Gaston Leroux — The Floating Prison

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd. [1920]. Cloth. An early English translation of Gaston Leroux's mystery, the first work in the Cheri Bibi series. This work is the first in the Cheri-Bibi series by Gaston Leroux, featuring a butcher-boy falsely convicted of a crime and sent to prison, where he becomes a fearsome leader.Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French detective writer, best known for his work 'The Phantom of the Opera', later adapted into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.Undated; dated from copies on Library Hub.Translated by Hannaford Bennett. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with the spine a little faded and bumped to the head and tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .