Helen C Rawson (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A guide, with a background essay on each item. VG, no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. As new condition red faux leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. All three sides of the page edges are gilt, the volume contains a bound-into-the-volume matching red satin ribbon page marker, plus a traditional six-hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. ". In this volume - Part One of the Detective Directory . here are the exploits of 16 detectives to whom the detection of crime might be called an avocation - the criminological adventures of a doctor sleuth, a psychiatrist, lawyer, magician, priest, teacher, and banker; a girl and a boy detective; correspondence-school "detectatif", and even a thief-detective; an insurance agent, American Indian, author, artist, and armchair detective.".…