Search Results: Fiction: Mystery from The Owl at the Bridge

Heritage Press, NY [1950]. Hard Cover. 764 p.; 22.5 cm. A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Good+/ black cardboard slipcase worn. Stock#29815a.

London, Leopard, 1996. Hard Cover. 317 p. 22 cm. The Sherlock Holmes Collected edition. First published 1892. Twelve shrt stories. Stock #29,809. Vg/ dj vg.

Dutton [c1998]. Hard Cover. 386 p., 22 cm. "...from the drawing rooms of early aristocracy to the... Appalachian wilderness... murder, simple faith, blind truth..." Color pictorial dj; VG+. Stock#30579.

Frederick Ungar, NY [c1979]. Soft Cover. 'Edited by Dick Riley and Pam McAllister. Introduction by Julian Symons. Over 200 illustrations.' xix, [2], 330 p., index, bibliography, b/w illus. throughout, 4 color plates. Pictorial paper covers, 27.5 cm.; good. stock#30389.

Mysterious Press [1988] (1st).. First Edition. Hard Cover. 212 p., 21.5 cm. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is here cast as an amateur sleuth in a case involving a death jockey and the horse racing world. Stock #29,434. Fine/ dj fine.

St. Martin's Press, NY [c1996]. Hard Cover. 'A John Putnam Thatcher Mystery.' 'A Thomas Dunne Book.' 'Kischel Brewery has created Quax as a nonalcoholic alternative to its popular beers. NOBBY, No Beer-Buying Youngsters, a grassroots organization asserting that nonalcoholic beer primes youngsters for premature alcohol abuse, takes the brewery to court. ...Kischel Brewery is an important client of Thatcher's bank [Sloan Guaranty Trust], so the case falls into his capable hands. Trying to make sense of this nonalcoholic storm, Thatcher uncovers an intoxicating cover-up.' 248 pages, 22 cm.; color pictorial dj (illustrated by Cary Henrie); VG+. Stock# 32337.

London, Leopard, 1996. Hard Cover. 261 p. 22 cm. The Sherlock holmes Collected Edition. First pub., 1927. In this last collection Doyle reaches beyond the usual rational exercises for Holmes.Stock #29,814. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Harper & Row, 1971. Hard Cover. xxxi, 831 p.; 22 cm. Contents: Novels of detection, crime, mystery, and espionage; Short stories, collections, anthologies, magazines, pastiches, and plays; Studies and histories of the genre, lives of writers, and the literature of Edwin Drood; True crime; Literature of Sherlock Holmes. ISBN (10): 0060102632. Stock#47833. Vg / no dj.

Chicago UP [1977]. Soft Cover. ix, 214 p. 16 cm. With a new Introduction by Donald F. Lach. Imperial China, Tang dynasty, seventh century A.D.--home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. This novel, first published 1959, conveys insights into traditional China. Stock# 31,773. New/ paper.

Chicago UP [1977].. Soft Cover. ix, 209 p. , 18 cm. With a new Introduction by Donald F. Lach. Imperial China, Tang dynasty, seventh century A.D.--the home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. This novel, first published in 1961, conveys insights into traditional China. Stock# 31,774x. New/ paper.

Chicago UP [1977].. Soft Cover. ix, 287 p. 18 cm. With a new Introduction by Donald F. Lach. Imperial China, Tang dynasty, seventh century A.D. --home of Judge Dee, imperial magistrate and detective. This novel, first published in 1958, conveys insights into traditional China. Stock# 31,776x. New/ paper.

N.Y., Knopf, 1984. Hard Cover. ‘Fourth Printing, February 1984.' 377 p.; dj clipped; near fine. ‘the last months in power of Bernie Morgan, the feisty, hard-drinking, seemingly indestructible Speaker of the Massachusetts House. Boston politics hasn't been this uproarious since the Tea Party.' stock#101121. Contemporary American fiction, literature of violence.

Boston, L.C. Page, 1908. Hard Cover. 267 p. illus. 19.5 cm. First published 1895. Six detective stories in the Sherlock Holmes manner by the one contemporary who holds our interest today. Stock# 30308. Poor, the front flyleaf us torn and it and the frontis. are loose, cover is worn, soiled

NY, Doubleday [196??].. Hard Cover. Two volumes, 1122 p.; 24 cm. This is a later reprint of the edition with the Morley Preface. Four novels, 56 short stories. Stock #29,762. VG/ dj vg.. English literature, detective fiction.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Hard Cover. ix, 587 p.; 24 cm. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. A novel set in a conference of world-famous sleuths Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Philip Marlowe, Hercule Poirot and Nero Wolfe as they figure out the mystery of Dickens's last, unfinished novel. They "mix the complete text of The Mystery of Edwin Drew, genuine literary scholarship, the detective genre, science fiction, and their impressive knowledge of Rome-- both ancient and modern-- to produce a lighthearted, offbeat, hilarious satire." ISBN (10): 0151137323. Stock#44155. Fine/ dj cover design by Edward Gorey; fine.

.Philadelphia, Lippincott [1952].. Hard Cover. Book club edition. 185 p.; Good+/dj ragged & tired;.. 'A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery.' American literature; mystery; fiction.

Philadelphia, Lippincott [1949].. Hard Cover. First edition. 223 p.; 19 cm. A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery. Stock #29,263. Good+ dj in old plastic protector..

NY, Viking Press, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. [iv], 186 p.; 21 cm. "Third printing November 1965", in which Stout detective Nero Wolfe tangles with the FBI, showing J. Edgar Hoover's boy acting above the law. This got Stout on Hoover's enemy list. Stock#47214. Vg/ dj edges frayed.

Set in Manhattan on Christmas Eve; '...the fastest, funniest twenty-four hours ever packed into one novel.' Hardcover. 302 pages; dj has closed tear at rear of spine; Very Good. Stock#27170/h.

Paddington Press, NY [1978]. Hard Cover. Oblong quarto; xxix, 91 p., illus. incl. color. Title continues: with a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle by Michael Baker. "Reproduced here in its entirety, Doyle's diary is a wondrous blending of words and watercolor, a collage of fact and fancy... At its core... is a desperately lonely man, feebly clinging to the last threads of life and struggling to maintain his hold on reality..." Dj; VG. stock#24620x.