THE PASSENGER FROM SCOTLAND YARD

Cleveland: Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, 1908. 1st printing, thus. [Originally published in England by Chatto, 1888 by Harry Freeman Wood]. Adventure Series #5. 267 page plus two pages of ads. Vintage paperback. Some wear at edges, cover creases, lightly soiled, paper brittle, top 1/4" missing from rear cover where Westbrook lists their other titles. "Five men sat in a railroad compartment on the main train from London to Dover. The same five men boarded the Channel steamer and crossed to Calais, where they caught another train for Paris. By the time the train reaches Paris, we learn that one man is a detective from Scotland Yard, on the trail of stolen gems; one man is a murderer; and another, a corpse!This introduction leads the reader into a story that has been characterized as the best detective novel between The Moonstone and The Hound of the Baskervilles." All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. Digest. Book.