Mystery
THE SAINT MYSTERY LIBRARY: LET HER KILL HERSELF by RUFUS KING.
New York: Saint Mystery Library Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Saint Mystery Library No. 11. GAP 128. Mystery anthology, the feature story first appeared in The Saint mystery magazine. The Harlan Ellison story, "Find One Cuckaboo" -a private eye mystery first appears in this volume.
THE LAST HERO.
Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday & Doran Company, Inc., 1931. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A "Saint" novel.
PRELUDE FOR WAR.
New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1938. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A novel with The Saint.
SAINT OVERBOARD.
New York: Popular Library, [1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Popular Library. This first volume in the popular library Mystery novel with the Saint.
THE NEW MYSTERY: THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIME WRITERS' ESSENTIAL CRIME WRITING OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY.
New York: Dutton, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
CITY OF WHISPERING STONE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mongo novel.
IN THE HOUSE OF SECRET ENEMIES.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mongo mystery.
SECOND HORSEMAN OUT OF EDEN.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mongo mystery.
SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Mongo mystery novel.
VEIL.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Veil Kendry mystery.
GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD: A CHEERFUL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN BUSINESS BUCCANEER.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, [1908]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-448, six inserted illustrations, publisher's red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, pictorial paper onlay affixed to front panel. First edition. The first collection of Wallingord stories. QQ 39. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 20. Hubin (1994), p. 158. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 C-355.
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1911. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-335 [336], original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "A cornerstone volume (it) can lay claim to greatness on two counts: It introduced the priest detective whose adventures are still popular three-quarters of a century later, and it contains more classic short stories than almost any other mystery collection before or since." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights. Queen's Quorum #47.
THE POCKET BOOK OF FATHER BROWN.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pocket Book #236. Collection of Father Brown stories from earlier books.
DARK DUET.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-240 [241-242: blank], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore-edge uncut. First U. S. edition. WW II espionage book. The first of the "Dark" series. "Cheyney does an excellent job of conveying the world of spying, with all its twists and double crosses. No one is what he seems, and everyone knows that; but no one is sure just what anyone else really is. Readers of John le Carré and William Haggard would recognize Cheyney's world at once." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 136. Hubin, pp. 160-161.
THE URGENT HANGMAN.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., n.d., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-247 [248: blank], original cream cloth, spine lettered in pink, top edge stained green. First edition. The first in the Slim Callaghan, London based private detective. "...one of the most popular storytellers of his time, and his time and his success inspired a long line of British hard-boiled writers such as James Hadley Chase, Hartley Howard, Peter Chambers, Hank Janson and Carter Brown." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 185. Basis for the stage play Meet Mr. Callaghan, later filmed (in 1954). Hubin, pp. 160-161.
NOBODY HEARD THE SHOT AN ALECK WEST DETECTIVE STORY.
Los Angeles: Bantam Publications, Inc., n.d., [1941]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Bantam No. 25. Front cover slug is "Authorized Abridged Edition," however this cataloger finds no record of a previous book publication. Perhaps abridged from a magazine publication? This is the author's only Hubin listed title, he is well known for his adventure fiction. Hubin, p. 162.
THE AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY.
Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Investigation into the life and fiction of Agatha Christie.
A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY.
London/Sydney: Collins, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First Australian edition. Miss Marple.
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK.
London-Sydney: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, [1955]. cloth. First Australian edition. Poirot.
THE MIRROR CRACK'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins... [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Miss Marple novel. Filmed in 1980 as "The Mirror Crack'd" starring Angela Lansbury. Hubin, p. 163.
MR. PARKER PYNE DETECTIVE.
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-244 [245] [246: ad] [247-248: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First U. S. edition. Collection of twelve short stories first published in England by Collins in 1934 as Parker Pyne Investigates. "On rereading, the collection holds up very well." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime: Revised and Enlarged Edition (1989) #3691. Hubin, p. 164. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 25.
THE MURDER AT HAZELMOOR.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Published in England as The Sittaford Mystery.
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-302 [303-306: blank], jacket illustration by Clayton Rawson, original light tan cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore edge untrimmed, illustrated end papers. First U.S. edition. A classic Hercule Poirot mystery. Published in the U.K. as MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Filmed several times. Hubin, p. 164.
N OR M?
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-289 [290: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore edge untrimmed, top edge stained yellow "Red Badge Detective" logo end papers. First U.S. edition. A Tuppence and Tommy Beresford mystery. Hubin, p. 164.
ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE.
London-Sydney: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First Australian edition.