Crime, Mystery & Detective

Crime, Mystery & Detective

Item #13547 The Hidden Player. Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

Item 13547The Hidden Player

London: Hodder & Stoughton, nd [1924]. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Lacking the dustjacket, but offered with a letter dated 1900 from the author tipped in. Collects 11 tales, a mixture of crime and fantasy. A nice copy with just a little bumping to the.....

Price: £50.00

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Item #10076 War Game. Anthony Price

Anthony Price

Item 10076War Game

London: Gollancz, 1976. Manuscript Unbound. Near fine. Typescript with a couple of manuscript corrections (hand unknown). 368pp rectos only. Edges a little worn, final sheet has a big chunk missing.

Price: £325.00

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Item #13354 The Anthony Berkeley Cox Files: Notes Towards a Bibliography. Ayresome Johns, George...

Ayresome Johns [George Locke]

Item 13354The Anthony Berkeley Cox Files: Notes Towards a Bibliography

London: Ferret Fantasy, 1993. Limited Paperback. A fine copy. One of 300 numbered copies. The present copy, as with all in the run, has an original typescript from Cox laid in (some pasted). Please note, we have several copies of this so the ms you receive may be different to.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #9998 Search Will Find it Out. Beatrice Harraden

Beatrice Harraden

Item 9998Search Will Find it Out

London: Mills & Boon, 1928. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Uncommon in the jacket. Listed in Hubin as a crime work. Harraden was a suffragette and much of her work directly alludes to her standpoint, though short of reading this I can't suggest that the present novel.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #11223 The Terror by Night. C. Ranger Gull

C. Ranger Gull

Item 11223The Terror by Night

London: E.V. White, 1909. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Mostly a thriller set in London involving terrorism and motor racing, borderline SF thanks to a super-explosive [Locke, III:182]. No jacket. Slight reading lean, some bumping to the corners and spine tips, a little spotting to the endpapers.....

Price: £100.00

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Item #13721 The Oldest Road. D G. Waring, Dorothy Grace

D.G. Waring [Dorothy Grace]

Item 13721The Oldest Road

London: John Long. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. A thriller following a British secret service agent in Ireland. The leader of an occult society has the ability to brainwash his 'Brethren of the Rising Moon' and induce them to basically try and trigger a world war.....

Price: £500.00

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Item #13549 The Sturgis Wager: A Detective Story. Edgar Morette

Edgar Morette

Item 13549The Sturgis Wager: A Detective Story

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. A near fine copy. Adrian Goldstone's copy, with his plate. A detective tale in the Holmes model. Slight science fiction element, though seemingly not that related to the mystery elements of the tale. A few marks to the.....

Price: £75.00

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Item #9132 The Four Just Men. Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace

Item 9132The Four Just Men

London: The Tallis Press, 1905. First / First. Hardback. Very good copies. Three volumes, described thus. (1) A very good copy inscribed by the author to the front endpaper, dated in the year of publication. Competition return slip still present. A little ageing to the leaves, and some toning and.....

Price: £1,250.00

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Item #10837 The Last Spin. Evan Hunter, Ed McBain

Evan Hunter [Ed McBain]

Item 10837The Last Spin

London: Constable, n.d. [1960]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Some short tears and a little edge wear to the jacket, light foxing to the edges. Overall a nice enough copy.

Price: £100.00

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Item #9759 Solange Stories. F. Tennyson Jesse

F. Tennyson Jesse

Item 9759Solange Stories

London: Heinemann, 1931. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by way of a pasted in plate. The inscription reads "For Gilbert Hain, with many thanks for his help with the second story - from Fryn Tennyson Jesse." A collection of short stories surrounding a French female detective.....

Price: £1,750.00

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Item #13684 Famous Detective Stories: A Near Complete Run of the Australian True Crime Magazine....

Frank Johnson [ed.]

Item 13684Famous Detective Stories: A Near Complete Run of the Australian True Crime Magazine

Sydney: Frank Johnson, 1946-1954. First Edition Paperback. Very good condition. 86 of 87 issues, with volume six, number eleven absent. This appears to be the full run from December 1946 to March 1954. A successful magazine devoted to sensationalised retellings of Australian crimes, seemingly ending publication because the major historical.....

Price: £1,275.00

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Item #10041 Martians Don't Kill (Death Has Many Doors) Typescript. Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown

Item 10041Martians Don't Kill (Death Has Many Doors) Typescript

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1951. Manuscript Unbound. Typescript for Martians Don't Kill, published as Death Has Many Doors in 1951. Fine. 108 pages, rectos only. In the agent's card folder. Some pencil corrections. Title renamed in ink to first leaf. No wear really, just a litte tanning and the final.....

