The True Crime of Christmas

1897, an early crime novel set in Paris

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Printing Details

Reprint (New edition). Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 10cm, 156pp + ads.

First published in 1885, this is an early crime novel from Peter Hay Hunter, a minister of the Church of Scotland. It is set in Paris and involves murder, money-lenders and a mysterious Japanese...

Condition

Fair. A reading copy. The cloth is marked and faded to the spine and rubbed to the corners. The inner binding is a little weakened in places but still holding fast. The pages clean with the occasional mark.