Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original maroon cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/-.
A very good first edition of the further adventures of Goodchild's most famous character, Inspector McLean.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/-.
A very good copy of this Inspector McLean title by prolific author Goodchild.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward Lock, 1935
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket priced at 3/6 on front flap and also has tell tale 3 digits on spine indicating a slightly later issue.
Hubin listed title featuring the author's regular detective Insepctor Mclean and his rather fuller-witted assistant Sergeant Brook
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/-.
Non-stop Inspector McLean - what more could you ask for?
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
A rather lovely copy of this non-McLean title by Goodchild.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Excellent jacket artwork on this the last criminous title by Goodwin; a fugitive tale and a rare book in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Putnam, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket,
Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of deaths climaxing in that of an oil magnate.
![Bruce Graeme, Blackshirt, first edition, [1925]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/84608-300x300.jpg)
Detective Fiction
London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1925].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
The notoriously difficult first edition of the first book in the Blackshirt series, by a founding member of the Crime Writer's Association. Despite the chipping, the upper panel with its wonderful artwork is intact.
London, Hutchinson, [1937].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, early issue priced 3/6.
A very good first edition, in early jacket, of what is widely held to be one of the best shipboard murder-mysteries ever written. By the author the original 'Blackshirt' books.
London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd (Ernest Benn Ltd), 1927 [but 1928?]..
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, second impression (stated, and priced 3s.6d., with Benn imprint to spine).
The second of the author's famous 'Blackshirt' series, nothing to do with Oswald Mosley (or Rodney Spode), rather a 'Raffles'-esque character, author by day, cracksman by night. Early issues of the first and second titles are both known scarcities, especially in the jacket. The book itself has no impression indicated, suggesting it is the first; however, the list of works by the same author facing the title-page includes Passion, Murder and Mystery, which was not published until 1928 (BL). Benn & Fisher Unwin merged in 1926, and this title seems to have been absorbed into Benn's 3/6 Library in 1928 or 1929.
The last time this title surfaced at auction was in 2019, when it made $1875.
Detective Fiction
London, Harrap, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first mystery written under the pseudonym "David Graeme", introducing Raoul de Rohan, an ancestor of the later Blackshirt character that first appeared in 1925.
Detective Fiction
Gray (Berkeley) [Brooks (Edwy Searles)] Six Feet of Dynamite
First edition, Collins, 1941. Edwy Searles Brooks was a UK novelist who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Berkeley Gray and Victor Gunn. This is a rare work from his canon. From the library of Anthony Lejeune.
Detective Fiction
First edition, London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Rare London Knopf imprint, in the remarkable striking dust-jacket designed by Shaw.
Detective Fiction
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
'Takes us from Australia to Hollywood and provides us with plenty of exciting and hilarious incident in addition to a romance that has a proper ending.'
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, [1939].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, 7/6.
That "debonair, monocled dude of South Africa", the Major, is back.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, [1934].
First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 to inside front flap with later price-sticker of 1/- to spine.
A decent first edition of this story set in South Africa, by a British author who spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original mustard yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A splendid first edition of this romantic novel about a young musical protégé's adventures.
Detective Fiction
London, Philip Allan, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
A collection of short stories, drawn from the case-book of Gribble's series character Superintendent Anthony Slade.
Detective Fiction
Gunn (Victor, pseud. Edwy Searles Brooks, aka Berkeley Gray) Ironsides Smahes Through.
London, Collins, 1940
First edition. 8vo. 3pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7'6.
A very good first edition of this Ironsides title, distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Victor Gunn was one of several pseudonyms for Edwy Brooks, alongside his perhaps more well-known moniker 'Berkeley Gray'.
Detective Fiction
Gunn (Victor, pseud. Edwy Searles Brooks, aka Berkeley Gray) Three Dates with Death
London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d.
A pleasing first edition of the twelfth novel in the author's "Ironsides" Cromwell series.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London. Columbine Publishing Company, [?1940]
This is the correct first issue wrapper and rare as such. Titles published by this publisher are sought after due to their lurid jacket art of which this is a great example
Detective Fiction
Hale (Christopher, pseud. Frances Moyer Stevens) Stormy Night.
A Detective Story London, Heinemann, 1937. First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket. A woman dead in the sleet at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, with two bullets in her body, but only one wound...
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1930].
Third edition (stated). Small 8vo. Original cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 2/- and stating '5th Thousand'.
An early edition of this collaboration between the Hanshews, scarce in the original dust-jacket - with artwork by the illustrator Joseph Abbey.
Detective Fiction
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
Maths meets murder in this crime fiction debut by an American author.
Detective Fiction
London, Cassell, [1886].
First edition. 8vo. 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, dated '3 G. 8.86'.
A creative and productive author, Julian Hawthorne never sadly quite lived up to the literary pedigree inherited from his father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, but his fiction is engaging and often incorporates the sort of weird and sci-fi elements on which later subgenre fiction was predicated. This novel sees the author dallying rather with crime fiction, including mob-like figures, a bank robbery and the curse of opium addiction...
Detective Fiction
London, Cassell, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An intriguing psychological thriller by the author & philosopher H.F. Heard, author of The Ascent of Humanity (1929).
Detective Fiction
Heller (Frank, pseud. Gunnar Serner) The Thousand and Second Night,
An Arabesque
London, Williams & Norgate, 1926.
First English edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
First English edition, translated from the Swedish. Cleverly combines modern mystery with an Arabian Night's kind of vibe.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An uncommon detective fiction title by the author most well-known for her historical romances, one of only eleven she wrote in this genre.
Ernest Fletcher's butler, his nephew Neville, and Helen North provide conflicting evidence about his untimely demise in a London suburb. Then a second murder is committed, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case.
Detective Fiction
Holt (Gavin, pseud. Percival Charles Rodda) Drums Beat at Night
London, Hodder & Sttoughton, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
Drums beat at night...and Professor Bastion hears the echo on Hampstead Heath (jacket)
Detective Fiction
Holt (Gavin, pseud. Percival Charles Rodda) Murder at Marble Arch
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
An very good first edition of one of Holt's best books.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Uncommon Horler title, especially in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Hubin-listed detective fiction title, scarce in the original dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Mid-period Horler, distinctly uncommon in such condition.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
An excellent first edition of this Horler title, rare in such condition.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
A collection of four criminous short stories listed in Hubin, the eponymous first of which concerns the battle between Sir Harker Bellamy, the famous secret service chief known as ‘The Mole’ and The Priest’ a daring and resourceful foreign spy and plotter.
Rare in such a well preserved jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [c.1934].
First edition, "6th thousand". 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Three tales by this master of excitement, uncommon in the dust-jacket with cool photographic artwork.