‎Biography‎

‎Russell , J. (ed)‎

‎Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox‎

‎Richard Bentley 1853. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's inscription inside cover. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Large leather bound 8vo. Gilt border on front board and rear board. 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. Signature on first page. Slight shelf wear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN: Richard Bentley hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9874022

‎Maxwell, WH. W. H.‎

‎Life of his Grace the Duke of Wellington‎

‎Afred H. Bally and co 1841. Volume 3. 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. Medium Quarter bound leather marbled 8vo. Gilt lettering and motif on backstrip. 6 raised bands on backstrip. Frontispiece. Heavy foxing and some damp damage. 4 panels. Interior is secure. Shelf wear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1050grams ISBN: Afred H. Bally and co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9874024

‎Palmer, Stuart‎

‎HILDEGARDE WITHERS: UNCOLLECTED RIDDLES Lost Classics Ser.‎

‎Norfolk VA U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2002. 1st prtg. Trade Paperback edition published simultaneously with the hardcover The fourth volume in the Lost Classic Series. 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." Eleven stories with a checklist of Hildegarde Withers short stories. Hildegarde Withers the creation of Stuart Palmer 1905-1968 is the original schoolmarm detective. After she first appeared in The Penguin Pool Murder in 1931 she was so popular that a series of movies starring Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason followed and Palmer wrote short stories about Miss Withers for Mystery a slick-paper magazine sold only in Woolworth's stores between 1933 and 1935. These stories filled with the sights and sounds of New York during the depression museums flea-circuses burlesque shows Latin gigolos are genuine forgotten classics. The introduction is by Stuart Palmer's widow Jennifer Venola. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Cross Gail. Book. Crippen & Landru, Publishers Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020744 ISBN : 1885941854 9781885941855

‎Dickinson, Peter‎

‎A SUMMER IN THE TWENTIES‎

‎N.Y.: Pantheon Books 1982. First American Edition so stated. Page edges lightly soiled else near ine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A Summer in the Twenties is specifically about the summer of 1926 but not only the infamous British General Strike of 1926 but also the twenties of many of the participants. General Hankey calls his son Tom back from a holiday because he wants his son to learn to drive a train so he can help keep the coal moving. Tom is willing to do his bit--after all it will give him a chance to prove himself since he was just too young for the Great War. He gets more than he bargained for.he winds up involved with Bolsheviks and dockworkers and vigilantes. Someone is playing dirty in the ranks and Tom's sense of honor forces him to unearth the one who is playing both sides off of one another and nearly gets himself shot for his trouble. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Pantheon Books‎

Bookseller reference : 020754 ISBN : 0394513304 9780394513300

‎Tully, James‎

‎THE CRIMES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE: The Secrets of a Mysterious Family‎

‎N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc. 1999. First edition so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "My name is Martha Brown and for over 20 years I was servant to the Bronte family at Haworth Parsonage." So begins a deposition in this provocative if melodramatic novel by truecrime writer Tully Prisoner 1167: The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper. The story begins in modern times when solicitor Charles Coutts discovers Brown's deposition hidden in his 200-year-old law firm's antique-filled attic in Yorkshire. Coutts becomes fascinated by Brown's claim that the Brontes were likely murdered and that elder sister Charlotte both knew and approved of Anne's death. To propel this doubtful scenario Tully weaves together historical research and speculation to produce a revisionist sinister picture of the Bronte clan. The chief villain here is not the accepted cause of fatality -- the ravages of advanced tuberculosis -- but their father's associate Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls. Tully posits that Nicholls had a Svengali-like hold on the sisters which likely inspired the creation of their novels Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. A decade after the publications of their books all three sisters are dead along with their brother Branwell and their father and Brown's detailed plot involves manipulative envy property acquisition and poison. Brown's deposition falters stylistically in that it neither reconstructs Victorian language nor produces a modern equivalent but the mystery it unravels will intrigue or vex readers familiar with the Bronte legacy. Coutts's comments suggest that the "authorized" version of this legacy is romanticized and mythic a pure pastoral tale of three brilliant sisters languishing in the English countryside. Instead Tully sees plagiarism sexual indiscretions and a murder plot alongside religious fervor and burning literary ambitions. Just as interesting are the harsh details of servant Brown's daily struggles and her fly-on-the-wall perspective." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.‎

