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Detective

By: Vance, Louis Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/London, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1932

Seller ID: 19858

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [decent reading copy, external wear and soiling but binding intact, spine slightly turned; vintage bookplate on front pastedown, one-time owner's signature (matching name on bookplate) and annotation about source of book on ffep Late mystery novel by the creator of "the Lone Wolf." (He died the year following its publication.)
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Pool of Tears

By: Wainwright, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1977

Seller ID: 4985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very mild wear to bottom of book; jacket rubbed but still clean and attractive, a couple of small edge-tears in rear panel].
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A Talent for Murder

By: Wells, Anna Mary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1942

Seller ID: 17652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[spine slightly turned, small stain on top edge, some discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers; jacket is heavily edgeworn, little bits of paper loss at spine ends and several corners, shallow chip at upper left-hand corner of front panel]. A psychoanalytical murder mystery, in which the accused murderess doesn't actually know if she's guilty or not. Although she testifies to her innocence in court and is acquitted, every night "she dreamed an altogether different story of what had happened, until at last she did not know which version was true and whether the truth might not be still an...
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Pursuit of a Parcel

By: Wentworth, Patricia

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1942

Seller ID: 17199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [lightly worn copy, minor spotting to covers, spine cloth a little bit faded, slight bumping at spine ends and several corners]. The third and last of the author's "Inspector Lamb" mysteries.
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The Hidden Portal

By: Weston, Garnett

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club: 1946

Seller ID: 22703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight book, minimal shelfwear, light spotting to top edge of text block, moderate offsetting to endpapers; jacket has a couple of tiny closed tears and associated minor creasing along top edge of front panel, old department store price sticker affixed to top of rear flap]. Mystery-adventure set in Spanish Morocco, involving "an attempt to reach Gibraltar through an underwater passage newly discovered after two thousand years of secrecy." The dust jacket sports one of those Dali-inspired illustrations that were all the rage for mystery novels during the 1940s.
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She Faded into Air

By: White, Ethel Lina

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 16280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[solid copy with minor shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, very light stain on top edge, old price-sticker shadow on ffep; jacket shows minor paper loss at a few corners, slight wrinkling and minor wear along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at spine ends (no text loss)]. Another variation on the "vanishing woman" theme by this author, whose best-known book, "The Wheel Spins," served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film "The Lady Vanishes." In this instance, she doubles up: two girls vanish mysteriously in the course of the story, from the same ro...
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Torch Town Boogie

By: Womack, Steven

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Headline Book Publishing: 1995 (c.1993)

Seller ID: 4144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[mild rubbing to rear panel of DJ].
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The Black Path of Fear

By: Woolrich, Cornell

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co. , for the Crime Club: 1944

Seller ID: 14298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [ex-lending library book (label and various stamps on front pastedown), heavily worn (especially at bottom corners), hinges tender although not cracked; should be considered a READING COPY only]. Dark suspense yarn set in Havana. Filmed, somewhat, as a B-noir (THE CHASE) in 1946, with uninspired direction (by Arthur Ripley) and Bob Cummings (who was no Bob Mitchum) in the lead. Too bad this copy isn't prettier, but I can't help that. If you're so inclined, you could dress it up with a facsimile dust jacket, and as long as it stayed on the shelf nobody would be the wiser.
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The Man I Killed (A Cock Robin Mystery)

By: York, Jeremy (pseud. for John Creasey)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1963 (c.1961)

Seller ID: 4724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good- dj

[moderate shelfwear, top corners bumped, a few spots on top edge, ffep torn out, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Paul Elder's Books, San Francisco); jacket worn at edges and extremities, diagonal creasing at bottom right front panel]. Suspense novel about an insurance man who appraises jewelry, advises his clients on how to safely store them (what kind of safe, etc.) -- then burgles them. A lucrative setup, until he commits a murder when he's caught in the act.
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective