Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life That Have Never Been Solved
by Watkins, John Elfreth
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1919. A compilation of true tales of mystery organized into the following sections: I. Blood Royal or Common Clay? II. Mysteries of Six Famous Queens III. Unsolved Riddles of Four Kings IV. Hidden Victim of Autocracy V. Diplomatic Mysteries VI. Mysteries of the Literary World VII. Five Women of Mystery VIII. Death or Escape IX. Mysteries of the Sea X. Where Murder Would Not Out.
8vo. Publisher's brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, blue and black, 271 p., four plates, dust jacket. Bump to the top edge of the front board; contemporary newspaper articles on mysterious cases affixed to front and rear pastedowns. The scarce dust jacket is rubbed and slightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears.
8vo. Publisher's brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, blue and black, 271 p., four plates, dust jacket. Bump to the top edge of the front board; contemporary newspaper articles on mysterious cases affixed to front and rear pastedowns. The scarce dust jacket is rubbed and slightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears.
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- D. Anthem, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11663
- Title
- Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life That Have Never Been Solved
- Author
- Watkins, John Elfreth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1919
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