The Noir Thriller (Crime Files)Biblio.com
Thriller [- Thriller Library] (The).Biblio.com
A run of fifteen issues 1933-1937
1933Best.-Nr. 88737London: Amalgamated Press 1933. Softcover. March 1933 to December 1937 Fifteen weekly issues numbers 215 253 261 264 267 268 277 278 279 281 284 285 286 296 and 461. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. A selection of fifteen issues of the Amalgamated Press's weekly crime and mystery story paper which began in February 1929 and closed in May 1940 after paper rationing. Each issue carried a complete mystery as its lead story supported by a running serial and shorter fiction. The paper became The Thriller Library in 1937 and the last issues were published as War Thriller.The run includes three Simon Templar stories by Leslie Charteris 'On the Night of the 13th' 'After the Murder' and 'The Race Train Crime'. It also has two instalments of Barry Perowne's Raffles series which began in the paper in January 1933. Other lead stories are by John G. Brandon Hugh Clevely Murdoch Duncan Roland Daniel and Oscar Schisgall. The serials include William B. Seabrook's Jungle Ways three instalments and Richard Essex's Slade of the Yard six instalments as well as Roy Vickers's The Secret Sin. The 1937 issue in the Thriller Library period carries an instalment of Dashiell Hammett's The Great Knockover. Mostly good condition given age; of the Thriller all with front and rear covers present. No jacket Amalgamated Press paperback
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