CONNINGTON, J.J. [PSEUD. ALFRED WALTER STEWART].

The Case with Nine Solutions.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. 1st Penguin edition. This intriguing clue-laden third case for Sir Clinton Driffield has its origin in a dark scheme that reveals as much about the means for murder as its motivation. Pp.287, pages tanned with brittle edges and small edge tears. Paperback, rubbed and spotted with crease and small edge tear to front, spine worn with tears and small losses. Scarce. Fair.** "Alfred Walter Stewart (5 September 1880 – 1 July 1947) was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work between 1923 and 1947 under the pseudonym of JJ Connington. He created several fictional detectives, including Superintendent Ross and Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield.

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N° du livre: 49924

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Connington Alfred Walter Stewart Case Nine Solutions Crime Murder Mystery Sir Clifford Driffield 51441 Fiction: : Crime

CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS.

The 12.30 From Croydon.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953. 1st Penguin edition. (US title: Wilful and Premeditated). (An Inspector French mystery). A murder which is committed during a flight over the English Channel. The identity of the killer is revealed quite early in the book (making it an early example of the inverted detective story or "howcatchem"), and the reader can watch the preparations for the crime and how the murderer tries to cover up his tracks. The final chapters of the novel are set in a courtroom and during a private function at a hotel, where a résumé of the whole case is given in front of a small group of police detectives, solicitors, and barristers. Pp.255, slight toning to pages. Paperback, creasing and toning to spine. G+.

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N° du livre: 50376

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Freeman Wills Crofts 12. 30 from Croydon Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Inspector French Wilful Premeditated 51860 Fiction: : Crime

CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS.

Death of a Train.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953. 1st Penguin edition. Set during World War II, a network of German secret agents plans to derail a train carrying vital war supplies. Due to a delay another train is derailed instead, the intended one then being diverted safely round the blockage. Inspector French tracks down the conspirators, nearly losing his life in a heroic final action to prevent their escape. Pp.256, pages tanned. Paperback, tanned with crease to lower front and scuffing to spine. Good.

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N° du livre: 50395

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Freeman Wills Crofts Death of a Train Mystery Crime Fiction Espionage Inspector French World War Two 51878 Fiction: : Crime

DALY, ELIZABETH.

Evidence of Things Seen.

London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1955. Rep.Ex library. "Clara knew something was wrong the first time she saw the old woman in the sun bonnet. Indeed, if Henry had not come when he did, Clara would not have survived to tell him the 'evidence of things seen'. Henry knew what he was up against even before he saw Clara, and his fight to save her life, to keep her from being convicted of murder, and, above all, to keep her sane, presents one of the most exciting stories Miss Daly has yet written". Pp.191, front free endpaper removed, library inkstamp and old tape stains to inside front board, more old tape marks to rear endpapers, pages slightly toned. Red cloth, spine a little sunned. Scarce. Good.** "Elizabeth Daly published sixteen books all of which featured her main series character Henry Gamadge. He is a bibliophile and expert on rare books and manuscripts which makes her books particularly appealing to fans of the bibliomystery" (GoodReads).** "Charles Shibuk, in St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, said that Daly was Agatha Christie's favorite American mystery writer. Daly successfully used many of the literary conventions employed by Christie and other writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, he said, and "was always both civilized and literate". The Mystery Writers of America, referring to her as "the grande dame of women mystery writers", awarded her a "Special Edgar" in 1961". (wiki).

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N° du livre: 50110

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Elizabeth Daly Evidence Things Seen Henry Gamadge Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Bibliomystery 51591 Fiction: : Crime

DANIEL, ROLAND.

The Black Market.

London: Wright & Brown, 1943. 1st edition. Ex 'Andrews' library. Murder mystery featuring 'Buddy Mustard'. Pp.220/4 (publisher's ads), front cover of original dustjacket pasted to front free endpaper, yellow library plate "A.W.Riches (Andrews) Newsagent. Stationer. Tobacconist. Toy Dealer. Church Street, Cromer" pasted to front pastedown, slight toning to pages. Red cloth, rubbed and soiled with remains of 'Andrews' A.W.Riches lable to lower front cover, wear to edges and bumps to corner tips. Scarce. Fair.** "Roland Daniel (1880-1969) was a British writer who also wrote romance novels as Sonia Anderson, He was born in London and grew up in Florida. He served with the Canadian scouts in the Boer War and the Royal Navy in WW1. He married Pearl Daniel in 1919 and toured England in acting companies during the 1920s. He was a prolific writer equally at home with British or American idioms. His series characters were Michael Grant, John Hopkins, Buddy Mustard, Brian O'Malle, Jack Pearson, The Remover, Brian Saville, Michael Wallace and Wu Fang, a Fu Manchu-style oriental villain". (PBWorks).

