M. Evans & Company
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Trim: 5¾ x 8
978-1-59077-462-5 • Paperback • August 2014 • $21.95 • (£16.95)
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William Roughead was a Scottish solicitor and amateur criminologist who went on to be a pioneer of the ‘true crime’ literary genre.
In the White House at Washington, in a special selection of the bookcases just outside the President’s study, there is a carefully winnowed selection of detective literature deposited there by the Library of Congress and labeled The President’s Shelf. On that shelf the rarest brews, in my opinion, are the work of Mr. Roughead.
— Alexander Woolcott
Far and away the best.
— Dorothy Sayers