1930 The Moonhill Mystery Woodrow, Mrs. Wilson MACAULAY New York 1st Edition HC

Vintage, 1st Edition, Rare…The Moonhill Mystery by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow Published by Macaulay, New York1930Hardcover. 320 pages including title page.Measures 7 1/2” x 5 1/4”.The author, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, (Nancy Mann Waddle) was born in 1867 in Chillicothe, Ohio and married James Wilson Woodrow in 1897. James was a distant cousin of president Woodrow Wilson, hence the similarities in their names. Since 1901, short stories she had written had already been published in magazines compilations, and so Nancy began to write romantic novels and mysteries under the pen name Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and a serial story in the Metropolitan magazine under the pen name Jane Wade. The New Missioner first appeared as a short story in McClure's in 1904. It was one of the first of over 50 works of short fiction and serials that appeared in magazines over a period of 25 years. In the 1920s, she introduced a detective, Heywood Achison, featured in seven stories, all but one of them published in the Detecti