Mystery
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.
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.
TENDER LOVING RAGE.
Houston: Tafford Publishing, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Posthumously published novel written and set the late 50s. A suspense novel.
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.
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.
JUDGEMENT OF DEATH.
New York: Walker, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
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.
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.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Captains of Death" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). Espionage and Nazi theme story, cover depicts a woman being threatened with a red hot brand of a swastika. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
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.
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.
A QUESTION OF PROOF.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-x] 1-294, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First U. S. edition. The author's first mystery novel, the first Nigel Strangeways. Hubin, p. 78.
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.
THE BROKEN BOY.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as The Winds of Midnight.
PACKED FOR MURDER.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as Colonel Bogus.
A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1958. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Author's first novel. "creates a sustained nightmare in which the survivor of a Nazi concentration camp looses a biological weapon which threatens both Russia and England." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, pp. 75. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-39.
JOHN SILENCE: PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] 1-390 [391-392: blank], original maroon cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The author's third book, collection of tales concerning an occult detective. "Probably the best single volume of 20th century cases of an occult detective." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-27. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 177. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1443-46. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-32. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01392. Ashley A.3.1.
JOHN SILENCE: PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] 1-390 [391-392: blank], original maroon cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The author's third book, collection of tales concerning an occult detective. "Probably the best single volume of 20th century cases of an occult detective." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-27. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 177. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1443-46. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-32. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01392. Ashley A.3.1.
THE CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN.
New York: Popular Library, n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, illustration by Hoffman, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library #60. A Nigel Strangeways mystery.
THE HELIX FILE.
New York: Walker, 1972. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book.
HALO OF SPEARS.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Life on the chain gang.
SLOW MOTION RIOT.
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the Edgar award for best first novel.