ALLINGHAM, MARGERY.

Look To The Lady.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. 1st Penguin edition. Albert Campion rescues Val Gyrth from the streets of London, to help him save a family heirloom, the Gyrth Chalice, from a band of devious criminals. In Suffolk, he reunites the son with his family, but soon one of them is found dead, and preventing the theft of the chalice must be combined with solving the mysterious death. Pp.279/6 (publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, toning to spine and edges, small tear to base of spine. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 49330

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Margery Allingham Look to the Lady Mystery Crime Fiction Albert Campion 51072 Fiction: : Crime

ANDREWS, WILLIAM.

Old-Time Punishments.

Hull: William Andrews & Co, 1890. 1st edition. A history of punishment methods. Contents: The Ducking Stool; The Brank, or Scold's Bridle; The Pillory; Punishing Authors and Burning Books; Finger-Pillory; The Jougs; The Stocks; The Drunkard's Cloak; Whipping; Public Penance; Repentance Stool; Riding the Stang; Gilbert-Lore: i) Drowning; ii) Burning to Death; iii) Boiling to Death; iv) Beheading; v) Hanging, Drawing, and Quartering; vi) Pressing to Death; vii) Hanging; viii) Hanging in Chains; ix) The Halifax Gibbet; x) The Scottish Maiden. Pp.x/251, frontispiece + occasional illustrations in the text, owner's name to top of title page, some cracking to inner hinges (but holding). Green cloth, gilt decorated title to front, gilt title to spine, minor wear to top and tail of spine, bumps to corner tips. G+.

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Book number: 51295

Catalogue: Crime: : Punishment

Keywords: Punishment Ducking Stool Brank Scold's Bridle Pillory Burning Books Jougs Stocks Drunkard's Cloak Whipping Penance Riding Stang Gilbert Lore Drowning Burning Boiling Beheading Hanging Gibbet 52696 Crime: : Punishment

ASHE, GORDON. [PSEUD. JOHN CREASEY].

Double for Death.

London: John Long Limited, 1954. 1st edition. A Patrick Dawlish book. Ex. Boots Booklovers Library. Pp.192, toning to pages, faint pink 'M' inkstamp to title page, black mark to base of closed pages. Brown cloth, mark to Boots Booklovers Library motif to front board, ringed hole to top of spine, spine has wear with small tear to top. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 49917

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Gordon Ashe John Creasey Double for Death Patrick Dawlish Murder Mystery Crime Fiction 51432 Fiction: : Crime

ASHE, GORDON. [PSEUD. JOHN CREASEY].

There Goes Death.

London: John Lane, nd. (c.1950). 34th Thousand. John Long Four-Square Thrillers series. A Patrick Dawlish story. Pp.208, pages toned, owner's name to title page. Paperback, slightly cocked, spine rubbed with tears to base, creasing to corner tips. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 49965

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Gordon Ashe Pseudonym John Creasey There Goes Death Four Square Thriller Patrick Dawlish Crime 51484 Fiction: : Crime

BALLINGER, W.A. [BAKER, ARTHUR ATHWILL WILLIAM].

I, The Hangman. (Sexton Blake. 5th Series. No.13).

London: Mayflower-Dell, 1965. "A name to conjure with, a name to dread.. Jack Ketch, public hangman of England in the mid-seventeenth century. And suddenly, in the England of the mid-twentieth century, an England where hanging has been abolished, the terrifying figure of Jack Ketch returned. The Jack Ketch Society meant the noose for killers whom even the courts had found innocent. For the Jack Ketch Society was its own court. And it provided its own savage executioner". Pp.139/5(publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, slightly rubbed with minor sunning to spine. G+.** Arthur Athwill William Baker wrote under the pen names W.A.Ballinger, William Howard Baker, John Long, Desmond Reid, Richard Williams, Peter Saxon, and John Saxon.

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Book number: 47223

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime: : Sexton Blake

Keywords: Ballinger I the Hangman Sexton Blake Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Jack Ketch Executioner 48741 Fiction: : Crime: : Sexton Blake

BENTLY, NICOLAS.

Third Party Risk.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961. First Penguin edition. "Philip Geiger, overworked author and screenwriter, has one ambition - a lazy holiday with plenty of sunshine and good food :these hw hopes to find in Sissac, a small village near Marseille. One morning he gets cramp while swimming.Save by another Englishman, he finds himself involved in a course of events increasingly dangerous and increasingly close to death." Pp.191, pages tanned, owner's name to title page and rear endpaper. Paperback, slightly rubbed with chipped tears to top and tail of spine. G+.** In 1954 "Third Party Risk" was made into a film of the same title directed by Daniel Birt and starring Lloyd Bridges, Simone Silva and Finlay Currie. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures under the title The Deadly Game, and later shown on American television under the title Big Deadly Game.

