Mystery
THE REMINISCENCES OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eight Solar Pons adventures, introduction by Anthony Boucher and includes a chronology of Solar Pons stories. Hubin, pp. 229-230.
THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen Solar Pons adventures with in introduction by Edgar Smith. Hubin, pp. 229-230.
THE SOLAR PONS OMNIBUS. Edited by Basil Copper...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1982]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-eight Solar Pons adventures with illustrations by Frank Utpatel and foreword by Robert Bloch.
THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 996 copies printed. Collects three Solar Pons adventures.
AS GOOD AS DEAD.
New York: Jefferson House, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's second book. A Singer Batts novel. Somewhat uncommon.
HUE AND CRY.
New York: Jefferson House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first mystery novel, introducing Singer Batts.
CURTAIN FALL.
Garden City: The Crime Club/Doubleday, 1982. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
SLEEP AND HIS BROTHER.
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
MAN OF LITTLE EVILS.
New York: Atheneum, 1973. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first mystery novel.
SARATOGA HEADHUNTER.
New York: Viking, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Charlie Bradshaw mystery.
SARATOGA LONGSHOT.
New York: Atheneum, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. First in the Charlie Bradshaw mystery series.
SARATOGA LONGSHOT.
New York: Atheneum, 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. First in the Charlie Bradshaw mystery series. Hubin, p. 528.
BILLY BATHGATE.
New York: Random House, [1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel set in the 1930s involving the Dutch Schultz gang. Winner of the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Filmed in 1991 with Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Bruce Willis.
IT AIN'T HAY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's fourth book. Series character tax consultant Whit Whitney. Hard boiled. Early mystery involving marijuana.
THE BLACK ICE SCORE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #D1949. Paperback original. The eleventh Parker novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 1039-1041.
THE SCORE.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pocketbook # 35014. Paperback original. A Parker novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 1039-1041.
TRACKED TO DOOM: THE STORY OF A MYSTERY AND ITS UNRAVELING.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [1] 2-250 + 32 page publisher catalog date "October 1891," six inserted illustrations, original blue-gray cloth, front stamped in brown and black, spine stamped in gold and brown, publisher logo stamped in black to rear, floral patterned end papers, top and bottom edges rough cut, spine uncut. First edition. Mystery novel. Detective Calvin Sugg solves murders in St. John's Wood. Hubin, p. 240.
THE CHRONICLES OF MICHAEL DANEVITCH OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue and 32-page catalogue dated "Feb. 1897" inserted at rear, original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Most of the stories are cases of the celebrated Russian detective related to fellow detective Dick Donovan. The last story, "The Clue of the Dead Hand," features detective Peter Brodie who investigates a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance in Scotland at Corbie Hall, "a strange, weird sort of place ... [with] an eeriness about it that was calculated to make one shudder." This story belongs as much in the (rationalized) ghost story genre as the detective story. It also involves a case of male impersonation. Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 111. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 34. Hubin (1994), p. 240.
THE SHAMAN SINGS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first mystery.
THE LAZY LAWRENCE MURDERS.
New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [1] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xii] [1] 2-279 [280-282: blank], original green cloth, spine stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. A Sheriff Peter Bounty mystery. Most of the action takes place in Mexico. Downing, a quarter Choctaw, set most of his novels in Mexico where the author lived for a number of years which added much local color to his books. This is his final mystery novel. Hubin, p. 244.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE PUBLISHED APOCRYPHA.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. The Definitive Doyle bibliography.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES... with THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES... with THE FINAL ADVENTURES...A Definitive Text, corrected and edited by Edgar W. Smith, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett...(3 volumes).
New York: The Heritage Press, 1950 (volume 1), 1952 (volumes 2 & 3). Octavo, illustrated throughout by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, cloth backed boards. Later editions. In three volumes the entire Sherlock Holmes canon by Doyle. The first volume collects the novels A STUDY IN SCARLET, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR, and the first two story collections, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. The second volume collects THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. The final volumes collects HIS LAST BOW, THE VALLEY OF FEAR and THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: ANOTHER ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
London: George Newnes, Limited. 1902. Octavo, original red cloth, front cover stamped in gold and black, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Sherlock Holmes on the Moors. Filmed numerous times.
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY ...
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-431 [432: blank]; [1-10] [1-2] 3-409 [410: blank] [note: first leaf is volume 2 is a blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "The story of a youth of unstable character trapped by circumstances that lead to his execution for murder ... The plot is based on an actual New York murder case" (OCAL). A Haycraft-Queen title and on the Time 100 list.