THE GREAT STORIES OF REAL LIFE. Famous Crimes Mysteries & Romances.

Hardback. The scarce 2 volume edn. Contributors include : Pemberton, Le Queux, Conan Doyle, Sabatini, Lewis Melville, Sir John Hall, Bernard Darwin, Edgar Wallace, Judge Parry, Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Edgar Jepson, Philip Curtin (aka Lowndes). Cases covered include : Maybrick, Crippen, Rasputin, Green Bicycle, Adelaide Bartlett, Yelverton, Jack Sheppard, Luard, Peltzer, William Weare, Wainewright, Sandyford Place Mystery, Marie Celeste, Edith Thompson, Edalji, Peasenhall, Moat Farm, Charles Bravo, Landru, Oscar Slater, Adolf Beck, Steinie Morrison, Armstrong, Eugene Aram + much, much more. Illus. Both volumes 480pp. 4to. From the library of true writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate in each vol. Red cloth/gilt lettering. With neat name insc. and date 1926. Patchy fading to covers, sunned sp., lightly foxed fore-edges. Contents of each vol. are clean and tight. Overall condition of both Vg. Two vols. weigh 3kg. which will be reflected in the postage charge.