Bookseller reference : 020715 ISBN : 0786706465 9780786706464

‎Branch, Pamela‎

‎THE WOODEN OVERCOAT: A Comedy of Manners with the Occasional Murder‎

‎Lyons Colorado U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2006. 1st Us edition. Originally published in England in 1951. A fine unread copy. Introduction by Tom & Enid Schantz. Clifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only to name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its comforts and unique services. Unfortunately there isn't room at the club for Benji Cann a gentleman's outfitter newly acquitted-to his great surprise-of murdering his mistress. So Flush arranges for Benji to be temporarily quartered next door in a ratinfested house inhabited by two artistic couples. When Benji and a female member of the Asterisk Club turn up dead the two households both have reason to avoid the police and dispose of the bodies. This is the first American edition of this witty tale of misadventure sure to appeal to fans of Robert Barnard Ruth Dudley Edwards and Sarah Caudwell. First US Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020678 ISBN : 0915230887 9780915230884

‎Hay Mavis Doriel‎

‎MURDER UNDERGROUND British Library Crime Classics‎

‎London: British Library Crime Classics 2014. 1st paperback printing. As new. It's 1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station her fellow boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle'. Several of her fellow residents - even Tuppy the terrier - have parts to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest. This classic mystery novel is set in and around the Northern Line of the London Underground. It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Book. British Library Crime Classics Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020650 ISBN : 0712357254 9780712357258

‎Hardy, Lindsay‎

‎REQUIEM FOR A REDHEAD: She Was the Clue in a Deadly Race for Fortune‎

‎N.Y.: Signet Books 1954. 1st pbk prtg September 1954. Signet #1154 .25 cover price. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Erickson. Edges lightly worn damp stained at inside covers and a few pages but not text. Interior tanned. "Assignment Redhead" released in the US as Million Dollar Manhunt is a 1956 British crime thriller film written and directed by Maclean Rogers. It is based on the novel Requiem for a Redhead by Lindsay Hardy. The UK title of this film refers to the accordion-playing character central to the plot Hedy Bergner. Starred Richard Denning who would later go on to play Michael Shayne in US TV series. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good/Near Fine. Illus. by Erickson. Vintage Paperback. Signet Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020656

‎Mitchell, Gladys‎

‎THE LONGER BODIES A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2009. 1st US Edition originally pub in 1930 in Great Britian. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. An athletics competition to win an inheritance highlights this most eccentric British mystery featuring a most eccentric sleuth. Old Mrs. Puddequet thought it would be great fun to determine which of her five grandnephews would inherit her fortune by devising an athletics competition for them to take part in. To that end she turns the grounds of her estate into an 0 lympics field and sets the cousins to training in various field events including the discus the long jump and the shot put. All prove singularly inept at their events to the vexation of their trainer Kost who has been hired to coach them. Also on hand are the three sisters of the young men who are simply along for the ride as well as the old lady's adopted grandson who has been written out of her will because he aspires to be an actor and Mrs. Puddequet's paid companion Miss Caddick who has secret expectations of her own. When the body of a loutish villager is found in a lake on the estate Inspector Bloxham is called in to investigate. Then another murder follows and Mrs. Beatrice Bradley the noted psychoanalyst who is visiting at a neighboring estate steps in to lend the hapless Bloxham a hand. The third of Gladys Mitchell's Mrs. Bradley mysteries first published in 1930 it's an example of how the author frequently bent the rules of the fair-play detective novel to her own absurdist ends. You'll never be able to guess the killer's motives but you'll have loads of fun watching Mrs. Bradley unravel the mystery. I. First US Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020627 ISBN : 1601870345 9781601870346

‎Sted, Richard (pseudonym of Theodore Olin Thackrey)‎

‎THEY ALL BLEED RED‎

‎N.Y.: Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery 1954. 1st edition 1954 so stated. Publishers yellow cloth on boards with black lettering. Very monor soiling pages age toned in dust jacket with some edge-wear and a tiny nicks at the foot of spine and at bottom of folds. Light soiling on rear panel. Unclipped dust jacket with $2.50 price in protective mylar cover. His first and only mystery. Until the half-naked girl with the blue hair clawed and almost stabbed him Ike O'Hara thought he was involved in a friendly little expose of the meat racket in order to make headlines to sell more papers. When Ike started asking some of his shadier friends for information he got more than he bargained for. There was the matter of a grenade that just missed exploding in his lap. And as if that weren't enough four hoods with nothing but his death on their minds took him for a wild ride up the West Side Highway. But what really gave Ike O'Hara a nasty feeling in the pit of his stomach was reading his own obituary in a rival newspaper. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Leiberman Frank. Book. Simon and Schuster: An Inner Sanctum Mystery Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 020646

