ANDERSON, Frederick Irving

The Notorious Sophie Lang

First edition. Some edgewear to the cloth, endpapers browned and several dampstains to the boards, a good only copy of a rare book. Anderson published only three volumes of fiction, most of which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. In their Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, Steinbrunner and Penzler praise the somewhat forgotten writer: "... the stories have a subtle richness that requires a careful reading of every word, lest the inevitable story between the lines be missed." Basis for a series of films released in the 1930s, all of which featured Gertrude Michael as the jewel thief Sophie Lang.

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