Froëst (Frank) The Grell Mystery.
£85
A Story of Crime by…Ex-Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard Author of “The Crime Club”
[London], Collins Detective Story Club, n.d. [c.1930].
First edition thus. Small 8vo. Original near-black leather over limp boards, blocked in gilt.
Originally published in 1913, and the source for the 1917 film of the same name. Froëst was apparently incredibly strong, and could tear a pack of cards in half and snap a sixpence “like a biscuit”…nice.
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