Price: £1,750.00

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Item #13515 Detective Inspector Chance. George R. Sims

George R. Sims

Item 13515Detective Inspector Chance

London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974. Limited Paperback. A fine copy. One of 200 printed. Collects nine short mysteries. I presume these were copied directly from the magazine and shrunk down a little.

Price: £30.00

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Item #9882 The Mysteries of Modern London. George R. Sims

George R. Sims

Item 9882The Mysteries of Modern London

London: Arthur Pearson, 1906. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A collection of 24 short tales. Gilt a little rubbed, some tanning and some bumping to the spine tips.

Price: £325.00

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Item #13760 Body on the Pavement. Gordon Meyrick

Gordon Meyrick

Item 13760Body on the Pavement

A Golden Age Mystery

London: Eldon Press, 1942. First Edition / First Impression. Hardback. Very good condition. An uncommon crime title. Lacking the jacket. Wartime economy flexible boards, with a few marks.

Price: £30.00

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Item #13456 Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches. Harris Merton Lyon

Harris Merton Lyon

Item 13456Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches

New York: Metropolitan Syndicate Inc., 1908. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed Benjamin B. Hampton to the front pastedown, wherein he describes how he published the book as the author couldn't find a copy and printed around 500 copies. No jacket. In excellent shape overall, a little.....

Price: £425.00

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Item #10721 The Disc. J B. Harris-Burland

J.B. Harris-Burland

Item 10721The Disc

London: Greening & Co., 1909. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare Hubin-listed book. The present copy inscribed by the author. A weird mystery involving an island with huge spiders, a deranged man, a pagan priesthood and the Aztecs! Beneath the author's inscription is an owner's inscription.....

Price: £1,475.00

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Item #10710 The Air-Ship. J S. Fletcher

J.S. Fletcher

Item 10710The Air-Ship

London: Digby, Long and Co., 1903. First / First. Hardback. A good copy only, due to the ex-Boots lending library status. A very uncommon Fletcher book, collecting eight short stories. With the exception of the Boots blindstamp to the upper board, and a pull towards one of the central gatherings.....

Price: £625.00

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Item #9269 The Collector. John Fowles

John Fowles

Item 9269The Collector

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. The issue in orange boards (some were issued in black, in a very small number. No precedence has been established and thoughts vary from it being a trial or review binding, to the orange running out toward the.....

Price: £175.00

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Item #9163 My Evening with Sherlock Holmes. John Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green

John Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green

Item 9163My Evening with Sherlock Holmes

London: Ferret Fantasy, 1981. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. Numbered 100 of 100 copies and signed by both authors as issued. Collects a couple of dozen Holmes shorts. Uncommon.

Price: £160.00

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Item #13590 The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings. L T. Meade, Robert Eustace

L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace

Item 13590The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1900. Sidney Paget. Second Edition / First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Presumed second edition, with illustrated boards. 14 plates by Sidney Paget. 6pp ads to the rear. In Bleiler under detective with fantasy elements, and science fiction. A little tanning, gift inscription.

Price: £160.00

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Item #13797 The Saint Detective Magazine - A Collection. Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris

Item 13797The Saint Detective Magazine - A Collection

New York: King-Size Publications, 1945-1966. Manuscript Unbound. A small collection of items related to The Saint Detective Magazine comprising: [1] 49 typescript leaves, each being the magazine introduction by Charteris, running from issue 82 to issue 131. All are carbons; 13 are on onion skin (Hotel Majestic, Cannes), 36 are.....

Price: £875.00

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Item #9327 La Captura de Raffles [Shelockiana]. Luis Milla, Guillermo X. Roura, trans. Vivien M....

Luis Milla & Guillermo X. Roura [trans. Vivien M Flood.]

Item 9327La Captura de Raffles [Shelockiana]

Madrid: Socieded de Autores Espanoles, n.d. [book 1912-1913]. Manuscript Unbound. An interesting collection comprising a typescript in two parts (near fine) and two books in wraps (good). The manuscript is a translation to English of Milla and Roura's stage performance of Raffles' Capture. The play appears to be in two.....

Price: £750.00

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Item #9967 The Lost Viol. M P. Shiel

M.P. Shiel

Item 9967The Lost Viol

New York: E.J. Clode, 1905. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A mystery novel. Spine tips a touch bumped. A little spotted to the top edge.

Price: £80.00

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Item #11556 Drink to Yesterday. Manning Coles

Manning Coles

Item 11556Drink to Yesterday

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy in a good jacket. An English spy in WWI Germany. Some loss to the jacket and some creasing, price-clipped and an owner's inscription. Some insect damage to the jacket, and some signs of tape to the jacket.....

Price: £750.00

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