The Red Triangle. Being some further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt: Investigator. This item is unavailable.The Red Triangle. Being some further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt: Investigator

[Detective stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304. Title page printed in two colours. Bound in publisher's decorated blue cloth boards, with striking red triangle (framing Mr. Hewitt and some suitably Edwardian looking gentlemen) and titled in black and white to the front board, gilt lettered to the spine. Contents clean, some spotting to edges, no ink names, binding shows some general wear, rubbed to extremities, spine tips worn/frayed. Very good. 'The first important English writer of detective fiction after Conan Doyle was Arthur Morrison' (Haycraft). These are the final adventures of Morrison's faux Holmesian investigator, and the only novel in which Hewitt featured (the three previous books were story collections). His detective tales proved that when Morrison wasn't chronicling the trials and tribulations of shoeless East End urchins he was turning out some very good mysteries. Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction (1972). Howard Haycraft; Murder for Pleasure (1972), Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).…