ELLERY QUEEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE READER: AN ANTHOLOGY

by Queen, Ellery, editor (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, closed tear repaired on the verso to the upper right front corner, several closed tears to the upper spine panel with tape repair to the verso. Uncommon in the jacket. (22533). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.

• Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
• Year: 1938
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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