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![Item #31100 THE SCARLET SEAL: A TALE OF THE BORGIAS. By Dick Donovan [pseudonym]. Dick Donovan,...](https://jwkbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31100.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702415372)
THE SCARLET SEAL: A TALE OF THE BORGIAS. By Dick Donovan [pseudonym].
London: John Long, 1902. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-312 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "October, 1902" inserted at rear, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in red, white and black, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A historical romance in which a witch's curse appears to be fulfilled. [Reference: Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 193. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992)].
THE CHRONICLES OF MICHAEL DANEVITCH OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue and 32-page catalogue dated "Feb. 1897" inserted at rear, original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Most of the stories are cases of the celebrated Russian detective related to fellow detective Dick Donovan. The last story, "The Clue of the Dead Hand," features detective Peter Brodie who investigates a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance in Scotland at Corbie Hall, "a strange, weird sort of place ... [with] an eeriness about it that was calculated to make one shudder." This story belongs as much in the (rationalized) ghost story genre as the detective story. It also involves a case of male impersonation. [Reference: Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 111. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 34. Hubin (1994), p. 240].
THE SAVAGE CLUB PAPERS. Edited by J. E. Muddock. Art Editor Herbert Johnson.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xvi 1-376, illustrations by W. D. Almond and others, original pictorial gray cloth stamped in orange and black, decorated endpapers. First edition. Anthology of fiction and poetry, mostly light or humorous, but including some adventure and crime fiction. Includes work by J. E. Muddock, George Manville Fenn and Arthur Morrison, as well as "Only a Hunchback!" by G. A. Henty. The third and last issue of a literary annual series, issued 29 years after the preceding volume! [Reference: Not in Faxon or Wolff].
THE MAN-HUNTER: STORIES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A DETECTIVE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-284 + 32 page publisher's catalog dated "July 1888" inserted at rear. original red cloth, front stamped in gray and black, spine stamped in gold and black, rear stamped in black, floral end papers. First edition. Collects thirteen "Dick Donovan" stories. The author's first collection of stories. A prolific author he wrote 184 stories featuring Donovan. [Reference: Hubin, p. 240. Queen's Quorum 14. Queen, The Detective Short Story p. 32. Not in Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction].