‎Biography‎

‎Irish, William (Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich)‎

‎WALTZ INTO DARKNESS‎

‎N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Co 1947. First Edition so stated. Publisher's blue boards with burgandy lettering at spine and fronr. Boards show some very light wear along spine head and foot and light soiling. A fine bright crisp dust jacket unclipped $2.75 price. Beautiful copy. 1880's New Orleans. From "the supreme master of suspense"comes the chilling chronicle of one man’s descent into madness. New York Times When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail he’s shocked that she doesn’t match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs concealing from her the details of his wealth and so he mostly feels fortunate to find her so much more beautiful than expected. Soon after they marry however he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters a fact that becomes unavoidable when she suddenly disappears with his fortune. Alone desperate and inexplicably love-sick Louis quickly descends into madness obsessed with finding Julia and bringing her to justice - and simply with seeing her again. He engages the services of a private detective to do so embarking on a search that spans the southeast of the country. When he finally tracks her down the nightmare truly begins. . . A dark tale of the destructive power of love Waltz into Darkness is a classic "femme fatale" narrative that shows "the father of the modern suspense story" LA Times at the top of his unsettling craft. It has been adapted for film twice most notably serving as the basis for Francois Truffaut’s 1969 film " Mississippi Mermaid.". The screenplay was written by Cornell Woolrich and Francois Truffaut and starred Catherine Deneuve and Jean Paul Belmondo. Also filmed as "Original Sin"; a 2001 American erotic romantic thriller film written and directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. This copy although not marked as such comes from the collection. of noted crime collector Gary Groton. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. J. B. Lippincott Co‎

Bookseller reference : 021375

‎Perry, Anne‎

‎FARRIERS' LANE SIGNED COPY‎

‎NY: Fawcett 1993. 1st edition April 1993 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Perry at title page. In this the 13th outing for Victorian-era Police Inspector Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife Charlotte it's Gracie the Pitt maid of all work who uncovers the most telling and dramatic clue. The story starts with the poisoning murder of Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Stafford in his box at the theater. Pitt's job is to determine whether the motive is connected to the hanging execution five years before of Aaron Godman convicted of a particularly gruesome killing that roused anti-Semitic hysteria at the time. On the day of his death Stafford had visited several of the lawyers involved in the Godman trial and subsequent appeal. Had he found something that might clear Godman's name--the goal of a persistent campaign by Godman's actress sister Tamar Could the discreet affair between Stafford's wife Juniper and lawyer Adolphus Pryce have a bearing on the crime When Constable Paterson a major witness in Godman's trial is found hanged in his bachelor lodgings the case assumes an urgency that pushes Gracie to the impulsive act that marks the beginning of the end." Kirkus Review. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Fawcett Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021385 ISBN : 0449905691 9780449905692

‎Paul, Elliot‎

‎MAYHEM IN B-FLAT‎

‎N.Y.: Dover Publications Inc. 1988. First Printing. A fine unread copy. Vacationing in Normandy suave sleuth Homer Evans and his stylish pistol-packing friend Miriam Leonard catch sight of a familiar member of the notorious gang the St. Julian Rollers. As Homer and Miriam depart for Paris that gang member called the Singe is also at the Rouen train station and covertly signals to their compartment as the train pulls from the station. The investigation of the theft of a rare Guarnerius violin during a public concert is unexpectedly complicated by multiple murders gang warfare mysterious poisons and a possible escape from Devil's Island. What follows lives up spectacularly to the title of Elliot Paul's mystery classic. Against a richly evoked background of Paris in the 1930s Homer and Miriam deftly manage to mix serious detection with madcap adventure. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Kennedy Paul E. Book. Dover Publications, Inc. Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021322 ISBN : 0486256219 9780486256214

‎Stout, Rex Edited By‎

‎THE ILLUSTRIOUS DUNDERHEADS‎

‎N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc 1942. Second printing published in the same month as the first edition. Orange cloth with blue lettering along the spine and design at front. Introduction by Frank Sullivan. Illustrations by William Gropper. Very scarce. According to Sullivan and the editor this book "is a collection of some of the silliest stupidest and most dangerous statements that have ever ben made by men laying claim to being leaders of the American people. . .The quotations in this book are only a sampling of the speeches delivered in the halls of Congress and elsewhere by U.S. Senators and Congressmen who have given currency to Nazi propaganda which is designed to bring about the defeat of the United States the creation of a fascist America subservient to Hitler's Germany". 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book. Alfred A Knopf Inc‎

