ALLEN, Grant

An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

First edition. Corners slightly bumped and endpapers a little browned, a handsome, near fine copy of this important collection of short stories featuring Colonel Clay, "the first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, villain or anti-hero" (Steinbrunner and Penzler. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection). When Allen died at age 51, Conan Doyle completed his final novel, Hilda Wade. Queen's Quorum.

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