The C.I.D. of Dexter Drake
Barker, Elsa
Edité par J.H. Sears & Company (c.1929), New York, 1929
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(lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a very nice copy, with the faintest touch of fraying at the crown of the spine, minor soiling to the top edge of the text block, one-time owner's name, date & place of purchase, and brief comment in ink at the top of the front endpaper]. The second of this author's three "superdetective Dexter Drake" mysteries; in this one he "organizes a Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D.) of his own, in connection with the Government Secret Service." Based on the copyright attribution and other evidence, this book seems to have derived from a series of short stories featuring the Dexter character that the author published in The Red Book Magazine in 1926 and 1927. Miss Barker (1869-1954), in her earlier writing career, had been primarily concerned with the occult, and became most widely known for a series of three volumes published in the 1910s containing what purported to be letters from a dead man that had been conveyed to her via automatic writing. The Dexter Drake novels were all published between 1928 and 1930, during which period she was living on the French Riviera -- after which she seems to have mostly given up writing, although she lived for almost another quarter-century. (Or maybe she found religion: her only published book that post-dates the mysteries was "Stories from the New Testament for Children," published in 1936.) NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. N° de réf. du vendeur 30761
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Titre : The C.I.D. of Dexter Drake
Éditeur : J.H. Sears & Company (c.1929), New York
Date d'édition : 1929
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : First Edition.