A Master of Destiny. Victor Tremaine

Boston: Chapman & Grimes. 1939.

First edition. 8vo. 196x135mm. pp. 255 [1bl]. Publisher's blue cloth and original dustjacket. Some closed tears to the jacket and there is a handwritten alteration to a printed address on the lower cover. Inscribed "To Mr Fred E. Mason from Ida F. Powell Author. Christmas 1941". Loosely inserted is a two page letter and a Christmas Card from Powell to Mason. In the letter, Powell describes the book as a "romance...while the details of the detective theme is founded upon actual knowledge of facts which I gathered by contacting the police". The hero of the novel is Victor Tremaine, a U.S. International Drug Inspector and the book is described as a "thrilling account of the dangerous work of Uncle Sam's secret agents in tracking down dealers in marijuana, cocaine, and other debasing drugs".