Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (hardcover) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Book. Illus. by Daniel Schwartz (cover illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of Zenith Jones Brown. A Colonel Primrose mystery, in which our gentleman detective solves a murder involving "Senate investigating committees, the hidden lives of men high in the government, and the question of corruption"… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (G&D) Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Early reprint.. Pseudonym of Betty Cavanna, who wrote the first 11 Connie Blair titles before her friend, Anne Warner Miller, completed the series with #12, 'The Mystery of the Ruby Queens.' First published in 1956, before this 1958 re-issue. The list of titles on the front flap ends… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Book. Illus. by Gail Burwen (cover). Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number line. The second novel featuring Navajo tribal police officer Joe Leaphorn, and telling the story of his efforts to track down a brutal killer after two young boys disappear. Winner of… Read more about this item

New York: Lamplight Publishing, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcovers. 1sts thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two Kay Tracey titles from the six published by Lamplight, both featuring that "attractive sixteen-year-old high school girl" from the quiet town of Brantwood (although there's an awful lot of criminal activity happening in Brantwood, so one has to wonder how much… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1956. Book. Illus. by Rus Anderson (dust jacket illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of Charlotte Armstrong Lewi. Winner of the 1957 Edgar Award. After five decades of bachelorhood, a poetry teacher marries a hapless woman whose awkwardness and depression fade away after marriage, just in time to… Read more about this item

New York: Morrow, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The 54th title in Gardner's Perry Mason series, this one finding the world's most famous fictional lawyer defending a client accused of murdering the secretary of business rival. Red cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 281 pages + two-page list of other… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Books, 1999. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A complicated mix of techno-thriller and historical fiction that inevitably ends up in the sf section of most book stores, and will suffer the same fate here in the AFB cyberstacks, mainly because I don't know how else to deal… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday / Crime Club, 1948. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. After a married couple rents a farmhouse, the male half of the duo finds an elderly woman dead of apparent food poisoning, soon after which stories of earlier deaths in the community begin to surface. Grey buckram w/green… Read more about this item

New York: Avalon Books/Bouregy & Curl, 1950. Book. Illus. by Edrien (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. A young woman who believes that three years earlier she witnessed "a slight, dark man, with luminous dark eyes, strike an injured man what appeared to be a fatal blow" comes face to face with someone whom she believes… Read more about this item

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Canadian edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles. Sequel to 'Drink to Yesterday.' Caramel cloth w/emerald lettering to front cover/spine, 308 pages. Lightly smudged covers, tanned/dusty edges, quite mild wear to corners/spine ends, in lightly edgeworn… Read more about this item

London : Jonathan Cape, 1981. Book. Illus. by Bill Botten (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. This one features a former spy who gets caught up in the repercussions of a much earlier operation, and "tells an engaging tale of smuggling, graft, blackmail and revenge" (a serving from four of the main thriller ingredients -- although… Read more about this item

London : Secker & Warburg, 1980. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Skinner is the pseudonym of award-winning crime novelist Paula Gosling. A researcher's studies into extra-sensory perception and "its potential as a weapon for espionage and psychological warfare" finds him "trapped between the demands of those who would abuse… Read more about this item

New York : Hillman-Curl, Inc., 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Thus.. Small octavo. Written in the first person, this is a fictional account of the author's successful effort to save Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from assassination by Abyssinian forces on October 3, 1935. Beige cloth w/blue lettering to front cover/spine, 282 pages. Covers soiled, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, previous… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2008. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian girl from a prominent family goes missing, a desert guide is enlisted to help find her, but when he does she is dead, and he "takes it upon himself to… Read more about this item

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Book. Illus. by Paul Bacon (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The third title in Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet series. First printing w/complete number line. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 459 pages. Bumped bottom edge of front cover, light general wear,… Read more about this item

London : Folio, 2018. Book. Illus. by Harry Brockway. New. Hard Covers. 1sts thus.. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" tall. Three novels featuring one of crime fiction's most renowned characters. Introduction by Julian Barnes. Pristine, unread copies still in publisher's shrink-wrap. These weigh more than the average book, so additional postage may be required..

Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Canadian edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A Pennington Wise mystery, this one finding our famous sleuth attempting to unravel the mystery of murder at a country estate where invited guests and household members willing assume responsibility for the death in order to protect someone… Read more about this item

Sag Harbor: Permanent Press, 2012. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first of six mysteries (as of this writing) featuring Cordell Logan, "a literate, sardonic flight instructor and aspiring Buddhist with dwindling savings and a shadowy past." In this one he agrees to help his ex-wife track… Read more about this item

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1970. Book. Illus. by Salem Tamer (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 1st U.S. edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lovesey's first mystery novel, initially published in the UK by Macmillan. Introduces Sgt. Cribb, who investigates a mysterious death that takes place during a gruelling six-day endurance race set… Read more about this item

New York & London: The Century Co., 1930. Book. Illus. by Robert Todd. Very Good. Hardcover. A young American "exploring the Highlands in search of ancestral haunts, stumbles into the ancient castle of Glenlorn and into a mystery as strangely romantic as it is baffling." Gold cloth w/black cameo illustration/lettering to front cover, black spine lettering, A suggestion… Read more about this item