The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare Bill Weigand of the NYPD

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The Duel of Shadows - The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth Rare Bill Weigand of the NYPDONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES! So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898 1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as The Black Monk; and he faced (and solved) some of most bizarre cases ever to confront a sleuth a bullet fired three