Detective Fiction
London, Hammond, Hammond, 1947 [1948].
First edition. 8vo. Original turquoise cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s6d.
The first book to feature series character Detective Inspector Jimmy Brent, investigating the murder of a successful auctioneer and estate agent.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Desmond Merrion, an amateur sleuth formerly of Naval Intelligence, and his wife are on holiday in the seaside town of Croylehaven, where the eccentric Croyle family and their crumbling Castle Croyle hold dark secrets and, ultimately, murder.
Detective Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1929.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"A racing motor drive by night down to an empty house. A masked man, and a murder." (jacket blurb).
Detective Fiction
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918.
Fourth edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original dark grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
The fourth edition of the author's highly collectable first novel, here in the extremely rare jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1953.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s 6d.
A poisoned nursery rhyme leads detective Miss Marple to untangle a web of deceit and murder within a wealthy family, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
Detective Fiction
Donovan (Dick, pseud. J. E. Preston Muddock) The Turning Wheel.
A story of the Charn Hall inheritance
London, F.V. White, 1912.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A mystery novel built around inheritance, secrecy and family conflict. A solid example of a novel from the late Victorian and Edwardian tradition of popular mystery fiction that bridged sensation novels and early detective stories.
Detective Fiction
London, R.A. Everett, 1903.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth.
A collection of short stories framed around the professional experiences of a magistrate, which Threlfall was following a career as a trade unionist and politician.
Detective Fiction
From a dealer's note book
London, Ward, Lock & Co Limited, [1894].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A collection of crime and adventure stories presented as episodes from the notebook of a jewel dealer. Pemberton (1863–1950) was a prolific novelist and journalist, best remembered for his adventure and mystery writing.
Detective Fiction
Early stories from Black Mask
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1949.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.
A landmark anthology collecting early hard-boiled crime stories originally published in Black Mask magazine, the volume showcases foundational writers of American tough-guy detective fiction, including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and their contemporaries.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1956.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
A late entry in Gladys Mitchell's long-running series featuring the unconventional psychoanalyst-detective Mrs Bradley.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Native American detective Falcon and his indefatigable secretary take on faithless kidnappers. Attractive jacket artwork.
Detective Fiction
New York, George H. Doran, 1925.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
Introducing the author's most popular characters, Madame Rosika Storey and her assistant Bella Brickley.
Detective Fiction
Burnaby (Nigel, pseud. Harold Picton Ellett) The Secret of Matchams
London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6.
An unpopular landlord's body is found is the woods, and multiple suspects lead to multiple dead ends for the police... A scarce title in jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Colliins Crime Club, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
Two trains side by side for a brief moment... in that moment, a murder... The first edition of this Miss Marple murder mystery.
Detective Fiction
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924.First edition, first impression. 8vo. 12 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Original cloth.Eleven early short stories highlighting Hercule Poirot's emerging methods and mannerisms.
Detective Fiction
London, W. Collins Sons, 1929.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Facsimile dust-jacket.
A collection of linked short mysteries featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, taking over a detective agency and gleefully pastiching contemporary crime-fiction styles.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
The first full-length novel to feature Miss Marple, as a village murder exposes layers of gossip, deceit and social tension in St Mary Mead...
Detective Fiction
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. 6pp. advertisements. Original cloth.
A fast-moving thriller in which independent heroine Anne Beddingfeld uncovers murder, stolen diamonds and political conspiracy from London to South Africa.
London, Robert Hale, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
One of a handful of thrillers by Edwards published before the Second World War, with the uncommon Youngman Carter jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Early issue dust-jacket.
Criminal conspiracy and high-risk pursuit, and an uncommon, albeit not first, jacket to boot.
Detective Fiction
New York, Random House, 1943.First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.A psychologically driven mystery-thriller which seemed to excite both its UK & US publishers as much as its readership... One of around twenty novels by British writer Chris Massie, best known for Corridor of Mirrors, adapted for film in 1948, the cinematic debut of Christopher Lee.
Detective Fiction
a mystery London, Cassell, 1945.First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.One of Gerald Heard's key works of fiction under (in the US) his crime-writing pseudonym H.F. Heard, sitting alongside the Mycroft Holmes novels and The Great Fog in blending mystery with philosophical and psychological unease; it was lauded in contemporary reviews, including the New York Times, as a 'psychological horror story…of spine-tingling originality and excellence.'
Detective Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1960.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.A dark, enigmatic psychological mystery surrounding a missing girl, treading '...the same crepuscular territory that Henry James explored in The Turn of the Screw' (jacket blurb).
Detective Fiction
London, John Long, 1943.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first UK edition of Canadian/American author Millar's first book, introducing the character Paul Prye. Rare, especially in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Jonathan Cape, 1934.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced five shillings.
The first UK edition of this classic of US crime literature, widely recognised as an outstanding novel of the 20th century.
Detective Fiction
London, Macdonald, [1945].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins, 1973.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1972.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Macmillan, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Inscribed by the author, referring to the contents and characters in the book.
Detective Fiction
London, Chapman & Hall, 1962.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Skeffington, [1932].
Early UK printing. 8vo. Pale grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6 with contemporary price sticker for 1/6.
Featuring private sleuth Jimmy Treynor, first introduced in 1922's Mystery Of The Twin Rubies, as he gets involved in a case of a series of murders in the US mid-Western town of Prescott.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.
First edition, first impression. Signed & inscribed by the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1952.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1950s.
8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1950s.
8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 1/6.
Detective Fiction
London, The Bodley Head, 1943.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
Chase (James Hadley, pseud. René Lodge Brabazon Raymond) Cade
London, Robert Hale, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1963.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1965.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Wright & Brown, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.