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THE CAVALIER'S CUP.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. The last of this series. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 601.
NIGHT AT THE MOCKING WIDOW.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 612.
NIGHT AT THE MOCKING WIDOW.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 612.
MY LATE WIVES.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. Hubin, p. 234. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 611.
CAPTAIN CUT-THROAT.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A historical novel set in France in 1805 where Napoleon has assembled his armies to invade England and an assassin is killing his soldiers. Hubin (1994), p. 135.
THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-296 [297-298: Blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in light blue, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. A Dr. Fell mystery novel. Hubin, p. 135. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), #299.
THE EIGHT OF SWORDS.
New York, London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-225 [226: ad], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. A Dr. Fell mystery, the third. Hubin, p. 135. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), No. 309.
FIRE BURN!
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. This is a time travel-mystery novel, a detective from the 1950s is transported to London of 1829.
THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Detective Novel Classic No. 40. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
HE WHO WHISPERS.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Dr. Gideon Fell mystery. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 315.
THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A splendid biography, at once sympathetic and detached, skillful and thorough, as well as strong on the natural gifts Doyle possessed for detective investigation and its transfusion into fictional plots." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 4265.
POISON IN JEST.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Thriller Novel Classic No. 23. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. This novel features Patrick Rossiter. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
THE WITCH OF THE LOW-TIDE.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.