The Girl From Scotland Yard by Edgar Wallace - 1927

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company , 1927. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Ndea Good. Novel that begins " As Lady Raytham drew aside The long velvet curtains, she looked down into Berkeley Square..... Rain and sleet were falling and a thin yellow mist added to the gloom of the dying day...She was a woman straight and slim, of 28.... Hers was the type of classical beauty which would defy the markings of age for the greater part of a lifetime....." It takes a lot of careful reading to sort out who is what they seem to be, and the emerging deceits, and criminal activities, in a tale of a failed marriage and a missing child, subsequent to a long ago romance and marriage in America, and the heroics of the wronged husband searching for his child, and a Scotland Yard woman sleuth.....Authored by an immensely popular writer in England, this side of 100 years ago, who was abandoned and found when 9 days old, and brought up by a fish-porter, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace ( 1875 - 1932 ) prolific crime writer, journalist, screenwriter, playwright ( 175 novels, 24 plays, many, many articles, and : Co-Creator of King Kong ! ) Some of his renowned other works include : The Four Just Men / The Hairy Arm / The Ringer / The Green Archer / The Valley Of Ghosts / The Daffodil Murder / The Angel Of Terror / The Sinister Man / Double Dan / Captains Of Souls, etc.....Red-colored, indented lettering on front cover and binding of black colored, cloth book ( 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 X 1 1/4 ) 316 pages. No dust jacket. Book weighs 1 pound. An 85 year old , original, Edgar Wallace, First Edition crime story, mystery book. A truly scary and terrifying story of children snatched to disappear forever, in a society that was oblivious of helpless to change it.

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