Twentieth Century Detective Stories

QUEEN, ELLERY [EDITED BY]

Publication: The World Publishing Company, 1948, Cleveland and New York

First edition. Inked inscription on the front free fly leaf: "To Mrs. Helen Rigali - Mr. Feldman tells me you are a real connoisseur. I'd like to meet you some day. "Ellery Queen." The reference is to Lew David Feldman, the bookseller from whom Frederic Dannay acquired most of the books in his outstanding collection of detective fiction. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and corners. Contains the first book appearance of Queen's Quorum. Queen's Quorum, A Readers' and Collectors' Guide To The 101 Most Important Books Of Detective-Crime Short Stories, With Critical and Bibliographical Notes, in short, A Short History Of The Detective-Crime Short Story. Also contains fourteen modern detective stories never before published in book form in the United States. Some of the authors are Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie (two selections), T. S. Stribling, Ernest Bramah, Anthony Boucher, Lillian De La Torre, Ellery Queen, and others.

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