"The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography," a first edition published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston in 1942, offers Ellery Queen’s meticulous survey of the genre’s finest short works, a vital resource for scholars and enthusiasts of crime fiction. This fine copy, free of inscriptions, marks, foxing, or toning to contents or edges, features bright, unblemished covers with no rubbing or fraying. Its original near fine dust jacket, unclipped, shows no sunning or darkening to the spine. A key reference text, this well-preserved volume provides collectors with a pristine artefact of detective literature’s historical scope.