Quentin patrick wheeler hugh (48 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1940s. BB F778. "Murder weaves a malevolent trap." Edge wear with roughness along the top and fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a 1st thus of a mystery from the mid 1930s. Dell Book D190. # 4 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear. Moderate browning to the pages. A very good copy. Push-Pin Studios (cover design) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus of a PB edition of a a mid 1950s mystery. Dell Book 890. "All he had was the son he loved, a man the world called killer!" Light edge wear with rubbing to the covers and spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A good copy. Walter Brooks (cover) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus of an mid 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s Peter Duluth mystery. Dell Book 759. GGA cover. "She was starry-eyed innocent, wistful and adoring, moving Peter Duluth, the sophisticated theatrical producer, to a surprising fatherly tenderness - in the absence of his wife" Light edge wear with creasing to the covers. Rubbing to the spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Bill George (cover) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st thus of an early 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s mystery. Dell Book 710. GGA cover. "To lose her was torment, to find her - death!" Light edge wear with faint rubbing to the front cover and a little more so to the spine hinges. Mild spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Geygan (cover) (illustratore). …

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1930s. BB F741. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear with roughness along the fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print of a Dell PB edition of a mid 1950s mystery. Dell D394. "Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system - star by star". Light edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. Three small flakes to the fore edge of the back cover. Reading crease and another light one in the center of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good or slightly better copy. Robert McGiuire (cover) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print of a Dell PB edition of a mid 1950s mystery. Dell D394. "Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system - star by star". Light edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. Light creases to the back cover. Book store stamp (PCL Book Store .) on the verso of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. William Teason (cover) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The September 1967 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 50 # 3, whole # 286. Contains stories by Patrick Quentin (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - Mrs B's Black Sheep (Passport to Murder)), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - Wedding Anniversary), Robert L Fish (Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters), Arthur Porges (Murder of a Priest), James Leasor (The Seventy-Sixth Face), Nedra Tyre (In the Fiction Alcove), Frank Gruber (Eagle in His Mouth), and others, Light wear at the edges. A very good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ellery Queen's Mystery Anthology Fall/Winter 1976 vol 32 . Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Clue of the Runaway Blonde), Q Patrick (Patrick Quentin - Hugh Callingham Wheeler )The "Laughing Man" Murders)), Cornell Woolrich (Only One Grain More), J J Marric (John Creasey (Gideon and the Pigeon)), Nicholas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson (Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons)), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (R as in Rookie)), Michael Gilbert (Mouse in a Trap), Patricia Highsmith (The Nature of the Thing), Julian Symons (The Sensitive Ears of Mr Small), Ellery Queen (Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay (Payoff)), Clayton Rawson (Miracles - All in a Day's Work), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light soiling to the back cover with small creases to the bottom corner and a small scrape near the spine. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Fredric H. Kirberger (cover) (illustratore).…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: New. No Jacket. First Printing. First IPL printing June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. [Originally published in 1945 by Simon.] Oversize trade paperback. An unread, new copy. Peter Duluth; Reno, NV. Lieutenant Peter Duluth and his actress wife Iris are spending his leave at the Lake Tahoe home of wealthy Lorraine Pleygel. Other guests include Lorraine's brother, and a group of women who are establishing Reno residence in order to obtain divorces. However, Peter, though worldly he may be, is uneasy when their hostess produces the estranged husbands in the whimsical belief that she is pinch-hitting for Cupid. The first lovely lady dies in Peter's arms while dancing. Zann, Nicky (illustratore). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The second Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-library with stamps to the front end papers. Lightly bumped, rubbed with small stains. Spine cocked, rear hinge loose. Staple holes to the front free end paper, jacket blurb glued to the rear pastedown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good - Fine. Book Club Edition. A BCE of an early 1950s Peter Duluth and Lt. Timothy Trant mystery - an Inner Sanctum Mystery. Light edge wear to the DJ with faint rubbing to the bottom right spine hinge. Clean and fresh DJ with good color, or as much color as you get with a B&W with red llettering. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Publisher: Collection Petit Format, Montreal, 1951 222 pp; clean example with general wear to the covers, likely an unread (at least completely) copy as several of the leaves remain uncut. Rare French Canadian paperback edition of this novel. Erle Stanley Gardner is named as the author on the title page. perhaps in an attempt to sell more copies. NOTE: Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 - 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 - December 1966), Martha Mott Kelly (30 April 1906-2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 - 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. (Canadian Vintage Paperback, Erle Stanley Gardner).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. D322, first Dell printing. A happily married man can not resist the wild allure of his first wife, and is drawn into her sordid world, and murder. Robert McGinnis cover. Gently rubbed, spine creased with a smalll nick to the upper rear spine fold. Short newspaper review laid in.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Three great mysteries in one volume, including appearances by Hercule Poirot and Sheriff Moss Magill. Dead Man's Folly was made into a 1986 TV movie starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot. The Man in the Net was filmed in 1959 starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones. Gently bumped and rubbed with light foxing to the end papers and edges of the text block. Hinges slightly loose, previous owner's name on the front end paper. Jacket rubbed and tanned, spine darkened, with small holes, chips and tears, in Brodart.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, May 1954. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal #397 [.25 cover price]. Cover Illustration by Barye Phillips. Spine edge rubbed, a few cover creases, a few nicks at rear, paper is uniformally age toned, else very good. A gripping legal thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Puzzle Mysteries as Patrick Quentin, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Eighth in the Series of Classic Murder Trials. There was nothing apparently remarkable about Percy Thompson and his wife, Edith. But when Percy is savagely stabbed to death, the proper appearance of their marriage collapses, revealing a dark side that will become the scandal of the nation. For behind their bland suburban veneer was a relationship already fractured by petty jealousy and a wife's desire for more out of life. A desire that was satisfied by young Frederick Bywaters, who found himself under Edith's spell almost immediately and would follow his devotion to the end of a rope --all the while proclaiming Edith's innocence. Written as both a compelling thriller and an observation of the law, morality, and the crushing weight of public opinion, The Girl on the Gallows is a classic chronicle of blinding love, cold-blooded murder, and inevitable justice. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.". Phillips, Barye (illustratore). Vintage Paperback.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Peter Duluth's wife has left him, and it is tied in with the murder of another woman. Ex-library with stamps to the rear end paper. Bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, flaps glued to the pastedowns. Ex-Library. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The first Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-rental library with internal stamps and remnants of a stamp pad on the rear end paper. Lightly bumped and rubbed, print on the spine slightly faded. Looks pretty good on the shelf but the boards and text block are creased from a pressure indent. Front hinge cracked, a bit of pocking to the edges of the text block and the remnants of an Inner Sanctum promotional piece glued to the pastedowns. Good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First printing. A fast-paced Hollywood mystery. When Norma, a one-time movie star, falls- or is pushed - down a flight of stairs in her Hollywood home, nobody mourned her because she had long since drunk herself out of favor with her audience. Waiting to take her place is Anny - not only Norma's husband but also a fabulous role in a new film. The story is told through the eyes of Nickie, Anny's 19 year old son, but naive and observant. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. 248 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket - usual toning to pages, slight spine slant, sunning to spine of dj, Original price of 2.95 still present.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of fifth novel in the "Peter Duluth" series. Later published under the title "Love is Deadly". Basis for the movie "Female Fiends". Slight fading to the cover. Several 1/4-inch closed-tears to the edge of the dustjacket. Light rubbing to the dustjacket. In very good / very good condition.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. A man becomes suspect in a murder, one in which he suspects his wife's daughter may be involved. Lieutenant Timothy Trant investigates. First British edition. Gently bumped with foxing to the edges of the text block. Jacket rubbed and darkened with small chips and tears, sticker scuff to the lower rear panel, in Brodart. …

