Rodd Ralph Pseud for William North (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. First American Edition. [light wear to lower spine extremities, otherwise a solid clean book, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along bottom edge, tiny nick near lower right corner of front panel, 1.5" closed tear at bottom front hinge]. "Fire! A lonely cottage on a desert-heath, a cottage in flames! Face pressed to the window, the stranger witnesses -- murder or suicide? Then the girl upstairs, and the coming of the detective, the mystery of the manservant, the quest of the criminal, the pursuit, and the capture by the Devil's Pot Hole. . Ralph Rodd is the pseudonym of a magistrate who lives, and judges criminals, in the midland counties of England." [Published in England in 1924.]. Illustrated by (dj) Beth Krebs Morris (illustrator).…