Book VG+; jacket with some tears and chips, loss to upper fore corner of front panel, edge wear, spine slightly sunned.
Jacket artwork by Batchelor KB Studios.
£225
London, Jenkins, 1929.
First edition, Colonial issue. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with ‘Herbert Jenkins’ Colonial Library’ sticker to spine.
A malignant ‘something’… haunts the House in Tuesday Market, and the new owner is determined to uncover what strange secrets lurk beneath the surface… Uncommon in the dust-jacket.
Out of stock
Book VG+; jacket with some tears and chips, loss to upper fore corner of front panel, edge wear, spine slightly sunned.
Jacket artwork by Batchelor KB Studios.
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, 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
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
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1926
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6 on spine.
In this Hubin-listed murder story, the author shows the placid life of Minden Town disturbed by a mysterious tragedy. The mystery remains a mystery almost to the very end of the book. A rare and early Faber crime title.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Collins, 1947.
Stephen Maddock was a pseudonym of JM Walsh and used for his more explicitly criminous titles.