‎Matshall, Edison‎

‎YANKEE PASHA: The Adventures of Jason Starbuck from the Harbors of Salem to the Harems of Tartary‎

‎N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company Inc. 1949. 1st pbk printing November 1949. Dell Mapback #353. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley based on Barye Phillip's dust jacket on the first edition. Rear map of Europe Central Asia and North Africa. Very unusual sideways map. Very lightly soiled slight cover roll. Basis for the 1954 film of the same name starring Jeff Chandler as Jason Starbuck Rhonda Fleming Mamie Van Doren and Lee J. Cobb. Directed by Joseph Pevney with screenplay by Marshall and Joseph Hoffman. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Stanley Robert. Vintage Paperback. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020609

‎Sutherland, William pseudonym of John Murray Cooper‎

‎DEATH RIDES THE AIR LINE INSCRIBED COPY‎

‎N.Y.: Claude Kendall 1934. 1st US edition. Spine faded as well as edges else a very good or betted copy of this scarce title. INSCRIBED and dated by the author using his real name John M. Cooper at front endpaper. "As Sutherland writes in his preface: "I have endeavored moreover by the use of a somewhat unusual structural design to help the reader see the people concerned in it as they really were rather than as the conventional puppet-like characters of works of fiction." After only fifty-three pages--in which Sutherland assembles the crew and passengers on a plane taking off from Boston murders one of the passengers over New York stabbing and brings Detective-Inspector Grady in to investigate--Sutherland leaves the present in order give us flashbacks into the lives of the murder victim ruthless newspaper publisher Walter Schlaf and four passengers: Russell DeWitt New York judge Marguerite Rose good time gal Timothy Cowley gangster and August Jensen pilot. Sutherland notes that the events depicted in the novel occur "during the final days of Prohibition" and he hopes that this fact will "add some special interest as well as throw some more light on the conditions which that unfortunate law produced in America." The Rose and Cowley sections take particular advantage of this setting." -- 'The Passing Tramp' blog. Check out the blog for a more detailed review. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Book. Claude Kendall Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 020565

‎Kohout, Pavel‎

‎THE WIDOW KILLER‎

‎N.Y.: Picador USA 2000. 1st pbk printing January 2000 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. V ery light wear else about fa fine copy of trade paperback. Kohout is a Czech writer who was one of the leaders of the 1968 Prague Spring revolt. In the downward spiral of the Third Reich's final days a sadistic serial killer is stalking the streets of Prague. The unlikely pair of Jan Morava a rookie Czech police detective and Erwin Buback a Gestapo agent questioning his own loyalty to the Nazi's set out to stop the murderer. Weaving a delicate tale of human struggle underneath the surface of a thrilling murder story Kohout has created a memorable work of fiction. "What starts out like a murder mystery a taut and suspenseful thriller turns into a powerful and gripping allegory by a writer steeped in the tragic lessons of Czechoslovak history." ---The New York Times. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Picador USA Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020573 ISBN : 0312252897 9780312252892

‎Fearn John Russell Writing as Spike Gordon‎

‎YOU TAKE THE RAP: Gryphon Gangster Novel #5‎

‎Brooklyn New York U.S.A.: Gryphon Books 1996. 1st American publication. Published in England by Modern Fiction 1953 Paperback Original. Part of Gryphon Gangster Series #5. Fine copy in dust wrapper. Introduction by Philip Harbottle. Ron Turner illustration for the dust wrapper while the card cover illustration is a black and white drawing from the British edition with the sub-title: " Wildcat Women and Dope". 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New/As New. Illus. by Turner Ron. Paperback Original. Gryphon Books Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020515

‎Peters, Ellis‎

‎THE HOLY THIEF SIGNED COPY‎

‎London: Headline 1992. 1st editionwith complete number line beginning with 1. With the usual tanning to the pages especially the edges because the publisher used cheap paper else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover Illustration by Clifford Harper. Map on the endpapers SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. 282 pps. In the nineteenth installment in the Brother Cadfael series the abbey is entertaining two parties of travelers: a pair of monks from their sister monastery at Ramsey and a troubladour from Provence with his footman and singing slave-girl. They are also expecting a flood and are preparing to evacuate the relics of the abbey especially the prized reliquary with the bones of St. Winifred to higher ground. Theft and murder ensue and Brother Cadfael does some investigating. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Harper Clifford. Book. Headline Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 020524 ISBN : 0747206864 9780747206866

