New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First American Edition. The first of 26 novels in the writing duo's successful series featuring British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon - a gritty, realistic tale of espionage set during the end of World War I. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Barzun & Taylor 869; Hubin..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. First Edition. Biggers's second Charlie Chan novel, in which a string of pearls holds the key to the death of a mysterious millionaire. Chan travels from Hawaii to California and goes undercover in the desert to find the answer to a clue spoken in Chinese..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition. Patterson's first book, a novel of racism and murder in the American South, the ensuing manhunt for the killer. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery. Hubin, p.312. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black and blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First American Edition. The author's eighth pseudonymous novel featuring Dr. Eustace Hailey, a Harley Street mental health practitioner and amateur sleuth. Hubin, p.435. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in pink on spine and front cover; pink topstain; dustjacket; [4],5-303,[1]pp. Spine ends..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc., 1929. First Edition. A well-preserved copy of this elusive, early Crime Club title, and the only mystery novel published by Nebraska author Sherlock Bronson Gass (1878-1945). "A tap on the shoulder dramatically summons young Dr. Stoughton to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1930. First American Edition. An early novel by Jepson (1863-1938), in which a serial killer stacks up a pretty healthy body-count as he works through the guest list of a dinner party thrown by a wealthy businessman and war profiteer. The cast of characters..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Le Carré's third and best-known novel, one that changed the direction of modern espionage fiction. The novel is "not so much concerned with the machinations of espionage as with the machinations of the minds of those in the profession; not so much what..... More
New York: Various Publishers, 1975-2005. First Editions. Significant association copies of Crumley's complete novels featuring down-and-out detectives Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue, set in fictional Meriwether, Montana. "Both are alcoholics and cocaine addicts; both are divorced war veterans who are fond of firearms, military tactics, and fistfights over small matters;..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Chandler's third novel, set largely in Pasadena, with a complex plot involving counterfeiting, blackmail, and the theft of a rare and valuable American coin. Basis for John Brahm's 1947 film noir The Brasher Doubloon, starring Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First American Edition. A well-preserved copy of Freeman's fifth Dr. Thorndyke book, first published in 1912 by Hodder & Stoughton. "The Singing Bone consists of five novelettes, averaging a bit over fifty pages each: "The Case of Oscar Brodski," "A Case of Premeditation,"..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First American Edition. Sharp copy of the fifth novel in Maurice LeBlanc's series featuring gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin, first serialized in Le Journal as Le Bouchon de Cristal (1912). "Arsène Lupin is baffled at every turn by a bestial député who commits..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. First Edition. Carroll's only crime novel, centered around protagonist Joe Dulac, "Chicago beer baron and king of bootleggers, from the days of terrified apprenticeship, through a career of violence and murder, to wealth and power and the inevitable finale...But this is not merely..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. First American Edition. Late novel by Marsh (1857-1915), English author of the best-selling novel The Beetle (1897), whose prodigious output of supernatural and crime fiction spanned the late 19th century until his death. First published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1914, in The Woman in..... More
New York: The Mystery League, Inc., 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title and early serial killer novel that author Vincent Starrett magnanimously cited as "one of the ten greatest detective novels ever written." Hubin, p.28; Pronzini & Muller, p.52. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. A novel of obsessive love and murder, "presented as a case history of a psychiatric patient under observation at the Willetstown State Hospital during the three months before his trial" (The Dark Page, Vol.2, pp.34-35). A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Whitfield's first hard-boiled novel, portions of which were first serialized in the pages of Black Mask between December 1929 and April 1930. "The plot is convoluted to the extreme: At least twelve characters are killed trying to locate five fabulous missing emeralds..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First Edition. The first of two mystery novels by Myers (1897-1980), best known for developing the personality assessment tool known today as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Murder Yet To Come was her entry submitted to the National Detective Murder Mystery Contest in..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930. First Edition. Debut novel by Falkner (1900-1977), a New York newspaper man, centered around the murder of a Broadway actress. "In the shadowed quiet of West End Avenue, around the corner from Broadway, a hand with a knife reached the throat of a...... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1940. First Edition. A pseudonymous John Dickson Carr "whodunnit" featuring detective Sir Henry Merrival and Scotand Yard Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. Set during the opening days of World War II, the novel is centered around a young woman hired by the film industry after..... More
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First Edition. Collection of Boyle's Boston Blackie stories, first published in Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and American magazine, which he cobbled together and revised slightly to resemble a novel. His stories, featuring the explots of this gentleman safecracker, were wildly popular in their time..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. First Impression, preceding the American edition by over five months. Octavo (21.5cm); red textured paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; xii,332pp. Hint of a lean, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 21s.net), with some..... More
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London & Boston: Faber & Faber / Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First Edition. A novel of psychological suspense in which a man suspected of murder poses as a struggling writer, and tries to charm a young secretary and her family into assisting him. Jilted by the suspect, the secretary..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. First Edition. Bardin's first book, a novel of psychological horror that is "at once a murder mystery, poignant love story and, most important, an unsettling and hallucinatory dark voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair" (from the Centipede Press edition). Hubin, p.23; Pronzini..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. The Philadelphia author's third novel, a bizarre paean and cathartic payback to his estranged wife, Elaine Astor. The novel tells the story of Clara Ervin, a manipulative, calculating, and cold-blooded woman who systematically emasculates and ruins her husband, as well as..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1960. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's rubber-stamped slip laid in. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; vi,247,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced..... More