Mystery
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.
THE PALE HORSE.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel concerning a mysterious in, The Pale Horse. Ariadne Oliver makes an appearance in this book. Filmed as both a a made for television movie and television mini-series. Hubin, p. 164.
SAD CYPRESS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-4 [5-6] 7-270 [271-272: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue, fore edge untrimmed, "Red Badge Detective" logo end papers. First U.S. edition. A Hercule Poirot mystery. Hubin, p. 164.
THERE IS A TIDE...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1948. Octavo, pp. [1-16] 1-242, jacket design by Herbstman, boards. First edition. A Hercule Poirot mystery. Published in the U. K. as TAKEN AT THE FLOOD. Hubin, p. 164.
THE SUM OF ALL FEARS.
New York: Putnam, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
HIGH WALL.
New York: Harrision Smith & Robert Haas, 1936. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A scarce title which is the basis for a 1947 film noir of the same name featuring Robert Taylor. "Stylish, representative late forties noir thriller" - Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 167. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 126-127. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p.186.
THE RED RODS.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's third mystery novel. Hard boiled private detective novel set in California. Clark wrote hundreds of short stories for pulp and digest magazines, including Weird Tales and many of the detective/mystery genre. Hubin, p. 167.
A CRY IN THE NIGHT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1992.
STILLWATCH.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Clark on the title page. Produced as a made for television film in 1987.
NIGHT WHISPERS.
Nashville: Cumberland House, [1998]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Advance reader's copy (uncorrected proof). Serial murderer in the Tennessee mountains.
NIGHT WHISPERS: A STORY OF EVIL.
Nashville: Cumberland House, [1998]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel.
MIRACLE CURE.
Latham, New York: British American Publishing, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Coben on the half-title and signed again (no inscription) on the title page. Author's second novel. A suspense thriller concerning a serial killer and a cure for Aids.
BACKHAND.
London: Chatto & Windus, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Anna Lee mystery.
BAD COMPANY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Review slip laid in. The second Anna Lee mystery.
HEAD CASE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. The fourth Anna Lee mystery.
LUCKY DIP AND OTHER STORIES.
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Cody. Collects seventeen stories, with one original to this volume. Includes a introduction by the author, a checklist of her work and also a laid in pamphlet "White Knights and Giggling Bimbos", an essay on the author's writing influences.
MONKEY WRENCH.
London: Chatto and Windus, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Eva Wylie mystery.
RIFT.
London: Collins, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery set in Africa.
THE OTHER HALF.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Company, 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-309 [310-312: blank], original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Gangster novel. Hubin, p. 174.
TRIUMPH: THE UNDOING OF RAFFERTY, WARD HEELER.
New York: J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1] [i-vi] vii-vii [ix-x] 1-305 [306-308: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Melodramatic novel involving political bosses and their morals. Hubin, p. 174.
MURDER AMONG CHILDREN.
New York: Random House, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Mitchell Tobin novel.
WAX APPLE.
New York: Random House, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Mitchell Tobin mystery.
WAX APPLE.
New York: Random House, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Mitchell Tobin mystery.
BLOOD SIMPLE: AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Wrappers. First edition. Text of the screenplay from Blood Simple, the brothers first feature film.