THE BEST ENGLISH DETECTIVE STORIES OF 1928

Edited by Ronald Knox and H. Harrington
1929

Uncommon first U.S. edition of this Golden Age anthology, with an introductory essay by Knox expanding on his Rules of Detective Fiction and stories by Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc-Lowndes, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, and others.

Very good minus.

"[T]here is a marked tendency in the stories which compose this collection to strike out new lines of treatment, to desert the stereotyped formula prescribed, we thought, once for all by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 7.25'' x 5''. Original black cloth with red lettering. Red topstain. 420 pages. This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to title page. Rubbing/scuffing to cloth at spine and joints. Moderate general edgewear and toning.

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