Crimes Of Violence And Revenge

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The cloth covers have spots of ground-in dirt . The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name and chinese "chop" on the front endpaper. "A marvellous combination of Action Man, cheerleader for ‘modern’ scientific detection, adventurous ashton-wolfemaster of disguise and shameless name-dropper, Harry Ashton-Wolfe doesn’t just recount the cases, he inhabits them. He’s an important part of investigating teams in Paris tracking down fiendishly cunning criminals, such as the Eurasian Hanoi Shan; he gets locked up and threatened with death by vicious gangsters; he is at the elbow of the greatest forensic scientists of the day, such as Edmond Locard of the Surete, and earlier, the legendary Alphonse Bertillon; he is allowed to peruse the ”secret archives” of the Paris Prefecture; by chance, he recognises a famous anarchist bandit, Jules Bonnot, as having once been his chauffeur; he dons disguises such as that of a Parisian apache or a Corsican bandit to infiltrate criminal rings (delightfully, his books sometimes include photographs of him in disguise, complete with picturesque hats and moustaches! ) " (From the website Feathers of the Fireside) .