CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES: BEING CERTAIN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HENRY POGGIOLI, PH.D.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-319 [320: blank], top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough cut, yellow illustrated end papers, blue cloth backed reddish purple boards, paper label to spine, top edge stained purple, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Collection of criminal investigations set in the Caribbean by Dr. Henry Poggioli, Ph. D, psychologist and criminologist. All fist published in Adventure pulp magazine 1925-26. "Charles Honce remarks that the concluding story "is positively thunderous; it will knock you right out of your seat." - Haycraft: Murder For Pleasure, pp. 163. Stribling revived the character in the 1940s and 1950s. Queen's Quorum #80. Haycraft - Queen cornerstone volume. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Afficianado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 762-63. Hubin, p. 780. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 107. Mild rubbing to spine ends, slight fade to spine, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with mild loss to corner tips, a small chip to upper left front panel and lower left front corner, chipping to head of spine panel and shallow chips and rubs to base of spine panel. (23567). Item #23567
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