266 pp. Diagonal crease to front cover. Else near fine. Text clean. Subtitle: The first collection of detective soties (1827) in English. Author unknown; some critics believe it could be either Thomas Skinner Surr or Thomas Gaspey. Introduction by E.F. Beleiler with details about early police work in London. B Size: 4to 10.25 in. Tall View More...
256 pp. Spine moderately slanted, binding firm. Clean yellow cloth, no markings in text. A suspense tale about a boy who is a royal heir in the Mideast who comes to the United States for heart surgery. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall View More...
522 pp. Nearly new, no markings. A collection of 23 detective stories with various pre-1900 historical backdrops. Contributors include Elizabeth Peters, Herodotus, Peter Tremayne, John Dickson Carr, and Adrian Conan Doyle. Foreword by Ellis Peters. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
349 pp. Collection of 20 stories by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Banks, Thomas Lynch and Jeremiah Healy. Virtually new, no markings. View More...
Corners rubbed, spine bumped, some fading. No markings. With frontispiece. An anthology of juvenile suspense stories, including "Peril on the Gorge" "Wailing Waters" and "The Phantom Moth," by Hugh B. Cave. View More...
312 pp. Nearly new, spine uncreased. Inscribed to "Katie, who enjoys a good mystery" and dated 2014. A detective story about a prostitute who is stabbed to death in the manner of the Jack-the-ripper murders in 1888 London. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In. View More...
248 pp. Nearly new, no markings. Firm binding, light toning. Nick Carter becomes a reporter in an effort to foil a neutron bomb plot in Australia. Cover shows Nick in red turtleneck with a revolver in his hand and missiles in background. Part of the Killmaster series. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
209 PP. Light spine edgewear. Author's logo in blue on grey cloth on front cover, Borzoi logo on rear cover. Previous owner's decorative book plate on front endpaper with name blacked out. Date in small ink letters along gutter of front endpaper. Text still bright. Another Kent Murdoch mystery in which the news photographer-sleuth pursues the murder of reporter Ralph Stacy. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall View More...
195 pp. Bookstore stamp on preliminary page, otherwise no markings. Text has rippling, spine uncreased. The tale opens with the discovery of the bodies of a middle-aged husband and wife in the dunes and then backtracks into the circumstances that led to their demise. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
650 pp. Close to new, small slash mark on top edge near spine. Lightly thumbed. Index. 16 pp. glossy b&w photos. Crisp and square. With introduction by his daughter,Josephine Hammett Marshall, and a preface by Layman, his biographer. Hundreds of letters gathered from relatives and friends of the deceased master of the hardboiled detective story. Many were directed to his immediate family but a large number were written to Lillian Hellman, longtime friend and mistress. Hammett is open about his many flaws, including drinking, and his experiences with Hollywood's blacklist against leftists. Size... View More...
11 stories and features. 112 browned pages. Tattered cover, binding still strong. Cover art shows man in fedora firing a handgun. Includes 3 "novelets -- " "At Arm's Length"by Erle Stanley Gardner; 'Pat and Mike and Murder" by William Brandon, and "Laugh, Clowns!" by Hugh B. Cave. Also a special feature by J. Edgar Hoover, "Problems of Law Enforcement. View More...
153 pp. Light chipping of cover. Spine creased. Text clean. Marketed as a free bonus book, companion to "Lullaby." Size: 12mo -- 7 in Tall View More...
344 pp. Bright orange cloth is faded on spine. Titling only, no designs on cover. Light rubbing on edges. Inside cover is stamped "Public Library Newfield -- Maine" but the copy has no other ex-library stampings or pastings. Frontis illustration showing a gravestone epitaph is starting to detach Title page opyright page lists a Dodd, Mead copyright of 1933. Actual printing and binding done at Grady Bookbinding in NY. 39th tale in the Dr. Thorndyke medical-legal detective series. In this case, Thorndyke assists an American in a probate case involving the challenged estate of English Earl Winsbo... View More...
278 pp., plus advertising matter. 28 preliminary pages giving an introduction and a Gaboriau bibliography by editor E.F. Bleiler. Text clean. Corners thumbed. Spine uncreased. Light bump on fore edge of cover, pushing in a few pages of text. Novel first published in 1869. Young detective Lecoq solves his first murder case. Size: 8vo --8.5 In. View More...
220 pp. Text yellowed, Corner creases. Binding OK. Cover shows a blonde in a negligee entering a room with a gunman behind the door. Rear cover is headlined "Drunken banker picked up with girl hitchhiker." Size: 12mo -- 6.25 in Tall View More...
164 pp. Edge chipping, light toning. spine creased, but binding still firm. An old-school Chicago reporter is bludgeoned to death. Others at his newspaper know something about the murder that is being blamed on a black messianic group. Written by Granger under the Joe Gash pseudonym. Size: 12mo -- 6.75 in Tall View More...
337 pp. Nearly new, no markings except initials in ink on corner of front free endpaper. Slight wrinkling and bumping of dj edges at spine. A prequel to Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon. Gores imagines the early years of Sam Spade's work as a detective. Gores wrote a biography of Hammett and has won 3 Edgar Awards. Size: 8vo -- 9 in Tall View More...
213 pp. Water stain at bottom inch of spine and part of bottom board. Faint trace of same stain in bottom margin near joint of several pages. Overall, text clean, no markings. Small blue dot on end paper. Jacket has a few chips and small tears on spine edges and along lower edge of front panel. Mylar protector. Binding firm. Jacket art shows outline of woman's head above a pool of blood in a body of water. A Michael Shayne mystery about a woman who does not have $10,000 to give a blackmailer, so she sends her valuable pearl necklace to the blackmailer via Shayne. Later, her maid is murdered a... View More...
285 pp. Fresh tight copy, no markings, virtually new. In this first novel by Hautman, a gambler is drawn into intrigue in Minneapolis involving con artists and a comic book investment fraud. View More...
