Paris, 1923
 
Original printed wrappers with deckled edges jacketed in parchment covers. Complete in two volumes. Both volumes a bit darkened at the top edges with minor wear along extremities else Near Fine. Chemised in a custom wood case. 
 
The story of an innkeeper moonlighting as a smuggling chief whose murderous past comes back to haunt him via a revenge-seeking Corsican priest. These turn of the century French mystery wrappered books rarely survive in meaningful condition. From the famed Florence and Edward Kaye Library of Detective, Crime, and Mystery Fiction.