Detective Short Stories
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Field Of Thirteen
by Dick Francis
A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
Detective Short Stories Books & Ephemera
A Woman's Eye
by Sara Paretsky
Dell NY 1992. 448 pages. Reprint Edition Very good condition with lightwear and readers crease to spine. See photos. Cel/PB2
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£8.74
Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder
by Various
Berkley, NY 2000. 303 pages. First Thus Edition Very good condition with edge wear, readers creases and toning to inside of covers. See photos. Cel/PB2
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£8.74
Missing in Manhattan
by Various
Very good condition with very light wear, readers crease to the spine See photos. 59
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£8.74
Murder to Music
by Cynthia Manson; Kathleen Halligan
Berkley NY 1998. 262 pages. First Thus Edition Fine unread condition. See photos. Cel/PB2
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£8.74
THE YEAR'S BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
by HOCH, Edward D ~ Edited By
NY: Walker, 1984. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Walker. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in black boards with gold title in yellow printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Laurie McBarnette. Thirteen short stories, see image of back panel for list.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair.
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£17.00
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
by Lovesey Peter
NY: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hard Cover. 0892961953 . The dust jacket is protected by an adjustable mylar cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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£8.09
Cosmopolitan Crimes Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
by Greene Hugh edited by
NY, Pantheon Books, 1971 First American Edition 347 page collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporaries.
A near fine book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to top page edges, in price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, small closed tear top edge front panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. See photos
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science 17
A near fine book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to top page edges, in price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, small closed tear top edge front panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. See photos
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£8.09
MR RACCOON AND HIS FRIENDS ~ And Two Other Stories
by MCCARTHY, Eugene J
Il: Academy Chicago, 1992. FINE condition in FINE original yellow glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. IL. Academy Chicago. SOFTCOVER. 1992. REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Cover art by Julia Anderson-Miller. Ten stories featuring Mr. Raccoon and other animals. Stored in Archival cover.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine.
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£12.14
CHAPTER AND HEARSE ~ Suspense Stories About The World Of Books
by MULLER, Marcia & Bill Pronzini ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in creme on creme with gold titles in rasberry and green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. Sixteen short stories from Robert Bloch to Cornell Woolrich, with fourteen others in between.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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£28.33
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER
by BLOCK, Lawrence
NY: Arbor House, 1984. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Arbor House. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, SECOND Printing. SIGNED By Author. AS NEW, bound in black and gray with red titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. Collection of nineteen short stories. Introduction by Joe Gores. ~ SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED By Author on Front-Free Endpaper to Owners of Scene Of The Crime ~ For Ruth & Al - At The Store 3 May...
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£32.37
THE POCKET BOOK OF FATHER BROWN
by CHESTERSON, G K
NY: Pocket Books, 1943. VERY GOOD condition in NEAR FINE original brown pictorial paper wraps. NY. Pocket Books 236. SOFTCOVER. An Original Pocket Book Edition. FIRST Printing October 1943. Square and tight. Age toning to pages and endpapers. Front hinge crease. Light edge wear. Seventeen short stories featuring the famous priest-detective. Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/Near Fine Original Wraps.
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£18.61
NUTZENBOLTS
by GOULART, Ron
NY: Macmillan, 1975. NEAR FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1975. FIRST PRINTING. Bound in gray boards with silver shadow titles, square and tight. REMAINDER copy, small red dot bottom edge, and some soiling to dust jacket back panel, else FINE. 'Man and machine confront each other in eleven futuristic parables by the foremost chronicler of 'homo mechanicus.'. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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£24.28
SIX OF THE BEST ~ Short Novels By Masters Of Mystery
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Edited By
NY: Carroll & Graf, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Carroll & Graf. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in periwinkle and purple with gold titles in black printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter. Includes - Ellery Queen, Michael Gilbert, Ed McBain, Georges Simenon, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D MacDonald.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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£18.61
BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH ~ 17 Stories Of Vampirism
by DATLOW, Ellen ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in red and black with gold titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket illustration by Don Maitz, design by Rats Paterson. Seven classics and ten new tales and poems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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£26.71
THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY ~ Fredric Brown In The Detective Pulps Volume 6
by BROWN, Fredric
NM: Dennis McMillan, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NM. Dennis McMillan. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION, Thus, LIMITED EDITION, Number 210 of 375 copies. SIGNED and Numbered by William Campbell Gault, Author of the Introduction. AS NEW, bound in dark blue cloth with bright yellow titles in blue pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD. First hardcover collection of eight short stories previously published in the Pulps. Cover Art and Endpapers by William L McMillan. . Signed by Author of...
