The Detections Of Miss Cusack.

L.T. AND ROBERT EUSTACE MEADE

Publication: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998, Shelburne, 198

With the original illustrations by Victor Venner, Ernest Prater and R.W. Wallace. Edited by Douglas G. Greene and Jack Adrian. First edition. First appearance in book form. Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. Illustrated. Afterword by Jack Adrian. Book contains some of the most important, and entertaining stories featuring a female sleuth. Florence Cusack, a woman with a mysterious past, appeared in five stories published in The Harmsworth Magazine between 1899 and 1901, and her "Watson," Dr. Lonsdale was the sole detective in a sixth case. Stories are filled with details of a lost age, as Miss Cusack and Dr. Lonsdale investigate vanishing gold, strange wills, mysterious messages, Victorian cads, sinister cablegrams, and lost pearls. Fine in dust jacket and becoming scarce.

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