Bookseller reference : 021340

‎Thompson, Victoria‎

‎MURDER ON ST. MARK'S PLACE Gaslight Mysteries Ser. EDGAR AWARD FINALST‎

‎New York NY U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group 2000. 1st. Edition March 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. 2nd in series. Paperback Original reading creases slight slant else near fine. EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy birth and death -- and even murder. And the crime-ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either. Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a new life into the world Sarah Brandt is greeted by the news of an untimely death instead. It seems that Agnes's beautiful younger sister Gerda had fallen into the life of a "Charity Girl". Caught up in the false glamour of the city's nightlife she would trade her company -- and her favors -- not for money but for lavish gifts and an evening's entertainment. And now she was dead victim no doubt of one of her "gentlemen friends". First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original. Berkley Publishing Group Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021262 ISBN : 0425173615 9780425173619

‎Cerf, Bennett A. Selected, and with an Introduction By‎

‎THREE FAMOUS MURDER NOVELS: Before the Fact Trent's Last Case; The House of the Arrow‎

‎N.Y.: Random House Inc / Modern Library 1945. First Modern Library Giant Edition so stated. Selected and with an introduction by Bennett A. Cerf Editor of the Modern Library. Spine foot has 2 small cuts boards are slightly warped previous owner's name at front endpaper else good. The murder novels include: Before the Fact by Francis Iles Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley and The House of the Arrow by A. E. W. Mason. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Book. Random House, Inc / Modern Library‎

Bookseller reference : 021194

‎Gruber, Frank‎

‎PEACE MARSHALL Gruber's First Western‎

‎Chicago IL U.S.A.: Century Publications 1945. First printing. Century Western #60 Digest size .25 cover price. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Malcolm Smith. Frank Gruber's first western novel. Lightly rubbed at edges covers lightly soiled else a near fine copy of a fragile and scarce item. Basis for the 1943 film "The Kansan" Directed by George Archainbaud Starring Richard Dix Jane Wyatt Albert Dekker and Eugene Pallette. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Smith Malcolm. Vintage Paperback. Century Publications Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021182

‎Gill Anton‎

‎CITY OF DREAMS: The Second Egyptian Mystery‎

‎London: UK: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. 1993. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Reading crease pages uniformaly age toned else about fine. Someone in ancient Thebes is killing young girls quickly efficiently and silently. But these are not just any girls they are high-born. So much so that without Huy the Scribe's natural forensic talent no one would even realise that they had been murdered. Together with the policeman Merymose Huy begins the search for the killer. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021167 ISBN : 0747511764 9780747511762

‎Barnard, Robert (as Bernard Bastable)‎

‎A MANSION AND ITS MURDER‎

‎New York NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers Incorporated 1998. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "From the perspective of half a century later Sarah Jane Fearing the unwilling heiress of Fearing's Bank tells the slender tale of how her beloved Uncle Frank eager to pay off his many debts at the same time he accommodated the family frantic for a male heir entered a bargain in 1893 to marry Mary Coverdale impeccably pedigreed coldly attractive and professionally focused on reigning as chatelaine over Blakemere. The bargain turns into a disaster for everyone concerned when Frank and Mary's firstborn son turns out to be retarded; Frank and his family clash over whether Frank has fulfilled his promise to provide them with a male heir; and a ceremonious family conference erupts in what Sarah is convinced is a murder--followed by the disappearance of Frank to Australia so they say and Mary back to her older and now wiser family and by the suspicious enrichment of potential witnesses. Robert Barnard writing in his Bastable guise Too Many Notes Mr. Mozart 1996 etc. adroitly uses his story to point a familiar moral about the poisoned alliance between self-regarding old British families and the money they demand to support themselves though the moral turns out to have an extra point at the end.: -- Kirkus Review . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Incorporated Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021136 ISBN : 0786705159 9780786705153

