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, 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, 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...
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
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.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Considered one of Mitchell's best Mrs Bradley novels along with other works such as The Saltmarsh Murders, Death at the Opera and The Rising of the Moon.
Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, n.d..
'Newnes' Sixpenny Copyright Novels' edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
An uncommon wrappered edition of Doyle's Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, n.d. [c.1903].
8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled internally.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a missing treasure, a secret pact from colonial India, a one-legged man, and a mysterious islander. An attractive and uncommon wrappered edition.
Detective Fiction
London, The Modern Publishing Company, n.d..
8vo. Advertisement endpapers. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
"An intensely exciting detective story." (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
London, The Modern Publishing Company, n.d..
8vo. Advertisement endpapers. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
"An intensely exciting detective story." (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
London, Frederick Muller, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A mid-1930s social comedy-drama.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1937.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth.
A solid first edition of this classic Hercule Poirot title, a difficult book to find in good order.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1952.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A decent first UK edition of this famous village 'whodunit', playfully placing Poirot in the scene rather than Miss Marple.
Detective Fiction
and other stories
London, Collins Crime Club, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
The first Christie short-story collection published by the Crime Club; important as it showcases her interest in psychological and speculative motifs outside the conventional puzzle-plot.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1951.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A monastery-set murder mystery in which Boscobell investigates a suspicious death among a religious order. Uncommon signed.
Detective Fiction
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket.
A locked-room/maritime murder mystery aboard an Atlantic liner, notable for the presence of multiple psychologists (satirising the era's fascination with psychoanalysis perhaps, though the work is written by a psychologist) attempting to solve the crime. The second book in King's "Obelist" trilogy.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, [1944].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A mid-century "psychological house" novel, adjacent to the tradition of domestic supernatural fiction; not widely known today but of interest to collectors of mid-20th-century women's suspense writing.