X Esquire
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 254
First sentence: It was, I suppose sheer coincidence that I became mixed up so intimately in the affair of the man who called himself X Esquire, and whose real identity iis to this day known to few people.
Description: A crime, mystery story, the first of five written by Charteris  in the late 192os before he settles on one of his five heroes, the Saint, to become his regular hero.
Notes: This edition is undated,, but appears to be a first  (or at least early) edition, c. 1927