Detective Fiction

(and Theodore I. Terhune!)
London, Hutchinson, 1943.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

The third Terhune novel opens when Terhune discovers the body of Frank Smallwood, a seaman believed to have been murdered twenty years earlier. A cold-case investigation and court-room drama ensues.

London, Hutchinson, [1946].

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

When Arthur Harrison, a book-collector client, is found stabbed and his library ransacked, Theodore Terhune suspects the killer was searching for a specific volume...

(and Theodore I. Terhune!)
London, Hutchinson, [1944].

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

Uncommon first edition by the creator of Blackshirt.

London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1942].

Early impression. With printed compliments slip signed by the author. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with Hutchinson 4/- Novels price label.

In the first Theodore Terhune bibliomystery, bookseller-detective Terhune interrupts a robbery at the home of Helena Armstrong. He becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a missing key to a family vault and seven enigmatic clues that point to crimes both past and future.

Translated by George Sainsbury
London, Hutchinson, 1955.

First UK edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the translator. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.

This psychological thriller, by the duo later known for Diabolique and Hitchcock's Vertigo, follows inventor Richard Hermantier, blinded by a wartime explosion, who senses his business slipping away and begins to suspect infidelity and feel an unseen presence watching him; the narrative builds paranoia as he questions what is real.