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abs.rare 1st ed., John Ironside- The Marten Mystery (1933, Arrowsmith)
First edition, first impression.
Inspector Freeman Series
Published by London: Arrowsmith, 1933
Binding: Hardcover
256 pp
13,5 x 19 x 3 cm
John Ironside (1866-??), pseudonym of Euphemia Margaret Tait. Born in Liverpool; educated privately; journalist and novelist. Series character Inspector Freeman appears in two of her eight crime novels, The Red Symbol and The Marten Mystery.
Born into a wealthy family, she received a private education. She then became a journalist. From 1900, she signed E. M. Tait a series of articles on art in the British magazine Furnisher. At the same time, she took over her nephew Eugen Roland Tait, when he became an orphan. She resided for many years in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
Between 1910 and 1945, she adopted the pseudonym John Ironside to publish nine detective novels, two of them having Inspector Freeman as their hero. His best-known novel, La Cabine 19 (1923), is a detective story laced with Victorian melodrama. The wife of a foreign affairs official is found dead in a phone booth after the theft of confidential documents that her husband was keeping secret from his home office. An obviously innocent suspect is imprisoned and can only count on his wife and friends to exonerate him before he is hanged.
Margaret Euphemia also signed a work of religious devotion with her name.