Lynch, Lawrence L. (pseud. of Emma Murdoch van Deventer). — The Last Stroke. A Detective Story.

London, Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. (1896?), 1st English ed., VII,(1),319,(1),8 cat.) pag., original brown pictorial cloth (covers edgeworn). = Hubin, pag. 264; First English edition, first published in America in 1896. Nice illustrated cover with a woman pointing a gun at a man's back. Jarndyce cat. 270, Detective fiction (used as frontcover illustration): "American author from Oswego in upstate NMew York, Lynch's first novel was published in 1879 under the name of her first husband Lawrence L. Lynch (...). she went on to publish 17 more novels before her death. A reviewer form the Topeka State Journal branded her 'the American Conan Doyle' in March 1906, for her 'highly facsinating, thrilling and mysterious' stories." Owner's name on first free endpaper.