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. First published in the UK in 1955, this is a reprint edition of 1975. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 223pp. They called his wife a murderess. And his guilty passion was her only alibi. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover, pages toning,in a good dustjacket with loss to the top and bottom to the spine , wear to the extremities, and is price clipped. The 5th novel in the Peter Duluth mystery series, a Broadway director, WWII veteran, and recovering alcoholic, along with his wife Iris, amateur sleuths, working in New York City NY USA. This novel is the basis for the 1958 U.K. film "A Strange Awakening" (U.S. title "Female Fiends") starring Lex Barker. Also published as "Love Is A Deadly Weapon".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex Sam Remo Hotel, Torquay Library but with only a couple of discreet stamps and bookplate to ffep. Some edge wear, chipping and closed tears to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, scratch to bottom spine, some overall dust and time staining, not price clipped (12/6), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 222pp. John Hamilton left his lucrative job with a New York advertising agency to move to the country and try his hand at painting. His first show is not a success and he is under some pressure from his wife Linda, to return to the city to make some money. Linda is having increasing difficulty coping with the dullness of life in the country and has succumbed to alcoholism, although she is able to keep this completely secret from everybody except John. So when John returns from a business trip to find his paintings slashed and Linda missing, later to be found dead, he cannot prove how unstable and violent she had become and the suspicions of the locals put him firmly in the frame for her murder. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Firstedition. first impression. Ex library with usual library mess and defects. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (10/6), no personal inscriptions, 2nd ffep torn away, some browning and spotting to page block, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 223pp. Jonathan Duluth, a chief partner in a publishing firm funded by millionaire Ronald Sheldon. Jonathan is still dealing with his fractious relationship with his son Bill, the pair of them both still suffering from the inexplicable suicide of their wife and mother three years previously. Added into the mix is the return of Ronald, after a six month stay in Europe, bringing unexpectedly a new bride and his in laws, all of whom are to live handsomely at the expense of Ronald. Jonathan is far from easy about this new arrangement, are the Lacey family on the make, with gold digging plans in mind? Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book, even as ex library. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. The Puzzles of Peter Duluth was written by Patrick Quentin (Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler) and has an Introduction by Curtis Evans, a Postscript by Mauro Boncompagni and an Afterword by Joanna Gondris. The book was published by Crippen and Landru Publishers in 2016 and is a stated First Edition as such. (All of the short stories within were previously published, but this is the first time they've been collected in this format.) It's a hard cover book in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics Series, is beautifully done (as ALL Crippen & Landru books are), and would make a simply great gift, to yourself, or any classic mystery lover. If you've not "discovered" Crippen & Landru Publishers (Doug Green), or The Lost Classics Series . . . treat yourself, or someone you'd like to impress! Both the book and the dust jacket are in near fine condition and the book you'll be getting is still in its shrink wrap. Thank you.…

Octavo, two-part boards. First edition. Collects a novelette and eleven short stories. The title story won the 1962 Edgar Award. In 1964, "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow" was filmed for television as an episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR. Queen's Quorum 119. Top edge foxed, a very good copy in good to very good dust jacket with rubbing and light wear at edges. (#134904).…

First edition. Octavo, boards. Collects twelve stories. "Anthony Boucher, in the New York Times, said, "Patrick Quentin is one of the truly great plotters in the field of suspense." Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 864-65. [Reference: Hubin pp. 661-662. Queen's Quorum 119]. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges, front and spine panels. (22453). …