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Sabotage

By: Adams, Cleve F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1940

Seller ID: 21905

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Fair dj

[possible ex-rental library book, unmarked as such but exhibiting all the other signs: the covers are worn and stained, ditto the endpapers and the dust jacket, all as a result of the jacket having long been imprisoned in one of those awful old protective covers--the ones with the black strips along the top and bottom edges, that permanently adhere to the jacket and inevitably result in gunky black staining (as here) to the edges of the book covers; anyway, the book is kind of a mess, and yet with the jacket re-covered in new mylar it actually presents reasonably well, and makes a perfectly ac...
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The Golf House Murder

By: Adams, Herbert

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: (c.1933)

Seller ID: 23346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[light shelfwear, some dust-darkening to top of text block; includes a COLOR PHOTOCOPY of the original jacket (but which cuts short half of the rear flap)]. Increasingly hard-to-find golf-themed mystery, in an INCOMPLETE PHOTOCOPY of the original dust jacket (missing half the rear flap, the text of which is related to a different book). PLEASE NOTE that I did not manufacture this faux jacket; it was on the book when I bought it.
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The Adventures of Romney Pringle

By: Ashdown, Clifford (pseud. for R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Oswald Train: Publisher: 1972

Seller ID: 18825

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean book, minor wear to extremities; jacket a little browned along edges and spine Reprint edition of this renowed collection of Victorian-era detective stories, originally published in book form in 1903. The earliest fiction by R. Austin Freeman, "soon to be acknowledged as one of the great masters of the field, in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn." The First American Edition of this reprint (got that?) appeared in 1968; this is the second printing, from 1972.
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The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle

By: Ashdown, Clifford (pseud. for R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Oswald Train, Publisher: (c.1969)

Seller ID: 18826

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice and clean, no discernible wear to book; jacket has a teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, faint soiling/browning to spine]. Half a dozen Victorian-era detective stories, co-authored by R. Austin Freeman in collaboration with his close friend, Dr. John James Pitcairn. Unlike the preceding volume of Pringle stories (which was a reprint of a collection originally published in 1903), this volume is the first book printing of six previously-uncollected tales. As the jacket blurb explains: "These are the last six Romney Pringle stories -- there are no more." Contains two short i...
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The Santa Ana Wind [SIGNED]

By: Ashton, Sharon (pseud. for Helen Van Slyke)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club: 1974

Seller ID: 20673

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight clean copy, faint wear to top and bottom edges of book; jacket slightly faded at spine, tiny tears at top corners of spine, one-inch closed tear at bottom of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author (using her real name) on the half-title page: "To Robert Lewine -- / from an unknown admirer named / Helen Van Slyke / Sept, 1974." Romantic suspense/mystery novel about a woman who marries a doctor and moves to his luxurious family compound, called Madrugada, in Southern California -- but soon finds herself in danger, and convinced that "...
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The Pyramid of Lead

By: Atkey, Bertram

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 19479

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very nice clean copy, firm and tight with just a touch of wear at the extremities; jacket a bit scuffed on the front panel, a couple of tiny edge-tears, long vertical scrape to top half of rear panel, minor soiling at spine and rear panel]. The first of three mysteries by this author, all quite uncommon, featuring his character "Prosper Fair," an upper-class Englishman "whose identity is itself a mystery [at least until the end of this first adventure]," who "takes on the role of a detective while he is wandering through the English countryside with his donkey and his dog...
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Like a Hole in the Head

By: Banbury, Jen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: (c.1998)

Seller ID: 8706

ISBN: 0-316-17110-7

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dj

[spine slightly turned, otherwise nice and tight, appears unread; very slight scuffing to front jacket panel, spine lettering faded to near-unreadability, small black smudge on spine]. The author's debut novel, a sort of hard-boiled bibliomystery with an engaging female protagonist. (This is the true first edition (first printing, with number line ending in 1), so please don't e-mail me asking "is this REALLY the first edition?" It is, it is. And it doesn't have a remainder mark, either.)
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Death in the Virgins

By: Barbour, R[alph]. H[enry].

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York/London, D. Appleton-Century Company: 1940

Seller ID: 20316

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear to spine ends; jacket edgeworn, with some soiling/staining at internal edges of flaps]. Mystery novel set in the Virgin Islands. The main character is a writer "who has been living on St. Thomas for many years and who knows all about the permanent residents there, the natives, the tourists from the States, and the island's history and traditions." The author was a prolific writer of (mostly) juvenile fiction, often with sports-related themes, and often (I'm really just guessing here) quite a few virgins involved as well. (Sometimes I really just can't help myself.)
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The Redman Cave Murder

By: Barker, Elsa

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Sears Publishing Company, Inc.: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 19303

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book slightly bumped at top rear corner, otherwise tight and clean and about as nice as you could want; jacket has short closed tears at the top spine corners, with some moderate edgewear and a few tiny nicks and tears]. The third (and last) of the "superdetective Dexter Drake" mystery novels, all of which are rather uncommon in jacket. This one commences with the discovery of a dead body in (you guessed it) a cave.
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The Protagonists

By: Barlow, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: [1958] (c.1956)