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N° du livre: 50071

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Roland Daniel the Black Market Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Novel Buddy Mustard 51592 Fiction: : Crime

DICKSON CARR, JOHN.

The Case of the Constant Suicides.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953. First Penguin edition. "Angus Campbell heavily insured his life with a policy containing a suicide-clause, and then deliberately threw himself to death from the top window of an old Scottish tower..Then came another suicide, and yet another. Dr Fell summoned by his friend Colin Campbell, by this time believed in murder, but the third suicide was even more convincing than the first two.." Pp.192, pages toned, small owner's name to inside front cover. Paperback, rubbed with small tears to top and tail of spine and creasing to lower front corner tip. G+.

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N° du livre: 49902

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: John Dickson Carr Case Constant Suicides Campbell Dr Fell 51418 Fiction: : Crime

DICKSON CARR, JOHN.

The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age.

New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1983. 0385187149. 1st edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Douglas G. Greene. "Nine never-before-published radio plays by the late John Dickson Carr..Here, all the hallmarks of Carr's classic detective novels are on display - locked rooms, "impossible" crimes, brilliant detection, and, in two of the dramas, his most famous detective, Dr Gideon Fell." Pp.181, inscribed by the editor "For Joan and Leslie Stringer, with affectionate regards of Doug Greene. 8 March, 1984" to front free endpaper, staining to endpapers. Brown boards, dustwrapper (designed by Roger Zimmerman) has staining to internal flaps, edge wear to corner tips and top and tail of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. Good/Good."Douglas G. Greene (born 1944) is an American historian, editor, and author..Greene's biography John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles was nominated in 1996 for the Edgar Award Best Critical / Biographical Work." (wiki).

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N° du livre: 43572

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: John Dickson Carr Douglas Greene Signed Dead Sleep Lightly Mysteries Crime Club Detective Fiction Gideon Fell 44497 Fiction: : Crime

DICKSON CARR, JOHN.

He Who Whispers.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953. 1st Penguin edition. "Not a single member of the Murder Club turned up for the dinner. This was odd, but it did not deter the principal guest from telling his story - a fantastic tale of an unsolved sword-stick murder, that had taken place on top of a tower near Chartres, and of the strange manifestations there of a vampire.." Pp.206, toning to pages. Paperback, light spotting and dust soiling. G+.

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N° du livre: 49385

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: John Dickson Carr He Who Whispers Dr Gideon Fell Mystery Murder Crime Fiction 51131 Fiction: : Crime

DICKSON CARR, JOHN.

The Mad Hatter Mystery.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959. Rep. "Driscoll was found on the steps of the Traitor's Gate at the Tower of London. A cross-bar bolt was driven through his heart and a stolen top-hat was on his head. Faced with a daring killer who left his signature at the scene of his crime, the police called in Dr Gideon Fell to solve Driscoll's murder and to unravel the riddle of the little plaster dolls, the strange voice, and the theft of a manuscript worth ten thousand pounds." Pp.219, front free endpaper absent, pages tanned. Paperback, a little toned. G+.

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N° du livre: 50348

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Dickson Carr Mad Hatter Mystery Crime Fiction Detective Murder Mystery Gideon Fell 51841 Fiction: : Crime

DICKSON, CARTER.

She Died a Lady.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. 1st Penguin edition. "A suicide pact was just the sort of thing that would appeal to Rita Wainwright. Her love affair with Barry Sullivan was flamboyant enough to deserve a dramatic ending, so when the pair of them vanished over a cliff one rainy night, leaving a farewell note for Rita's husband, no one doubted for a moment that it was suicide.." A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. Pp.222, toning to pages. Paperback, slightly rubbed and toned to spine with 1.5cm tear to base of spine. G+.

