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EIGHT MURDERS IN THE SUBURBS

by Vickers, Roy

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London, United Kingdom: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. First Edition. Very minor soiling to edges else a fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The U.S. edition, "Six Murders in the Suburbs " (Detective Book Club, 1958) omits two stories. Stories include: All Right on the Night ** ss/ The Case of the Perpetual Sneer [Insp. George Rason] **ss / A Fool and Her Money ; (Insp. George Rason] ** nv / The Hair Shirt [Insp. George Rason] **nv/ Little Things Like That [Insp. Peter Curwen] ** nv/ A Man and His Mother-in-Law (Insp. George Rason] ** nv / A Sentimental House Agent [Insp. George Rason] **ss. "It could happen in any normal English town . . .A young wife complains of her husband's fussy little habits; but trying to mend his ways leads to the gallows . . . A businessman with the best intentions befriends an elderly old woman, with no thought of robbing her - let alone killing her . . . A kind-hearted young man kisses a woman out of chivalry, leading to …Read more

NO ENTRY: A Tommy Hambledon Novel

by Coles, Manning

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London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. First edition. Publisher's Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering along the spine remains clear. Dust jacket has some light foxing at front with rear panel showing a moderate amount. Jacket is not price-clipped. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety? This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the collection of noted crime collector Gary Gorton. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

THREE LIGHTS WENT OUT

by Dean, Robert George

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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club, Inc By Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. First Edition, so stated. Original publisher's orange/yellow cloth covers with decorative black spine. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. Pat Thompson and Susan Barton, private investigators are drawn into this amazing case by a young lady's consuming desire for fruit. This appetite was in a peculiar way closely connected with the three uniquely patterned murders which followed the arrival of Pat an Susan at the Hastings estate on the Lake of the Loons. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the collection of noted crime collector Gary Gorton. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

WALTZ INTO DARKNESS

by Irish, William (Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich)

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N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1947. First Edition, so stated. Publisher's blue boards with burgandy lettering at spine and fronr. \Boards show some very light wear along spine head and foot, and light soiling. A fine, bright, crisp dust jacket, unclipped, $2.75 price. Beautiful copy. 1880's New Orleans. From "the supreme master of suspense"comes the chilling chronicle of one man’s descent into madness. (New York Times) When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he’s shocked that she doesn’t match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth, and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters, a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappe…Read more

MURDER WITH PICTURES: Author's First Crime Novel

by Coxe, George Harmon

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N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc: A Borzoi Book, 1935. First Edition, so stated. The author's first mystery. Dust jacket illustration by Salter. Publisher's original gray cloth, front and spine stamped in blue, top edge stained dark blue, with borzoi design to rear panel in blue stamped box, A little glue bleeding apparent on the endpapers, corners bumped, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners, else a very sharp copy of Coxe's first of many mysteries. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the auction of noted crime collector Gary Groton's collection. Coxe was named a Grand Master in 1964 by The Mystery Writers of America. In Kent Murdoch you have the maverick photographer with his ironclad, though outside conventions, code of ethics. You have multiple murders. You have a plethora of likely suspects. And of course you have the sassy but still at time vulnerable heroine. Kent Murdock gets mixed up in the killing of a defense attorney for a charming former bootlegger just ac…Read more

PROFILE OF A MURDER: A Lt. Valcour Title

by King, Rufus

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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. Publishers blac cloth with green lettering and design, small bookstore label at inside front cover, else a fine copy in dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 intact, although all four corners are very slightly trimmed. One small, closed tear at spine head else a fine, sharp jacket. An unusal title and even more so in this shape. The strangling of a wealthy woman at an opulent Andirondack estate brings Lt. Valcour to investigate. He knows immediately who committed the crime, but can he prove it? This copy, although not marked as such, originates from the auction of Gary Groton's noted crime collection.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, **ISSUE #1

by Lee, Stan

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Marvel Comics, 1963. First Edition, March 1963. First Printing,, First Character Appearance, Key Issue. Professional Graded by Certified Guaranty Company (CGC.) at 4.5. Silver Age (1956-69) Book featuring the following: First appearance of J. Jonah Jameson; First appearance of The Chameleon; First Fantastic Four Crossover and First Spider-man book in his own title. Origin retold. Slightly brittle pages, a couple of small staple holes at cover. Stan Lee story. Steve Ditko art. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko cover. Currently #7 on Overstreet's List of TOP 50 Silver Age Comics . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Illus. by Kirby, Jack and Steve Ditko. Comic.