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Book number: 52392

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Nicolas Bentley Third Party Risk Crime Fiction Novel 53623 Fiction: : Crime

BERKELEY, ANTHONY.

Mr Priestley's Problem.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. 1st Penguin edition. "What would the ordinary decent man do if he killed a fellow-creature inadvertently, and there was no evidence against him?" Pp.295/4(publisher's catalogue), pages tanned. Paperback, spine tanned and creased, wear to top and tail and spine edges. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 49326

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Anthony Berkeley Mr Priestley's Problem Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Black Humour 51051 Fiction: : Crime

BERKELEY, ANTHONY.

Mr Priestley's Problem.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. 1st Penguin edition. An Extravaganza in Crime. What would you do if you found you had commited a murder, inadvertently, and there was no evidence against you? Two amateur criminologists stage a mock-murder to watch the reactions of the supposed murderer. Pp.295, publisher's catalogue to end, pages tanned, owner's details to half-title page. Paperback, a little spotted with darkening to spine. G+.

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Book number: 52351

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Anthony Berkeley Mr Priestley's Problem Murder Crime Fiction 53589 Fiction: : Crime

BLAKE, NICHOLAS. [PSEUD. OF CECIL DAY LEWIS].

The Case of the Abominable Snowman.

Harmondssworth: Penguin, 1954. 1st Penguin edition, and the first of Nicholas Blake's detective novels published under the Penguin imprint. "The finding of the body is a masterly scene of the macabre. Incidents, recalled one by one, are assembled into the story of a twisted life calculated to make anyone wince." (T.L.S. review). Pp.220/4(publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, a little dusty with toning to spine, small tear to top of spine and wear to spine edge. G+.

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Book number: 49308

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Nicholas Blake Case Abominable Snowman Crime Fiction Novel Cecil Day Lewis Nigel Strangeways Scribbles Cat 51049 Fiction: : Crime

BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern.

London: Collins For The Crime Club, 1967. 1st ed. Second novel in the acclaimed 'Cat' series. "Newspaper reporter Qwilleran and Siamese cat Koko are again at work together on matters of robbery and murder - this time the sophisticated world of interior decoration." Pp.192, owners name to fep, minor spotting and toning to endpapers. Red cloth boards, d/w designed by Brian Russell has edge chipping and lifting to laminate to front spine edge. Scarce. VG/G.

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Book number: 32882

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Lilian Jackson Braun Cat Who Ate Danish Modern First Siamese Cat Detective Crime Fiction Novel Qwilleran Koko 32894 Fiction: : Crime

CAIN, JAMES M.

Jealous Woman. [and Sinful Woman].

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1955. 1st British edition which includes the first British hardcover printing of Sinful Woman. Two novels of violent action and emotion. Pp224, minor spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to inside front board. Black cloth, illustrated dustwrapper worn with edge tears and small losses but now in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce in dustwrapper. G+/Good.** "James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir. Several of his crime novels inspired highly successful movies[The Postman Always Rings Twice; Double Indemnity; Mildred Pierce]."(wiki).

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Book number: 41980

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: James M Cain Jealous Sinful Woman American Crime Fiction Novel Noir 43251 Fiction: : Crime

CAIN, JAMES M.

The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952. 1st Penguin edition. "This is the story of a perfect murder. Perfect until a mistaken justice, with superb irony, overtakes the murderers". Pp.122/5(publisher's catalogue), pages tanned. Paperback, title to spine and front spine edge tanned, minor wear to spine edges. Good.

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Book number: 49325

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: James Cain the Postman Always Rings Twice Mystery Crime Murder Fiction 51047 Fiction: : Crime

CHRISTIE, AGATHA.

Lord Edgware Dies.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. 1st Penguin edition. An Inspector Poirot murder mystery. Pp.252, slight toning to pages. Paperback, spotting to cover and chipped loss to base of spine, spine darkened. Good.

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Book number: 49916

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Agatha Christie Inspector Poirot Lord Edgware Dies Murder Mystery Crime Fiction 51431 Fiction: : Crime

CHRISTIE, AGATHA.

Nemesis.

London: The Crime Club /Collins, 1971. 0002315637. 1sr edition. Miss Marple story. A sequel to "A Caribbean Mystery". Pp.256, minor toning to endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper has tear to lower rear edge and tears with chipped losses to top and tail of spine. VG/G.

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Book number: 50856

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Agatha Christie Nemesis Miss Marple Crime Club Murder Mystery Crime Fiction 52189 Fiction: : Crime

CHRISTIE, AGATHA.

Peril at End House.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952. Sixth Hercule Poirot story. Hercule Poirot is on holidaty on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing building perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo. Nick has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening "accidents". Poirot suspects that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck.. Pp.204, pages tanned, owner's details to title page and final page of story. Paperback, slightly toned with minor wear to spine.G+.

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Book number: 52393

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Agatha Christie Peril End House Crime Fiction Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery 53624 Fiction: : Crime