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THE LOCKED ROOM: The Story of A Crime
by Sjowall, Maj & Per Wahloo
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1973
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- 9780394485331
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£15.46
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N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1973. First American edition, so stated, 2nd printing. Page edges lighty age spotted else about fine in price clipped dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine. There are two investigations in this, the 8th Martin Beck title. A special squad is looking into a rash of bank robberies. And Martin Beck is working by… Read more about this item Item Price
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SLAY THE MURDERER: A Sheriff John Ewell Macready Title
by Holman, Hugh
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Printing
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- 1948
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£11.59
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N.Y.: Signet Books / New American Library, 1948. First pbk printing, September 1948, so stated. Signet Books #684. Cover illustration by Jonas. Shallow loss at lower corner else near fine. Features Sheriff John Ewell Macready; South Carolina. Locked room mystery, Adey # 1038. The elder brother of the family winds up dead in locked room, and there's a strong indication… Read more about this item Item Price
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WHAT A BODY! **LOCKED ROOM/IMPOSSIBLE CRIME**
by Green, Alan
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1951
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£23.18
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1951: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st pbk printing, February 1951. Dell # 483 [.25 cover price]. Reading crease, long shallow cover crease, spine edges rubbed, lightly soiled at rear. Cover illustration by Gil Darling. Rear cover is interesting. Instead of the usual Map this one has "A Comparison Test Chart between this book and a woman. Why is it… Read more about this item Item Price
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THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY: A Dr. Basil Wiling Murder Mystery **LOCKED ROOM**
by McCloy, Helen
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1951
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£19.32
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N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. 1st pbk. printing July 1951. Dell Mapback #519 [.25 cover price]. Vintage Paperback. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Rear cover 2-part map: 1) Miss Faustina Crayle's, Brightsea, N.J.: 2) the area surronding the cottage. Reading crease, couple of light cover creases else near fine. Locked Room , Adey #1240. Gisela von Hohenems joins the… Read more about this item Item Price
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TILL DEATH DO US PART: A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery
by Carr, John Dickson
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
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- 1989
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- Paperback
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- 9781558820173
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£14.30
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N.Y.: International Polygonics, LTD, 1989. First IPL printing New Edition July 1989, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback. Cover Illustration by Nicky Zann. Locked Room Mystery [Locked Room Murders by Robert Adey #333]. Near fine copy. Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, Lesley Grant, the mysterious newcomer… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Problem of the Green Capsule: Being the Psychologist's Murder Case : A Gideon Fell Mystery
by Carr, John Dickson
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Printing
- Published
- 1986
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780930330514
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£14.30
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NY: International Polygonics, LTD, 1986. First IPL printing, December 1986, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light wear else about fine, small stain at rear were label was removed. Cover Illustration by Roger Roth. Dr. Gideon Fell is a character you should get to know. And THE PROBLEM OF THE GREEN CAPSULE is… Read more about this item Item Price
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ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN: A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery
by Abbot, Anthony (Fulton Oursler)
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1932
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£50.23
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N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1932. 1st edition. Yellow cloth shows some soiling otherwise a good, tight copy with very little wear. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY, Adey #2. Laid in is a laminated copy of the dust jacket reduced so as to be used as a bookmark. The book is now housed in a home-made acetate dust wrapper. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Newtonian Egg and Other Cases of Rolf le Roux
by Godfrey, Peter
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- As New
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9781885941688
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£65.69
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out of Print. LIMITED to 175 copies. The First volume in the "Crippen and Landru Lost Classics" series. Godfrey, a South African journalist and short-story writer created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux. In the ten stories… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE SLEUTH OF BAGHDAD: The Inspector Chafik Cases
by Child, Charles B.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9781885941749
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£34.78
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Inspector Chafik J. Chafik of the Baghdad Police Force was the creation of Charles B. Child (1903-1993), was the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost. Beginning in 1947, the Chafik stories were some of the most popular features in Collier’s Magazine, and many were… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE WINTRINGHAM MYSTERY: aka Cicely Disappears
by Berkeley, Anthony
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- As New
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- First Printing
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- 2021
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- Paperback
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- 9780008470104
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£13.52
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London: UK: Collins Crime Club, 2021. 1st paperback printing. [Originally published as: Cicely Disappearsd; John Long Ltd., as by A. Monmouth Platts]. As new. "For the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country-house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve! Stephen Munro, a… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE: A Hildegarde Withers Novel ( A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
