Mystery
THE VOICELESS ONES.
New York: Walker and Company, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Palfrey adventure. The Dr. Palfrey stories are "...enjoyable if a little sensational. The later development of the Palfrey series into the science fiction field is most interesting-on the surface they might appear to be thrillers concerning evil attempts to plague the world into submission, but the underlying messages are frightful and prophetic." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 243-253. "It has been speculated that Dr Palfrey's secret organization, which is called Z5 and is staffed by men with near super powers, neatly bridges the gap between Doc Savage and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and probably inspired the latter." - SFE online.
DISCLOSURE.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller novel. Made into a feature film.
THE LOST WORLD.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. The sequel to Jurassic Park. Filmed in 1997 by Steven Spielberg.
BURIED FOR PLEASURE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7- 191 [192: Blank], cloth. First edition. The sixth Gervase Fen novel. Fen decides to stand for election to Pariliament, murder occurs. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-158 [159] [160: blank], original green cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. The first Gervase Fen novel. Set in and around Oxford, England. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 532.
FREQUENT HEARSES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The seventh Gervase Fen novel. Murder at a film studio. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. The ninth, and last, Gervase Fen novel. Set in the Devon countryside. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 172.
HOLY DISORDERS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-175 [176: blank], cloth. First edition. The second Gervase Fen novel. Murder in a small English town, perhaps involving a coven of witches or German spies. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE LONG DIVORCE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The eighth Gervase Fen novel. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200.
THE MOVING TOYSHOP.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-151 [152: blank], cloth. First edition. The third Gervase Fen novel. "The climatic scene, revolving around a chase to catch the criminal, is so powerful, so moving, that Alfred Hitchcock borrowed it to use as the windup in his film Stranger on a Train." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 173. "...if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 533.
TRAGEDY IN THE HOLLOW.
New York: Popular Library, n.d. [1944]. Small octavo, illustration by Hoffman, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Popular Library #18. An Inspector French mystery.
SILENCE FOR THE MURDERER.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Inspector French mystery novel. The U.S. edition precedes the U.K. edition.
NO WORD FROM WINIFRED.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
THE PUZZLED HEART.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed in printed block letters as Amanda Cross on the title page below the author name. A Kate Fansler mystery.
THE QUESTION OF MAX.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
SWEET DEATH, KIND DEATH.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
THE THEBAN MYSTERIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
THE THEBAN MYSTERIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
THE THEBAN MYSTERIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
A TRAP FOR FOOLS.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.
ONCE UPON A STAR: A NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four stories featuring intergalactic insurance investigator Manning Draco, parts of which were first published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, first state (no statement of printing on copyright page). The author's fourth novel. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, first state (no statement of printing on copyright page). The author's fourth novel. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
DANCING BEAR.
New York: Random House, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition, second state (first edition statement and number line ending with two on the copyright page). The author's fourth novel. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The second novel featuring his detective, Milo Milodragovitch. Milo investigates the dumping of toxic waste into the groundwater in Montana. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.
THE LAST GOOD KISS.
NY: Random House, 1978. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The author's third novel and first C. W. Sughrue. "...[Crumley's] principal setting is the bleak magnificence of western Montana and his prevailing mood a wacked out post-Vietnam empathy with all sorts of dopers, losers, and loonies, the human wreckage of the institutionalized butchery we call the real world." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 262-263. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177.