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H. L. Adam | The Tragic Brides | Detective Story Club, Wm. Collins | n.d. | Reading copy in damaged cover, missing very top of spine & a portion of the lower edge of front panel. Back panel damp-marked. No problem with text block other than the invitable darkening of the paper with age. | £20

John Bingham | I Love, I Kill | Gollancz | 1968 | 575001828 First edition in unclipped jacket. Upper edge of jacket has been unobtrusively reinforced with tape on the reverse. Front cover is set a little forward. | £30

Guy Boothby | Dr Nikola’s Experiment | Hodder & Stoughton | 1899 | First edition. Pictorial cover still looks striking, but is damp-marked at upper edge. Lettering on spine is still bright. One plate, which should face p.111, is missing. | £50

Howard Browne | Halo for Satan | No Exit | 1988 | 9780948353192 In unclipped jacket. Paper tanned with age. | £25

Glyn Carr | A Corpse at Camp Two | Geoffrey Bles | 1955 | Ex-Boots Library copy, with sticker on front cover & label trace on rear pastedown. No jacket, spine creased & sunned. | £60

Michael Collins | Act of Fear | Michael Joseph | 1968 | First edition in unclipped jacket. Some loss to edge of jacket, most evident at top of spine. A couple of small nicks in the crease of the spine/back panel. | £40

Theodora du Bois | Seeing Red | Collins Crime Club | 1955 | Unclipped cover still looks impressive, but is worn, with several closed tears to the top edge & some loss to the edges. There is an old price written in biro on the ffep. | £20

Francis Durbridge | The Case of the Twisted Scarf | Dodd, Mead | 1961 | U.S. 1st edition in jacket. The front cover design of the jacket looks very impressive indeed, but the spine is rather worn with light blotchy marking, & the front flap is priceclipped. The binding underneath is bright, with a little wear at the edges. Overall, a handsome copy. | £75

Ron Goulart | The Hardboiled Dicks | Boardman | 1967 | hardback in unclipped jacket; white jacket is lightly marked, most evidently at top corner of front cover/spine; outer edge of pageblock is foxed | £20

Michael Hardwick | Prisoner of the Devil | Proteus | 1979 | 0906071119 Signed by author on title page. First edition in unclipped jacket. | £15

Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr Ripley | Heinemann | 1966 | Edition of 1966. No jacket. Some wear to boards & upper edge of page-block. Book is a little bowed from storage. A couple of blue pencil ticks against the list of other Highsmith titles at the front of the book. | £50

William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) | I Married a Dead Man | Hutchinson | n.d. | Third impression in rather clumsily clipped jacket. Jacket still looks impressive, but has closed tears & some loss to edges, worst affected at top of spine, & has been intermittently reinforced with tape on the reverse. The book itself is slant, with the front cover set forward, & what I take to be a date has been written in ink at the top of the title page. | £50

John Laurence | The Fanshawe Court Mystery | Hodder and Stoughton | n.d. | Front cover set forward, faint cup ring on cover, rear endpaper creased. | £35

Murray Latham | Even from the Law | Hutchinson | Some wear & a little loss to edges of unclipped jacket. Top of spine of jacket is reinforced with clear tape on the reverse. Pale cloth cover, edge of pageblock & endpapers are all foxed. | £30

George MacBeth | The Seven Witches | W. H. Allen | 1978 | 0491020155 First printing in unclipped jacket. Little scuff mark on rear panel. Front cover set slightly forward, paper tanned with age. | £20

Ian Kennedy Martin | Regan and the Manhattan File | Arthur Barker | 1975 | 213165600 First edition in unclipped jacket. The jacket has suffered wear & a little loss to extremities of spine & top edge of front flap. Back flap, endpapers & edge of page-block foxed. | £30

Robert Martin | A Key to the Morgue | Robert Hale | 1960 | Unclipped bright jacket. W. H. Smith Library label on front pastedown, but the book does not appear to have had significant use: it appears to be in very good condition apart from some blotchy foxing to the outer edge of the page block. Crossed out letters on ffep. Front cover set a little forward. | £20

