New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

New York: Crown, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

New York: Crown, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Describes and rates over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories and suspense thrillers arranged by type (English mystery, police procedural) and by author, alphabetically. 311 pgs. Hardcover. ISBN: 0-517-556022.

Woodbridge, Connecticut: Ox Bow Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Ben McMillan, ex-Kona detective, Maui surf shop owner, who is preparing for Ironman triatholon when he receives an urgent call. His former partner's wife has been raped and murdered and Ben's help is needed. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-918024927.

London: Gollancz, 1978. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Sir John Appleby, set in Cornwall. "While strolling along a Cornish beach, Appleby narrowly escapes being struck by a body falling down a cliff. The body is that of Dr Sutch, an archivist, and he has fallen from the North Tower of Treskinnick Castle, home of Lord Ampersand." 192 pp. ISBN: 0-575025212.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small English village by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Features Superintendent Roderick Alleyn and his assistant Fox. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-316546712.

Boston: Little Brown, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon mystery involving a serial killer by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. The body of a strangled young woman is found on the London docks, clutching an embarkation notice for the cargo ship "Cape Farewell" so Alleyn boards the ship as a passenger at Portsmouth, knowing the killer is among the nine other passengers or the crew. 272 pp.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small English village, which had a strange annual folk dance ritual, by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Features Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. Originally published in the US in 1956 as 'Death of a Fool.' 287 pp.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction His wife Troy finds herself on a river cruise with an international crook known as 'the Jampot' - and the peace of the cruise is destroyed by two murders. The 'Constable' in the title refers to the artist John Constable. Illustrated endpapers. 287 pp. Dust jacket by Kenneth Farnhill.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Alleyn is in Rome incognito on the trail of a drug ring, but when two murders involve a group of tourists, he joins forces with the Roman police. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-00231889.

Boston: Little Brown, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Alleyn, Trey and their young son Ricky go to the coast of southern France in a trip that is meant to combine work - Alleyn is working undercover with the French Surete - and pleasure with a planned visit to a distant cousin of Trey's (one of the spinsters in jeopardy) only to find themselves caught up in Satanism, the occult and drug dealing. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-00231889.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fascinating biography of Willard Huntington Wright (1887-1939), a writer who helped create the modern detective novel, although this was not what he wanted to be known for (thus the alias). In his early career, before he turned to popular fiction, he was editor briefly of the "Smart Set," friends with Mencken and Dreiser, and involved in the world of modern art through his brother Stanton MacDonald-Wright. INSCRIBED on the title page "To ___ A special friend of the special aunt of the author" and dated in December 1992, in the year of publication. Photographs. Source notes, bibliography, index. xxii, 296 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193582.