A Tragic Mystery : From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes
New York: Cassell & Company, 1887.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15623
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, cocked, shelfworn, hinges started, wear. Still solid hardcover.; First of early mystery series by the prolific Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, based on fictionalized cases of his friend New York City head of detectives Inspector Thomas F Byrnes. Allen J Hubin; Crime Fiction IV 1749-2000: A Comprehensive Bibliography; page 705. Cassell advertisement in front lists three more of Hawthorne's Inspector Byrnes novels "In Press", thus indicating A Tragic Mystery was the first Inspector Byrnes novel published, as well as two best-selling true crime books by Byrnes himself on the reverse side. ; Inspector Byrnes series; Ex-Library; 269 pages.
Price: $199.95