‎Traver, Robert‎

‎LAUGHING WHITEFISH‎

‎N.Y.: McGraw Hill Book Company 1965. First edition so stated. Christmas gift inscription at front end paper else Near fine in near fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Michigan; 1871 "Willy Poe is a newcomer to Michigan's Upper Peninsula a shy lonely young lawyer yearning to meet the girl who will call him William. On a day in 1873 he met her. Her eyes were dark her hair long and black; she was beautiful and her name was Laughing Whitefish. And miracle of miracles she called the young attorney "William Poe" and presented him with as exciting challenging and hopeless a case as ever set a precedent or formed the plot of a novel. At issue is an elemental question of raw justice: can Laughing Whitefish a Chippewa Indian collect a debt owed her father the late Marji Kawbawgam She has unimpeachable proof - a tattered document giving Marji a share in the fabulous Jackson iron ore mine to which years before he led the white man. And no one denies the validity or authenticity of the document. Yet-as Traver passionately and brilliantly illustrates-Law and justice do not always coincide; Marji was a poor heathen savage who followed the ways of his people; the mine owners are powerful educated Christian gentlemen. Laughing Whitefish of Willy's days in and out of court; his often hilarious sometimes frustrating search for evidence; his surprises and setbacks - all of which lead to an absorbing suspenseful conclusion. He visits Indians and miners; he finds powerful legal arguments that will win his case - and equally powerful arguments that could lose it -and endlessly he matches wits with the "Silver Fox" one of New York's shrewdest lawyers brought out to Michigan by the rich Jackson Ore Company. Based on an actual case fought bitterly in the Michigan courts nearly a hundred years ago it is a vibrant Victorian courtroom drama a tender romance and a wonderful re-creation of the times the people and the mores." -- jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. McGraw Hill Book Company‎

Bookseller reference : 021087

‎Pears Iain‎

‎AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST‎

‎N.Y.: Riverhead Books 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Historical novel set in Oxford during the Restoration 1660s- a time and place of great intellectual religious scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman Sarah Blundy who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II a mathematician theologian and master spy; and Anthony Wood the famous Oxford antiquary. Some of the great characters of the period have important speaking roles. Robert Boyle John Locke Robert Grove and John Thurloe Cromwell's spymaster all make appearances and all are convincingly portrayed. Thurloe Boyle and Grove in particular play pivotal parts in the development of the plot. Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written utterly convincing gripping from the first page to the last. 698 pages book will need extra postage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Riverhead Books Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021103 ISBN : 1573220825 9781573220828

‎Herron, Don‎

‎WILLEFORD‎

‎Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan 1997. First Edition November 1997. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. The definative work on Willeford Small print run of about 2000 copies. The gold foil-stamp on the endpapers of the book were made from Charles Willeford's bookplate. From Dennis McMillan the Publisher --" WILLEFORD" is the first extensive critical appreciation of the life and writing of Charles Willeford 1919-1988 author of MIAMI BLUES THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY and COCKFIGHTER. From his early Depression-era experiences as a teen-age hobo through his twenty-year enlistment in the Army and Air Force including his role as a tank commander with Patton s Third Army fighting in the Battle of the Bulge his years of struggle in the paperback original jungle to a final triumph with his series of crime novels about Miami homicide inspector Hoke Moseley this book tells his story. Don Herron provides the fascinating background to all of Willeford s books from PROLETARIAN LAUGHTER 1948 through the fifth Hoke Moseley novel left unfinished at the time of his death. The stories behind HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA PICK-UP WILD WIVES LUST IS A WOMAN THE HOMBRE FROM SONORA and OFF THE WALL are detailed here for the first time. Herron includes much previously unknown information on lost books such as THE WHIP HAND and on the unpublished novels which Willeford turned to for the substance of the Hoke Moseley series. Lesser-known literary facts of Willeford s forty-year career are also chronicled; from his assistant-editorship of ALFRED HITCHCOCK S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to a twenty-year stint as mystery reviewer for the Miami Herald. Willeford s other artistic endeavors are treated in depth including his acting career starting with stage plays in the 1940s and culminating with a major part in his movie COCKFIGHTER directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton. Herron also relates Willeford s long-term avocation as a prankster recording many of his hilarious routines to which he himself fell victim more than once! WILLEFORD also features the most complete bibliography of Willeford s ever assembled both primary and secondary as well as his longest interview - over one hundred pages of never-before-published conversations with the author of MIAMI BLUES. 480pgs. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Dennis McMillan Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021119 ISBN : 0939767260 9780939767267

