Adams, Samuel Hopkins

The Flying Death

New York, The McClure Company, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. Orange illustrated cloth. 239 pp. First solo novel by Adams, an early mystery. Samuel Hopkins Adams, a prolific writer of fiction, was also known for his muckraking journalism. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, soiling and edgewear. Text block toned. Very Good .

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Book number: 019735

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Brown, Gerald

Murder in Plain Sight

New York, Phoenix Press, 1945. Cloth. Light olive cloth. No jacket. 256 pp. SIGNED by the author with date and a short inscription indicating this was the author's copy. A hard-boiled detective/mystery story set in Boston, Massachusetts and following the exploits of private detective Duke McCale. GOOD condition. Heavy browning to the cloth along the extremities and spine. Minor soiling, with several spots of staining to the front and rear cover. Minor scuffing. Extremities bumped, with some fraying to the cloth at the corners and spine tips. Interior solid. Moderate browning to the paper. A few old tape scars along the fore edge of the inside front cover. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008067

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn

Casson, Stanley

Murder by Burial

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, stated. Blue cloth. No jacket. 312 pp. A mystery set in a small town, incorporating the rise of fascism with a mystery, with archaeology and architecture used as means of solving the crime. By Stanley Casson, a British archaeologist. GOOD condition. Minor toning, rubbing and soiling to the covers. Light scuffing and bumping along the extremities. Small owner's bookplate on the first endpaper. Minor toning to the text block. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 017292

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Clayford, James

Wanton by Night

New York, Falcon Books, 1951. Original Wraps. Original wraps. No. 15. 128 pages. With a few black and white photos within. Suggestive cover art. A pulp novel of romance, murder and mystery. In GOOD+ condition. General minor scuffing and minor creasing to the covers, more so along the extremities. Minor soiling with an area of faint staining to the rear panel. Interior clean and solid, with moderate browning to the paper and an ownership signature on the title page. Good .

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Book number: 004622

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn

Delaney, Denis

Cat in Gloves

London, Gryphon Books, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, so stated. Blue cloth in unclipped jacket. 190 pp. A mystery/thriller novel involving smuggling, gunrunning, etc. FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, tearing and creasing to the jacket along the extremities, with some loss. Minor soiling and scuffing. Rear panel toned. Several tears along the spine. Overall a very worn jacket. Book with some toning, soiling and fading. Light edgewear. Text block toned. Paper somewhat brittle. Top center margin of leaf 61/62 has a piece torn off, resulting in slight loss of text. Paper clip stain to those pages. Fair/Fair.

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Book number: 018312

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Dexter, Colin

The Dead of Jericho. An Inspector Morse Novel

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981. First American Edition. First US edition. Black cloth in unclipped dust jacket. 224 pp. mystery featuring Inspector Morse. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and edgewear. Rear panel scuffed. Book faded and scuffed, with some soiling. Corners bumped. Good/Good.

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Book number: 016526

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Dexter, Colin

The Wench Is Dead. An Inspector Morse Novel

London, Macmillan, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. First edition in unclipped dust jacket. 200 pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A mystery featuring Inspector Morse. VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and edgewear. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 016328

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Ford, Leslie

By the Watchman's Clock

New York, Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition with publisher's logo on copyright page and no other printings given. Hardcover lacking a dust jacket. This is Ford's second book. In GOOD+ condition with three faded spots of dampstaining to the front cover and a section of the same sort of light faded dampstaining to the rear cover, running the length of the book and about a 1/3 of the way out from the rear hinge. These are both faint and do not affect the text in any way. Minor soiling to the covers and general fading. Light edgewear. Top page edges with light soiling. Slight forward lean to the book. Inner text solid with minor sporadic soiling along the page fore edges. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Still a nice copy of this hard to find work in GOOD+ condition. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000555

Catalogue: Mystery

Wallace, Robert; Morgan, Philip, Widmer, Harry; Sutton, Elizabeth H. et al.

