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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. 1st edition, thus (Originally pub in 1912). Part of the Garland Series "Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 (this being #39) edited with prefaces by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. Orange cloth w/o dust jacket as issued. A fine, unread copy. "Not detection, but a minor classic of crime. The background, planning, and execution are told in the first person, which unfolds the sufficient motive." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime #1667. Hubin, p. 615. A list of all the volumes in the Garland Series "Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 is included. Book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st US edition, , March 1921. original green cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. Spine slightly darkened, very lightly soiled else a near fine, tight copy. The tale I am setting out to tell has to do with the killing, on a May morning of the year 1919, of one young man by another who claimed, and still claims, to have been his friend. The circumstances were singular-perhaps even unique; the consequences affected a number of people in various interesting ways and byways; and since the manner of telling the story has been left entirely to me, I will begin with the breakfast-party that Philip Esdaile gave that morning at his studio in Lennox Street, Chelsea. Book. …