Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue

May, Luke S[ylvester]. Crime’s Nemesis. New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition. Red cloth lettered in black. Inscribed and signed on the ffep: “To Justin Miller/the first copy with my compliments/Luke S. May/March11—1936”. 8vo. Small chip to the flyleaf and half-title, light bumps, else fine. Nicknamed “America’s Sherlock Holmes,” May was an early devotee to forensic science in criminal investigation, calling science “the handmaiden of the criminologist.” His agency in Seattle provided fingerprinting services when the technology was not widespread, and he aided in the establishment of the first crime laboratory in the United States at Northwestern University. This copy, the first of May’s best-known work, is inscribed to Justin Miller, a federal judge who FDR nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals about the time this volume was published.