(#128358) STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD As Told by Inspector Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Whitehall, and recorded by Charles F. Rideal. Maurice Moser, Charles F. Rideal.

STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD As Told by Inspector Moser, Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Whitehall, and recorded by Charles F. Rideal. London, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, n.d. [1890]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-253 [254: blank] [255-256: ads], original red cloth, front panel stamped in blind and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, top edge gilt. First edition? Issued in several formats, including an issue with John Barker & Co. imprint (copy at BL). Part of Routledge's "Hearth and Home Library," of which fifty titles are listed at the rear (not including the present volume). Twenty-one crime stories set in Victorian London told by Inspector Moser ("Late of the Criminal Investigation Department, Whitehall") to Rideal. One of the last of the pseudo-real life 'memoirs,' despite the authors' statement in their introduction, that 'these stories are all founded upon actual experiences and facts.'" - Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 76. Glover & Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction, p. 358. Hubin (1994), p. 589. Abrasion to part of bottom edge of front board, old owner's signature clipped from upper edge of title page, not affecting any printing thereon, some foxing to endpapers, else a very good copy. (#128358).

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