ARMSTRONG, MARGARET

The Man with No Face

New York City, Random House, 1940. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 279.8vo,,Bound in original red cloth with black lettering & designs. Light wear to boards, bumped at top edge, slight spine slant; very good-. No dust jacket.

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Book number: 9900031653

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Mystery;;;;;;;;

ASHLEY, MIKE (ED.) / ILLUSTRATIONS BY LYNDA DYDE.

Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades / Memories of Ghost Stories Magazine.

Ashcroft, BC, Ash-tree Press, 2000. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xxxvi,244.8vo,,Near fine condition.In very slightly shelf-worn,else vg/nf dust jacket. Only 600 copies of this book were produced for sale. Contains stories from the pulp magazine 'Ghost Stories' which was published between 1926 and 1931.

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Book number: 9900044205

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: short stories;

AUBERT, ROSEMARY

Free Reign A Suspense Novel

New York, Bridge Works Publishing Company, 1997. Hardcover. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very lightly shelfworn, very good+ dustjacket protected in Brodart cover. .

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Book number: 036146

Catalogue: Mystery

AYKOL, ESMAHAN

Hotel Bosphorus

London, Bitter Lemon Press, 2011. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 044561

Catalogue: Mystery

BEEDING, FRANCIS

The House of Dr. Edwardes

Toronto,, McClelland and Stewart, 1928. Hardcover. pp. 312.Small 8vo,,Bound in original black cloth with blocked red lettering,Published in the U.S. by Little, Brown, this is the first Canadian edition, bound from the American sheets but with a cancel title leaf. The boards are spotted, as from long-dried moisture drops, and the corners are a bit rounded. The endpapers are clean and tight, but the hinges are cracked - nothing is loose, however. Contents clean. Overall, good, to good plus, condition. No dust jacket. .

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Book number: 9900021065

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Spellbound;Hitchcock;Movie tie-in;;;;;;CCMF

BENNETT, FRED E.

The Mormon Detective, or, Adventures in the Wild West Mormonism Unmasked

Chicago, Laird & Lee Publishers, 1887. Hardcover. pp. 283, ads. 8vo. Bound in green cloth with black lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Black and white illustrations. Shaken, edgewear and some fraying, some general soiling to binding, mull visible at rear hinge, text block age-toned, contents unmarked; fair to good. Author was an United States marshal based in Utah and Idaho who arrested Mormons for polygamy. The Pinkerton Detective Series.

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Book number: 061187

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Columbia series; Pinkerton detective series; mormonism

BENTON, JOHN L.

The Art Treasure Murders

New York City, Gateway Books, 1940. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 256.8vo,,Bound in original red cloth, lettered in black,The book shows slight shelf wear, but is otherwise clean, tight, and in very good condition. The original dust jacket has a small piece missing near the top left of the front panel. There are several closed tears, chipping to the edges, and some wear at the folds. Overall, it is in fairly good condition. 'John L. Benton' is the pseudonym of Thomas Albert Curry (1900-1976).

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Book number: 9900033410

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: AmerLit;;;;;;;;CCMF

BUNSON, MATTHEW

The Complete Christie An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia

New York, Pocket Books, 2000. Paperback. Square 8vo. Black and white photographic reproductions. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 049604

Catalogue: Mystery

BURKE, ALAFAIR

The Wife: A Novel of Psychological Suspense

New York, Harper, 2018. First edition. Paperback. pp. 340. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 049158

Catalogue: Mystery

CAMILLERI, ANDREA

Excursion to Tindari an Inspector Montalbano Mystery

New York, Penguin Books, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 027349

Catalogue: Mystery

CARLING, JOHN R.

The Weird Picture

London,, Ward Lock & Co Limited, 1905. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 308, ads.8vo,,Bound in original black cloth blocked in blind, red and gilt,The front board is 'weirdly' decorated by a border of stamped squares, alternately in blind and red, with the title and author's name stamped in gilt and the top. The binding appears to be designed by the Boston book designer, Amy Sacker (1872-1965). This is the first British edition. This title was also published in the U.S. in the same year, by Little, Brown, and apparently wih the same binding (although the Ward, Lock edition was printed in England). Carling, a now long-forgotten writer of historical romances and mysteries, is the author of about seven other books. Hubin lists three, including this title, as mysteries. The boards are bumped and show some rubbing to the extremities, especially at the board tips, which are also bumped. There is a bit of soiling to the rear board. The front free endpaper has been removed, and the front hinge is now tender. The binding is a bit dry. Overall, still in good condition. No dust jacket. Ill.: Cyrus Cuneo illustrations.

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Book number: 9900033874

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: BritLit;;;;;;;;CCMF Cyrus Cuneo illustrations

CARR, CALEB

The Alienist

New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Paperback. pp. 498. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 055283

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: Amerlit; Psychiatry; Thrillers; Mystery;

CARR, JOHN DICKINSON

It Walks by Night

New York City and London,, Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 328. Small 8vo. Bound in original dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. Our copy has a small goudge to the lower right of the front board, near the board edge. There is some very light spotting to the front board, noticeable when the book is held to the light and tilted back and forth. There is some slight general scuffing and soiling to the cloth. The endpapers are clean and tight. The contents are clean, and free of former owner's markings. Altogether, a nice copy in good plus, to very good, condition. No dust jacket. A Harper's 'Sealed Mystery' book. Publication code 'A-E' (January, 1930) on copyright page. The first book by the master of the locked-room mystery, the principles of which are described in this book: the room in which the murder was committed 'had no secret entrances; the murderer was not hiding anywhere in the room; he did not go out by the window; he did not go out by the door .. Yet a murderer had beheaded his victim there.' Carr (1905-1977) wrote over seventy mysteries.

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Book number: 9900033875

Catalogue: Mystery

Keywords: AmerLit; CCMF;

LE CARRE, JOHN

The Looking Glass War

New York, Coward-McCann, 1965. Hardcover. pp. 223. 8vo. Light shelfwear, split at front hinge (binding remains sound); good+ in good+ rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 062629

Catalogue: Mystery

LE CARRE, JOHN

The Russia House

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. pp. 353. 8vo. Black cloth boards, silver lettering to front board and spine. Very good+ in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 053865

Catalogue: Mystery