Internally very good; small bump to head of spine; jacket a little rubbed at extremities with small chip at foot of front panel, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by William Randell.
£250
London, Collins Crime Club, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
A very nice copy of this crime novel featuring “London Scott” Robert Macdonald, unusual in being set beyond Britain’s shores.
Out of stock
Internally very good; small bump to head of spine; jacket a little rubbed at extremities with small chip at foot of front panel, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by William Randell.
Detective Fiction
Translated from the French by Maverick Terrell. First English edition, London, T. Werner Laurie, 1936.One of the prolific French author's whodunits. Dekobra (real name Maurice Tessier) was one of France's best-known authors during the interwar period, and several of his books were made into films.
Detective Fiction
Mills and Boon, London, 1937
First edition
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
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
(A Detective-Inspector McCarthy Yarn).First Edition. Wright & Brown, n.d. [c.1941].