‎Fossum, Jack‎

‎COP IN THE CLOSET Royal Canadian Mounted Police Biography SIGNED COPY‎

‎North Vancouver: British Columbia Canada: Hancock House Publishers Ltd 1981. 1st edition. Light wear else near fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed light wear at extremities.SIGNED by Fossum with brief inscription and dated June 1982. An inside look into the life of a Royal Canadian Mountie. he Mounties have a long history and a tradition to be proud of and every man in the field glories in his knowledge of this inheritance. But he also has to cope with the petty annoyances of Rules and Regs the hardships of isolated postings the dangers of confronting armed criminals the frustrations of having to confiscate liquor and pour all of it out. Every officer has his own secret for survival: Jack Fossum's was a sense of humor. This is an insider's look at the grassroots level of a famous force. Jack Fossum joined the RCMP in the thirties just in time to act as escort for nude Doukhobors and apply the techniques of riot control against men made desperate by the depression. He performed in the Musical Ride outwitted moonshiners stalked arsonists nervously set up roadblocks to stop killers - and accidentally ended up in the clink himself! Through many of his adventures were hair-raising at the time he chooses to remember the funny twists the ironies and the reader's sympathies are immediately engaged. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Very Good. Book. Hancock House Publishers Ltd‎

Bookseller reference : 020543 ISBN : 0888390815 9780888390813

‎Morson, Ian‎

‎FALCONER'S JUDGEMENT: A Medieval Oxford Mystery.‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1996. 1st US edition February 1996 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 2nd in the series featuring Regent Master of 13th century Oxford William Falconer. Set in thirteenth-century Oxford; it is 1264 and Pope Alexander lies dying. Our protagonist Regent Master Falconer serves as a monk a lecturer and teacher an Aristotelian philosopher and amateur sleuth. Sadly as the Pope lies dying the cardinals begin to position themselves for power in attempt to become the next pope. Meanwhile back in England a sinister murderer develops a dark and deadly scheme. The power struggle within the church hierarchy turns lethal in Oxford when Cardinal Otho's the Papal Legate brother is killed by an assassin's arrow; the blame quickly falls upon a group of rioting students. Now Falconer must solve the mystery and find the murderer in order to save their lives while sinister forces work against him. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press‎

Bookseller reference : 020422 ISBN : 0312139713 9780312139711

‎Bailey, HC. H. C.‎

‎THE GARSTON MURDER CASE: A Joshua Clunk Title‎

‎Garden City New York: Doubleday Crime Club 1930. 1st edition. Very minor wear to cloth else a near fine copy. The first book in the series featuring hymn-singing criminal lawyer Joshua Clunk who investigates stolen industrial secrets and a string of murders on the palatial estate of the Garston family and in the surrounding villages. This copy although not marked as such comes from the George Cloos collection of detective fiction. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Crime Club‎

Bookseller reference : 020487

‎Wallace, Edgar‎

‎THE SECRET HOUSE‎

‎Boston MA: Small Maynard & Company 1919. 1st US edition. Very light wear at edges else a verygood-near fine copy. There is a scandalous periodical entitled 'The Gossip's Corner' which runs scurrilous tales of anybody and everybody and it is run by a supposed blackmailer whose identity has baffled the police. He makes plenty of money at his game that is until T.B. Smith a singularly astute Assistant Commissioner from Scotland Yard gets involved. This copy although not marked as such comes from the auction of the George Cloos collection of detective fiction. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Small, Maynard & Company‎

Bookseller reference : 020498

‎Cecil, G.‎

‎Life of Robert Marquis of Salisbury Volume 1‎

‎Hodder & Stoughton 1921. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Octavo. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering in a black panel on backstrip. Bumped corners and scuffed edges. Top of backstrip torn. Worn covers. Covers coming loose. Age-toned pages. Frontispiece of Lord Robert Cecil. Slight foxing. Chipped page edges. Loose binding. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Hodder & Stoughton hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9232111

