Henry Wade | The Missing Partners, 1928

Henry Wade

The Missing Partners. London: Constable & Co, 1928

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, frontispiece map, original brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in orange, DUST-JACKET, binding slightly soiled, dust-jacket with strip excised at head of inner flap, backstrip chipped at head and foot, minor soiling

“Henry Wade” is a pseudonym for Henry Lancelot Aubrey Fletcher, described by Reilly as “one the really major figures of the Golden Age of the mystery story… A master of the police novel”.

PROVENANCE:

The Ronald Segal Collection (Sotheby's, 19 December 2000, lot 506); The Alexis Galanos Collection