First edition first printing of this collection of short stories. 

Collected are the following: 

The Episode of the Mexican Seer by Grant Allen, 

The Episode of the Diamond Links by Grant Allen, 

Five Hundred Carats by George Griffith, 

A Bracelet at Bruges by Arnold Bennett, 

The Absent-Minded Coterie by Robert Barr, 

The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle, 

A Sensible Course of Action by Michael Meyer, 

Anonymous Letters by Christopher Dilke, 

The Red Silk Scarf by Maurice Leblanc, 

The Secret of the Magnifique by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 

Murder at the Duck Club by H. Hesketh Prichard. 

Published by Bodley Head of London in 1971. Light edge wear. Moderate sun fading to the dustjacket's spine. Earlier owner wrote his name on the base of the book at the backstrip. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

Thank you. Don
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