John Thorndyke's Cases Related by Christopher Jervis, M.D.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. Very Good. London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. First Edition, Second State with title page cancel. Octavo; publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and tan; xi,[1],288pp.; frontispiece and nine leaves of plates, several of them taken from photographs, additional drawings in text. Boards a bit scuffed, spine glued down and cloth darkened and cocked, lettering beginning to dull, text-block toned, else a Very Good and sound copy overall.

Collection of crime short stories featuring Dr. John Thorndyke, "the only convincing scientific investigator in detective fiction" (Norman Donaldson in "St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers" (p. 384). A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone first published in 1909.