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BODKIN, Matthias McDonald, (1850-1933). Dora Myrl. The Lady Detective. London: Chatto and Windus, 1900.
8o. Original pictorial cloth (minor darkening to spine and light rubbing to joints and edges). Provenance: Henry Ford (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BODKIN on the front free endpaper: "Henry Ford With the authors compliments M.McD. Bodkin."
A collection of short stories by the Irish author and judge Bodkin. Dora Myrl was preceded by Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective. "Having created a detective of each sex... Bodkin contrived this duello in a novel called - note the title - The Capture of Paul Beck. At the end of the novel... Dora Myrl becomes Mrs. Paul Beck and thus inaugurating what is possibly the earliest family of detectives in mystery fiction." See Queen's Quorum 23.
[With]: The Capture of Paul Beck. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Original cloth (worn). -- Paul Beck, The Rule of the Thumb Detective. London, Arthur Pearson. Cheap Edition. -- And 5 others. Condition varies. (8)
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BODKIN on the front free endpaper: "Henry Ford With the authors compliments M.McD. Bodkin."
A collection of short stories by the Irish author and judge Bodkin. Dora Myrl was preceded by Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective. "Having created a detective of each sex... Bodkin contrived this duello in a novel called - note the title - The Capture of Paul Beck. At the end of the novel... Dora Myrl becomes Mrs. Paul Beck and thus inaugurating what is possibly the earliest family of detectives in mystery fiction." See Queen's Quorum 23.
[With]: The Capture of Paul Beck. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Original cloth (worn). -- Paul Beck, The Rule of the Thumb Detective. London, Arthur Pearson. Cheap Edition. -- And 5 others. Condition varies. (8)