‎Williams, Beryl and Samuel Epstein with Introduction By Walter Gibson‎

‎THE GREAT HOUDINI: The Life and Secrets of the Master Magician‎

‎N.Y.: Pocket Books Jr. 1951. First printing February 1951. Pocket Books Jr. #J-63. Interior and cover Illustrated by Louis Glanzman. Introduction by Walter Gibson. Includes index. Reading crease edges of text block dye still bright red a couple of small creases at lower front else a near fine tight copy. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Glanzman Louis S. Vintage Paperback. Pocket Books, Jr. Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021032

‎Bailey HC. H. C.‎

‎BLACK LAND WHITE LAND: A Mr. Fortune Novel Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. Old bones plus new bones require the attention of Mr. Fortune. "Black land white land always at strife." So goes the old saying in Durshire where the people who once owned the black land were pushed off it ages ago to the white land the barren chalk hills above the fertile alluvial plains. And history seems to be repeating itself as rich newcom~rs still continue to usurp the black-land holdings of impoverished landowners. Reginald Fortune who's summoned to Durshire by his eccentric friend General Duddon is thrust into this age-old conflict when the general's discovery of ancient giant's bones turns out to include the rather recent bones of a boy who disappeared some ten years ago. Reggie stubbornly searches for the lad's murderer undeterred by bitter family feuds and the uncooperative and incompetent Superintendent Bubb who takes over the case when his chief constable meets with an unfortunate accident. Reggie very nearly meets with one himself when he's left for dead in a chalk pit but with a little help from his friend Lomas at Scotland Yard he lives to see justice done and young love triumph. A self-described country doctor with no imagination Reggie solves his cases by sheer determination and highly developed powers of observation. First published in 1937 this is his second novel-length case. A. 1st Prtg. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Book. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 021046 ISBN : 1601870299 9781601870292

‎Rinehart, Mary Roberts‎

‎THE FRIGHTENED WIFE and Other Murder Stories‎

‎N.Y.: Rinehar & Company Inc 1953. First edition third printing so stated on front inside jacket flap. The book is bound in black boards with bright red & white letters on the spine. Pages are age toned else a near fine copy in dust jacket light wear along folds small chip out at head of spine not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Rinehart was an American writer often called the American Agatha Christie although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's. She is considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. She also created a costumed supercriminal called "the Bat" who was cited by Bob Kane as one of the inspirations for his "Batman." This volume contains five of Mary Roberts Rinehart's finest - two long stories and three shorter ones told with skill and finesse. In addition to THE FRIGHTENED WIFE this collection includes: THE BURNED CHAIR MURDER AND THE SOUTH WIND THE SCANDAL and IF ONLY IT WERE YESTERDAY. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Rinehar & Company, Inc‎

Bookseller reference : 020925

‎Trow, MJ. M. J.‎

‎LESTRADE AND THE GUARDIAN ANGEL: Lestrade Mystery Series Volume VIII AWARD FINALIST‎

‎Washington D.C. U.S.A.: Regnery Publishing Inc. 1999. First U.S. edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. FINALIST FOR THE LAST LAUGH DAGGER AWARD. "When a horse steps on his foot during public celebrations of Queen Victoria's Jubilee it's only the first of the problems that will beset Inspector Sholto Lestrade of Scotland Yard hero of Trow's lively series of period mysteries this being the eighth. A royal Guardsman is found drowned in the Thames with a war medal stuck between his teeth; the body of an eminent Egyptologist is discovered an exotic amulet similarly positioned. ``The Curse of the Pharaohs'' Lestrade's colleagues murmur while corpses keep popping up and the inspector undertakes an arduous investigation during which he dons a diving suit rides with the Yorkshire Hussars ascends in a balloon and endures the lascivious attentions of several remarkably forthright women. Lady Randolph Churchill shows up as do Dr. John Watson Sherlock Holmes having gone to his reward the vertically challenged police officer Little Boyd Blue and ``civilian balloonist'' brothers Gerry and ``Sally'' Mander. One understands why Holmes considered the affable Sholto something of a twit he commits horrendous wordplay at the drop of a clue even pronouncing an excitable butler a ``fervent servant. All ends entertainingly though as a well-concealed double-surprise finale unmasks the unlikely murderer leaving Lestrade free to pun at large and investigate again." -- Kirkus Review . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Regnery Publishing, Inc.‎

