and other Stories
The Man Who Knew Too Much and other Stories
Cassell, 1922.
First edition. Original green cloth lettered in dark blue, in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just the slightest dustiness. An exceptional copy.
A collection of 12 short detective stories, the first 8 of which concern Horne Fisher, "an amateur criminal investigator who, in solving strange and intricate riddles of crime, passes through experiences as bewildering and unexpected as the most blasé reader could desire" (blurb). Fisher is The Man Who Knew Too Much because he knows a great deal about the private politics behind the public politics of the leading figures of the day - as Fisher declares ""The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin."
Stock ID: 26085
£4,500.00
