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..
'Newnes' Sixpenny Copyright Novels' edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
An uncommon wrappered edition of Doyle's Adventures 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
London, Collins Crime Club, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
One of Christie's early non-Poirot, non-Marple mysteries, valued for its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and tightly engineered plotting.
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.
Detective Fiction
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1963.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a petty thief whose apparent laziness conceals long-habitual criminal caution. A nice edition for collectors, enhanced by the Youngman Carter (husband of Margery Allingham) jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, George Newnes, 1893.
Second edition. Royal 8vo. Original pictorial bevelled cloth.
Conan Doyle's famous collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, first published in book form by George Newnes in 1892. The stories, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, splendidly showcase Holmes' unparalleled deductive reasoning, as well as his ability to navigate London's criminal underworld.
Detective Fiction
London, Rider & Company, 1952.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
'A blood-chilling novel of Black Magic, sorcery, and intrigue...' (jacket blurb).
Detective Fiction
London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1935].First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Early issue dust-jacket priced 5/-.Striking jacket artwork on this interwar crime thriller set in London.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1950.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A local legend of a murdered parson's ghost in a woodland known as "Groaning Spinney" becomes connected with a real corpse and a murder investigation for Mrs Bradley.
Detective Fiction
London, The Thriller Book Club, [1938].
Special edition for the Thriller Book Club. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A Slim Callaghan detective novel involving London's seedy underworld, blackmail & murder, with Cheyney's trademark tough dialogue.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A solid first edition of this collection of detective stories by Arthur Morrison, featuring the titular Martin Hewitt, a private detective who uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes. A Queen's Quorum Cornerstone.
London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
In post-war Lancashire, Chief Inspector MacDonald investigates what begins as the odd theft of two iron andirons and other items from a farmer's cottage.
Detective Fiction
London, Arthur Barker, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 11s6d.
Crime thriller set against a backdrop of City of London banking.
Detective Fiction
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced-clipped with 4/6 price sticker to spine.
A Golden Age detective novel in which a lawyer and a married novelist couple investigate a curious murder by inhalation (a boutonnière dusted with cocaine).
Detective Fiction
London, Skeffington, [1932].
First UK edition, early impression (stating '7th thousand' on title and jacket). 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, with price sticker '2/-' to spine.
The murder of "Handsome Harry" Borden, a lecherous and unethical stock promoter leads Detective Sergeant McMann to uncover the true identity of the killer.
Detective Fiction
London, Readers Library, n.d. [c.1933].
Small 8vo. Advertisements. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Dust-jacket, stating Readers Library No.385.
Two homicide investigations and the detectives who solve them become entwined.
Detective Fiction
London, Arthur Barker, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
This Horler thriller pits his recurring secret-service hero Tiger Standish against a master criminal in a tale of abduction and international intrigue.
Detective Fiction
London, John Long, 1962.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 13s6d.
This whodunnit is set on the Hebridean island of Kersivay, where a series of murders confounds locals. Amateur sleuth Jeremy investigates amid island gossip and eccentric characters...
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock, 1903.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
T.W. Hanshew's 1903 detective tale, featuring his gentleman sleuth Hamilton Cleek, revolves around a murder in a country house.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock, 1910.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original decorative cloth.
Meade was prolific in many genres beyond her well-known school stories; this work showcases her range.
Detective Fiction
Irish (William, pseud. Cornell Woolrich) Somebody on the Phone
Philadelphia & New York, Lippincott, 1950.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
A collection of six stories by Woolrich under his well-known pseudonym 'William Irish'. The title story was the basis for the 1952 film Don't Ever Open That Door.
Detective Fiction
London, Faber & Faber, 1949.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9s6d.
Roy Vickers (1887-1965) was popular in Britain for mystery short-stories/novels.
![Harry Edmonds, The North Sea Mystery, first edition, [1930]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87396-300x300.jpg)
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Locke, [1930].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, publisher's number '304' to spine.
Classic inter-war era nautical thriller, from the author of The Death Ship (1933).
Detective Fiction
London, Collins, 1942.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The third adventure of wise-cracking crime reporter Tony Carter.
![Anthony Morton, Versus the Baron, first edition, [1940]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87394-300x300.jpg)
Detective Fiction
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, [1940].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
'The Baron Comes Back!'. When John Mannering ("The Baron") is offered a superb set of diamonds, he faces a dilemma...
Detective Fiction
London, John Murray, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The novel follows Wilfred Steadmore, an educated and qualified man employed as a courier for Butler's, a major travel agency. The narrative explores both his professional and personal life: his travels and dealings as a courier, and the turbulence of his marriage.
Detective Fiction
Wineham, Henfield, Sussex, Poynings Press, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Plain burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Protagonist Lemmy Caution heads to London in pursuit of a woman. The situation escalates, and he needs help from Scotland Yard. The final entry in the "Lemmy Caution" series.
Detective Fiction
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The plot involves the death of the Chinese ward of a well-known socialite and jade collector (Mrs. Allison), which brings under suspicion the Police Commissioner.
Detective Fiction
Burt (Michael, pseud. George Mattock Brookman Burt) The Case of the Fast Young Lady
London, Ward Lock, 1942.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
One of several novels by this author featuring his series character Roger Poynings.
London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Published in the US as Cheat the Hangman.
Detective Fiction
London, Werner Laurie, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s.6d.
A whodunit set against a hospital backdrop.
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Detective Fiction
London, Lincoln Williams, 1935.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 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 (as evidenced by the author's inscription on the frontispiece, and according to Hubin). Very scarce in a jacket.