Helen McCloy | The Early McCloy: Dance of Death; Deadly Truth; Who’s Calling? | Gollancz | 1973 | 575016752 No jacket, outer edge of page-block foxed. | £20

Philip McCutchan | Rollerball | Hodder and Stoughton | 1983 | 9780340344446 First edition in unclipped jacket. Front cover set very slightly forward. | £100

James Mitchell | Death and Bright Water | Hamish Hamilton | 1974 | 0241891396 First edition in unclipped jacket. Spine of jacket mildly sunned. Some wear to extremities of spine of book itself. | £15

Baroness Orczy | The Old Man in the Corner | Greening | 1909 | First edition. Cover is in very rough condition, with cup rings on the front panel, & the edge of the spine split from the back panel. Bookplate & previous owner’s name on front pastedown. Small pencil marks on title page & its reverse, a little pencil writing on rear endpaper. Outer edge of page-block worn, intermittent foxing on text pages. | £100

John Walter Putre | A Small and Incidental Murder | Scribners | 1990 | 9780684191393 First edition in unclipped jacket. Front cover set slightly forward. The cards of UK literary agent Carolyn Brunton & US agency Goodman Associates are stapled to the lower corner of the ffep. The staple has left an impression on the first few pages of the book. | £15

Robin Cook, writing as Derek Raymond | Dead Man Upright | Little, Brown | 1993 | Proof copy | £50

Derek Raymond (Robin Cook) | He Died with His Eyes Open | Alison Press | 1984 | 1st edition hardback in unclipped jacket – the book still looks good, but there are faint label traces on the front cover, & the outer edge of the front flap is creased, with a closed tear down about the first quarter of the crease; the paper is inevitably tanned with age & foxed on the upper edge | £200

Derek Raymond (Robin Cook) | Nightmare in the Street | Serpent’s Tail | 1988 | 9781852429089 First Serpent’s Tail printing. Cover lightly creased at corners, scuffed on back panel. Short fingernail tears in margin of p.13. | £30

Sax Rohmer | The Green Eyes of Bast | Cassell | 1922 | First print of “popular edition” (original publication was 1920, with a further printing that year). Worn pocket edition with embossed design on cover & decorated spine, name on ffep, paper foxed. | £20

Margaret Scherf | The Owl in the Cellar | Nimmo | Undated hardcover in unclipped jacket. The book itself has a lightly marked cover, name on front pastedown, lightly marked blurb page, foxed outer edge.The jacket still looks impressive, but is damaged, with loss to the edges & back cover. | £50

Genevieve Scott | The Water Horse | Gollancz | 1974 | 0575016981 First edition in unclipped jacket. Front cover set slightly forward. | £15

Georges Simenon | Strange Inheritance | Routledge and Kegan Paul | 1950 | First English edition in poor condition. No jacket, tea/coffee mark on front panel, faded spine. The book is slant, with the front cover set forward. No problem with text pages. | £15

Grant Tracey | Call it Murder | Robert Hale | 1972 | 0709123868 First edition in price-clipped jacket. Edges of jacket rather worn, with a short closed tear at lower edge of front panel. | £15

David Williams | Copper, Gold, and Treasure | Collins | 1982 | 0002312972 Inscribed by author to ‘my favourite galley slave’ on title page. First edition in unclipped jacket with faded spine. | £15

Sara Woods | They Love Not Poison | Macmillan | 1972 | 0333137051 First printing in unclipped jacket. Edges of jacket worn, with a little loss, outer edge of page-block foxed. | £30

Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish) | I Wouldn’t be in Your Shoes | Hutchinson | nd (1946). | Contents: I Wouldn’t be in Your Shoes; Last Night; Three o’Clock; Nightmare; & Papa Benjamin. No dustjacket, cover lightly worn, most evidently on spine & at lower corner of spine/front cover, where cloth is a little frayed, very light trace of erased pencil writing (a signature or similar) on ffep. | £50.00