Strange And Mysterious Crimes. Revealing Twenty True Detective Mysteries

Mystery Anthology

Publication: Macfadden Publications, Inc, 1929, New York

First edition. Light foxing to a few preliminary pages and cloth faded at the spine, else very good copy in a fine dust jacket. Twenty complete true detective mysteries in one volume, including one by Stuart Lake, who wrote the famous Western biography on Wyatt Earp titled Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal, published in 1931 by Houghton Mifflin Company. "This is not a book of fiction - not a tale of the imagination. It deals with real mysteries, real criminals, with true, thrilling exciting, baffling crime mysteries, tingling with the reality of blood-chilling experiences - the truth of bizarre crimes committed by cunning crooks who leave no clues behind them- of crime hunters, clever, brainy and brave who take the tangled knots of circumstance into their hands and slowly, patiently unravel all their twistings and windings, until finally the great secret is disclosed and the criminal brought to justice." Stories include The Strange Story of the Lost Millionaire (Ambrose J. Small); The Crime that Rocked a Continent (Hans Schmidt/Anna Aumuller); Chicago May's Cleverest "Job" (Martin Thorn/William Guldensuppe); The Horror Package in Red (Martin Thorn/William Guldensuppe); The Crime Without a Clew (the murder of Dr. Bernard Calver); The Clew of the Crucifix (Beneditto Mondania); The Inside Story of the Catherine Ging Murder (C.R. Hubbard); Human Contraband (Owen Oberst); Strange Death of Elizabeth Griffith; Encounter with a White-Slave Ring; etc.

Inventory Number: 1307