MURDER A LA STROGANOFF

by Brahms, Caryl & S.J. Simon

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London, United Kingdom: Doubleday Crime Club, 1938. First edition. Publishers black cloth with titles and ballerina in green on spine and Crime Club gunman logo on front board. Previous owners small blind stamp at front and rear endpapers, Very light wear to edges, small smudge at front cover else a near fine, tight copy. Dust jacket unclipped, $2.00 price intact, all corners trimmed, very light wear to edges, small damp stain to blind side else a near fine, bright copy in protective mylar cover. Scarce (Nehr, Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991, page 133.) "Stroganoff has moved his ballet company to the Riviera and, with the profits from his notorious London season, has bought a casino, unaware that his old rival, Lord Buttonhooke, owns a much larger and more prosperous casino nearby. However the main source of concern to Stroganoff is Citrolo, the ballet critic, whose vitriolic reviews threaten to destroy Stroganoff's ballet company. Adam Quill has received an inheritance and retire…Read more

CRAIG KENNEDY LISTENS IN: Adventures of Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective

by Reeve, Arthur B

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N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First Edition, so stated. Pictorial dark blue cloth stamped in orange and light blue, near fine , previous owner's name at inside front cover, very minor wear along edges. Dust jacket is fine with just some light soiling at rear. A remarkably clean, crisp copy and very scarce in this condition. Six stories, 391 pages. Kennedy's creator, Arthur B. Reeve, was a professor of chemistry, and he infused his stories with a wealth of scientific knowledge, which fascinated readers and distinguished Kennedy from other detectives. Each case was a veritable laboratory of complex experiments and groundbreaking discoveries, making Kennedy a pioneer in the realm of forensic science. The stories were not merely tales of whodunit; they were explorations into the latest marvels of the scientific world, capturing the imagination of an audience eager for innovation and progress. Reeve's ingenuity turned Kennedy into a symbol of the era's faith in science and technology, a…Read more

THE TICKER TAPE MURDER with RARE WRAP-AROUND BAND

by Propper, Milton

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N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition, so stated. Previous owner's name at inside cover. Some mnor rubbing at spine edges and along bottom edges with corners bumped. Some loss of white lettering at spine otherwise a very good near fine copy in a beautiful dust jacket, no tears or creases and with the very rare wrap-around band for the Harper Sealed Mystery. "Philip Nixon is the president of American Motors, the biggest auto concern in the world. On the eve of cornering the US automobile market, his corpse is found on the train tracks. Sgt. Gilmore had been asked to act as a bodyguard to the financier. Fortunately, Gilmore was a passenger on the train that hit Nixon’s body...Milton M. Propper (1906-62) was an American devotee of Freeman Wills Crofts and Lynn Brock. The book is the American equivalent of Crofts: a methodical policeman, Detective Sergeant Gilmore and Tommy Rankin of the Philadelphia police-- not brilliant, [but] capable and thorough--, testing discrepancies and ch…Read more

PICK YOUR VICTIM

by McGerr, Patricia

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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1946. First edition, so stated. Dark blue cloth with whie lettering. Page edges lightly spotted, one small scratch at rear cover else about fine in fine, bright dust jacket, not price clipped, $2.00 intact, in protective mylar cover. Barzun and Taylor have listed in their 50 Classics of Crime Fiction (1900 - 1950.) Howard Haycraft says " To the best of my knowledge and belief, the plot twist in 'Pick Your Victim' is a really new angle on the detective story." The story opens amidst a group of Marines stationed in the Aleutians in 1944. One of them gets a care package from his mother. The Marines, desperate for reading material, smooth out the crumpled-up newspaper she had used to cushion the package, and read the articles for news from back home. One news article catches their eye-- "Paul Stetson Admits Guilt in Murder of SUDS Officer." One of the Marines used to work in the publicity department for SUDS (the Society to Uplift Do…Read more

THE MAY DAY MYSTERY: The First Jim Hanvey Novel

by Cohen, Octavus Roy

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N.Y.: D. Appleton & Co., 1929. First edition. Some wear along edges, corners bumped, spine edges rubbed, else very good in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped but all four corners are lightly clipped, else a fine dust jacket. This book marks the first appearance of Detective Jim Hanvey in a novel-length story. "Set in Alabama on the campus of a college not far from Birmingham The May Day Mystery starts off with an involved tale of a campus hotbed of unhealthy love affairs among a group of college friends and the cad named Paterson Thayer at the center of all the jealous rivalry. The first third of the book details a series of intersecting relationships, some of them very sexual, that have made Thayer the scorn of both men and women on the campus of Marland University. We learn that one woman was duped into marrying Thayer while at a football game in one of those silly bets that crazy, drunken college kids are known to indulge in. If the one team that appears to be losing wins, she must marry …Read more

