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THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER.
London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8 [9-10] 11-340, eight inserted plates with illustrations by H. M. Brock, original blue cloth, illustration to front panel stamped in red, blue, black and white, lettering to spine and front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A collection of the earliest cases of the Old Man in the Corner. "Among the first and greatest of all 'armchair detectives.'" - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 298. "An important book." - Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 83. "Good detection with action indirect but often effective" - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime: Revised and Enlarged Edition (1989), #4007. Hubin (1994), p. 618. QQ 41.
THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER.
London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8 [9-10] 11-340, eight inserted plates with illustrations by H. M. Brock, original blue cloth, illustration to front panel stamped in red, blue, black and white, lettering to spine and front panel stamped in gold. First edition. A collection of the earliest cases of the Old Man in the Corner. "Among the first and greatest of all 'armchair detectives.'" - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 298. "An important book." - Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 83. "Good detection with action indirect but often effective" - Barzun and Taylor: A Catalogue of Crime: Revised and Enlarged Edition (1989), #4007. Hubin (1994), p. 618. QQ 41.
PEOPLE VS. WITHERS AND MALONE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects the six novelettes first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring Hildegarde Withers and John J. Malone. Queen's Quorum 120. Hubin, p. 625. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 613-14.
PEOPLE VS. WITHERS AND MALONE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects the six novelettes first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring Hildegarde Withers and John J. Malone. Queen's Quorum 120. Hubin, p. 625. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 613-14.
THE ORDEAL OF MRS. SNOW AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Random House, 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories. "Anthony Boucher, in the New York Times, said, "Patrick Quentin is one of the truly great plotters in the field of suspense."" Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 864-65. Hubin pp. 661-662. Queen's Quorum 119.
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed under the same title in 1946.
TRIAL BY FURY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. Octavo, boards. First edition. A John J. Malone novel. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE DREAM DETECTIVE: BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE METHODS OF MORIS KLAW.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1925. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. A Queens Quorum title. This editions includes one story not in the U.K. edition. Story collection featuring the occult detective Moris Klaw.
CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES: BEING CERTAIN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HENRY POGGIOLI, PH.D.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-319 [320: blank], top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough cut, yellow illustrated end papers, blue cloth backed reddish purple boards, paper label to spine, top edge stained purple, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Collection of criminal investigations set in the Caribbean by Dr. Henry Poggioli, Ph. D, psychologist and criminologist. All fist published in Adventure pulp magazine 1925-26. "Charles Honce remarks that the concluding story "is positively thunderous; it will knock you right out of your seat." - Haycraft: Murder For Pleasure, pp. 163. Stribling revived the character in the 1940s and 1950s. Queen's Quorum #80. Haycraft - Queen cornerstone volume. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Afficianado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 762-63. Hubin, p. 780. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 107.
AFTER-DINNER STORY.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of six stories, including the classic "Rear Window," basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film (1954). Queen's Quorum #97. Hubin, p. 431.
AFTER-DINNER STORY.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1944]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of six stories, including the classic "Rear Window," basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film (1954). Queen's Quorum #97.