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N° du livre: 49531

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Carter Dickson John Dickson Carr She Died a Lady Mystery Crime Henry Merrivale 50772 Fiction: : Crime

FARJEON, J.JEFFERSON.

The Shadow of Thirteen.

London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1949. 1st edition. Ex library. Macabre, suspense novel. "The shadow of thirteen loomed darkly over Gatleigh Hall. On the thirteenth of October thirteen years ago there had been a death and a disappearance within its gates. For thirteen years on the fatal anniversary Lady Chelwyn had returnedm, in response to some mysterious inner compulsion to her neglected home". Pp.192, library inkstamps and old tape stains to endpapers, a little dusty to some margins. Orange cloth, library inkstamp to lower front corner, spine sunned and spotted, wear to edges. Scarce. Fair.** "Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955) was an English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter..Farjeon's crime novels were admired by Dorothy L. Sayers, who called him "unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures". His obituarist in The Times talked of "ingenious and entertaining plots and characterization," (wiki).

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N° du livre: 50140

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Jefferson Farjeon Shadow of Thirteen Crime Club Murder Mystery Suspense Fiction 51447 Fiction: : Crime

FERGUSON, JOHN.

Death Comes to Perigord.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. 1st Penguin edition. "When young Doctor Peter Dunn first saw Mere Trouteaud raise the 'clameur' (as the islanders called it) in the market place, he little thought that this incident would be a link in a chain of events that meant murder." Pp.253, pages toned . Paperback, owner's name to front, toning and spotting to covers and tears and wear to top and tail of spine. Scarce. Good.

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N° du livre: 49945

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: John Ferguson Death Comes to Perigord Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Detective Mcnab Peter Dunn 51438 Fiction: : Crime

FERGUSON, JOHN.

Night in Glengyle.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947. 1st Penguin edition. Alec Maitland takes on a Government mission to investigate strange happenings in Africa and to regain possession of some missing papers. But through his efforts he becomes implicated in a sensational murder and soon his efforts are hampered by having the police on his heels. "A story of wits pitted against wits, of bloodshed, of hairbreadth escapes, of flight and pursuit, finishing with a piece of neat detection and surprise both for the guileless Maitland and the reader." Pp.224, pages tanned. Paperback, light creasing to front, spine toned with scuffed edges and chipping to top and tail. Scarce. G+.

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N° du livre: 50388

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: John Ferguson Night in Glengyle Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Thriller Alec Maitland 51876 Fiction: : Crime

FERRARS, ELIZABETH.

Don't Monkey with Murder.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. 1st Penguin edition. The first shock Toby Dyke and his 'Watson', George, received on thier arrival was the discovery that Irma was a chimpanzee. The next shock was to find that this time Irma had not been kidnapped, but killed.. Pp.192, pages toned, owner's name to half-title page. Paperback, spotting mainly to rear, spine darkened. G+.

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N° du livre: 49944

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Elizabeth Ferrars Don't Monkey with Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Toby Dyke Irma Chimpanzee Paul Virag 51454 Fiction: : Crime

GARVE, ANDREW. [PSEUD. PAUL WINTERTON].

A Hole in the Ground.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1952. 1st edition. Ex-library. "Laurence Quilter, Labour M.P. for the West Cumbrian Division, finds by chance some underground caves on his property and enlists the help of Peter Anstey, an experienced potholer, in exploring them. Anstey meets his death in their labyrinthine depths, and this tragedy touches off a train of sinister events that can only be explained by an exploration of Quilter's equally tortuous mind." Pp.192, occasional spots and marks, ex-library inkstamps to front and rear endpapers. Red cloth, sunned and rubbed to spine and front top and lower edges.Scarce. G-.** "Paul Winterton (1908 – 2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist. During his career he used the pseudonyms Andrew Garve, Roger Bax and Paul Somers..He was a founder-member of the Crime Writers' Association during 1953 and, with Elizabeth Ferrars, its first joint secretary." (wiki).

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N° du livre: 49929

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Mots-clés: Andrew Garve Hole in the Ground Paul Winterton Potholing Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Quilter Anstey 51448 Fiction: : Crime