Reprint edition. i-viii, 9-377 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13cm. No dust jacket. Dark aquamarine cloth, some rubbing to boards with two small light stains on rear board, white-stamped lettering and decoration upon front board lightly rubbed but with spine's white-stamped lettering flaked off. Ink ownership signature upon front pastedown with associated smudging on opposing front free endpaper recto. Splitting to surface paper along both front and rear hinges exposing intact underlying binding mesh; binding remains firm with adhesive applied between spine cloth and interior back-strip. B/w frontispiece illustration; Preface; several full-page b/w illustrations on unpaged leaves amongst text. A few small light brown stains on interior leaves; closed tear at top of pages 101-102 with chip to top fore-edge margin of pages 103-104; smaller chips and closed tear to pages 267-268 and preceding illustrated page. Features three short stories or novellas within one book: MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND THE DETECTIVES on pages 9-123; DON PEDRO AND THE DETECTIVES on pages 125-282; POISONER AND THE DETECTIVES on pages 283-377. Allan Pinkerton co-founded the North-Western Police Agency, later renamed Pinkerton National Detective Agency, in 1850 with Chicago lawyer Edward Rucker. This set of stories, like most credited to Pinkerton, is thought to be ghostwritten, and was first published by G.W. Carleton & Co. in 1879 with OCLC citing reprints in 1884, 1886, 1887, and 1907. The half-title page cites this book as Volume 9 in Dillingham's eighteen volume series titled "Allan Pinkerton's Great Detective Stories." Still an attractive good copy.

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MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND THE DETECTIVES. DON PEDRO AND THE DETECTIVES. POISONER AND THE DETECTIVES. (Half-title: "Allan Pinkerton's Great Detective Stories." Cover title: "Allan Pinkerton's Detective Stories.")

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New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, 1900.

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