Donovan (Dick, pseud. J. E. Preston Muddock) The Mystery of Jamaica Terrace
£225
London, Chatto & Windus, 1895.
First edition. Publisher’s advertisements dated Nov. 1895. 8vo. Original blind-tooled cloth lettered in gilt.
Dick Donovan was a pseudonym used by Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1842–1934), who wrote numerous detective stories and thrillers.
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