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, 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.
Thriller Fiction
Chase (James Hadley, pseud. René Lodge Brabazon Raymond) Believe this… You’ll Believe Anything
London, Robert Hale, 1975.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Thriller Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1955.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1973.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1956.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
London, Robert Hale, 1977.
First hardback edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
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, 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
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
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.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
'Being four strange stories from the casebook of Dr. Miles Pennoyer, Psychic Doctor. Recorded by his friend and occasional assistant Jerome Latimer.'
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.
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
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, 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
London, Robert Hale, 1974.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1979.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1968.
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1972.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1978.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1974.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1973.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.70.
The thirteenth McGee title sends the detective to Costa Rica coastlines, investigating contraband and political upheaval under a deceptively soft, tropical-sounding title.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1977.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1970.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1976.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Lawrence's historical novel is a fictionalised biography of the Egyptian pharaoh-queen Hatshepsut. The author compares Hatshepsut to Elizabeth I.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1959.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
An attractive crime fiction title by the authors of the Encyclopedia of Superstitions.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Great jacket artwork on this crime fiction title by the authors of the Encyclopedia of Superstitions.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1974.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1975.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1974.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1974.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1976.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1976.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Disaster Story
London, Robert Hale, 1977.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1976.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Robert Hale, 1976.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Dust-jacket.