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1871 1st ed Detectives of Europe & America McWatters

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1871 1st ed Detectives of Europe & America McWatters Knots Untied Secret Service

A rare work on the lives of celebrated spies, detectives, and secret service agents from the 19th-century in Europe and America. ‘Knots Untied’ describes the discovering drug rings, money counterfeiters, murderers, stories of carting criminals to prison, plans to take down robbers, and fake lottery schemes. Later editions of this work were renamed to ‘Detectives of Europe and America’, this 1871 first edition is still quite rare.

Item number: #11538

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McWATTERS, George S

Knots untied or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives.

Hartford: J.B. Burr and Hyde, 1871. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages

xx, 665, [1]

30 illustrations

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~8.5in X 6in (22cm x 15cm)

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