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Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company Publishers, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. 159 p.p. Original green cloth with red titling to front cover and spine, and red stamped candle device to front board. Library shelf sticker removed from spine. Minor bumping and wear to spine ends, light chafing to corners. Colour illustrated dust jacket has some wear and chipping to spine ends, shelf number inked to spine, a few tears to rear cover, some foxing and soiling. Ex-Library, stamp of Brooklin Public Library (Ontario) to pastedowns. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers. A few spots of light foxing, else clean. A murder mystery in San Francisco and the only clue is a birthday cake with 50 candles. Biggers is recognized as one of the few outstanding writers of the American type of mystery story. First published in the Saturday Evening Post. Basis for the 1921 movie starring Bertram Grassby and Marjorie Daw.
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50 Candles
by Biggers, Earl Derr
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A.S.F.: The Story of a Great Conspiracy
by Rhode, John
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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Popular edition. Full maroon cloth. viii, 312 pp. Spine faded, a few spots of damp staining, rubbing to extremities, light creasing to spine. Some light foxing. Crossword puzzle competition coupon laid in at front pastedown.
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Adios Hemingway
by Fuentes, Leonardo Paudra
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Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. x, 229 p.p. Quarter bound paper, cloth boards. Translated from Spanish to English by John King. Light scratching to jacket. Rubbing to extremities, worse to bottom of boards. Interior clean, a near fine copy. This book is preceded by Havana Gold and followed by Havana Fever. Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. He has written screenplays, two short story books, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages.
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Adventures in Murder, Undertaken By Some Notorious Killers in Love
by Gribble, Leonard
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New York: Roy Publishers Inc. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Thrilling dramas of passion and violence that made headlines throughout the world and became outstanding in the annals of crime. [N.d., ca. 1955]. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. 192 p.p., [7] plates B&W photos. With 25 illustrations. Some damp staining to to boards. Foxing to edges of text block, endpapers, and sporadically throughout the text. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at spine, worn at extremities, a few short tears and small chips, small perforation to spine, spot of wear to front cover. In this latest volume of true crime stories, Mr. Gribble has presented twenty cases of murder in which a grim adventure culminates in violence.
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Airframe
by Crichton, Michael
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First trade edition. Quarter black paper, grey paper boards. 351 pp. Fine.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 8
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Richard E. Decker, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. Original green wrappers with portrait of Alfred Hitchcock on front cover, 127 pp., in-text illustrations. Some rubbing and chafing to covers, light wear to spine ends and edges, small bump to upper front cover and some light sunning to rear cover, otherwise very good. Novelette by John Lutz, plus short stories by George C. Chesbro, Frank Sisk, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, Dan Morgan, Marilyn Granbeck, Stephen Wasylyk, Bill Pronzini, Donald Olson, Arthur Porges, Edward Wellen and Carroll Mayers.
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Always Tip the Dealer
by Ross, Gary
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1981. Hardcover. As New/Very Good+. 8vo. Hardcover. 8vo. 322 pp. Cover: Half-bound blue on beige boards with white lettering on spine. Jacket: Small chip on bottom of spine and slight fading, due to time, else in very good condition. A very good copy.
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Angel Eyes: An Amos Walker Mystery
by Estleman, Loren D.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author to ffep. First edition. Author's second book. Original black cloth, silver lettering. 203 p.p. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket has some light chafing to joints and extremities, bumping to spine ends, small chip to spine head. Amos Walker is hired by a beautiful nightclub dancer whose diamond ring leads to an ex-con who is now the powerful head of the United Steelhaulers Union. The tangle takes us from Detroit's glittering Renaissance Center to the seamier side of the city, to a missing judge, jealous mistress, and vengeful son. It is a trail littered with bodies, a wild ride through a tough world that leaves terror in its wake.
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Ashes to Ashes: An Inner Sanctum Mystery
by Lathen, Emma
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full yellow paper boards. 185 pp. Spine tilted, bruise to spine heads. Dust jacket is darkened to spine and joints, bumped to spine ends, a few short tears to edges.
