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THE CAMDEN RUBY MYSTERY.
Edition: Vintage reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1931.). Hardcover - A "locked room" mystery (although in this case, the door was actually open), the first of three mysteries written using this pseudonym by the husband and wife team of R o b e r t and E v e B u r k h a r d t (they also wrote many more mysteries under the name Rob Eden.) 314 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good+ in red cloth with black lettering (usual light toning to the pages.) Red tinting to top edge.
Book ID: 56762More details Price: $40.00 -
ROCKET TO THE MORGUE.
Edition: Paperback reprint - first thus.
Condition: Good condition (spine slant)
Book ID: 81245More details Price: $8.50 -
HE WOULDN'T KILL PATIENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Hampton Publishing Company / William Morrow, 1944. Hardcover first edition - A scarce classic locked room mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters and set against the backdrop of blackouts and bombings in the early days of the London Blitz. "Patience" is tree-snake from Borneo, and when it appears that Benton, the director of the Royal Albert Zoological Gardens has committed suicide, his daughter is sure that he did not do it, because "he wouldn't kill Patience."
Condition: Very good in salmon-colored boards - some light toning to the page, but otherwise a tight, clean and straight copy. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 83388More details Price: $75.00 -
THE EBONY BED MURDER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Mystery League, 1932. Hardcover first edition - A locked-room mystery, introducing criminologist Griffin Scott, owner of a New York advertising agency and connoisseur of antique furniture. 284 pp.
Condition: Good only in black cloth with blue lettering (dampstaining in the gutters of several pages, some rubbing and wear to the covers, especially the spine.) Lacking the dust jacket.
Book ID: 48098More details Price: $12.00 -
GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe novel, set in Mid-Yorkshire. "
Like father like son . . . Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier."" In each case, Pal's stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka, is suspected. SIGNED on the title page. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-00712340X.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Blue promotional wraparound band still present.
Book ID: 83879More details Price: $40.00 -
ROCKET TO THE MORGUE.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good+ condition overall in black cloth with blue lettering on spine - a bit of fraying to ends of spine and wear to corners, names on front endpaper and a thin homemade pocket on rear pastedown. Synopsis from front flap of dust jacket has been pasted inside the front cover. Overall a tight and sturdy copy, very readable,
Book ID: 83031More details Price: $65.00 -
APPLEBY AND HONEYBATH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stewart was an Oxford academic who wrote his literate and witty mysteries under the Innes pen name; this features a classic locked room mystery set in the library of a country estate. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-396-082415.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (book appears unread, but some rubbing to the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 54697More details Price: $15.00 -
PRAGUE FATALE: A Bernie Gunther Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
Norman, OK: Putnam, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Nazi-controlled Czechoslovakia in 1941, this mystery featuring homicide inspector Bernie Gunther is a "tense political thriller wrapped inside a locked-room mystery." . Author's note. 517 pp. ISBN: 978-0399159022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 64877More details Price: $18.00 -
OBELISTS FLY HIGH.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Dover Publications, (1986). Mystery featuring a twisting plot, impossible murder, and a locked-room setting, originally published in 1935 at the height of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - it concludes with a prologue, and offers a "Clue Finder" that reveals forty hints even the sharpest armchair detective may have missed. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-486250369.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 84112More details Price: $11.50 -
THE GOLD SOLUTION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. Hardcover - A funny and fast-paced locked room whodunnit. "Meet Norma and Alexandra Gold Ð New York Sleuths with an old-fashioned solution to murder. They solve it - itÕs as simple as that.. .. One of AmericaÕs top architects, Roger Talbott, had been mysteriously killed in the locked studio atop his New York townhouse." 183 pp. Dust jacket by Terry Fehr. ISBN: 0-312331673.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70003More details Price: $12.00 -
THE DEAD ROOM,
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An ingenious, and sometimes funny (golf is frustrating and not adventure packed) locked room mystery. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-3960892828.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72576More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DEAD ROOM,
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An ingenious, and sometimes funny (golf is frustrating and not adventure packed) locked room mystery. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-3960892828.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 72577More details Price: $14.50 -
ESCAPADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the summer of 1921, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the great Houdini together try to solve a series of murders at a stately country home. A classic "locked room" mystery. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-312-130686.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4434More details Price: $20.00 -
SMART HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel feauturing Charlie Meiklejohn, a retired cop, and psychologist Constance Leidl, who investigate a murder in the "Smart House," a fully automated home of the future. INSCRIBED on the title page. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-312026420.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of light rubbing to the ends of the spine and folds of the dj)
Book ID: 77819More details Price: $30.00 -
SMART HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel feauturing Charlie Meiklejohn, a retired cop, and psychologist Constance Leidl, who investigate a murder in the "Smart House," a fully automated home of the future. SIGNED on the title page. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-312026420.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of light rubbing to the ends of the spine and folds of the dj)
Book ID: 81739More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER IN THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, commended for its historical accuracy - a variation of the classic "locked room" mystery featuring Benjamin Franklin and set in London in 1757. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0224411.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35519More details Price: $20.00
