The Great Bank Robbery. From the diary of Inspector Byrnes.

2pp ads., ads on e.ps. Orig. blue-grey printed wrappers, blocked in brown & blue; wrappers sl. dulled, small tear to upper corner of front & back wrappers, spine chipped at head & tail, back wrapper loose. An interesting early American edition in original wrappers. Price 50 cents. See Glover & Greene 237 for 1887 first English edition. First published in America in 1887. Chapter headings include: 'The Rogues Gallery', 'A Beautiful Woman', 'The Diamond Dealer', 'A Man with Eyes', 'Evidence', 'An Amateur Suggester', 'A Mysterious Purchase', and more. Julian Hawthorne, 1846-1934, was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a writer and journalist in his own right. His detective novels feature the character Inspector Barnes, who was based on Hawthorne's friend Thomas F. Byrnes, an Irish-born American police officer who served as head of the New York City Police Department from 1880-1895.