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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated 16mo in jacket, lists Crofts titles through "Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy" (1927) only, so probably 1928 or 1929, though possibly later. Priced one shilling ("1'- net") to jacket spine. (The first was October, 1922; this is NOT the first printing.) Book is "very good" with NO visible rub to corners; no problems with hinges. Jacket is complete, "good," with chipping along both top and bottom edges. Author Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish railway engineer who wrote detective fiction in his spare time until his move to England in 1929, from which point he wrote full time. To his plots he brought a mind trained in mathematics, specializing in rail and ferry timetables and the seemingly unbreakable alibi. Raymond Chandler praised Crofts' plotting, calling him "the soundest builder of them all when he doesn't get too fancy." Agatha Christie included parodies of Inspector French alongside Sherlock Holmes and her own Hercule Poirot in her "Partners in Crime" (1929) Totals 246 pp. of relatively smaller type. Here reduced from $135.