Bookseller reference : 020981 ISBN : 0895262673 9780895262677

‎Mavity Nancy Barr‎

‎THE MAN WHO DIDN'T MIND HANGING‎

‎Garde: Crime Club Doubleday 1932. 1st edition. Publishers black cloth with orange blocked lettering. Covers soiled corners bumped a few early pages spotted else very good copy. The fifth James Aloysius "Peter" Piper title; San Francisco CA. Peter Piper a young reporter investigates the murder of a millionaire philanthropist whose Chinese servant with a Ph.D. seems only too willing to hang for the crime. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. Book. Crime Club Doubleday‎

Bookseller reference : 020881

‎Warne, Philip S. / Howard W. Macy Editied By Marlena E. Bremseth‎

‎WHO WAS GUILTY: TWO DIME NOVELS The Lost Classic Series‎

‎Norfolk VA U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru 2005. 1st printing. Fine unread copy of the trade paperback still in shrink-wrap. The 17th volume in Crippen & Landru Lost Classics Series. Philip Schuylar Warne the first known person of African-American descent to publish a mystery in the United States and Howard W. Macy whose works predate Warne's were popular dime novel writers during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Both clever wordsmiths Warne and Macy demonstrate their skills in the two mystery novellas featured in this book. Published before detective fiction became a widely recognized genre Warne's " Who Was Guilty" 1881 and Macy's "The Mystery of Sea-Eagle Tavern" 1872 will keep readers guessing until both stories startling conclusions. In her introduction editor and popular culture literature scholar Marlena E. Bremseth offers another startling conclusion. Her detective work has unearthed compelling evidence that Philip S. Warne was in actuality a pseudonym of Howard W. Macy. Very low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket and trade softcover.". First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Crippen & Landru Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020895 ISBN : 1932009272 9781932009279

‎Gill, Gillian‎

‎AGATHA CHRISTIE: The Woman and Her Mysteries‎

‎N.Y.: The Free Press 1990. 1st edition. fine in dust jacket. Gill is a teacher at Harvard specializing in modern fiction and feminist theory--the roots of her interest in the phenomenally popular British author/playwright. In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy. The break-up of Agatha's first marriage to Archibald Christie and her subsequent ten-day disappearance had made headline news. Feeling hunted and wounded by the press Christie determined never again to let them into her private life. Instead she developed a public persona – seemingly tongue-tied and dull – which ensured the journalists and the public would let her be. This successful strategy helped to account for a happy second marriage and family life as well as an astonishing literary productivity. Skillfully weaving the details of Christie's life with the plots and characters of her mystery novels Gillian Gill uncovers the flesh-and-blood woman behind the popular and celebrated Marple-like image and establishes Agatha Christie as a unique and determined person whose fictional creations sparked the imagination of millions around the world. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. The Free Press‎

Bookseller reference : 020903

‎Wells Carolyn‎

‎THE LUMINOUS FACE‎

‎N.Y.: George H. Doran Company 1921. First edition. Gray cloth with black lettering. Covers are lightly spotted edges show light wear with lower edge being bumped and has a small splitin cloth slight lean else very good in dust jacket a couple of small chips some light wear at folds lightly soiled and spotted else a very nice dust jacket. Interesting note on the jacket. Today's books usually have a synopsis of the plot at flaps and advertisements at rear. Doran has the synopsis at rear panel and advetisements on both flaps. Very scarce in dust jacket. Features Pennington Wise in his fifth outing New York City. The death of Robert Gleason a wealthy businessman from Seattle at first looked like a suicide. He had called his doctor saying that he was shot and when the doctor arrived at his New York apartment the door was locked. After breaking down the door his body was found lying on the floor a revolver at his side. Yet certain facts argued against a verdict of suicide. Gleason had been shot twice once shot to the temple which killed him instantly and a second shot after he was dead to the shoulder. How could he have made a phone call after he was already dead A web of conflicting clues and dubious alibis baffle the police until detective Pennington Wise and his mysterious assistant Zizi are called in to solve the case. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Very Good. Book. George H. Doran Company‎