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The Babe with the Twistable Arm: An Inner Sanctum Mystery
by Stone, Hampton
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Toronto: Popular Library, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback, 159 p.p. All edges red. Creasing to covers, light wear to extremities. Small damp stain to first page at fore edge. Florrie Lennox was a softhearted dame but even she could only take so much from a brutal stranger. When District Attorney Gibson got an SOS from Florrie he knew she must be in bad trouble, maybe murder. By the time he got there, it turned out to be even worse.
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Badman
by Leonard, Michael
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New York: Vantage Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 223 p.p. Jacket is rubbed on corners and edges. Author inscription on the front free endpaper. Light scuffing and scratches on the front and back of the jacket. Light bump to tail of spine. Faded blue stamp on bottom edge. Otherwise interior clean. a fine copy.
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The Beast Must Die
by Blake, Nicholas
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London: Collins, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Crime Club. Orig. orange cloth. 284 pp. Foxing to edges of text block. Foxing and wear to ffep. Crack to inner hinge at title page. Creasing to rfep. Facsimile dust jacket.
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The Benson Murder Case
by Dine, S. S. Vine
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1990. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. The Franklin Library Mystery Masterpieces Series. 293 plus [1] pp. A.e.g. Frontis by Kent Barton, plus 4 illustrations. Purple cloth boards with gilt tooled armchair and gilt titling to spine.
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Berlin Game
by Deighton, Len
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London: Hutchinson, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black paper boards. 304 pp. Slightly yellowed to interior, light staining to copyright page. Dust jacket age toned, else fine.
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The Big Cat
by Short, Christopher. 1913-1978
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. Original pictorial jacket and organge cloth binding. 224 p.p. Light rubbing to jacket edges, extremities. Small stain to lower rear cover and smudging. Bruising to spine ends. Top corners of boards slightly bumped. Very small ink mark to foot of front board and outer-edge. Light rubbing to boards. Some spotting to edges. Else a very good copy.
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The Big Chill
by Copper, Basil
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London: Robert Hale, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. brown paper boards. 183 pp. Fading to edges. Foxing and damp staining to edges of text block. Dust jacket is damp stained to rear cover, foxed to flaps and edges.
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The Big Sleep
by CHANDLER, RAYMOND
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo. 165 p.p. Cloth. 'A Forum Book Motion Picture Edition' stamped on front board and printed on front f.l. Small nicks along top and bottom edges of dust-jacket. Bottom of dust-jacket spine lightly chipped, hardly interferring with text. Scratches throughout dust-jacket, larger one on spine interferring with author's name. Small tears to top of back and right side of front dust-jacket cover. Two small ink marks to top of f.f. endpaper. Small tears to bottom of pages 161-164. Otherwise, a good copy of book.
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The Blackwood Cult
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New York: Magnum Books, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback, 158 p.p. All edges yellow. Larger type, non-glare paper. Some age darkening to spine and edges and wear and creasing to extremities. Blackwood was Wendy Markham's too-well-remembered upstate hometown. A town of suspicions, squabbles, hatred and fear. A town she recalled, that had even cast out poor Katy Campbell as a witch anf forced her to live in a deserted church. Yet Wendy went home again, called for by her family - into a nightmare more terrifying than her blackest memories. For she finds a werid witchcult has taken over Blackwood. But is Katy Campbell really its leader? At the bizarre church, horror closes in on Wendy when, tracked by a faceless killer, she knows she has no place to hide!
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Blood Sport
by Francis, Dick
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United States: The Franklin Library, 1988. Hardcover. As New. Johnson, David.. 8vo. The Franklin Library Mystery Masterpieces Series. 241 p.p. Cloth. A.E.G. Triangle design to endpapers. Title stamped on spine. Boards and interior clean. Frontispiece designed and illustrated by Johnson, David.
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The Blue Ridge Crime
by Martyn, Wyndham
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. First printing stated. Orig. orange cloth. 316 pp. Chafing to extremities, spine slightly tilted and creased, bumped at spine ends. Staining and discolouration to boards. Foxing to edges of text block and front and end matter. Offsetting to endpapers.
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