Out of the Darkness

Dutton, Charles J.

Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1922

First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his name in pencil on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Spine and rear board lightly faded, pencil notes on endpapers. 1922 Hard Cover. 282 pp. A John Bartley mystery. When the famous detective John Bartley is approached about looking into the case of two men convicted of a robbery, he is at first reluctant to involve himself in such a commonplace crime; that is until he discovers that the details of the evidence used to convict the men bears a striking resemblance to an obscure English case from the previous century in which two men were wrongly convicted on manufactured evidence. But upon commencing his investigation, he finds himself with not one, but two mysteries to solve, when the alleged victim of the robbery is found dead in his bedchamber. He must determine if the two cases are related while also discovering the identity of the murderer. His task is made more difficult by the fact that in the first case he is confronted with too much evidence while in the second there appears to be too little. Seller Inventory # 2335697

Bibliographic Details

Title: Out of the Darkness
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Publication Date: 1922
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition.