Search Results: Locked Room from Murder By The Book

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2008. 1st prtg. Fine, unread copy of trade paperback, still in shrinkwrap. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! Four plays written during the early 1940s, two by John Dickson Carr alone and two in collaboration with the BBC's Val Gielgud. "Inspector Silence Takes the Air" is set during World War II at emergency BBC studios in a provincial town. There, a murder takes place - and the weapon disappears. In "13 to the Gallows", also set in a BBC studio, a woman falls to her death from a tower - it is murder, but no one is near her, and the only clue is a scattering of Arum Lilies. "Intruding Shadow" is filled with mysteries within mysteries, as Carr expertly shifts the audience's expectations from one suspect to another. "She Slept Lightly" features the ghostly appearances of a young woman during the Napoleonic Wars. The book concludes with an alternate ending for one of the plays, cast lists, and contemporary reviews… Read More

Naperville, IL, U.S.A.: Sourcebooks Inc,, 2018. Fine, as new copy of Trade Paperback. A murder mystery novel inspired by Agatha Christie with a dash of Groundhog Day and a hint of Quantum Leap and Downton Abbey. Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked-room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race against time to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem. Highly praised debut novel...Costa First Novel AWARD WINNER; One of Guardian's Best Books of the Year; One of Buzzfeed's 17 Mystery Books You… Read More

N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1932. 1st edition. Yellow cloth shows some soiling otherwise a good, tight copy with very little wear. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY, Adey #2. Laid in is a laminated copy of the dust jacket reduced so as to be used as a bookmark. The book is now housed in a home-made acetate dust wrapper. "The circus was playing Madison Square Garden and Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt was there looking into some "accidents" that had befallen the troupe and led to one death. Some of the star acts had received letters warning them not to perform opening night, which happened to be Friday the Thirteenth. All the artists insisted they would go on anyway. "The Queen of The Air," Josie LaTour plunges to her death from the high rings and it doesn't take Colt long to figure it's murder. The suspects are many. From the husband, family finances are tight and she has a big insurance policy, to the catcher in the act who has loved for years, since before she married her… Read More

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. 1st Grosset reprint edition. Orange cloth covers show some wear at extremeties, very lightly soiled else a very good - near fine copy, in home-made acetate dust wrapper. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey #4. "Thatcher Colt tries a new kind of informer, one with a link to the Great Beyond. Mrs. Lynn, a medium, claims she heard the "voice" of a young dead girl whose body has allegedly been cut to pieces then sunk. Fraud? That's what Colt (and the reader) think at first, but both have to reconsider their opinion when the corpse turns up right where Mrs. Lynn - oh, sorry, Madeline Swift - told us it was. Despite its paranormal overtones, "Startled Lady" reads rather like an early procedural. Realism, at least by Golden Age standards, is the greatest strength of this book. Abbot obviously did a lot of research on forensics and procedures, providing a sometimes fascinating testimony on police methods in the thirties. But this realism is also… Read More

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Locked Room mystery. While on a weekend visit at an English country estate, Charles Honebath finds a body in the library, which later disappears. The secret to the mystery is in the contents of the library.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Advance copy with photo of Innes laid in along with Publisher's sheet. Locked Room mystery. While on a weekend visit at an English country estate, Charles Honebath finds a body in the library, which later disappears. The secret to the mystery is in the contents of the library.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Vancleave: MS, USA: Ramble House, 2022. 3rd printing. Lighty used trade paperback [Originally pub. UK: Ward, 1948] Adey #162, "Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes: A Comprehensive Bibliography, Revised and Expanded": Crossover Press, 1991. When Detective-Inspector Lancelot Carolus Smith finds a puzzling case he seems to find three of them at a time. This time, all three are real puzzlers. (1) How did someone steal the priceless Bishop's Sword from the hermetically sealed glass case? (2) How did a man who was in jail visit a police official at night at his home? And (3) how did seven men enter the one-exited cave and only six come out? Norman Berrow is a master of creating suspenseful mysteries with apparently impossible solutions and Ramble House is very proud to bring him back into print after fifty or more years.. Later Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Little, Brown, 1995. 1st ed. . Fine in dj. A Sir John Fielding title, the celebrated magistrate of the Bow St. Court & co-founder of the Runners. 1760's. LOCKED ROOM.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Peter Diamond, head of the Bath murder squad is involved in a locked room mystery. A BARRY AWARD WINNER for Best Novel; A SILVER DAGGER AWARD WINNER and MACAVITY AWARD WINNER.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Winner.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in very good dust jacket rubbed at edges, light wear at spine head and foot. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1985. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket, very lightly rubbed at edges, one small closed tear at rear. SIGEND boldly by Pronzini. A Nameless Detective mystery. thirty-five years ago, Harmon Crane, king of the classic pulp writers, took his own life in his locked study. Nameless is hired by his son to find out why. Unconvinced that his efforts will unearth any new answers, Nameless still can't resist the chance to delve in his favorite world, that of pulp fiction and its creators.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: Saint Martin's Press, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dj. Medieval mystery featuring Hugh Corbett. The Brothers of the abbey of St. Martin's in-the-marsh usually pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen. But then Abbot Stephen is murdered in his chamber, with the door and windows locked from the inside.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Headline, 2001. 1st ed., complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Doherty at title page. Medieval mystery featuring Hugh Corbett. The Brothers of the abbey of St. Martin's in-the-marsh usually pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen. But then Abbot Stephen is murdered in his chamber, with the door and windows locked from the inside.... Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback (originally published in 1938). Twenty-five years ago John Farnleigh, the heir to the baronetcy of Mallingford and Sloane, then a young and wild boy exiled to America, survived the sinking of the Titanic. It's now 1937, two years after he returned to England to claim his inheritance. Only is he really the heir? Another man has just shown up also claiming to be John Farnleigh, explaining that, as boys, the two men switched identities as the ship was sinking. The key to solving the mystery lies with an old set of fingerprints taken by young Farnleigh's tutor. But before the two men's fingerprints can be compared one member of the household has his throat cut in plain sight by an unseen hand. Everyone is pretty certain the crime isn't the work of a ghost. Odder yet, the victim is the last person one would expect to be murdered. Fortunately, Dr. Gideon Fell, an amateur sleuth with… Read More

Cleveland: Ohio: World Publishing Co., 1942. First Tower Printing, September 1942. Adey #751 / Locked Room-Impossible Crime. Pages age toned and a small stain on a few of the first pages, covers rubbed, corners bumped, small synopsis pasted at inside front cover, overall very good copy in a home-made acetate jacket.. 1st Prtg. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book.

Old Tappan, NJ, U.S.A.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. 1st ed. very light wear at edges, stains at inside covers and eps, else very good in near fine dj. Adey #1242. (Locked room title). 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Grosset & Dunlap edition [n.d.] 1930. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey # 1770. Some wear along edges, tiny piece out at head of spine, else very good+ in dust jacket, worn along edges, small 1"x1" sticker tear at front, some loss at head and foot of spine.in plastic cover. "There are several mysteries about the shooting of Gilbert Dexter in San Francisco. Would his brother, Bob, have shot him? Would Bob have managed only to wound him at point-blank range? Were the French windows open or locked? Why were there two revolvers in the room? Further and deeper puzzlement develops when the next-door neighbors are found dead in their locked room with no sign of foul play and no explanation of their deaths. Since the head of the Dexter family is a retired judge, the authorities investigate the shooting in a gingerly manner, and, so it would seem, there is not much involvement by the police in the locked-room case. Fortunately, Bezaleel Lucky,… Read More

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st printing. Fine, unread, new copy of the trade paperback [originally pub. in 1940 and very scarce]. Professor Westborough has to find the key to two locked room mysteries as well as solve a complicated cipher to catch a clever killer. When Jonas Wright, a print shop owner and collector of antique weapons, is found slain by his own Gothic halberd in the locked weapons room of his Chicago mansion, Lieutenant Jolnmy Mack knows it's a case that is right up his best friend's alley. So he calls upon Lucius Theocritus Westborough, the little man with the long name and even longer reputation, to help him investigate. The culprit could well be a member of the dead man's household, and Mack favors his lovely daughter, Madeleine Wright, who's hopelessly in love with her father's partner, suave and sophisticated Julian Carr. But Julian is already married, to a selfish heiress who refuses to live with him, and Madeleine is being pursued by… Read More

New York: International Polygonics, LTD, 1987. First prining October 1987, with complete number line beginning with 1. Cover lightly sunned, else a near fine, tight copy. Paperback Original. 553 pages. This anthology contains 24 "stories," 22 of which are narrative fiction ("The First Locked Room" is a reconstruction of a true crime by Lillian de la Torre, and "The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds" is a radio play by Ellery Queen). A few of its stories have frequently been reprinted elsewhere (Wilkie Collins's "A Terribly Strange Bed," G. K. Chesterton's "The Invisible Man," and Clayton Rawson's "Off the Face of the Earth"), but most of them will be new to most readers. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback Original.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1978. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine , price clipped dust jacket. Adey #1242. (Locked room title). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.