Mystery
THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES.
New York: Dell Published Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950.
THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES.
New York: Dell Published Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950.
THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES.
New York: Dell Published Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950.
THE DEAD RINGER.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Am and Ed Hunter mystery novel.
THE DEAD RINGER.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Am and Ed Hunter mystery novel. Hubin pp. 109-110.
DEATH HAS MANY DOORS.
New York: Bantam Books, [1952]. Small octavo, cover by Barye Phillips, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 1040. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE DEEP END.
New York: Bantam Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover by Binger, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam #1215. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT.
New York: Bantam Books, [1948]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Grant, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 302. The author's first mystery novel. Hardboiled.
HIS NAME WAS DEATH.
New York: Bantam Books, [1956]. Small octavo, cover by Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam #1436. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE LATE LAMENTED.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Ed and Am Hunter mystery novel.
MOSTLY MURDER.
New York: Pennant Books, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pennant #P59. Collection of 18 stories.
MOSTLY MURDER.
New York: Pennant Books, [1954]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pennant P59. Story collection.
THE MURDERERS.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE MURDERERS.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition.
NIGHT OF THE JABBERWOCK.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Brown at the top of his game. "A wild whirl for Doc Stoeger who edits a paper and indulges a passion for chess, Lewis Carroll and ardent spirits, when he witnesses a band robbery, the unloosing of a lunatic, a brush with a killer mob, and is involved with an Alice in Wonderland afficianado in a haunted house while two corpses are planted in his car compartment. A fancy fling which has some plain answers, this Valpurgisnacht features a virtuoso performance by Stoeger and is ingenious." Kirkus review, 1 December, 1950. Hubin pp. 109-110. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 94-5.
NIGHT OF THE JABBERWOCK.
New York: Bantam Books, [1952]. Small octavo, cover by Skemp, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 990. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE OFFICE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, boards. First edition.
A PLOT FOR MURDER.
New York: Bantam Books, [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam #735. Published in hardcover as Murder Can Be Fun. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE SCREAMING MIMI.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward.
THE SCREAMING MIMI.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward.
THE SCREAMING MIMI.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. Basis for the 1958 film noir with Anita Ekberg, Phil Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 344. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 372. Not in Silver and Ward.
HALO IN BRASS.
Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Browne (signed as Howard "John Evan" Browne) on the front free end paper. The fourth Paul Pine novel. "...feature[s] Chicago private detective Paul Pine, one of the best of the plethora of tough-guy heroes from that era. Although the Pine novels are solidly in the tradition of Raynond Chandler, they have a complexity and character all their own and are too well crafted to be imitations." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p.96-97. Hubin, p. 270.
THE TASTE OF ASHES.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne to a mystery bookseller; "For--- / whom I tolerate only because / he's a bookseller / Howard Browne / 4/16/88." Signed again on the title page by Browne. Also a short typed note dated 1982 from Browne is laid in, declining an invitation to the BoucherCon and saying he is working on a new book to be titled Pork City (St. Martin's, 1988). The next to last Paul Pine novel, this one published under his own name, thought by some the best of the series. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 96-97. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th edition), 116-117.
THIN AIR.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne, a presentation copy signed by Browne in the year of publication; "For Elaine / ... and the champagne cocktails / were a buck a throw..."/ Love / Howard Browne/ 8/26/54." Well received non-series mystery novel.
RAYMOND CHANDLER: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Definitive bibliography of the works of Chandler.