Dealy Trap; Wait for What Will Come; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Hugh Pentecost: A pen name of Judson Philips, a man of many detectives. Under both names, Philips published over 100 books, most of which were in one of eight different series. The largest series featured Pierre Chambrun with 23 books. In spite of all these series, almost a quarter of his books were stand-alone novels. This is the eighth of sixteen Julian Quist novels.

Barbara Michaels: This is another pseudonym used by Barbara Mertz, better known as Elizabeth Peters. As Michaels, she is known for Gothic and supernatural thrillers. Mertz wrote 29 novels as Michaels, 39 as Peters, and one nonfiction book under her real name. Mertz died in 2013.

Michael Dibdin: A British writer of mysteries, Dibdin produced a total of nineteen novels, eleven in the Aurelio Zen series. Dibdin's writing career spanned four decades, from 1978 until his death in 2007.

This volume has a series of mathematical calculations penciled inside front cover as an added bonus. It alsio appears to have been printed using three different types of paper, yielding a striped appearacne to the ends from variations in yellowing over the past 42 years.