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£36.42
Witches Brew
by Edited by Alfred Hitchcock with stories by Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Henry Kane, and others
NY, Dell, 1965 First Mass market paperback Edition 192 pages.
A very good copy with light wear, text paper lightly age toned, tight clean copy. See Photos
SR 2/3
A very good copy with light wear, text paper lightly age toned, tight clean copy. See Photos
SR 2/3
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£8.09
THE LADY OR THE TIGER?
by SMULLYAN, Raymond
NY: Times Books, 1996. FINE condition in NEAR FINE original paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. 1996. FIRST Times Books Paperback Edition, trade size. AS NEW, bound in heavy glossy pictorial paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD. Light/faint scratches and small hole on front cover. Includes The Lady or The Tiger? and Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Original Wraps.
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£20.23
THE AGATHA CHRISTIE HOUR
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
UK: Collins, 1982. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. UK. Collins. HARDCOVER. 1982. FIRST PRINTING. Cover Art by Ian Kestle. AS NEW, bound in black boards with rose stylized illustrated wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Non-visible small swipe of color overrun inside dust jacket, else FINE. This volume contains the ten short stories dramatized on the Thames Television series, The Agatha Christie Hour. Includes first appearance in book form of Magnolia Blossom,...
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£121.40
The Plot Thickens
by Mary Higgins Clark (editor)
Pocket Books NY 1997 257 pages. First Pocket Books Edition Near Fine condtion with a tiny nick to the head of the spine and another one to the lower edge of the rear cover. See photos. Cel/PB2
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£8.74
GILDED BAT
by GOREY, Edward
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1979. FINE condition in FINE Gorey illustrated wraps. SOFTCOVER. 1979. SPECIAL ISSUE. This special paper edition was issued for the 1979 American Booksellers' Association convention in Los Angeles. Illustrated wraps with canvas spine. Square and tight, UNREAD. A nice gift for Gorey fans and collectors. Stored in a Mylite Archival sleeve.. Special Issue. Soft Cover. Fine/Original Wraps.
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£89.02
Cherry's Diary
by Cassenna Chan
ASM / Association of Stories in Macao 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 9993786454 . First edition . "A series of [4] detective stories with a Macao setting. With a strong interest in solving murders, the heroine Cherry Lam is always seen as a troublemaker by her colleagues in the police force". Pictorial wrappers, 95 pages. Fine copy. bx207
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£10.12
THE GLASS TRIANGLE
by COXE, George Harmon
NY: Dell, 1940. VERY GOOD condition in VERY GOOD original paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. DELL MAPBACK #81. 1940. Mass Market Paperback. Square, tight. Minor nicks, creases and rubbing to covers and spine. Reading creases. Pages browning, edges faded with age. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Cover and mapback colors sharp, bright. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good Original Wraps. Mass Market Paperback.
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£20.23
100 DASTARDLY LITTLE DETECTIVE STORIES
by Weinberg, Robert and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg (edited by) [Morris Cooper, Dorothy Dunn, Jim Knapp, R. C. Lehmann, John McCurnin, Abraham Lincoln, V. E. Thiessen, Victor K. Ray, J. V. Drexel, William Manners, Dick Donovan, et al]
New York: Barnes & Noble Books [1993]First edition [printing code line ends with a "1"]. 561 pages. Near Fine copy text paper starting to tan. ref28
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£9.55
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY ~ DETECTIVE DIRECTORY II
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Selected By
NY: Davis Publications, 1978. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Davis Publications. HARDCOVER. 1978. FIRST EDITION, Thus. AS NEW, bound in red leatherette with gold gilt lettering, cover design and page edges, with red endpapers and red ribbon marker. No dust jacket, as issued. Square and tight, UNREAD. Nineteen short stories featuring the amateur detective ~ Priest, Teacher, Thief, Valet, etc. Includes black and white photographs of the authors. Nicely packaed. Nice gift. Stored in...
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£32.37
