Creator
[Anonymous]
Title
The Man Trap.
Coverage
Boston:
Publisher
The Riverton Press
Date
1910
Description
The Man Trap was a contest book that advertised $1,500 in prize money for the best solutions to the mystery. When the publishers were advised by the federal government that the rules made the contest partially one of chance and therefore a lottery—thus illegal—they issued this second state edition with lots of “cancelled” stamps on the contest rules. The publishers also added a mea culpa statement page inserted at the end.
Source
From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson