By Theodore Mathieson.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition, first printing.

"First printing" statement to the copyright page, 1960 printed to the title page, $2.95 to the jacket's flap.

SIGNED and warmly inscribed to the title page by Mathieson, a short story author, historian, and English teacher.

Introduction by Ellery Queen.

A collection of ten historical mystery stories--one of which is a locked room puzzle--each featuring an authentically depicted famous person as a detective solving a murder, including Alexander The Great, Omar Khayyam, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hernando Cortez, Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Captain Cook, Daniel Boone, Stanley & Livingstone, and Florence Nightingale.

Elusive book that is quite Scarce Signed.

Pages tanned, as usual, a trace of fading at the cover shelf-edges, else very good plus, square, and tight in blue linen boards with silver embossed titles and Inner Sanctum book-reading man emblem to the spine, patterned red-and-white book-reading man emblems to gray end-papers, deckle page fore-edges; in a rubbed and slightly scratched very good dust jacket; original printed $2.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 230 pages; plus introduction.

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