‎Sedley, Kate‎

‎DEATH AND THE CHAPMAN FIRST IN SERIES‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1992. 1st US edition January 1992 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The first Roger the Chapman Medieval historical mystery set in England in the 15th Century during the Wars of the Roses. "A septuagenarian recalls his youth when in 1471 he quit the Benedictines no calling became a chapman a wandering peddler and discovered his affinity for detective work. A lusty romantic interlude leads him to a grieving alderman's house in Bristol where Clement Weaver the son is missing--he accompanied his sister to London to shop and disappeared right down the lane from the Crossed Hands Inn. Six months later Roger the Chapman is in Canterbury and hears of two other disappearances near the Crossed Hands Inn--that of Sir Richard Mallory and his servant. Are the incidents connected Does royal politics have a hand in it Roger hies to London and the pub across the way the Baptist's Head where he mentions his sleuthing to Thomas the innkeeper. Soon he's tailed and thwacked rescuing a damsel locked away in the upper rooms of the Crossed Hands and incurring royal indebtedness for it but still in a dither as to the disappearances. It takes some drugged wine and an excursion to the cellar for Roger the guard and another inn patron to uncover the scheme and corral the perpetrators. Charming period piece: the scenery occupations and finery are medieval but the foibles are of a contemporary nature. A strong debut." -- KIRKUS REVIEW. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press‎

Bookseller reference : 020396 ISBN : 0312069456 9780312069452

‎De Angeles, Augusto Translated By Jill Foulston‎

‎THE MYSTERY OF THE THREE ORCHIDS: An Inspector De Vincenzi Mysyery‎

‎London: UK: Pushkin Vertigo 2016. 1st pbk printing originally published in Italy in 1942. Trade size paperbak. Fine. The notorious Inspector Di Vincenzi returns in this cryptic murder mystery teeming with blackmail deceit and revenge. Death is in the air at one of Milan’s great fashion houses. As a new collection is unveiled and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous owner Cristiana O’Brian escapes upstairs to discover the strangled body of her servant slumped on her bed—a single orchid by his side. When Inspector Di Vincenzi is called in to investigate the brilliant detective is puzzled. Why is Cristiana behaving so suspiciously And what is her estranged ex-husband doing there As two additional corpses appear each accompanied by an orchid Di Vincenzi must see through dirty tricks and slippery clues in order to uncover the real killer. De Angelis was an Italian novelist and journalist most famous for his series of detective novels featuring Commissario Carlo De Vincenzi. His cultured protagonist was enormously popular in Italy but the Fascist government of the time considered him an enemy and during the Second World War he was imprisoned by the authorities. Shortly after his release he was beaten up by a Fascist activist and died from his injuries. Today De Angelis is regarder by many as the Father of Italian Crime Fiction. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Pushkin Vertigo Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020400 ISBN : 1782271724 9781782271727

‎Onionns, Oliver‎

‎IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCE‎

‎N.Y.: Garland Publishing Co 1976. 1st edition thus Originally pub in 1912. Part of the Garland Series "Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 this being #39 edited with prefaces by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. Orange cloth w/o dust jacket as issued. A fine unread copy. "Not detection but a minor classic of crime. The background planning and execution are told in the first person which unfolds the sufficient motive." - Barzun and Taylor A Catalogue of Crime #1667. Hubin p. 615. A list of all the volumes in the Garland Series "Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 is included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Book. Garland Publishing Co‎

Bookseller reference : 020416 ISBN : 0824023889 9780824023881

‎Rogers, Guy MacLean.‎

‎Alexander. The Ambiguity of Greatness.‎

‎New York: Random House 2004. xxxviii 420pp index bibliography notes appendix bw ills maps. Or black boards in jacket. Near new. A fascinating account of Alexander the Great as military leader and man. While his sexual exuberance with a taste for multiple partners of both sexes was tolerated his relatively enlightened treatment of women was nothing short of revolutionary- he outlawed rape and placed women in positions of authority. The author argues that his fascination with Persian culture customs and sexual practices may have led to his downfall and perhaps even his death. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Random House Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 050119 ISBN : 1400062616 9781400062614

‎Palmer, Stuart‎

‎THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER: The First Hildegarde Withers Mystery A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2007. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. A class trip to a Manhattan aquarium leads Miss Withers to her first case. Although the stock market had crashed recently it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get under way. For 39-year-old spinster schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers it's business as usual. And part of her usual business is taking her class for an outing to the aquarium to see the penguins. Instead she spots the floating corpse of Wall Street broker Gerald Lester and quickly realizes that Inspector Oscar Piper ofNYPD Homicide isn't up to solving this tricky case especially when he appears ready to accept the confession of an obviously innocent young man. Red herrings as well as penguins abound. Miss Withers has a number of questions that need answers before she can reel in the real murderer: Who did Lester's wife meet behind the stairs What did the pickpocket see Who was man in the fedora And just how did Miss Wither's hatpin turn into a lethal weapon First published in 1931 The Penguin Pool Murder was as big a hit with readers as it was with moviegoers when it was filmed the following year starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Withers and James Gleason as Inspector Piper. . 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020345 ISBN : 1601870132 9781601870131