Detective Fiction
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An uncommon bibliomystery by this British detective fiction writer of the Golden Age, who authored some thirty mystery novels, many featuring Detective Inspector William Austen.
Detective Fiction
Robinson (B. Fletcher) and J. Malcolm Fraser. The Trial of the Dead.
The strange experience of Dr. Robert Harland
London, Ward, Lock, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth with inset illustration to upper cover.
Seven thrilling tales by Fletcher & Fraser, the former who had inspired in large part Conan Doyle with the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles: "This story owes its inception to my friend, Mr. Fletcher Robinson, who has helped me both in the general plot and in the local details." (ACD, in The Strand)
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1960.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Father Joseph Bredder, a Franciscan priest in Los Angeles - formerly a professional boxer and decorated Marine - investigates.
Detective Fiction
London, Chapman & Hall, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A collection of adventure stories featuring Don Quebranta Huesos, a fearsome Spanish bandit who operates as a kind of antihero.
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Detective Fiction
London, Lincoln Williams, 1935.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
According to the Bear Alley blog the book is listed in the English Catalogue of Books as having appeared in February 1935 and it was listed under the pen-name "Trill". The publisher Lincoln Williams went into administration in July 1935 so the book probably wasn't reprinted. Trill was a pen name for Harry C. Liebart. Hubin listed.
Detective Fiction
A Murder Mystery
London, Hutchinson, [1930].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Inspector Rae Norse investigates the murder of a controversial judge in a Southern American setting where voodoo practices create an atmosphere of menace.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock, 1899.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A collection of short detective and mystery stories by one of the most prolific crime writers of the late Victorian period.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, unpriced suggesting intended for export.
An attractive edition of this later title by "the American Agatha Christie."
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1964.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A popular US author, writing twenty-two crime novels between 1942 and 1962, today best known for her thirteen-novel Gridley Nelson police detective series, about an empathetic Princeton-educated, private-income-blessed, prematurely white-haired New York City cop.
Detective Fiction
London, Pilot Press, 1945.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A mystery novel featuring Audemars's early series detective Hercule Renard, set in France. The second in the short-lived Renard series.
Detective Fiction
London, John Murray, 1926.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A highly collectable title and edition from the author of Unleavened Bread (1900), featuring attractive jacket artwork by noted interwar illustrator Helen McKie.
Detective Fiction
London, T.V. Boardman, 1946.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The author's third novel, distinctly uncommon in the jacket, albeit supplied (but excellent) in this case.
Detective Fiction
New York & Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
The fourth Pym novel and the title chosen by Farrar & Rinehart to launch Morland in America, with publisher's ballyhoo claiming that Edgar Wallace had "trained a young man to follow in his footsteps" and given him the germ of the Pym character, unsubstantiated but effective PR. The supplied jacket is in excellent condition.
Detective Fiction
London, Macdonald, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
"The Hungry Spider is in the best tradition of Man Running and The Golden Dart, and it re-introduces many old friends including Detective-Inspector "Ordinary" Smith, Billy Bull, that tough but ingenuous young gentleman known as the Boy, and of course Eve herself presiding." (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Attractive hardback edition of this crime thriller.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, publisher's number '264' to spine.
An author best known for The Wheel Spins (1936), which Alfred Hitchcock filmed as The Lady Vanishes (1938), and Some Must Watch (1933), filmed by Robert Siodmak as The Spiral Staircase (1946), this is her third novel and her final mainstream novel before she turned to crime fiction. Features supernatural elements.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1960.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
One of the scarcer Rutledge titles, potentially one of two titles published only in the UK.
Detective Fiction
Robinson (B. Fletcher) and J. Malcolm Fraser. The Trial of the Dead.
The strange experience of Dr. Robert Harland
London, Ward, Lock, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth with inset illustration to upper cover.
Seven thrilling tales by Fletcher & Fraser, the former who had inspired in large part Conan Doyle with the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles: "This story owes its inception to my friend, Mr. Fletcher Robinson, who has helped me both in the general plot and in the local details." (ACD, in The Strand)
Detective Fiction
London, Ward Lock, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The fourth novel by Robertson, a British crime writer whose series characters included Peter Grayleigh, Superintendent Bradley, Inspector John Martin, Vicky McBain, Edward North, and Alan Steel.
Detective Fiction
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941.
Cheap edition, third impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with price sticker '4/6' to inside front flap.
