THE MASTER MYSTERY By Austin J. [James] Small Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday Company, Inc., 1928. First edition, first printing. Inspector Kennedy of Scotland Yard is on this suspenseful case of murders related to the theft of rubies, and then of other red items, from a wealthy family's home. Quite an elusive Crime Club title by an early, popular mystery, adventure, and science fiction author. Black cloth with titles in red; lacking the dust jacket. Rectangular offset tanning to the front and rear end-papers, minor crimps to upper and lower spine edges, rub-wear to corner tips, a touch of fading to the spine, else 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." An uncommon mystery in any form. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!