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STATED FIRST PRINTING. Black title, motif and ruling on orange cloth boards. Boards are very clean with a few very small light marks and with only a hint of wear to tail of spine. Internally very clean and unmarked apart from some small handwritten numbers to rear pastedown. A Very Good + copy. The story of a a debonair young peer who runs a detective agency. One of his clients, a young lady, hires him to extract money from a gang of fraudulent financiers and her plans involve complete disregard for the law. **** A VERY SCARCE JEPSON TITLE **** Edgar Alfred Jepson 1863-1938 was a prolific crime / thriller writer. His son Selwyn was also a crime writer and his daughter wrote as Margaret Jepson and her daughter is the well known author Fay Weldon.

GOLDEN AGE OF DETECTION, MURDER MYSTERY CRIME FICTION