Mystery
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Octavo, [1-2] [1-8] 9-298 [299-302 note: first leaf blank, last two blank] . cloth. First U.S. edition. Story collection with some of the author's best horror fiction, including the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth". Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #142. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-17. Item #11451
THE SECOND CENTURY OF DETECTIVE STORIES.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-18] 19-761 [762: blank] [763-768: publishers ads], boards. First edition. An important anthology. "The author of Trent's Last Case" has done a remarkable job in sticking to real detection for this omnibus, but the biographical notes on the 30 authors are tantalizingly poor; one doubts that Bentley wrote them. Many good and inaccessible tales more than compensate for this lack. The items are drawn from Livingston's Dodd Cases, the Coles' Superintendent Wilson's Holiday, Wade's Here Comes the Copper, Bramah's Eyes of Max Carrados. Also: Knox's tale The Motive and H. Russell Wakefield's The Inevitable Flaw. One of F. Tennyson Jesse's rare Solange Stories is included, and samples from Bailey, Bell, Chesterton, Gribble, Keverne, Leacock, Oppenheim, Phillpotts, Wallace, plus well-known tales by Conan Doyle, Bramah, Bentley, Freeman and Sayers." - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime (1989), #3613. Item #6683
THE SECOND CENTURY OF DETECTIVE STORIES.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-18] 19-761 [762: blank] [763-768: publishers ads], original light green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. An important anthology. "The author of Trent's Last Case" has done a remarkable job in sticking to real detection for this omnibus, but the biographical notes on the 30 authors are tantalizingly poor; one doubts that Bentley wrote them. Many good and inaccessible tales more than compensate for this lack. The items are drawn from Livingston's Dodd Cases, the Coles' Superintendent Wilson's Holiday, Wade's Here Comes the Copper, Bramah's Eyes of Max Carrados. Also: Knox's tale The Motive and H. Russell Wakefield's The Inevitable Flaw. One of F. Tennyson Jesse's rare Solange Stories is included, and samples from Bailey, Bell, Chesterton, Gribble, Keverne, Leacock, Oppenheim, Phillpotts, Wallace, plus well-known tales by Conan Doyle, Bramah, Bentley, Freeman and Sayers." - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime (1989), #3613. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 132. Item #22429
DUANE AND THE ART MURDERS.
London: Cassell, 1939. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #6788
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.
New York: Random House, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first book. Made into a feature film in 1997 directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. Item #9926
THE FAITHFUL.
New York: Random House, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on the title page. The author's first spy thriller and the debut of his character John Wells. Edgar award winner for best first novel. Item #19531
THE GHOST WAR.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on a tipped in page. Spy thriller. The second to feature his character John Wells. Item #19512
THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2010]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller. The fourth to feature his character John Wells. Item #19514
THE SILENT MAN.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller. The third to feature his character John Wells. Item #19513
THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-299 [230: blank] [231: Crime Club statement] [232: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham. "...it should appeal to those who like the combination of good characterization and armchair dectection". - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 36-37. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Item #17959
THE WYCHFORD POISONING CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1- 308 [309: Crime Club statement] [310: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham, the second published (in England in 1926). Item #17960
BOUCHER'S CHOICEST.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best Detective Stories of the Year. Introduction by Allen J. Hubin. Item #5828
THE GHOST HOUSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Ocatvo, boards. First U.S. edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. A mystery novel involving heroin smuggling and an alleged haunted house, which in the end is rationalized. First published in 1940, according to the copyright page this is a "completely rewritten version." This edition is would be the first American edition. Item #12689
THIEVES' MARKET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Bezzerides on the title page. The novel concerns the world of hauling produce in California and the criminal element that controls the marketplace. Filmed as "Thieve's Highway" a noir film by Jules Dassin. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 24. Item #19750
THIEVES' MARKET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The novel concerns the world of hauling produce in California and the criminal element that controls the marketplace. Filmed as "Thieve's Highway" a noir film by Jules Dassin. Hubin, p. 70. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 24. Item #23569
WORD FOR WORD AND LETTER FOR LETTER: A BIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE ...
London: Gay & Bird; Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle, 1898. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [9-13] 14-207 [208: blank] [209-212: publisher ads] [note: title page is a cancel], six inserted plates with illustrations by Edward Holloway, title page printed in red and black, original pictorial tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and gold, t.e.g. First edition. A short murder mystery novel, with settings in Philadelphia, Newport (Rhode Island) and the island of Madeira, whose importance as a center of lace manufacture figures in the plot. An extended dream sequence in chapter six gives the book some relevance to the fantastic genre. Of interest to Sherlockians, perhaps, will be the protagonist's affectionate reference to A STUDY IN SCARLET (on pages 185-186). Hubin (1994), p. 70. Wright (III) 517. Item #15680
JUDGEMENT OF DEATH.
New York: Walker, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Item #5362
THE AGONY COLUMN.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Avon #337. Prints the title story and Fifty Candles, omits The Dollar Chasers which appeared in earlier editions. Item #12073
CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Avon #350. First Avon edition, first issued in paperback by Pocket Books. A Charlie Chan mystery novel. Item #12075
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "With Malice Aforethought" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #21019
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Thirty-One Deadly Guns" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #21297
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Toronto: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue. A Black Bat novel, "The Long Ago Murder" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #21020
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Without Blood They Die" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). An espionage story involving a fifth column plot. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #23636
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "The League of Faceless Men" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). Also stories by Carroll John Daly and Johnston McCulley. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #22039
BROKEN BOY.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller with some macabre elements, involving underground rituals and the revival of an unholy religion. See the St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 75. Item #215