This ingenious story has to do with the nefarious industry of eavesdropping by telegraph. Two clever people, a man and a woman, in hard luck, engage in this and other criminal practices, having always before them the hope of gaining a footing in the decent world, represented in the man's mind by successful improvements in electrical apparatus. The author, Arthur Stringer, has chosen a new field for a romance compounded of qualities found in detective stories. It is rumored that pool-room wire-tappers made more than fifty ...
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This ingenious story has to do with the nefarious industry of eavesdropping by telegraph. Two clever people, a man and a woman, in hard luck, engage in this and other criminal practices, having always before them the hope of gaining a footing in the decent world, represented in the man's mind by successful improvements in electrical apparatus. The author, Arthur Stringer, has chosen a new field for a romance compounded of qualities found in detective stories. It is rumored that pool-room wire-tappers made more than fifty thousand dollars on the day this story went to press!
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Seller's Description:
VG+ Reprint edition, part of the "Supertales of Modern Mystery" series, bo und in green cloth with gold spine lettering and decorations. VG+ cond ition. Dusting to the edges of the page block. Mild tanning to the pag es. No dust jacket.
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Good. No dust jacket. First Canadian edition from the sheets of Bobbs-Merrill's 1922 Reissue. Covers soiled with gilt dull. Occasional text soiling. In good condition.