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Service Of All The Dead
Colin Dexter
New York: St Martins Pr, 1980.
Price: $12.50
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The White Priory Murders
Dickson, Carter
New York: Morrow, 1934.
Price: $25.00
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The Long-Legged Fly: A Crime Novel
James Sallis
New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1992.
Price: $12.50
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The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution, and Other Fictions
Westlake, Donald E.
New York: Random House, 1968.
Price: $15.00
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Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat
William John Burley
New York: Walker & Co, 1975.
Price: $10.00
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Fen County: Twenty-Six Stories
Crispin, Edmund
London: Gollancz, 1979.
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Crooked Man (signed first ediiton)
Tony Dunbar
New York: Putnam, 1994.
Price: $15.00
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City of Beads (signed first edition)
Tony Dunbar
New York: Putnam, 1996.
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First editon (stated). Black cloth printed in green. Very good. In the original dust jacket with striking design by Arthur Hawkins, lacking nearly one half of the spine strip and with a small hole in the front panel.
For Sale--Murder (A Mystery League title in original dust jacket)
Levinrew, Will
New York: Mystery League, 1932.
Price: $15.00
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First edition. Black cloth with spine lettered in red. 249 pp. Madison City District Attorney Doug Selby becomes involved in a midnight hit-and-run and characters that include a police chief "with the instincts of a depraved rat", a strange couple from New Orleans and a female hitch=hiker. A tight fine example and a correct first edition but wrapped in a vintage dust jacket with the Grosset & Dunlap imprint on the spine; jacket has a chip at the head of the spine and some rubbing down the spine strip. . An odd marriage but attractive.
The D.A. Cooks a Goose (in original dust jacket)
Gardner, Erle Stanley
New York: Morrow, 1942.
Price: $30.00
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Hardcover in black cloth stamped in red. Early reprint (probably 1943 or 1944). Perry Mason investigates the case of a rich gold deposit in one of California's Lost Mines. Very good, 1944 Christmas gift inscription fron t free endpaper. In the original dust jacket, chip to the top front corner and narrow loss at the head and foot of the spine.
The Case of The Drowsy Mosquito : A Perry Mason Story (in original dust jacket)
Gardner, Erle Stanley
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943.
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Hardcover. 302 pp. Wartime reprint edition. Young woman--Perry and Della call her a "hell-kitten"--retains Perry Mason to investigate the murder of her guardian. A tight, near fine example, pages embrowned as usual with these chaep war-time editions. In the color illustrated dust jacketvery good with light waer at tyhe spine ends and one tip.
The Case of The Sulky Girl : A Perry Mason Mystery (in original dust jacket)
Gardner, Erle Stanley
New York: Triangle, 1944.
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Hradcover in black cloth. 291 pp. Reprint edition. "... breathless and absorbing international spy story writte with a pace as speedy as the morning's news of dictators and prime ministers..." Fine in the original, vintage dust jacket, very good with some rubbing at the folds and a small chip lower corner.
The Nine Waxed Faces (in original dust jacket)
Beeding, Francis
New York: Books, Inc., 1946.
Price: $20.00
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Hardcover in red cloth lettered in black. 298 pp. Vintage thriller of 48-hours in the life of army intelligence ace Captain Hugh North and his tussle with a Chinese detective, Ruby Braufield, a China coaster whose game was men, money and murder, and General Sam Steel, a soldier of fortune. Generally fine in original vintage dust jacket with some shallow chipping to the top edge and a bit of spine fade.
The Shanghai Bund Murders (in original dust jacket)
Mason, Van Wyck
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933.
Price: $28.50
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Hardcover in pale yellow cloth lettered in black. 287 pp. plus one page publiher's ads at rear. Early reprint. A tight, bright example, some offsetting to the endpapers and pages a bit embrowned. In the original color illustrated dust jacket featuring a lovely lady emerging from a limousinewith a Great White Way background. Dust jacket is very goodwith some modest wear at the tips and spine extremities and a snall chip top edge front panel. Vintage mystery thriller featuring police undercover detective Clark Jones, who operates among thieves, racketeers, the "hot car" racket---and a lovely dame named Kitty McCarthy. Author John Wilstach was an important contributor to Argosy Magazine in the 1920s-40s; his novels are quite uncommon.
Under Cover Man (in original dust jacket)
Wilstach, John
New York: A.L. Burt, 1931.
Price: $60.00
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Track of the Scorpion
Davis, Val
NY: St Martins Pr, 1996.
Price: $10.00
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Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors (4-volume set)
Magill, Frank N. (ed.)
Pasadena, CA: Salem Pr Inc, 1988.
Price: $99.50
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Bright orange cloth hardcovers lettered in black. 307 pp. A fine, tight, fresh example in a very bright crisp Madison Square-issue dust jacket wth minor flaws here and there to the edges. Carries the 1932 Bobbs-Merrill copyright; this reisue somewhat later.
Keeper Of The Keys: A Charlie Chan Story (n dust jacket)
Biggers, Earl Derr
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932).
Price: $40.00
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First edition. Brick-colored cloth stamped in black. Vintage murder mystery: "When Harry Sands is found dead in the yard of his lovely suburban home, Detective Foss is called in to solve the unfinished murder." A tight, generally fine copy, offsetting to the endpapers. In striking, lurid vintage dust jacket by Bruce Adams, with couple shallow chips at panel edges and along head and foot edges of the spine.
The Unfinished Murder
Lyon, Edna Wright
NY: Bruce Humphries, 1935.
Price: $70.00
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First edition (stated). Hardcover.Vintage mystery. A serial killer leaves a calling card reading "Compliments of Waldo" on the mutilated bodies of four women in the Times Square district, throwing the denizens of Broadway into a panic---and curvaceous showgirls had the most to fear. Fine in lightly rubbed, price clipped dust jacket featuring the lower extremities of the aforementioned showgirls.
Terror On Broadway
Alexander, David
NY: Random House, 1954.
Price: $42.50
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