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The Amazing Web

By: Keeler, Harry Stephen

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 18615

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good sound book, slight fading to spine cloth, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown, 1931 gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, light soiling to top edge]. Was there ever a Harry Stephen Keeler book that wasn't an "amazing web" of one sort or another? He was infamous for his astoundingly complicated and convoluted plotlines, rife with unusual characters and connections and coincidences that often defy not just logic but time and space as well. (In this instance, although much of the action takes place in contemporary Chicago, the trouble can be traced ...
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Counterfeit Gentleman

By: Kelland, Clarence Budington

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1960 (c.1956)

Seller ID: 13340

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good+ dj

[suspected ex-library book, although no marking as such; however, the ffep has been removed (always a suspicious sign) and none too neatly, resulting in the half-title page also being partially detached and the weakening of the front hinge; otherwise a decent enough copy, with small tape marks at top and bottom of both covers, spine slightly turned; the jacket is quite nice, clean and attractive despite having been a little bit irregularly trimmed along the top edge, and consequently a tiny bit shorter than the book itself]. "When Artemus Baldwin knelt beside the bullet-ridden corpse in t...
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If I Die Before I Wake

By: King, Sherwood

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1938

Seller ID: 20278

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn, bumping to spine ends, front hinge a little weak, small piece torn away from fore-edge of title page, vintage bookplate on front pastedown, small label on ffep from Junior League of Washington D.C. Circulating Library (but no other markings to indicate ex-library status), tiny dent in top of rear cover, gilt spine lettering a little rubbed but fully legible]. Mystery novel about a young sailor who gets mixed up in a murder plot. Basis for the delirious 1948 Orson Welles film THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI.
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The Affair of the Heavenly Voice

By: Knight, Clifford

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1937)

Seller ID: 18657

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [a solid book, very light wear at extremities, slight fading to spine cloth, minor dampstaining to bottom edge, colorful vintage bookplate on front pastedown]. "A hair-raising tale, set on a lonely headland of California, and solved by the same Huntoon Rogers," the "amiable but colorless amateur sleuth" (per Jon L. Breen) who debuted in the author's previous, Red Badge Prize-winning novel "The Affair of the Scarlet Crab," and went on to solve sixteen more "Affair" mysteries, mostly set in the American West or Southwest. The plot of this one con...
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The Ticket Out

By: Knode, Helen

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Inc.: (c.2003)

Seller ID: 20113

ISBN: 0-15-100184-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely book, slight bump to base of spine, no other discernible wear; jacket shows just the tiniest traces of surface wear]. First novel by this ex-film critic, then-wife (now ex-wife) of James Ellroy, a crime novel about "a movie critic for a counterculture rag in Los Angeles" who gets involved with a murder, falls in love with the LAPD detective on the case, and ends up searching for "the victim's missing script [which] tells of another murder, yet another dead woman, in L.A. in 1944." Pretty meta-meta, I'd say.
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Fine Feathers [original U.K. title: "Miss Brandt, Adventuress"]

By: Lawrence, Margery

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1928)

Seller ID: 23787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[modest shelfwear, slight deterioration to cloth at spine ends; jacket has some paper loss at top of spine (taking part of the title with it) and at lower extremities]. The exploits of a female jewel thief, whose "brilliance and beauty make her a figure of power and distinction, no matter what company she moves in." Hot on her trail is one Jack Dering, "the master mind of Scotland Yard." This was apparently the first published novel by this author, who became better known in later years for her literary forays into spiritualism and the occult. Originally published (in England) in 1923 by H...
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Eye of the Shadow

By: Lexander, Ren

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Ringwood, Vict., Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd.: 1993

Seller ID: 5873

ISBN: 0-14-013419-0

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[nice and tight, some rubbing to covers, paper-clip indentatation at top of front cover, a couple of pages scrunched at bottom]. Trade PB Paperback original. "Michael Trentham regains consciousness in hospital, blind and with no memory of who he is or how he comes to be there. Is his mind trying to blank out some terrible memory? What sort of person is he? He learns he is the author of an unfinished mystery based on the real-life murder of his publisher. How much of this book is fact and how much fiction? Is the killer really behind bars?"
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Blondie Iscariot

By: Lustgarten, Edgar

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1948

Seller ID: 3386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Poor dj

Good in Fair dj [book well-worn all around, bumped corners, paper-covered boards frayed at top of spine; jacket similarly worn, missing top 1-1/2" of spine, 1-1/2" x 2" section of surface peeled away on front panel]. The author's second novel, "a grim, sardonic story of London's underworld, of gang rivalry for control of such profitable enterprises as dope-peddling, the dogs, and 'protection.' [The author] takes the reader to police headquarters, to a gang ruler's trial, to barrooms and nightclubs, into hoodlums' conferences, and into the night streets of London where violence ...
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Sweet Deals [SIGNED]

By: Lysaght, Brian

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 12935

ISBN: 0-312-78081-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight copy, faint soiling to top edge; jacket bright and clean but faded at spine, with a couple of itsy-bitsy tears and associated wrinkling at top of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED ("To my client / _____ -- / Love, / Brian") by the author, inscription dated in year of publication. The author's second novel featuring "streetwise, maverick lawyer" Ben O'Malley, who returns to L.A. from a self-imposed exile in San Francisco, and with his partner gets involved in the search for a wealthy woman's missing husband, and "while bulling his way from the high-powered circles o...
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The List of Adrian Messenger

