In the shadows
Subtitle: thirty detective stories : showing "why crime doesn't pay" : a series of famous cases
By: by detective Nick Harris.
Contributors: Rico, Helene, ill.; Times-Mirror Press.
Publisher: The Times-Mirror Press
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.
Notes: Photographic frontispiece with autographed portrait of author. Illustrations on p. 50, 55, 59, [66], 71, 76, 81, 86, 90, 97, 101, 102, 106, 109, 111, 118, 123, 126, 127, 132, 134, 140, 145, 147, 152, 155, 157, 161, 183, 191, 196, 200, 206, 211, 214, 219, 231, 249, 250, 272, 276, 282, 291, 305, 319, 343, 344 and 351, some signed by Helene Rico.
Table of contents: title: The confession of a master burglar; title: The suffering of the innocent; title: Fight crime with advertising; title: Mabel's mistake; title: The Stockdale murder; title: The calling of Johnny MacRay; title: The secret cipher; title: Circumstantial evidence; title: The pal of "Jimmy the Rat"; title: The phantom shot; title: The cause of divorces; title: The policeman's tryst; title: The Sowards murder; title: The yellow slip; title: A pair of shoes; title: The murder scoop; title: The death of Desdemona; title: "A mass of golden hair"; title: Just a little dog; title: The jet earrings; title: Queen of the safe crackers; title: The trunk bandit; title: The national swindle; title: The mystery woman; title: Witherell case; title: The modern Bluebeard; title: The old man's violin; title: Murder of Father Heslin; title: Friday, the thirteenth; title: The passing of Sergeant Fitzgerald.