Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: Prentice Hall Books for Young Readers., 1981. First edition. 1st paperback printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. A few small cover blemishes. As new interior. Clean "Check it Out! " sticker inside cover.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 3-color artwork. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children's mystery series featuring an intrepid duck. Aboard the express train to Cairo, Egypt, troublesome George Ruddy Duck disappears. Miss Mallard puts her quacking-good detective skills to work. 11 others listed in series, back cover.

Boston.: Little, Brown and Company., 1950. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top edge splash spotting to green page edges.. Cosgrave II, J. O'H. (DJ illustration by).. 1 215 p. 21 cm. Light green vinyl cloth over boards; darker green spine, front titles, illustrated. Wrightsville town plt plan end papers. Mystery fiction: Miss Rima Anderson recalls Ellery Queen to Wrightsville with a puzzling series of deaths: a heart attack, a suicide, a disappearance over a cliff. Natural or accidental? Perhaps. Dustjacket: "As a final fillip, the authors have again cast reasonable doubt on the continuation of Ellery Queen's prized bachelorhood. " The team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B Lee are "Ellery Queen". They also published under the pseudonym "Barnaby Ross".

New York.: Random House., 1965. First edition. Stated 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name covered by "white-out". Light spine end, corner rubs. Sturdy w/ hairline front board binding crack.. 1 Blue woven cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 183 p. 22 cm. Red top page block. Mystery fiction set in the New York City region, in four parts: Sheila, Ashton, Lutetia, Dane.

Pocket Books by arr. w/ J.B. Lippincott., 1964. Copyright 1930, Stokes; 1958 renewed. 18th pr.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Lower spine tear at fold, repaired w/ clear tape.. 1 285 p. Mass-market paperback. 16 cm. Red-dyed page blocks. Murder mystery fiction. During a Fifth Avenue store window demo, showing off modern French furniture, a wall bed is lowered, and the bloody body of a woman is revealed. The demonstrator faints to the floor. The show is over. Inspector Queen investigates, introducing his cynical young genius son, Ellery.

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap., 1942. First edition. No print line. Presumed 1st.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine. Age-toning. Nice edges.. 1 Black cloth over boards. Red stamped spine & front titles. Green end papers; red top page block. 4 p.l., 197 p. 21 cm. An Ellery Queen Mystery, "Designed and produced by Artists and Writers Guild Inc". This volume is about "The Perfect Criime".

Garden City NY.: Blue Ribbon Books., 1940. 1938 Frederick Stokes copyright.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Minor varied cover blemishes.. 1 503 p. Black cloth over boards. Red stamped spine titles. Red top page block. 21 cm. Introductory Chapter: "Challenge to the Reader; In Which Mr. Ellery Queen Invents a New Kind of Detective Story Anthology". The reader learns Ellery Queen is the only living member among 8216, the club being heroines, heroes, and detectives of the mystery genre. Herein, each chapter offers the reader and well-known "detective" disguised with a changed name. 26 Chapters; at front, a list of authors and their famous fictional sleuths.

New York.: Frederick A Stokes Company., 1939. Presumed 1st. Same date, title and copyright pages.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover soiling moderate. Clean text pages. Tight binding. Prior owner bookplate mostly torn away.. 1 First edition. 325 p. Tan cloth over boards, Red titles. 22 cm. Deckled right page block. Classic Ellery Queen mystery fiction in which a 19th century Beau Rummill keeps getting mistaken for the 18th century Beau Brummell, and he has not been happy about that.

Boston.: Little, Brown & Company., 1954. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 1 Yellow vinyl-type material over boards. Dark blue titles. 184 p. 21 cm. Short stories (18 adventures) drawn from Special files among closed-case Q.B.I. files, each having something of "peculiar interest".

New York.: Frederick A. Stokes Company., 1932. 2nd printing, 1 month after 1st.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Very good save lower spine, front wear to board, 1 inch. slight forward spine tilt.. 1 Red cloth over boards. Red titles over black graphic coffin. xii, [4], 3-370 p. illus. (plans) 20 cm. Illustrations, Plans. Innovative contents list in 2 "books", each 1st letter in one-word chapter, collected spells title and author. Fictional art dealer Georg Khalkis and his family are central to this tale of mystery.

New York.: Random House., 1965. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 175 p. Red top page block. Yellow cloth over boards. Red spine, front titles. Mystery Fiction: The Death of Don Juan; The Wrightsville Heirs; The CaseAgainst Carroll; E=Murder; Diamonds in Paradise.

New York.: Avon / Hearst by arr. w/ Little, Brown and Co., 1933. T-516. 35c cover price.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower spine short tear, replied w/ clear tape. Age-toning.. 1 Mass-market paperback, photo art inside large "Z". Red spine, white titles, white front cover w/ gray and red titles.190 p. 18 cm. Originally published by Cassell in 1933 under the pseudonym of Barnaby Ross, following the fortunes of Mr. Drury Lane. Murder mystery fiction: Senator Joel Fawcett lies dead with a thin paperknife in his chest. There would be a national scandal and hundreds of suspects. Impossible to solve? But of course Drury Lane was assisted in finding a lead by Patty, a wandering blonde with melting blue eyes.

New York.: Ballantine Books by arr. w/ Random House., 1976. 2nd printing; 1975 1st.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Surface slight wave, front (poor storage? ). Clean. Smooth spine.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Mystery Fiction: A wrong turn by Ellery Queen in America's southwestern desert ends in a hidden valley inhabited by an odd religious group, the Quenanites. Ancient treasure is stored in the sanctum, and someone has made a duplicate key.

New York.: Popular Library., 1967. First edition. 1st Popular Library edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Smooth spine. Surface slight wave, front (poor storage? ). Clean. Smooth spine.. 1 144 p. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction subtitled: Tim Corrigan is up to his eye-patch in scandal, intrigue and wide-open murder.

New York.: Frederick A Stokes Company., 1933. 4th printing during 1933.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Slight edge wear, minor spine slant. Else fine.. 1 Red cloth over boards, stamped black titles and pistol (American West holstered type). Mystery murder fiction. The prelude "Preparatory: Spectrum" is a conversation between Queen and J.J. McC. and the Postlude: "Spectrum Analysis", continues that conversation. On page 256, there is "Challenge to the Reader", described by the author as the "seventh-inning stretch" of his novels. This challenge: "Who killed the the two horsemen in the arena of the 'Colosseum'? " He notes all the clues have been laid out. Then, the writing continues to the end. Themes: the press, 45 guns, ballistics, heel of Achilles;

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap / Frederick A. Stokes., 1930. Stokes copyright 1929. This, 6th printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name ink-stamped. Lower front spine corner, 1 inch tear. Light spine tilt. Top spine bleach patch on green dye block. Minor wear to spine ends, corners.. 1 325 p. Red cloth over boards, stamped red titles in black top hat graphic. Mystery Fiction, theatre-going setting and persons. Introductory chapter includes a corpse. Interlude on page 270, "In which the Reader's Attention is Respectfully Requested". Another perfect crime spoiled by Ellery Queen and his father Richard.

New York.: Harmony Books., 2001. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Light top page block shelf dusting.. 1 Purple and off-white paper over boards. 160 p. 22 cm. Illustrated Cover: color author portrait. Audience: General/trade. Body, Mind & Spirit; Self-help. Tapping your Angel Power.