THE MASTER MYSTERY by Austin J[ames]. Small Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday Company, Inc., 1928. First edition, first printing. Fading and some rubbing to the spine, slight wear to corner tips, light foxing to the end-sheets, Macy's store bind embossed name and 121 stamped to the rear end-paper, else a very good in black linen with red embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; lacking a dust jacket. "Why was it that nothing red could be kept in Gairlie Castle? Red flowers, red vases, red match boxes, lipstick, all vanished with lightning rapidity. Then the famous Gairlie collection of rubies disappeared from Lady Gairlie's dressing table--and three strange murders followed the theft. Scotland Yard set its keenest man-hunter on the mystery. yet he was baffled until the case reached a denouement ingenious, startling, yet perfectly believable."--Publisher's blurb. An uncommon Crime Club publication. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!