The Sinister Mark

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his embossed stamp on front endpaper (purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine faded, edges and endpapers a bit foxed, boards lightly soiled, Brentano's label on rear endpaper. 1923 Hard Cover. 304 pp. One of sixty mysteries featuring Peter Clancy, written by Emma Redington Thayer under the pen name Lee. Thayer also ran a business with her husband providing jacket art and other illustrations for publications.