MURDER IN MINIATURES

by Merwin, Jr., Sam

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Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1940. First edition, so stated. Dull turquoise with dark-green lettering at spine, very slight darkening at spine else a near fine copy in a beautiful dust jacket very lightly soiles at rear panel. " Old Russia and modern New York; a sophisticated debutramp and an enigmatic commissar from the Soviet Union; an advertising agency and a toy replica set of the army that repelled Napoleon"--these are just a few of the ingredients in Merwin's story of intrigue in the Big Apple. Michael Troop (Tropovsky) is co-owner of an advertising agency that's on the brink of landing some big clients--but then murder and international intrigue come knocking. Michael's estranged father was a Russian prince under the old czar and when his father is killed in Shanghai, Michael falls heir to all the trinkets and baubles that his father stashed in America with Michael's mother. Somewhere amongst those forgotten relics hidden in the family's basement is a t…Read more

MURDER IN THE WILLETT FAMILY: A Lt Valcour Title

by King, Rufus

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Garden City: NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1931. First edition, so stated. Black cloth with bright red lettering, top block edges dyed red, a fine copy in a beautiful dust jacket, with no rips or tears. A splendid copy. Unusual in that there is a 4 page insert on bright red paper giving a brief description and a location map! The 4th Lt. Valcour title. "An extortionist's note, demanding $20,000 in cash and threatening the kidnapping of Kate Willett's two mentally unbalanced sons, sent Lieutenant Valcour rushing up to the Willetts' Adirondacks camp. There, death struck with slashing suddenness while Valcour was talking to young Arthur Willett, who was sprawled on a sofa smoking a cigarette. Listening to the crackling roar of flames in the fireplace, Valcour detected the odor of burning cloth. He glanced at Arthur to find the cigarette lying in Arthur's lap and Arthur's chin slumped on his chest. Valcour rushed to his side and in stunned amazement stared at the dark mark where a bul…Read more

THE ALBATROSS MURDERS

by Jones, Inigo

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N.Y.: Mystery House, 1941. First edition. Spine somewhat darkened, else a near fine copy in beautiful dust jacket, uncredited. Scarce title in this good contition. Besides the book's mystery, Inigo Jones remains a mystery himself/herself. According to a Mystery House advertisement for The Albatross Murders, Inigo Jones is the pseudonym of a "writer of established literary reputation, one of whose short stories is included in Fifty Best Stories of the Last 25 Years, edited by Edward J. O’Brien." In all the subsequent years no one has beeb able to definitevily identify the author. " During ten months of the year Shrewsbury was - on the surface - a quiet little New England town; for two months it was something else again. For then the summer theatre brought its freight if small-time Broadway talent and amateur aspirants. Their jealousies and conflicts met in a fateful dovetail with conflicts and motives buried deep in Shrewsbury’s past. And so murder struck. One died i…Read more

HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA & WILD WIVES **SIGNED COPY / LIMITED EDITION**

by Willeford, Charles

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San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: RE/Search S.F. , 1987. First hardcover edition, thus. Photo Illustrated, contains two novels and a play in three-acts of High Priest of California. ["Wild Wives", was first published as a Beacon Paperback 1956; " High Priest of California", was published as a Royal Giant paperback in 1953]. Fine in dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine as usual. 1 of 250 copies [this being #161] SIGNED & NUMBERED by Willeford. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

WEIRD TALES: March 1938 Vol. 31, #3

by Quinn, Seabury with H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Thorp McClusky, Jack Williamson et al

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Indianapolis, IN: USA: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1938. Volume 31, Issue 3 - March 1938. Edited by Farnsworth Wright. Horror and Fantasy stories. 6.75-in. x 10-in.; 128 newsprint pages, text with B&W illustrations. Cover by Margaret Brudage. Virgil Finlay art. Contents can be seen in photo. Cover is bright and beautiful. One small cover tear that extends along spine and loosens cover, a few marginal creased tears along bottom, nonetheless an exceptional volume. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Brundage, M. (cover). 6.75" x 10". Magazine.

MURDER AT BRATTON GRANGE: Dr. Priestley

by Rhode, John (pseudonym of Cecil John Charles Street)

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. First U.S. Edition. [ British title: The Davidson Case, Bles, 1929]. Orange cloth covers are worn at edges, spine is darkened, covers soiled, and rear cover stained but an overall very good copy. "John Rhode’s (Major Street’s) latest detective story, The Davidson Case, (US Title: Murder at Bratton Grange) is an unusual product for two reasons: its climax begins to evolve at the point where it is the unwritten rule for ordinary detective stories to end -- at the apprehension of the criminal; and it expresses the author’s view, on a much-debated question arising from a certain type of crime, while at the same time illustrating a power of appeal to sentiment which none of his previous books even hinted at. Another intriguing feature of the story is that it involves two murders – an actual murder, and a "shadow" murder staged to eclipse the real murder -- so cleverly intertwining that it is nigh impossible for the average reader to…Read more

