundreds of detective stories written in America at the turn of the century. The stories include: CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER by Hugh C. Weir; THE NAMELESS MAN by Rodriguez Ottolengui; THE MONTEZUMA EMERALD by Rodriguez Ottolengui; FOUND GUILTY by Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton; THE SILVER THREAD by Jacques Futrelle; THE MAN HIGHER UP by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer; THE AXTON LETTERS by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer; THE MAN WHO SPOKE LATIN by Samuel Hopkins Adams; THE CLOUD-BURSTERS by Francis Lynde; THE AFFAIR OF LAMSON'S COOK by Charles Felton Pidgin and J. M. Taylor; THE CAMPAIGN GRAFTER by Arthur B. Reeve; THE INFALLIBLE GODAHL by Frederick Irving Anderson; and THE FRAME-UP by Richard Harding Davis. . This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. The price-clipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is otherwise as new. FINE/NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (ii), 349, (1) pp .