The American Rivals of Sherlock HolmesVARIOUS ( - )To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" released on Librivox, here is a collection of stories starring his contemporary American rivals. Brought together and re-published in a single volume by Hugh Greene in 1979, this set of readings goes back to and uses the original source material. (Summary by ToddHW)Genre(s): Detective Fiction EnglishCinderella's Slipper byThe Nameless Man byThe Montezuma Emerald byFound Guilty byThe Scarlet Thread by Jacques Futrelle (Thinking Machine)The Man Higher up byThe Axton Letters byThe Man Who Spoke Latin by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Average Jones)The Cloudbursters byThe Affair of Lamson's Cook byThe Campaign Grafter byThe Infalible Godahl byThe Frame-up by
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1976. November 1976. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. 0394409213. 350 pages. hardcover. The jacket picture is an illustration by Stanley L. Wood for 'The Montezuma Emerald' by Rodriguez Ottolengui from 'The Idler Magazine', February 1895. Jacket design by Donald E. Munson. keywords: Mystery Anthology America England. DESCRIPTION - 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 overworld 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. Contents - CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER Hugh C. Weir; THE NAMELESS MAN Rodriguez Ottolengui; THE MONTEZUMA EMERALD Rodriguez Ottolengui; FOUND GUILTY Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton; THE SILVER THREAD Jacques Futrelle; THE MAN HIGHER UP William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer; THE AXTON LETTERS William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer; THE MAN WHO SPOKE LATIN Samuel Hopkins Adams; THE CLOUD-BURSTERS Francis Lynde; THE AFFAIR OF LAMSON'S COOK Charles Felton Pidgin and J. M. Taylor; THE CAMPAIGN GRAFTER Arthur B. Reeve; THE INFALLIBLE GODAHL Frederick Irving Anderson; THE FRAME-UP Richard Harding Davis. inventory #7515 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Bottom Edge. Seller Inventory # z7515
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