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The Revellers.
TRACY, Louis.Original price £100.00 - Original price £100.00Original price £0.00£100.00£100.00 - £100.00Current price £100.00| /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...
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The Albert Gate Affair.
TRACY, Louis.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £0.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00| /The further adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective: 'In an Albert Gate mansion a number of Turkish gentlemen had taken up their residen...
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The Big Clock.
FEARING, Kenneth.Original price £130.00 - Original price £130.00Original price £0.00£130.00£130.00 - £130.00Current price £130.00| /The first UK edition of US author Kenneth Fearing's most famous novel, originally appearing in abridged form in The American Magazine (October 194...
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The Man with the Amber Eyes.
WARDEN, Florence.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /2 variant bindings. Two attractive first editions of this Edwardian murder-mystery by female author, and actor, Florence Carr. From the collection ...
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As Strange a Maze.
LEIGHTON, Florence.Original price £295.00 - Original price £295.00Original price £0.00£295.00£295.00 - £295.00Current price £295.00| /A very good first edition of this murder mystery novel by Florence Leighton Pfalzgraf, uncommon in the jacket and in such admirable condition. The...
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Death at the President's Lodging.
INNES, Michael [pseud. STEWART, John Innes Mackintosh].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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 ...
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Enter Sir John.
DANE, Clemence [pseud. ASHTON, Winifred]; SIMPSON, Helen.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /A stunning copy of this detective fiction title, introducing the character Sir John Saumarez; this edition, published by the somewhat obscure Cosm...
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The Red Thumb Mark.
FREEMAN, R. Austin.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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...
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Safari with Fear.
YORK, Jeremy [pseud. CREASEY, John].Original price £425.00 - Original price £425.00Original price £0.00£425.00£425.00 - £425.00Current price £425.00| /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...
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Once a Spy.
AIRTH, Rennie.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /First edition, bookplate signed by the author mounted on title-page; 8vo; publisher's boards, pictorial dust-jacket by Bill Botten, slight rubbing...
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Snatch!
AIRTH, Rennie.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /First edition; 8vo; light recurrent spot to first few leaves, else fine; publisher's boards, pictorial dust-jacket by Colin Andrews, rubbed at e...
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In Minden Town.
CURTOIS, M.A.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /A very good first edition of this mystery title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to free endpapers; publisher's brown cloth lettered...
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Holy Disorders.
CRISPIN, Edmund.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /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...
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The Quests of Paul Beck.
BODKIN, M. McDonnell.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /The second collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the understated genius of late Victorian & early Edwardian detection, Paul Beck; an...
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The Wolf Swept Down.
LADLINE, Robert [GAUNT, Charles Edward].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /First edition, first printing; 8vo; 8pp. advertisements, minor foxing to extremities of the text-block; publisher's orange cloth, slightly mottled...
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A Devil in Downing Street.
LADLINE, Robert [GAUNT, Charles Edward].Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00| /Signed presentation copy. A stunning first edition of the very scarce seventh novel by this elusive author, centred around the then topical politic...
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The Body in the Blue Room.
WILLIAMS, Sidney.Original price £580.00 - Original price £580.00Original price £580.00£580.00£580.00 - £580.00Current price £580.00| /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...
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Mrs. Raffles.
BANGS, John Kendrick.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /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 ...
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The Riddle of Nap's Hollow.
KNIGHT, Leonard A.Original price £120.00 - Original price £120.00Original price £120.00£120.00£120.00 - £120.00Current price £120.00| /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...
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The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
[Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]; AMIS, Kingsley.Original price £185.00 - Original price £185.00Original price £185.00£185.00£185.00 - £185.00Current price £185.00| /A worthy contribution to the Sherlock Holmes mythos courtesy of one of England's more established authors.First edition, number 98 of 165 copies, ...
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