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MYSTERY OF THE SMOKING GUN.

Daly, Carroll John.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi {vii-viii] 1-312, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, which first appeared as five novelettes in Detective Fiction Weekly (1933) pulp magazine. Satan Hall is a New York city police detective who takes on a ruthless crime boss. Hubin, pp. 210-211. Previous owner name and date to upper front free end paper, small stain to title page, binding cracked in several spots, some soiling and staining to cloth, a fair copy. (22382). Item #22382

Price: $45.00