Internally VG; cloth sunned at head of spine; jacket with some chips and edge wear, loss to head of spine, 1 small repair.
Jacket artwork by Barlow.
£95
London, Collins Crime Club, March 1949.
First edition, fifth impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Who murdered Mary Gerrard? – a murder mystery with the inscrutable Hercule Poirot.
Out of stock
Internally VG; cloth sunned at head of spine; jacket with some chips and edge wear, loss to head of spine, 1 small repair.
Jacket artwork by Barlow.
Detective Fiction
First edition. London, Methuen 1922 A Hubin listed mystery in the very elusive jacket which has some visual similarity to the jacket design of ‘Mysterious Affair at Styles’, Agatha Christie’s first novel, published two years earlier. John Moroso was a New York based writer who contributed to various publications in the 1910s and 1920s and also wrote a story about life in an east side New York City ghetto titled The Stumbling Herd, which was made into a silent film in 1926
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
Featuring serial character Gilbert Larose The Poisoned Goblet tells of the efforts by a gang to kidnap the child of Lady Ardane.Fabulous dustwrapper art. A desirable title.
Detective Fiction
London, Columbine Publishing Co, 1939.The world-renowned detective Grant Rushton takes on his most sinister foe yet, High Priestess of the terrible cult of the Voodoo, Marie Galante.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933.
When the dignified life of Steven Kester came to an undignified end there were several people with potential motives. Serial character Spike Tracy acts as detective and solves the mystery.Rare in d/w.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Collins, 1947.
Stephen Maddock was a pseudonym of JM Walsh and used for his more explicitly criminous titles.