The author's first novel. The scarce first edition of the first novel by Ruth Rendell, introducing detective fiction readers for the first time to ...

The first detective novel by author and journalist-by-trade Louis Tracy, starring his first serial detective and Watson figure, Inspector Winter a...

The author notes that much of the narrative within this mystery was based on true events, albethey adapted and twisted to fit the tale...First edi...

The further adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective: 'In an Albert Gate mansion a number of Turkish gentlemen had taken up their residen...

The first UK edition of US author Kenneth Fearing's most famous novel, originally appearing in abridged form in The American Magazine (October 194...

2 variant bindings. Two attractive first editions of this Edwardian murder-mystery by female author, and actor, Florence Carr. From the collection ...

A very good first edition of this murder mystery novel by Florence Leighton Pfalzgraf, uncommon in the jacket and in such admirable condition. The...

'This is the best "first" Detective Story that has ever come our way' (Gollancz's blurb on jacket).An unusually good example of the first novel by...

A stunning copy of this detective fiction title, introducing the character Sir John Saumarez; this edition, published by the somewhat obscure Cosm...

Haycraft queen cornerstone. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, The Red Thumb Mark was the first of many Dr Thorndyke novels by R. Austin Freeman, a medi...

A strikingly dust-jacketed thriller by master of the genre John Creasey, here writing under his pseudonym of Jeremy York. The book has been heavil...

First edition, bookplate signed by the author mounted on title-page; 8vo; publisher's boards, pictorial dust-jacket by Bill Botten, slight rubbing...

First edition; 8vo; light recurrent spot to first few leaves, else fine; publisher's boards, pictorial dust-jacket by Colin Andrews, rubbed at e...

A very good first edition of this mystery title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to free endpapers; publisher's brown cloth lettered...

Author's second book. A very good first edition of the author's second book, scarce to find with the fragile Gollancz dust-jacket in such good cond...

The second collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the understated genius of late Victorian & early Edwardian detection, Paul Beck; an...

First edition, first printing; 8vo; 8pp. advertisements, minor foxing to extremities of the text-block; publisher's orange cloth, slightly mottled...

Signed presentation copy. A stunning first edition of the very scarce seventh novel by this elusive author, centred around the then topical politic...

Locked room mystery. Sidney Williams' The Body in the Blue Room is a classic example of golden age detective fiction, with a locked room mystery at...

A lovely copy of this extension to the Raffles stories originally penned by E. W. Hornung. The book recounts the adventures of Henriette, the old ...

Early issue, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket by Frank Sherwin, one closed tear to top-edge of upper panel, minor fraying but overall an attractiv...

A worthy contribution to the Sherlock Holmes mythos courtesy of one of England's more established authors.First edition, number 98 of 165 copies, ...