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POSTGATE, JOHN T. The Runaway Wife, or Love and Vengeance.  From the Diary of Captain Simon O'Donnell of the Chicago Police.  The Pinkerton Detective Series. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1889. 1st ed. 12mo. 172 pp, plus ads. Frontis. Orig. colored pictorial wrappers. Small chips in spine, otherwise fine. $75.00

 

Excluded from Wright as a periodical series.  Wright lists three titles by Postgate, all very sparsely held.  With the heavy colored pictorial wrappers on a perfect bound book, this series is the precursor of the modern lurid paperback.