THE DETECTIONS OF DR. SAM: JOHNSON. Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second collection of detective short stories featuring the eighteenth century English writer and critic, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Collects eight stories including the bibliomystery, "The Missing Shakespeare Manuscript." "...the finest series of historical detective stories ever written. in scholarship, humor, flavor, and compelling detail." - Queen's Quorum 100. Hubin (1994), p. 225. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 195-96. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket (jacket design by Edward Gorey) with some dust soiling to yellow background ink on front panel and clipped price. (#80328).
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