THE KOLCHAK PAPERS #1: THE NIGHT STALKER

by Rice, Jeff

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Massapequa Park, NY: Cinemaker Press, 1993. Originally published by Pocket Books, 1973, as a paperback novelisation of the 1972 vampire tv film THE NIGHT STALKER with screenplay by Richard Matheson. This is the First Hardcover edition, thus the strange "second edition, first printing" label at copyright page. Only other copy I know of also has that designation. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Very Scarce. (Carl Kolchak; Las Vegas, NV] Four Gorgeous Girls, Their Bodies Drained of BloodIn Las Vegas even the kinkiest crimes don't cause much stir. Everyone's used to it. But now women are lying in alleys, gutters, and parking lots-their bodies drained of blood! Is it possible? A vampire stalking the Las Vegas streets?. First Hardcover. Hardcover. As New/As New. Illus. by Barnes, Kevin. Book.

THE VANISHED: A Nameless Detective Mystery **SIGNED COPY**

by Pronzini, Bill

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London: UK: Robert Hale, 1974. 1st British edition. Fine in dust jacket, unclipped, £ 1.90net intact. A very sharp copy of the second novel in Pronzini's Nameless Detective series. San Francisco, CA. Very scarce copy of an early "Nameless" title. SIGNED boldy by Pronzini at front endpaper. His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful Fiancee. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then he disappeared.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

THE ELK AND THE EVIDENCE: A Reverend Martin Buell Mystery

by Scherf, Margaret

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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1952. First Edition, so stated. Publishers orange weave cloth with green lettering. Pages are age toned else about fine in dust jacket, $2.50 price intact, small closed tear at rear, soiled at rear panel and lightly sunned at spine. Very scarce title. Dust jacket illustration by Vera Bock. Although accustomed to many unusual presents from his parishioners, the Reverend Martin Buell, an Episcopal rector in Farrington, Montana, was slightly nonplussed when he unwrapped a gift elk roast and discovered in the package a neatly severed human toe. Then a visiting hunter was reported missing in the neighborhood, and the Reverend had a hunch that the two incidents might be connected. Mystery multiplied with the sudden appearance of a strange but attractive young woman who had seen a dead man in a Pullman berth. And oddly enough her description of the corpse coincided with that of the missing hunter. As Martin pursued his private investigations of variant clues, he la…Read more

THE DOORS OPEN

by Gilbert, Michael

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London: UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. First edition, so stated, April 1949. Cover illustration by Bip Pares. Publisher's original blue cloth, with black titles to spine and front, slight spean, lean else near fine. Dust jacket shows light rubbing to folds, two small pieces out at spine foot, and one at head of spine with shallow loss at head. Rear panel moderately soiled with one tiny piece out. Not price-clipped (8/6 net to the front flap). A very scarce title. The crime writer's third novel, an Inspector Hazelrigg mystery. Generally regarded as 'one of the elder statesmen of the British crime writing fraternity', he was a founder-member of the British Crime Writers' Association and in 1988 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1994 he received The Diamond Dagger Award which is awarded for Lifetime Achievement, . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Pares, Bip. Book.

DIAGNOSIS: HOMICIDE; The Casebook of Dr. Coffee **SIGNED CARD** [A QUEEN'S QUORUM TITLE]

by Blochman, Lawrence G

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1950. Stated first edition. Cloth is edgeworn, corners bumped, spine head beginning to fray in dust jacket, edgeworn, especially at corners and spine, not price clipped, $2.50 price intact, rear panel soiled. SIGNED LAWRENCE G. BLOCHMAN CARD LAID IN. The first collection of Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee, and his Hindu assistant, Dr. Mootilal Mookerji, stories, A QUEEN'S QUORUM selectin as one of the 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories. Queen states: "The outstanding book of short stories in 1950 was a perfect example of the contemporary blend of medical-mystery-and-scientific-detection. you meet Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee, a hospital pathologist, whose chief criminological weapons are modern laboratory procedures-- in pathology, chemistry, serology, microscopy, and toxicology." Winner of the MWA's Edgar Award in 1950, for Best Short Story. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

THE OWL IN THE CELLAR

by Scherf, Margaret

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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1945. First edition. September 6, 1945. Wartime slim volume. Publishers turquoise cloth with black lettering. A very thin ban tanned along bottom of covers, pencil notation at front end paper, else a very good, tight copy. dust jacket is chipped at spine head and foot, spine edge rubbed, a few closed tears with some creasing, but a good-very good copy of a remakably difficult tile to find in any dust jacket. "Humourous overtones and murderous undertones make an excitiong mystery story" -- jacket blurb. 203 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-Very Good. Book.
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