The Invisible Web
New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1929. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 284pp. ten "true" accounts of weird crimes investigated by the French Surete. Ashton-Wolfe was a notorious exaggerator, whose many books of his own investigations grew from actually existing criminals and crimes to the lurid inventions of other writers passed off as his own. Several stories here originally serialized in Detective Fiction Weekly magazine. Book G: wear and scuffing to boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers, writing on FFEP and half title. / no DJ. Item #1320
#01385.
Price: $100.00
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