The Phantom Detective. Fall 1953. Vol. LVIII, No. 1

New York, Standard Magazines, Publisher, 1952. Wraps. Pulp magazine. 9 ½ by 7 inches. Featuring color vintage cover art of a woman and man struggling on a bed over a gun. 114 pp. With a few black and white illustrations in the interior. A single issue of this mystery/detective pulp magazine, featuring work by Robert Wallace, Philip Morgan, Harry Widmer, The Phantom, Elizabeth H. Sutton and others. FAIR condition. Outer wraps chewed in several places along the spine. 2 inch area of dark staining at the upper spine/rear hinge. Minor soiling and scuffing, with general fading. Wrappers chipped and creased along the extremities, with several minor tears. Black cross in crayon on the upper front cover, somewhat blending into the background of the illustration. Small pen doodle to the woman's exposed leg. Interior clean and solid with general browning to the paper. Fair .

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Book number: 005919

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Phantom Detective

(Halsey, Harlan Page). Old Sleuth

Cad Metti, the Female Detective Strategist; or Dudie Dunne Again in the Field. Old Sleuth's Own. No. 37. October 15, 1895

New York, The Parlor Car Publishing Co, 1895. Original Wraps. First edition. Wraps. 106 pp, plus 17 pages of ads. With an illustrated title page. LACKING THE ORIGINAL WRAPS. A pulp novel featuring Cad Metti, a woman detective and her exploits with Dudie Dunne in foiling a counterfeit operation. FAIR condition, lacking the wraps. Moderate browning to the paper, with offsetting along the extremities of the rear blank page. Minor soiling. Minor chipping and tearing along the fore edge. Interior solid and clean, with a faint dampstain in the fore edge margin of the last half of the book. Fair .

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Book number: 004990

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Woman Detective Old Sleuth

Highsmith, Patricia

Ripley's Game

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First US edition. Light beige cloth in price clipped jacket. 267 pp. Third novel featuring Highsmith's anti-hero Tom Ripley. GOOD+ jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Minor soiling and uneven fading to the jacket. Minor bumping and creasing along the extremities. Light fading and edgewear to the book. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 016039

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

de Pont-Jost, Rene. Champlin, Virginia (translator)

No. 13 Rue Marlot

Boston, James H. Brigham, Publisher, 1880. Wraps. 1880 or perhaps later. Presumed late 19th century reprint of the Lee and Shepard American publication. Wraps (LACKING both front and rear). vi, 259, 8 pp. The 8 pages at the rear are specimen pages from a forthcoming work. A mystery/detective style novel set in late 19th century France and involving the discovery of a corpse. POOR/FAIR condition, LACKING the front and rear wrap. Most of the wrap present along the spine, with some loss at the head and tail. Heavy browning to the paper, with some soiling to the first and last page. Minor chipping and tearing to the extremities of the first and last pages. Text block solid. Poor .

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Book number: 007344

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn

Kemelman, Harry

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late

Crown Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. No additional printings indicated. First edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. GOOD+ jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Light soiling and sunning to the jacket, most noticeable to the back jacket. Some light scuffing to the jacket. Moderate to heavy edgewear to the jacket. One large 1 inch chip missing from lower jacket spine. This piece is lain in. Heavy fraying to top of jacket spine. Light soiling and fading to the book. Inside front cover has heavy yellowing from several newspaper clipping that had been laid in. Text clean and solid. Nice looking copy of this first edition of the first book in this series in GOOD+/VERY GOOD condition. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000210

Catalogue: Mystery

MacDonald, Philip

Something to Hide

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1952. Cloth. Greenish blue cloth in unclipped jacket. 220 pp. An award winning collection of mystery stories. FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, creasing and tearing along the jacket edges, with some loss. General fading and toning to the jacket. Minor soiling. Rear jacket a bit stained. Lower corner of the rear jacket scuffed, with superficial loss of paper. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Minor staining/discoloration to the rear cover, with a small faint stain to the upper front. Moderate to heavy toning to the text block. Fair/Fair.

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Book number: 016802

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature

Mayor, Archer

The Ragman's Memory

New York, Mysterious Press/Warner Books, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition, stated first printing. Paper covered boards in unclipped jacket. SIGNED on the title page, with a brief dedication, by the author. 325 pp. A Joe Gunther mystery. GOOD+ condition. Minor scuffing, wrinkling and fading to the jacket, with light creasing along the top edge. Small split at the upper hinge of the front flap. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Good/Good.

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Book number: 014466

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Noisbn Literature