by Palmer, Stuart
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- As New
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- 1st Prtg
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- 2008
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- Paperback
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- 9781601870308
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£15.46
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2008. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. The queen of spinster detectives, Miss Hildegarde Withers, looks into an impossible murder on board a plane bound for Catalina in the early 1930s. "I don't want to die," said the man in the brown suit, who was the last… Read more about this item Item Price
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MR. CAMPION: CRIMINOLOGIST: Seven Important Episodes from the Case Book of Albert Campion
by Allingham, Margery
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£193.20
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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1937. 1st edition, so stated. Black cloth with bright red-inked print on the spine, rubbed along edges with stained and spotted covers, in dust jacket rubbed at spine edges, soiled at rear, label remains at rear endpaper, not priceclipped, $2.00 price intact but all corners have been trimmed. One story, "The… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BISHOP'S SWORD
by Berrow, Norman
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- Later Edition
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- 2022
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- Paperback
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- 9781605432168
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£15.46
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Vancleave: MS, USA: Ramble House, 2022. 3rd printing. Lighty used trade paperback [Originally pub. UK: Ward, 1948] Adey #162, "Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes: A Comprehensive Bibliography, Revised and Expanded": Crossover Press, 1991. When Detective-Inspector Lancelot Carolus Smith finds a puzzling case he seems to find three of them at a time. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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DRAGON'S CAVE ( A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery)
by Clason, Clyde
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Prtg
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- 2007
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£12.32
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Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st printing. Fine, unread, new copy of the trade paperback [originally pub. in 1940 and very scarce]. Professor Westborough has to find the key to two locked room mysteries as well as solve a complicated cipher to catch a clever killer. When Jonas Wright, a print shop owner and… Read more about this item Item Price
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MY LATE WIVES: A Sir Henry Merrivale Title
by Dickson, Carter (John Dickson Carr)
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- As New
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- First Printing
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- 1949
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£57.96
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N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1949. 1st pbk printing, October 1949, so stated. Pocket Book #633. Vintage Paperback. A pristine, bright and tight copy with an almost unnoticeable tiny cut at rear. Cover illustration by Louis S. Glanzman. Impossible Crime, Adey #611. Very scarce in this condition.."In post-war England, nerves are frazzled already, and when a man comes down… Read more about this item Item Price
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ABOUT THE MURDER OF A STARTLED LADY: A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery
by Abbot, Anthony (Fulton Oursler)
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1935
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- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£23.18
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N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. 1st Grosset reprint edition. Orange cloth covers show some wear at extremeties, very lightly soiled else a very good - near fine copy, in home-made acetate dust wrapper. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey #4. "Thatcher Colt tries a new kind of informer, one with a link to the Great Beyond. Mrs.… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEATH TRAPS; A Lynn MacDonald Mystery
by Strahan, Kay Cleaver
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition Thus
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- 1930
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- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£30.91
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N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Grosset & Dunlap edition [n.d.] 1930. LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY. Adey # 1770. Some wear along edges, tiny piece out at head of spine, else very good+ in dust jacket, worn along edges, small 1"x1" sticker tear at front, some loss at head and foot of spine.in plastic cover. … Read more about this item Item Price
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IN SPITE OF THUNDER: A Gideon Fell Mystery
by Carr, John Dickson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1961
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- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£19.32
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N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1961. 1st paperback printing, August 1961, so stated. Vintage Paperback. Bantam #A2267 [.35 cover price]. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, long crease at rear cover else very good-near fine copy On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE TAU CROSS MYSTERY
by Connington, J.J.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1935
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£57.96
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Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Little Brown and Company, 1935. 1st US edition, July 1935, so stated. [published in England as "In Whose Dim Shadow", Hodder 1935). Purple cloth titled in black on the front cover & the spine. The spine is lightly faded, but pages are bright and binding is tight, in homemade acetate dust jacket. Adey #331.… Read more about this item Item Price
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MORE THINGS IMPOSSIBLE: The Second Casebook of DR. Sam Hawthorne **SIGNED COPY **LIMITED EDITION
by Hoch, Edward D.
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9781932009484
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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£92.74
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Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2006. 1st. Ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Limited to 230 clothbound copies, this being #88, SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "The Bad Samaritan" by Hoch. Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half… Read more about this item Item Price
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