Fourteen short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Hastings, Christie's first short story collection. Scarce when still with the attractive dust-jacket by Abbey.
Detective Fiction
London, Foulsham, 1951.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A popular US author, writing twenty-two crime novels between 1942 and 1962, today best known for her thirteen-novel Gridley Nelson police detective series, about an empathetic Princeton-educated, private-income-blessed, prematurely white-haired New York City cop.
Detective Fiction
London, Foulsham, 1960.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A popular US author, writing twenty-two crime novels between 1942 and 1962, today best known for her thirteen-novel Gridley Nelson police detective series, about an empathetic Princeton-educated, private-income-blessed, prematurely white-haired New York City cop.
Detective Fiction
Jay (Charlotte, pseud. Geraldine Mary Jay) The Knife is Feminine
London, Collins, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
The author's scarce first book, and the only one of her works set in Australia.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1972.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
"There were overtones of witchcraft at work when the body of Mrs. Lovibond, a vicious-tongued cleaning woman, was discovered at the bottom of the Guy Fawkes bonfire in a Sussex village." (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
Being some further adventures of the admirable Tinker, child of the world
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1906].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth with inset illustration to upper cover, rebacked preserving original backstrip.
A sequel to Jepson's earlier The Admirable Tinker: Child of the World (1904), continuing the Edwardian comic adventures of Tinker, a preternaturally resourceful and charming boy described repeatedly as an angel child. Jepson shared the pseudonym "Tod Claymore" with the crime writer Hugh Clevely, with whom he co-wrote The Man With the Amber Eyes.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1970.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21/-.
This UK hardcover collects two novellas, Border Town Girl and Linda, originally published as paperback originals in 1956. The stories combine rustic Florida settings with MacDonald's signature social undercurrents.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1977.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
An Inspector Lovick title.
Detective Fiction
London, George Newnes, September - November 1914.
Parts 1-3 (only, of 9) in The Strand magazine. 8vo. Without advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers.
The first three parts of the first appearance of the fourth & final Sherlock Holmes novel.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon oriental thriller.
Detective Fiction
New York, Dodd, Mead, 1929.
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
A Dr Thorndyke forensic mystery in which apparently minor physical evidence proves crucial to solving a murder.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
Popular edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
Popular edition of this crime thriller.
Detective Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Alias Blackshirt
London, Harrap, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Blackshirt faces off against an impostor who the threatens his identity and freedom.
Detective Fiction
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d..
Grosset & Dunlap edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
Attractive edition of this classic Hercule Poirot mystery, set at a secluded seaside resort where the murder of a glamorous former actress exposes jealousy, deception and carefully constructed alibis.
Detective Fiction
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d..
Grosset & Dunlap edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
The third Tommy & Tuppence book, published in 1941 with the war very much on: the Beresfords, now middle-aged and irritated at being considered too old for intelligence work, go undercover at a seaside guesthouse to unmask two Fifth Columnist agents known only as N & M. Famously, the novel earned Christie the attention of MI5 - she had named a tediously talkative character Major Bletchley, and the security services wanted to know what, precisely, she knew about a certain Park. (Nothing; she'd been stuck on a train there once and took revenge in the traditional authorial manner.) A Grosset & Dunlap reprint from the year of the trade first: an attractive and sensible way to own a wartime Christie in jacket without wartime-first-edition money.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1953.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
A Poirot mystery centred on the murder of an American heiress aboard the luxury Blue Train travelling through France. The plot involves stolen jewels, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements.
Detective Fiction
London, Stanley Paul, 1926.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
First published in France and the UK in 1926; somewhat worn and aged, nevertheless an attractive jacket well representing the character & mood of the immensely popular Fantômas stories, with their admirably sociopathic central antagonist.
Detective Fiction
London, George Allen, 1912.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Hubin listed crime thriller, distinctly uncommon in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Macmillan, 1998.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, inscribed on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
The Herefordshire village of Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets, braces for the discovery of a tradition of murder.
Detective Fiction
London, Hammond, Hammond, 1946.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The American author's first book, and the first of his Liz Parrott mysteries.
Detective Fiction
London, Macdonald, 1957.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Striking jacket artwork.
Detective Fiction
London, Hammond, Hammond, 1948.
First UK edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to her mother. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
An attractive first UK edition of this crime thriller, inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
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.