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1942Stories: Buried Treasure in Britain; The Last Voyage; Truscott Investigates; The Pennsylvania Witch Murder; The Unmasking of Gola Sing!; California Here I Come; Black Devil; What Happened to Jim Wood?; Shaitan Shadd; The Mutton Bird; Mechanically-Minded; Lost in a Swamp; The Kangaroo Hunters. Above-average wear. Book
1942Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
1936Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
193896 pages. Features: Blood Money - A Swedish Mercinary in R.F.C. Uniform and the most merciless killer on the Western Front; Murder in the Mess - A modern R.A.F. Bomber Squadron is the setting of Murder in an Officer's Mess; Smoking Prohibited - Misadventure in the Fleet Air Arm; True Story - Continuing the Personal Narrative of a Young Airman who fought in Spanish War Skies; A Spot of Snooping - A Bristol Fighter and its mission where success meant a German Gaol and failure the annihilation of fifty thousand men; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1935Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
195880 pages. Contents: The Apprentice Assassin; The Well-Adjusted Husband; The Girl Who Did Everything Wrong; Showdown in Death Canyon; I'm Always Surprising Myself; The Face of America - The Young Rocketeers (2 page colour photo); I Played (Baseball) Without Eating - Bob Cerv of the Kansas City Athletics played 28 games with a broken jaw!; Mr. Astor Outfits the Army - with several old black and white photos; Colossus on Broadway - The Story behind the $75 million effort to establish New York's new Lincoln Center project; This Dirt is Worth Millions - Powerful U.S. aluminum companies encountered many problems when they undertook to mine the valuable bauxite on the racially complex island of Jamaica; I Married Murder;. Above-average but not excessive wear. One by two inch chip from bottom edge of back cover which features colour ad for Camel cigarettes. Binding intact. Worthy copy. Book
197484 pages. Features: New Deputy-Commissioner, R.J. Ross; The King's Escort - with several archival black and white photos; VIP Section gets a home at Harrington Lake, Gatineau; Maintien(s) Le Droit - G.T. Hann/Grand Trunk Railway Regiment; The Martin's Field Murder - Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia; Open House - Frobisher Bay; Why I Joined the RCMP - Wive's Division; Police solve two hit-and-runs; A Book and Its Cover - C.W. Harvison intercepts a book intended for German POWs in Canada, and prevents an escape; Schefferville, Quebec; Electronics - an aid to criminals; "Mojo" - on the spot; Shades of Androcles; Chapel Windows Creator; Refurbishing the old St. Roch; Right Name Wrong Crime; The Brothers Jarvis; Grain Theft Solved; Stray Shot; Trapline Trouble; and more. Prior owner's name blacked out atop table of contents. Faint ink stamp to bottom of table of contents. Book
196780 pages. Features: Fights near Edmonton; New Guinea Patrol; Expo is coming to Canada!; New Patrol Vessels for Expo; Late Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood CMG passes; Fort Walsh; Written Off - Kalomo District; Tire Technology; Commissioner George B. McClellan on Police Leadership; Cpl. Bradley's Dogs Sweep N.B. Field Trial Titles; International Traffic in Stolen Gems; A Windsor, Nova Scotia Crime; Moonshine in Toronto; An Angler's Last Journey in the Northwest Territories; Leads to Murder; Asst. Commissioner T.V. Sandys-Wunsch; and more. Prior owner's details blacked out upon page one else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
1990Features: Jack Dalton - Pioneer Trail Builder; Phoenix - former mining camp at elevation; murder in Asker; A Tale of two Side-Wheelers; Siege at the Long Sault. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
1994207 pages. Index. "Provides a behind-the-scenes look at a wider group of modern scientific sleuths in Canada." - from page xi. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
1969Features: Special Feature - Apache Vengeance - The savage murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and deputy Hunkydory Holmes; Jesse (James), Frank and Cole; Gold-Filled Safe of Knight's Ferry - it floated down the Stanislaus River!; Terror on a Train - The "Harvest Excursion"; Massacre by White Men - The Tragedy of the Nueces; Tombstone 'Typos'; San Augustine Ranch House; Hobo, the horse that never quit; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1971Features: A test of courage - Sitting Bull, last Sioux to lay down his gun; Last of the horseback outlaws - 'Arkansas Tom' Daugherty; Old Pete's (Pete Peterson's) Lost gold mine; Horse king of the northwest - Charlie Newell - Goldendale, Washington; Ghosts of the Rio Puerco; Motion Picture Vignettes; Murder at Rincon - Amasa Barton killed by the Navajos; High-Wheeling to Denver - bicycles were a status symbol in 1889; A Search for Home; Wes Cates - A Lawman's life in pictures; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
1972Features: Alaska Bound - Kenneth Gideon, a young mining engineer, heads for Crow Creek, Alaska; Double Hanging at Lincoln - a daughter writes of her father's murder and of its traumatic aftermath; Slate Mountain's Golden Tunnel - is really a golden tomb; Bully of the Town - Denton, Texas; A Trek to the Gold Fields; When Horse Trading was a Profession; Henry Wickenburg's Old Colt - brief glory with the Vulture Mine, then disillusionment; Tame the Wild River - Major Frank McLaughlin and what he did to the Feather River; Horsehead Crossing; The Stolen Claim; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1973Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
1968Features: Mickey Free - Manhunter!, First time ever revealed, the full life story of the most dreaded killer in Apacheria; Tennessee Hell-raiser - Jason Ferdinand Patterson; Defeating the King of the Prairies - the wolf; Church Hollow Treasure; Old Oklahoma's Red Hills People; Mysterious John Day; Satchels, Scalpels and Buffalo Coats - the uniform of a Frontier Doctor; A Former Dorado Looks at Pancho Villa; Historian of the Vigilantes - Thomas Dimsdale; Did George Colgate have to die?; The Widow's Camels; Top of the World - Corona, Colorado; Secret of Skeleton Rock - a missing Army payroll; Murder at Horse Creek - the murder of James B. Jackson and his son; Butte City's Fortune Tellers; Desert Log Drive; Wagons by Studebaker; Kidnapped, Tarred and Feathered. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1966Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1957Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1957Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
1953Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
1951Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
1953Features: The Tragedy of the "Ouida" - a pearling lugger disappears along with three members of her crew; That Night in Shanghai - Mr. and Mrs. Aitchison no longer sleep with a tree close to their window; African Nights - a young family is relocated to a home in the middle of the African wilds; A Fool Afoot in France - the amusing narrative of an economy traveller in France; Deadline Hitch-hike - the author, new to America, hitch-hiked from Arkansas to Colorado in 10 days; High Seas Murder - the new Malay fireman was a trouble-maker; Moroccan Location - a breezy account of the adventures of the people engaged in making the well-known "Black Rose" film among the Berber hillmen of Morocco - many photos; Frozen Terrow - Paddy Brennan was as tough as a youngster could be; The Rubber Hunters; Mediterranean Pirates - Recent happenings in Tangiers - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Nice copy. Book
1953Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
1952Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1952Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
