EARLY DETECTIVE FICTION TITLE. ATTRACTIVE PICTORIAL COVER DESIGN LAID-ON TO UPPER BOARD AS CALLED FOR. Publishers brick red cloth titled gilt on spine.Spine titles still nice & bright.An UNCOMMON EARLY WORK BY THIS POPULAR CRIME WRITER.Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS.Undated but probably a 1913 early reprint (2nd?) judging from the adverts in the publishers catalogue bound in at the rear.Light occasional foxing. Generally a nice tightly bound copy with very minor wear at head and foot of spine and tiny split approx 1cm at rear external hinge corner.