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.