Collins Crime Club first editions and other rare books published for the Collins Crime Club series. Including works by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Hulbert Footner and Anthony Gilbert.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A scarce wartime Crime Club first edition. Farjeon was known for his keen humour and flashing wit but he also used sinister and terrifying storylines quite freely.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Christie's wartime spy thriller and the third outing for Tommy & Tuppence Beresford (after The Secret Adversary, 1922, and Partners in Crime, 1929). A dying British agent's cryptic clue sends Tommy and Tuppence to the seaside guesthouse Sans Souci in pursuit of two German fifth-columnist masterminds, "N" and "M."
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Room Number Six (Crime Club no. 211 in the series) is a chase-and-romance mystery in prolific author Farjeon's characteristically Hitchcockian vein.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1937.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth.A solid Collins Crime Club first UK edition. Campbell (1887–1955) was a suffragist & socialist in New York, relocating to Paris then England; she published nineteen detective novels between 1928 and 1950, several with French settings, and has been revived in recent years by Dean Street Press.
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, 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, 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, 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.
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.
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, Collins Crime Club, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1968.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1969.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1965.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1965.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1965.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Wainwright's debut novel, introducing Superintendent Gilliant.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, July, 1950.
First edition, fourth impression. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
In Cards on the Table, the enigmatic Mr. Shaitana invites eight guests to a dinner party: four detectives—Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, and mystery writer Ariadne Oliver—and four individuals Shaitana subtly suggests have committed murder undetected.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1935.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown cloth.
Aeronautical crime-thriller featuring King's series character Michael Lord, investigating murder aboard a transcontinental flight. An intricate plot combined with "locked room" element, the mystery was praised by The New York Times as "a very thrilling story." Very much in the S.S. Dine vein, and one of only seven genre titles recorded by this author.
Detective Fiction
Macdonald (Ross, pseud. Kenneth Millar) The Far Side of the Dollar
London, Collins Crime Club, 1965.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
Private detective Lew Archer investigates the kidnapping of a troubled teen, uncovering familial secrets and greed.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
An English country village is disturbed by the drowning of a young local girl, secretary to the woman who occupies the role of lady of the manor - the local police are baffled, leading to Inspector Arnold of the Yard being called in.
Detective Fiction
featuring Miss Marple
London, Collins Crime Club, 1964.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
Miss Marple travels abroad, but inevitably trouble still finds her.
Detective Fiction
Ford (Leslie, pseud. Zenith Jones Brown) The Town Cried Murder
London, Collins Crime Club, [1939].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth.
Lovely Faith Yardley's betrothal to a man from the north is abruptly followed by murder—and more murder.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1944.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Jocular Ellie McKay, of the Yard, and his book-selling friend Gilkison, happen in on the murder of a cussed old codger, bibliomaniac Hatt Baildon.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1962.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An appealing first edition of this Miss Marple staple.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, [1939].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth.
An automobile accident strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture - and a family feud over a prize bull.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1968.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
The first UK edition of the author's third "cat" murder-mysteries.
Detective Fiction
A Police Diversion
London, Collins Crime Club, 1950.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
A good example of this incredibly versatile writer's detective fiction, featuring his series character Chief Detective Inspector McKay.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A very good first edition of this tale of international intrigue and deadly peril.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket,
The first edition of the Scottish author's first novel, featuring former CID detective David Stanners. Uncommon in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1942.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.
A compelling murder mystery set amongst the old sugar plantations of Louisiana. Uncommon.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1970.
Uncorrected proof copy. 8vo. Original wrappers. Dust-jacket, ?price-clipped.
Collins proofs are distinctly uncommon.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1958.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s6d.
Architecture + murder = classic stuff.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An uncommon first edition, featuring Marsh's series character Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A very good UK first edition of this Asey Mayo novel.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, n.d..
Collins 2/- issue. 12mo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
A neat early edition of this Agatha Christie classic.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1948.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
An interesting collaboration, recounting the misadventures of a Jekyll & Hyde New York socialite.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1935.
Sixth impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 2/6.
Classic Dr Priestley territory here courtesy of genre master Rhode.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Stage school murder; an uncommon Collins Crime Club, by a former director of Methuens, no less.