Cleek, The Master Detective - Thomas W. Hanshew, Gordon Grant (illustrator) 1918 - Doubleday, Garden City - First American Edition Fine example of this collection of short stories featuring Detective Hamilton Cleek, known as the man of forty faces for his masterful ability to disguise himself. Formerly the villainous ‘Vanishing Cracksman’ but now reformed chief riddle solver for Scotland Yard.   Published in 1910 in England as ‘The Man of Forty Faces’ by Cassell.

References: Reilly, ’
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 728. Hubin, Crime Fiction, 192.

Octavo (book size 19.4x13.3cm), pp. [8] 343 [1]. In publisher’s red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and yellow to spine and upper boards, all edges trimmed.
  Condition: Fine with the exception of some faint spotting to front endpapers and first few pages.   Ref: 110639   Price: HK$ 2,800