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New York: Edward J. Clode, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his blind stamp on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine toned and foxed, boards lightly soiled, edges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1920 Hard Cover. 252 pp. "George Dilnot (1883-1951) was a journalist who wrote books on true crime, for instance A Story of Scotland Yard (1927), both informative and celebratory. He was General Editor of the Famous Trials series published by Geoffrey Bles. His fictional output is divided between stories for Amalgamated Press (The Thriller and Sexton Blake) and full-length novels usually published by Geoffrey Bles. His serial characters include Jim Strang, Inspector Strickland and Horace Augustus Elver. Dilnot's first two novels, The Crime Club (1915) and The Rogues' Syndicate (1916), were co-written with his colleague from the Yard, Frank Froest." (gadetection)