Two Women in Black by James Mooney 1890 Donohue, Henneberry

Two Women in Black
James Mooney
Marvelous Career of a Noted Forger
Mooney & Boland Detective Series
Chicago: Donohue Henneberry and Co., 1890
288 pages
Caxton Edition
Illustrated by True Williams

The front hinge is cracked and the binding is broken but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned, foxed, and have brown age spots. There is a name written on the free front end paper. The cover is edge worn, stained on the back and the spine lettering is faded. Fair. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: The paying teller of the Argus Trust Co., Broadway, New York, was not at all surprised when, on the morning of July 8, 187-, a middle-aged gentleman, accompanied by a closely-veiled lady dressed in deep mourning, came to his window and presented a check for $64,000, signed by the President of the City Life Insurance Co., and payable to the order of Martha Hopkirk. It is true the amount of the check was unusually large; but every one knew that James Hopkirk, the enterprising commission merchant, who died three months before, had left his widow in affluent circumstances, and the newspapers had published the fact that among his valuable papers were policies in the City Life aggregating $64,000.... 1.1 (#0000244)