Sep 14, 2018
The Minister of Police. Henry Mountjoy. New York: Syndicate Publishing Co., (1912). Early reprint edition. Original dust jacket by Hanson Booth.
Historical novel of intrigue in the France of Louis the Fifteenth. “One evening in May, just at that chill hour when the trees are draping themselves in the muslin of the evening mist, the carriage of Monsieur de Sartines passed the Swiss on guard at the gates of his majesty's palace of Versailles and entered the courtyard.”