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: Robert J. Shores, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in blindstamped navy blue cloth lettered in red. 336 pp.plus publisher's ads at rear. Illustrations by Frank Keane. A tight, bright, fine example. In the rare original dust wrapper printed in red and blue with American eagle dersign.....
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.....
New York: World/ Tower Books, 1945. First edition thus. Hardcover. Stated first printing of this reissue edition with date of May 1945 on copyright page. Hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in red. 301 pp. A tight example but with dampstaining to the lower inner areas of both covers and.....
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. First edition thus. Hardcover. First Triangle edition, stated "First Printing November 1939" on copyright page. Hardcover in light blue cloth stamped in black. Very good, some spotting to the cloth, usual embrowning to the pages as is common with these Triangle reissues. In the des.....
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..."
Franklin Center, Pa. Franklin Library, 1987. Limited ed. Leather_bound. Hardcover in full maroon suede leather letterd in gilt and with reproduction of the ticket stub to "The Mousetrap" tipped onto front cover. All edges gilt, Decorated endpapers. Limited to an unspecified number of copies for subscribers to The Franklin Library.....
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: Putnam, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Firts edition/ first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 371 pp. The third in this popular and respected series of historical mysteries set in the time of King Henry II and featuring Adelia Aguilar, the Ottoman-trained physician and sleuth. In this entry.....
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.....
New York: St. Martin's/ Minotaur, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. 288 pp. Medieval mystery set in 1203 featuring the professional jester Feste (and undercover sleuth) of The Fool's Guild. In this entry in the series, Feste, his wife Viola, and their group.....
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.
Walker & Company, 1989. Hardcover. Hardcover. Second printing. Warm, lengthly inscription dated 1990 and signed by Garrett on the front free endpaper. Hardcover. 194 pp. Mystery surround a psychiatric ward in New York General Hospital involving two patientsa nd an unscrupulous doctor with designs on becoming the department chair. Fine.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First American edition/ first printing. Hardcover. 230 pp. The thirk in this series of medieval mysteries set in and around Hawkenlye Abbey in Tonbridge, England and featuing knight/ sleuth Josse d'Acquin and Abbess Helewise. in.....
New York: Minotaur Books, 2002. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition. Hardcover. 230 pp. Knight Josse d'Acquin returns in this entry in the Hawkenlye medieval mystery series. In this tale, Sir Josse, along with his friend and fellow sleuth the Abbess Helewise, fellow clues.....
New York: Putnam, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 371 pp. Joshua Gage is on a clandestine mission for the Crown to track down a beautiful charlatan who was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. His quest is.....
Garden City: Crime Club/ Doubleday, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover. 191 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with minor wear at the tips and spine ends. Set in new York State, a suspense novel in which the police decide that a "triangle' has become four-sided with.....
New York: Macmillan, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first pritning. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 275 pp. The murder of a young, alluring prostitute is at the core of this compelling novel of small-town crime. In her brief stay in Andover, Massachusetts, her charm and beauty had touched.....
