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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Boeknummer: 49330

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

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

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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Boeknummer: 49917

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 49965

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 47223

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime: : Sexton Blake

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

BERKELEY, ANTHONY.

Jumping Jenny.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947. 3rd Penguin printing. "When murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impersonate famous murderers and the victim - the hated wife of David Stratton - is found hanging from a fake gallows erected as a joke. Does the lack of evidence prove suicide? - or is this the perfect murder?" Pp.185, pages toned. Paperback, wear to spine edge. G+.

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Boeknummer: 50380

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: Anthony Berkeley Jumping Jenny Crime Fiction Murder Mystery 51861 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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Boeknummer: 49326

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: Anthony Berkeley Mr Priestley's Problem Murder Mystery Crime Fiction Black Humour 51051 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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Boeknummer: 49308

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

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

BOLAND, JOHN.

Inside Job. (A Bloodhound Mystery).

London: T.V.Boardman & Company Ltd, 1961. 1st edition. British Bloodhound No.336. "A large quantity of very valuable jewellery had disappeared from the strong-room of the luxurious London Brentlow Hotel. There was no trace of forcible entry, and it was immediately obvious that it was an inside job. But there was not only the question of who did it, there was the greater puzzle - how was it done?" By the author The League of Gentlemen. Pp.190. Dark pink cloth, minor dent to centreinch of front at spine edge. Dustwrapper has corresponding dent to front, and wear to edges, clear wrap affixed. Scarce. G+/Good.

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Boeknummer: 50555

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: John Boland Inside Job Bloodhound Mystery Crime Fiction Jewel Robbery Leage of Gentlemen 52032 Fiction: : Crime

BONNAMY, FRANCIS.

Dead Reckoning.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. 1st Penguin edition. Hugh Mattson is found dead at the bottom of an iron staircase in the Library of Congress in Washington. Apparent accident becomes certain murder. Peter Shane, and helper Francis Bonnamy uncover the truth. Pp.192, pages toned with spotting to closed page edges, owner's name to half-title page. Paperback, spotting to cover, wear to spine edge. Scarce. G+.** "Francis Bonnamy was the pseudonym of Audrey Boyers Walz (1906-1983), an American writer.".

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Boeknummer: 49912

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: Francis Bonnamy Dead Reckoning Mystery Crime Fiction Murder Washington Library of Congress Peter Shane 51428 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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Boeknummer: 32882

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 41980

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 49325

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 49916

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: 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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Boeknummer: 50856

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

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

CHRISTIE, STEPHEN.

Slaughter in the Sun. (A Sexton Blake Novel).

London: Howard Baker, 1969. 1st edition. "Murder came violently to exotic, tropic Ceylon when beautiful Angela Floyd was battered to death on a beach. It looked like the work of a maniac. But there was method in the murderer's madness Sexton Blake swiftly discovered - though not before the killer had struck again, and again.." Pp.171. Blue boards, dustwrapper slightly rubbed and spotted with title to spine faded. Scarce. VG/Good.** Pseudonym of D.S.C. Kuruppu. He was a Sri Lankan author and journalist.

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Boeknummer: 47205

Catalogus: Fiction: : Crime

Trefwoorden: Stephen Christie Slaughter in the Sun Sexton Blake Murder Mystery Detective Fiction Ceylon 48729 Fiction: : Crime