Davis, Richard Harding - Peirce, Thomas Mitchell & Steele, F D [illustrators] — In The Fog

Harper Brothers 1901 1st edition. Cloth, G+. 155pp, b/w frontis, 8 coloured & 7 b/w plates of which 6 are detached, attractively bound with a paper illustration on the upper board in nice condition & a spine decorated in gilt showing a gas streetlamp. Detective crime fiction set in a fog bound London. Richard Harding Davis [ 1864 - 1916 ] American journalist & noted war correspondent. The work is on Ellery Queen's 'Queen's Quorum' list of the 125 most important detective novels.