D'arcy Niland; M. G. Eberhart; James Hadley Chase; Patricia Wentworth
The Big Smoke Jury of One a Lotus for Miss Quon the Girl in the Cellar
London, Angus & Robertson; The Crime Club by Collins; Robert Hale; Hodder and Stoughton, 1959-61. First edition. Cloth. A striking set of four first editions crime and thriller novels by leading authors of the genres, each in their original colourful dust wrappers. A lovely set of four first edition crime novels.Each volume is in the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Big Smoke' by D'arcy Niland. A gripping novel set in Sydney in the early decades of the twentieth century, revolving around an indigenous boxer, Chiddy Hay.'Jury of One' by M. G. Eberhart. Opening three days before the protagonist's wedding, this is an exciting novel with sudden deaths set in a small New England town.'A Lotus For Miss Quon' by James Hadley Chase. A thriller novel, this was made into a West German film in 1967. Three pages of adverts to the rear.'The Girl in the Cellar' by Patricia Wentworth. The thirty-second Miss Silver case, in which a woman finds herself stuck in a cellar of an empty house with the body of a murdered girl laying at her feet. One page of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, smart, with some very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine, particularly to 'Jury of One&apos. Light edge wear to the dust wrappers , resulting in very small chips and closed tears. A little light discolouration to the reverse of the wraps. Minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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