By: MacDonald, Philip

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club: 1959

Seller ID: 18559

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good+ dj

[an ex-rental library copy, with library stamps on ffep somewhat "whitewashed" over, the page additionally adorned with orange-marker scribble of ex-owner's name and a large semi-circle, the rear endpaper also containing an orange-marker drawing of a box and a couple of light tape-stains; other than these imprecations, however, the book is only slightly worn and quite presentable; jacket shows just a bit of wear at extremities and very minor surface rubbing, suggesting that it was covered by a jacket protector for most of its life]. Suspense/crime novel, about a series of murders linke...
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The Noose

By: MacDonald, Philip

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 19298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[slight bump to top rear corner, scrunching to bottom corners of last ten pages or so, light age-toning to page edges; jacket moderately worn, with small tears and occasional slight paper loss at several corners]. Reprint edition of this early MacDonald title, featuring Anthony Gethryn, "a detective of the nonchalant, super-dangerous sort who gives the reader a thrill with every drawl." Vintage printings of this book in any kind of jacket are scarce; the design here replicates that of the first American edition, albeit with a slightly different color scheme.
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Some Like 'em Shot

By: Malina, Fred

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, M. S. Mill/William Morrow: 1949

Seller ID: 4551

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(beige paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [spine turned, mild soiling, shelfwear at bottom, small tears in paper-covered boards at both ends of spine, previous owner's address label on front pastedown, a bit of tape residue near bottom of spine]. A lawyer is hired by the "Negro Anti-Discrimination Committee" to defend a black chauffeur accused of murdering a former U.S. Senator.
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Murder Meets Mephisto

By: Mario, Queena

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1942

Seller ID: 14508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [ex-lending library book, although the only marks are two stamps on the ffep; other than that, the book is only lightly worn, and is unblemished except for some minor staining to the endpapers and a previous owner's signature in pencil upside-down on the rear pastedown; (the scanned image makes the book look rather mottled for some reason, when in fact it's uniform in color and quite nice-looking)] The second of three opera-themed mystery novels by an author who was herself an operatic diva, having made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1922; she later became one of the nation'...
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The Trip to Jerusalem

By: Marston, Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1990

Seller ID: 17553

ISBN: 0-312-05174-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket lightly edgeworn, small surface-peel scar at top of rear panel, very slight moisture-rippling to rear panel]. The author's third "Elizabethan Whodunit," featuring Nicholas Bracewell and his troupe of thespians, embarking on a road tour in the North of England in order to avoid the Black Plague, which is ravaging London.
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Seeds of Murder

By: Mason, Van Wyck

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, for the Crime Club: 1930

Seller ID: 19401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [very nice book, faint wear to extremities, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, with various small tears and nicks, and some associated creasing]. Mason's first novel, also the first of his 26 books featuring U.S. Army Intelligence officer Captain (later Major) Hugh North.
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The Crime in the Boulevard Raspail

By: Massey, Ruth

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London/Edinburgh/etc., Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 10719

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, mild soiling to cloth, light fraying at several corners, previous owner's faint stamp on front pastedown, tiny bookseller's stamp on ffep]. Scarce mystery novel set in Paris; "a tale for those who know nothing about art, and for those who know too much."
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The Whistling Legs

By: McDougald, Roman

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1945

Seller ID: 23699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minimal shelfwear, light age-tonin to edges of text block; jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge, minor edgewear along bottom of front panel]. (An Inner Sanctum Mystery) Series Murder mystery (the author's second) with a clever, albeit contrived, set-up: a guy calls a private detective and warns him of an impending murder that will take place that night at the caller's house, which will then be staged to appear as though it was committed by the caller, and confirmed by the subsequent discovery of the caller's corpse accompanied by an incriminating "suicide" note. [NOTE, for...
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Fire Will Freeze

By: Millar, Margaret

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1944)

Seller ID: 24317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[ex-rental library book (marked as such only by a large stamp on the ffep), well-worn, soiling to edges of text block; jacket is slightly trimmed (i.e. just a bit shorter than the book itself), backed with brown paper, tape-stained along edge of front flap and down the middle of the rear flap (with a little loss of text on the latter), but still and all pretty clean and attractive]. Murder mystery set at a run-down chateau in the wilds of Quebec, the author's fifth novel in as many years. The rear-jacket biography of Mrs. Millar is a nice reminder that she was already well established as a w...
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Speedy Death

By: Mitchell, Gladys

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, Mason Publishing Co.: 1932 (c.1929)

Seller ID: 19263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[spine turned, light wear to base of spine and bottom corners; jacket slighty faded at spine, with tiny tears at several corners, one-inch closed tear and associated creasing at top of front panel]. An early reprint of the prolific Ms. Mitchell's first novel (first published in the U.S. by Dial Press in 1929), in which a famous arctic explorer is found dead in a bathtub at an English country house -- and is discovered to have been a woman! (Much, I suppose, like a purchaser of this book by "G.M. Mitchell," as she is called in the front jacket panel, might have been surprised to have l...
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Salute Blue Mask!

By: Morton, Anthony [pseud. for John Creasey]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 20117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(gray decorated cloth; no dust jacket) [good solid copy, slight fraying to cloth at spine ends, light stain at top of fore-edge]. Third novel in the long-running "Baron" series, which eventually spanned nearly fifty books and inspired a short-lived 1960s TV series. According to the copyright page the original British title of the book was "Salute the Baron!" (and it was indeed published years later, in various editions, as "Salute for the Baron"), but in this instance the publisher made an error: it was actually first published in the U.K. as "The Baron Again"...
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective