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GREEN, Anna Katharine.

The Filigree Ball:

being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair.

Stock Code
101140
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903
£175

A crime story by one of the first American detective fiction authors, Anna Katharine Green, who garnered acclaim & respect for her well considered and legally accurate stories, earning her the title 'the Mother of the Detective Story' by bibliographer & collector Eric Quayle. We follow the eager work of a young police detective in 19th century America, determined to make a name for himself with his first big case - in this case the death of a beautiful young woman in a creepy family mansion just two weeks after her wedding to Washington's most eligible bachelor...

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Description

First edition; 8vo; frontispiece by C.M. Relyea, title printed in red & black with printer's stamp in red to verso, 22pp. publisher's catalogue at end; publisher's dark green cloth blocked in red & gilt, a very good copy.

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Stock ID:101140

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