Author: WOOD, H.F. [Harry Freeman].
Title: The Englishman of the Rue Cain.
Description: London, Chatto & Windus 1889. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in black and grey (spine faded and a bit rubbed). Publisher's catalogue for October 1888 at the end. Canted but rather good and fresh inside. ¶ First edition of this murder mystery set in Paris involving a missing heir, cross dressing villains, a cavalcade of detectives and all manner of complications.

Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th England detective mystery