Bookseller reference : 020908

‎Doherty, Paul‎

‎THE DEMON ARCHER SIGNED COPY‎

‎London: Headline 1999. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. Historical. Hugh Corbett title. 1303 England. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Doherty at title page. The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the Feast of Saint Matthew 1303 is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies his midnight trysts with a coven of witches he was a man of few friends. So when Hugh is asked to bring his murderer to justice it is not a matter of finding a suspect but of choosing between them. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 020844 ISBN : 0747222398 9780747222392

‎Vance, Louis Joseph‎

‎THE LONE WOLF: With Illustrations from the Photoplay A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN TITLE‎

‎N.Y.: A.L. Burt Company 1938. First Photoplay Edition circa 1925. A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN DEFINITIVE LIBRARY OF DETECTIVE-CRIME-MYSTERY FICTION SELECTION. Red cloth white lettering. Bottom edges heavily worn covers lightly rubbed small nick at spine head. Pages uniformally age-toned in dust jacket lighly soiled at spine else near fine. Illustrations by R.F. Schabelitz. 315 pg. The first title in the Lone Wolf mystery series about Michael Lanyard a jewel thief turned private detective. One rainy winter night an orphan is abandoned to the care of a shabby Parisian inn called Troyon’s. For the next eleven years the boy is up before dawn to clean and fetch and serve his only respite the closet to which he retires at night and the books he pilfers from the hotel’s guests. A few francs here and there also find their way into his pockets but not so much that anyone would notice--anyone that is except Bourke the cultivated Irish thief who regularly hides out at Troyon’s. Caught red-handed the amateur outwits the professional. Turn me over to the innkeepers he says and I’ll go to the police with everything I know about you. Astonished Bourke takes the boy under his wing and teaches him how to be a master criminal. The most important lesson Be friendless. Years later Michael Lanyard -- known to the authorities only as the Lone Wolf--is the world’s greatest jewel thief. When a ruthless gang of outlaws threatens to expose him unless he joins their "pack" Lanyard vows to give up crime rather than violate Bourke’s code. Only a beautiful American girl and a sinister German spy stand in his way. Reprint. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Schabelitz R.F. Book. A.L. Burt Company‎

Bookseller reference : 020866

‎Ronns, Edward (pseudonym of Edward S. Aarons)‎

‎DEATH IS MY SHADOW‎

‎NY: Mystery House 1957. 1st edition. Covers have light staining along topp and bottom edges from the remains of the old dust jacket protectors. Dust jacket is bright not price clipped $2.75 intact but it is moderately wrinkled. Pete Byrum is home after being called up for Naval maneuvers for six months. His partner in The Pelican a club and casino they own in Oswanda Louisiana has been arrested for murder and the syndicate’s man Alden Thayer who bought out Pete's partner Steve Dulaney is now running the casino. Pete wants the club back but the syndicate now controls the town the sheriff and his lawyer and the deck is stacked against him. Along with Steve's grown-up young sister Pete helps his partner escape jail when he discovers the man he’s suspected of murdering is really alive. Now Pete is wanted for the man’s murder while his partner runs away with Thayer’s wife and the syndicate’s money. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/Good-Very Good. Illus. by Binkley Ric. Book. Mystery House‎

Bookseller reference : 020803

‎Harcourt, Palma‎

‎THE DISTANT STRANGER‎

‎London: UK: William Collins Sons & Co. 1984. First edition. A near fine copy in dust jacket flaps have age toning spots spine is lightly sunned else nead fine not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Twenty-five years after an abortive and fatal attempt to escape East Germany a letter found in a dying woman's purse leads ex-soldier and now private investigator Hugh Merryck on a dangerous quest from Bonn to Paris New York and Toronto to find a man who could clear a past British ambassadors as a traitor. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. William Collins Sons & Co.‎

Bookseller reference : 020808 ISBN : 0002227576 9780002227575

‎Russell, LJ. (ed) L. J.‎

‎Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox Volume 4‎

‎Richard Bentley 1856. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Large leather bound 8vo. Gilt border boards. Two green panels gilt lettering nack motif and 5 raised bands on backstrip. One centimetre tear on backstrip. Marbled design to page edges. Marbled end pages. Hinge split at front. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9874020