THE UTTERMOST FARTHING: A SAVANT'S VENDETTA

by R. Austin Freeman, H. Weston Taylor, novel, illustrations

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First edition

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. First Edition. An early Freeman mystery featuring Humphrey Challoner, a specialist in criminal anthropology, who after the murder of his wife dedicates his life to the apprehension and punishment of criminals and by apprehension and punishment I mean he murders them, shrinks their heads, and displays them as trophies in his private museum . The American Edition precedes the

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