A Tale from the Detective Agency of Mooney and Boland
Trail of the Barrow;. Or, The Brother's Revenge. By James Mooney of the Firm of Mooney & Boland, the Detectives.
New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888.
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MOONEY, James. The Trail of the Barrow;. Or, The Brother's Revenge. By James Mooney of the Firm of Mooney & Boland, the Detectives. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888.
"Favorite edition". Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 182 x 125 mm). [2], [7]-216, [2, ads] pp. These books seem to be rare on the market.
Publisher's original marron cloth. Front board elaborately stamped in black. Spine stamped in black and gilt. Floral endpapers. Some minor rubbing to cloth. Binding slightly skewed. Inner hinges cracked. Leaves with some uniform toning. Overall a very good copy.
"In the 1860’s James Mooney and John Boland founded the Mooney & Boland Detective Agency and by 1882 they had opened a Chicago office with James Mooney in charge. He would spend the rest of his life living in Chicago and became a prominent citizen. It would be Mooney & Boland that Chicago playwright and real estate developer, Samuel Eberly Gross retained to prove that Edmund Rostand had plagiarized Gross’s Merchant Prince of Cornville, for Cyrano de Bergerac, an endeavor in which the detectives were quite successful... While the Pinkerton detective agency was probably better known, Mooney & Boland ultimately became the bigger of the two and there was a lively competition... Chicago-based Belford, Clarke, which was believed to be the largest literary publisher in the country, began their Mooney & Boland Detective Series based on true cases that James Mooney had solved... The true detective mysteries usually had associations that would seem familiar to anyone who even causally read the daily newspapers. If the story wasn’t directly based on an actual case as the Mooney and Boland Detective Series was, then the author would attempt to invoke some type of connection to someone or something that was actually real to achieve story verisimilitude." (World Class Chicago dot com)
HBS 69201.
$500.
Price: $500.00
Item #69201