Cleek, The Master Detective
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1918.
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Published in 1910 in England as *The Man of Forty Faces*. Slight evidence of a label removed from the front pastedown, a couple of smudges to the endpapers, and light wear to the extremities, a near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Vincent Starrett's copy with his ownership Signature. A collection of stories featuring the author's best known detective protagonist, Hamilton Cleek.
Item #48331
Thomas W. Hanshew
birth name: T.W. Hanshew
died: 3/3/1914
Biography
American-born author, born in 1857, best remembered for a series of detective novels featuring a central character named Hamilton Cleek, the man of forty faces.more