New York: Berkeley Crime Club, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 265 pp. The beloved Princess Georgina is due toi arrive in Miss Seeton's Plummerton and while the villagers are plotting to outdo neighboring Murreystone during the visit, a more sinister plot is brewing.....
New York: Random House, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Masterful collection of mystery tales by such infamous authors as Lardner, Millar, Allingham, Ellin, Woolrich, Highsmith. Near fine, tight copy in near fine, crisp dust jacket with small gift inscription hidden under dust jacket flap.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing of the authors' uncommon fifth book amd the fifth (of an eventual 24 books) in the series featuring P.I. Sharon McCone. In this entry, Sharon's newest client.....
Garden City: Crime Club/ Doubleday, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in red. Very good or somewhat better, prev. own. sig. top edge front free endpaper. No jacket. 354 pp. The third novel in Mason's Inspector Hanaud of the Surete series of mysteries. Set.....
Pau Hana Publishing, 2022. First edition. Softcover. First edition softcover (not issued in hardcover). Inscribed on the title page, "To Marci/ Enjoy!/ Amy M. Reade". Fine. xi (including glossary) + 254 pp. The war for American independence rages just miles seventyt miles away from the country inn and tavern owned.....
Cambridge, UK: Irregular Special Press, 2010. Softcover. Near fine, bright and fresh with a bit of light moisture damage to lower rear. Softcover. 290 pp. A historical mystery novel featuring Myrl Adler Norton, a brilliant professor of logic and student at Smith College 1918 New England. The story, which follows.....
NY: James A. McCann, 1922. First. Cloth. First edition. Scarce. Collection of tales by this Russian born author (born Alexander Romanoff, his father was Russian and his mother a Muslim) raised in Enland and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was best know for his mystery and adventure stories, many.....
New York: Thomas Dunne, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing otf the second Nick Travers mystery. Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. 322 pp. In this entry in the series, it's Christmas Eve on the South Side; an old time blues singer, in prison for muredring her lover.....
New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, with (1) following the final page of text. Hardcover. Fine (ownership signature frony free endpaper) in very good dust jacket featuring a well endowed, mterrified brunette. Vintage suspense novel in which what starts out as a skip trace ends.....
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, 1998. Limited ed. Hardcover. One of 100 numbered copies only signed by Niswander and illustrator H.E. Passl, of which this is copy "PC" (the publisher does not state how many lettered copies exist). Very fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket and black cloth.....
New York: Pocket, 1950. First edition thus. Softcover. Firts paperback edition, stated first Dell printing. Color illustrated softcovers. 200 pp. Generally very good. "Who filled the hypo with poison?..."
New York: Triangle Books, 1939. Hardcover. First Triangle edition, stated "Third Printing September 1940" on copyright page. Hardcover in turquoise blue cloth stamped in black. Fine, tight example usual embrowning to the pages as is common with these Triangle reissues. In the des Rossiers-designed dust jacket with same image as.....
London: Fontana Books, 1963. Softcover. Softcovers. 192 pp. Very good. "After sixteen years everyone still believed Caroline Crale guilty of kiilling her husband. All except her daughter... at her requesr Hercule Poirot seeks to discover the truth from the five witnesses at the trial..."
London: Pan Books Ltd., 1963. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. 219 pp. Very good. One of Christie's earliest books (originally published in 1923). Hercule Poirot investigaes the case of a murdered millionaire.
New York: Pocket Books, 1956. First edition thus. Softcover. First printing of the first paperback ediiton. Color illustrated softcovers. Near fine, very small, light crease to the lowerr front cover. 183 pp. "A missing nuclear physicist, an airplane crash, a millionaire Communist, and a courageous girl doomed to die!"
New York: Minotaur Books, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, unread hardcover. In fine dust jacket. First edition. 262 pp. The sixth book in Sister Agatha's saga, an extern nun for Our Lady of Hope monastery who has become renowned for her crime-solving skills, and here she must save the monastery.....
New York: Soho, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of this English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 324 pp. Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, "The Tattoo Murder Case" was first published in Tokyo in 1948. It won the Mystery Writers Club Award and remains.....
Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Presa, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine, fresh copy in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 307 pp. In the third book of the Oliver Swithin series, a mysterious death seeming to be a suicide perplexes Oliver and leads him.....
New York: Macmillan, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine, clean dust jacket. The thirteenth book in this English mystery series featuring police inspector George Gently. Hardcover. 185 pp. A police man-hunt fails to find the husband of a brutally murdered woman--until.....
New York: Macmillan, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. The fourth book in this murder mystery series set in East Anglia, England featuring police inspector George Gently. Hardcover. 184 pp. Inspector George Gently was enjoying a relaxing Christmas morning when.....
New York: Doubleday, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 370 pp. In the not-so-distant future where the "death of print" has become a reality, Anana Johnson must search for her missing father.....
New York: Pantheon, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine, fresh, unread as-new copy in equally fine dust jacket. The 20th book in this mystery series featuring Botswana's leading and only, female detective Precious Ramotswe. Hardcover. 224 pp. In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective.....
NY: Coward McCann, 1978. First. Hard Cover. First printing. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a novel of espionage and scientific speculation about a computer called Chocolate---whose memory bank is composed of cloned human brain cells---and the role it plays in a sinister Soviet plot. A fine, tight copy in crisp, fine.....
New York: Random House, 1969. Arthur Shilstone. Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Hardcover. 208 pp. A collection of short detective stories for young people, handpicked by Alfred Hitchcock himself. Classic 1960's illustrations by Arthur Shilstone.
New York: Random House, 1963. Fred Banbery. Hardcover. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. 206 pp. Collection of vintage mystery stories for children, handpicked by Alfred Hitchcock. Classic 1960s illustrations by Fred Bandery.
