The Red Ledger

Book Description

Toronto: The Copp, Clark Co., Limited, 1926. Hardcover 7.5" x 5". 318pp. Red hardback cloth, in the original dust wrapper. First Canadian Edition. This copy is an ex-library copy, with edge wear and use and the usual stamps and marks to the interior. The dust jacket is from the A. L. Burt edition, but it is particularly nice and bright. This bibliomystery is "a fine adventurous story set in the glamorous underworld. Not since the creation of Jimmie Dale has so picturesque a character appeared in crook fiction as old Charlebois. Strange and important debts were incurred by this amazing man in his varied life. All of them he paid with strtling interest. An original theme this, carried out with thrills and a strong undercurrent of romance."

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