Mystery
THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.
New York: Warner Books, 1976. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Sherlockiana.
BILLINGSGATE SHOAL.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Edgar award for best first novel, 1982.
THE DAISY DUCKS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The third Doc Adams mystery.
GONE TO EARTH.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Doc Adams mystery.
THE PENNY FERRY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Doc Adams mystery.
THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The fifth Doc Adams mystery.
KATASTROPHE.
[New York]: HarperCollins Publishers, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In regressing a person to a past life, he channels Adolf Hitler. The author's first book.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Psychological thriller in which a lawyers wife is kidnapped by the violent ex-husband of a woman who was his client in a divorce case. This book became the basis for the television series Markham. Hubin, p. 93.
NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE.
[Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications], 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the author's crime fiction, eight pieces written between 1943-45 and one from 1957. Introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Michael Connelly.
SILENT PARTNER.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SILENT PARTNER.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SILENT PARTNER.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SILENT PARTNER.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An American is a silent partner in an international import-export firm. One of the other partners is murdered and he is treks to the Middle East to find the killer in a world of international intrigue. Hubin, p. 93.
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Fantastic mystery set in Hollywood of the 1950s involving a young screenwriter.
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS: ANOTHER TALE OF TWO CITIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Fantastic mystery set in Hollywood of the 1950s involving a young screenwriter.
LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with variant titles from original publications. Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy Award for best collection.
LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with variant titles from original publications. Nominated for 1977 World Fantasy Award for best collection.
A MEMORY OF MURDER.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1984.]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 15559. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories first published in the 1940s in the detective and horror pulps.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1955.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Evan Hunter, Ellery Queen, Ray Bradbury, John D. MacDonald, Richard Marsten and others.
KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1928. Pictorial boards. First U.S. edition.
KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1923]. Octavo, [i-iv] v-xii [xiv-xvi] 17-333 [334-336, blank], fore-edge untrimmed. cloth backed boards. Later edition. Later printing of the first edition, statement of printing on copyright page. More Kai Lung tales. Preface by Hillare Belloc.