Seller ID: 23987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, tiny dent in top of rear cover; jacket moderately scuffed and edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. Sort of a Rashomon-style murder mystery, with the story told three times, each from the perspective of a different character: a woman who is seduced and then murdered; her killer (whose p.o.v. is descibed as that of "the self-centered, sex-ridden pride of the all-conquering male"); and finally as revealed to the police superintendent who investigates the murder. The author adopts a different narrative voice for each section of the book...
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A Queer Kind of Umbrella: A Pharoah Love Mystery

By: Baxt, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: (c.1995)

Seller ID: 9415

ISBN: 0-684-81496-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, no discernible wear, would be Fine but for some minor white smudging (chalk?) on black ffep; jacket has one tiny closed tear at top of front panel, minor wrinkling along top edge].
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The Chinese Parrot

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1926)

Seller ID: 23378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy, slight fraying and tiny exposure of cloth at top front corner but no other significant wear, "OFFICE FILE COPY" stamped on top of text block, with some related pencil annotation on the ffep; jacket is lightly soiled and moderately edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears]. The second Charlie Chan adventure. In this one, he travels from Honolulu to a California ranch to investigate the murder of a Chinese ranch cook. This was the first of the Chan novels to be filmed -- twice, in fact: by Universal in 1927, with the Chan character (played by Sojin, the first in a lon...
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The Jefferson Secret: A Mystery With Love and Without a Murder

By: Blaker, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1929

Seller ID: 19478

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minimal wear to book, very slight bumping to lower extremities, vintage price sticker (from The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little darkened at spine, a few tiny edge-nicks]. "A Mystery with love and without a murder," revolving around a prodigal son's relationship with his steel magnate father, the secret formula for a new process that could revolutionize the manufacture of steel, and "several fascinating ladies," all concocted into "a swift, intricate plot in which chase and threat, pistol shots and sudden danger go hand in hand with romance." Uncommon,...
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The McGuffin

By: Bowen, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press: (c.1984)

Seller ID: 15460

ISBN: 0-87113-018-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean unread book, with no discernible wear; jacket shows very light wear at extremities, faint rubbing/soiling]. Mystery novel about a middle-aged, divorced film reviewer who finds himself involved in what seems to be "a real-life replay of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'." According to the jacket blurb, the book "is both a potent psychological thriller and a game -- it offers the experience of a Hitchcock movie, not from outside, which is the way we usually experience it, but from inside, from the point of view of one of the characters." (It would seem to me th...
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Death in the Fifth Position [SIGNED]

By: Box, Edgar (pseud. for Gore Vidal)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1952

Seller ID: 23617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[moderate wear to top and bottom edges, tiny nick in cloth at bottom of front cover; jacket is edgeworn, with various small chips and tears, larger chip at top left corner of front panel (and extending into top of spine) that has removed quite a bit of the spine title]. SIGNED by the author (as Gore Vidal) on the title page. The first of Vidal's three mystery novels under the Box pseudonym, published in rapid succession in the early 1950s, after which he abandoned the genre (even though the books remained in print in paperback for many years thereafter). Francis Nevins's verdict on the Box ...
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Murder a la Stroganoff

By: Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 7917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [solid, square copy, with some fading to black cloth along edges, mild browning to page edges].
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The Darker the Night

By: Brean, Herbert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1949

Seller ID: 16316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, minor spotting to top page edges; jacket shows wear along top and bottom edges, a few teensy tears and slight creasing along top edge]. The author's second novel, and one of four featuring freelance magazine writer/photographer Reynold Frame, whose investigations always seem to get him mixed up with murder cases. Brean had been a newspaperman who eventually turned to pulp fictioneering.
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Loose Lips; A Jerry Brogan Mystery [SIGNED advance uncorrected reader's proof]

By: Breen, Jon L.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1990)

Seller ID: 15642

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

(printed wraps) [light external soiling, publication date and list price written in ink at bottom of front cover]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's third Jerry Brogan racetrack mystery, set against the backdrop of the Santa Anita Handicap. Signed by Author
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A Box of Tricks

By: Brett, Simon

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1985

Seller ID: 20401

ISBN: 0-575-03585-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, one tiny dent in bottom edge of each cover, no other significant wear; jacket shows just a trace of wrinkling at top and bottom edges of front panel]. The author's first collection of short stories, a dozen tales of murder: "There are simple murders and ingenious murders; successful and unsuccessful murders; premeditated and impulsive murders; murders triggered by hatred and murders for gain; murder to end blackmail and murder as blackmail; crazed murderers, murderers caught in their own trap, murderers who get away with it. There's even murder as a practical joke...
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Green Wood Burns Slow

By: Brice, Monica

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company: 1938

Seller ID: 20538

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [ex-library (marked as such only by presence of diagonal card holder on rear pastedown and "FIC" stamped on top edge; otherwise a solid enough copy, actually quite clean overall but with some deterioration (nibbling?) to the cloth at the right edge of the front cover, and a few small rubber-stamps (bookseller and one-time owner, not library) inside the front cover]. Mystery novel -- apparently the author's only book -- about a couple of guys who pull off a jewel robbery; set primarily in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. A contemporary reviewer felt that th...
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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Detective