Description

An attractive copy of the first UK edition. Originally a play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, adapted into a novel by Leblanc and published in French in 1909. T his English translation by Edgar Jepson, the detective novelist, was published in the same year. The cover features an inset photograph of the actor Gerald Du Maurier who played the role in the UK. A VG fresh copy with ust light foxing to the edges of the text block.