New York: Doubleday, 1979. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 328 pages. First edition. A children's book writer investigates the supposed murder of a popular writer in the southwest with the help of a local librarian. Fine. READ MORE about SKELETONS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8754
New York: Harper & Row, (1975). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (vi), 216 pages. First U.S. edition. An actor playing Sherlock Holmes decides to help the police solve a series of baffling murders. READ MORE about THREE-PIPE PROBLEM
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13120
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1943. 8vo. hardcover. 217 pages. There were some curious things happening at the auction sale, and then the murder. Very good exlibrary copy with markings. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about GOING, GOING, GONE: AN ASEY MAYO MYSTERY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135198
New York: Viking, (1976). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xii, 145 pages. First U.S. edition, with the errata slip laid-in. This detective story about the death of the poet laureate is a light hearted roman a clef about the literary establishment in England with Dylan Thomas and John Davenport as two of the principal characters. Not published until after Thomas' death because of remarks on Eliot and Auden. Bookplate removed from front free endpaper, else..... READ MORE about DEATH OF THE KING'S CANARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13541
Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1948. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition. Near fine in a cropped dust jacket. Jacket attached to the binding. Exlibris stamp on front free endpaper. Published in Australia by Angus & Robertson, in 1948 (perhaps simultaneously, as a copy of the American edition has been seen with a February 1948 inscription). The eleventh Bony story, set in the Yarra valley, Victoria. READ MORE about AN AUTHOR BITES THE DUST
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 135203
New York: Atheneum, 1972. 8vo. cloth spine, paper over board, dust jacket. 240 pages. First US edition. When a new Dead Sea scroll is discovered by an ill-fated archaeological expedition in Israeli-occupied Jordan, many theological scholars became worried. The document was reputed to be an account of the life of Christ written by Judas Iscariot at the end of his life. The events in this gospel differed markedly from more traditional accounts and the Vatican..... READ MORE about THE JUDAS GOSPEL
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 12155
Essex, UK: Ian Henry, 1985. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 157 pages. First edition thus. Fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135276
New York: St. Martin's, (1993). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 223+(1) pages. First U.S. edition. The author's first book featuring Imogen Quy, nurse to the quirky population of Cambridge University College of St. Agatha's. When a student is found dead in the library, the quietly canny nurse is almost amused to find herself entering the grand tradition of the English amateur sleuth. Very faint water stain on front free endpaper, else near fine in near..... READ MORE about THE WYNDHAM CASE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72551
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about UNHOLY WRIT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 135282
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 8vo. cloth. 320 pages. First edition (even though Scribner's has left off the "A" on the copyright page) of the author's first book. The story concerns John Rutherford, proprietor of an English country bookshop and his assistant, George Stubbings, a mystery story buff, as they encounter murder in their own village. Spine lightly aged yellow, with some wear at the head and tail. Corners lightly worn. Lacking the dust..... READ MORE about MURDER IN BLUE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 26913
New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 215 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THEY LOVE NOT POISON
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135281
London: Doubleday, 1973. large 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 205 pages. First British edition, signed by author. Bookseller Conan Flagg is also a licensed detective and an ex-intelligence agent. And that's just the situation on page 1. Evidence of bookplate removal on front and rear free endpapers. Else near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about CURIOSITY DIDN'T KILL THE CAT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 53519
Bath, UK: Chiver's Press, 1984. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 177 pages. First UK edition. The detective in this story, Conan Flagg, is a bookseller. READ MORE about SEASONS OF DEATH
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 35203
New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. vi, 180, (2) pages. First edition. In the sixth of the Conan Flagg series, the detective investigates the mysterious death of a young woman friend. Her diaries enter into the plot. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about WAKE UP, DARLIN' COREY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 44695
New York: Walker, (1975). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 180 pages. First edition. Cecil Titmuss has a well-ordered life as a deputy librarian in a provincial English town. Several savage attacks and robberies in the town bring the town members together to search for the attacker. In the hunt several sorid and fascinating secrets about the townspeople are revealed that are more chilling than the attacks. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13495
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 252 pages. First edition. A literary treasure, the romantic letters between Edgar Allan Poe and Mrs. Nancy Richmond, are still in the possession of Richmond's daughter. A young scholar who is obsessed with Poe plots to steal the letters. Exlibrary copy with markings, else fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about POE PAPERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 7982
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. ix, (iii), 240 pages. First edition. Benjamin Franklin, while visiting England in 1757, becomes involved in solving a murder. The case centers around the Hellfire Club, "Thirteen dissolute freethinkers who have scandalized all England." Evidence of exlibris removal, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about MURDER IN THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8102
