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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. [1st printing.] 2001. Cover art by Rob Pudim. Spine a little sunned; corner wear with some creasing; rear cover has a price sticker; first page store stamped. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1940s. "Callie really wanted Selma's roadster. To get it, all she had to do was masquerade as a maid in Selma's soon-to-be-ex-husband's mansion and steal a few old love letters." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Glossy pictorial softcover. First American edition. Book is in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. A mystery in the author's Richard Ringwood, Inspector of Scotland Yard, series 8vo. 190 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1930s. "Cornelia Lackland ruled her house with an iron fist and a firm grip on the pocketbook. Her late husband - she was his second wife - had left her in charge of his two granddaughters and his self-made fortune." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1940s. "Can you murder someone with feathers?" Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1940s. "When the curate is poisoned on Christmas Eve, Lady Lupin turns detective." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1950s. "Why does everyone suddenly want to get their hands on Bonnie Prince Charlie's trousers?" Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1950s. "Mrs. Bradley is summoned when a faculty-student production of the Mikado at a progressive English school turn deadly ." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1940s. "Emma Betony was content to live out her remaining years i a home for decayed gentlewomen when she receives an urgent appeal for help from a former student." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1950s. "You can fool an art expert but not an Irish gardener with an eye for detail." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg (originally printed in 1945 in England as Green December fills the Graveyard). A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Flikka Ashley and her outspoken Aunt Bee Chattock live in the ruins of a formerly great manor house called Shots Hall. thirty-six-year-old Flikka brings in some money as a sculptor, but so far her talent far exceeds her commissions. When Molly Pritchard, an old family retainer, is murdered, a loathsome local policemean--whose attentions were spurned by Flik--sets out to measure her neck for a noose. Scotland Yard's Lane Parry doesn't think Flikka is guilty, but has to admit that she is doing little to prove her innocence. Trade Paperback.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. E10.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1940s. A Mrs. Bradley mystery. "Mrs. Bradley is in town to interview a witch. Then the history master at the local boys' school is murdered." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1940s. "Why did Aunt Aggie sing 'John Brown's Body' in her hospital bed? May it was a music lover who took an ax and gave her forty whacks." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1940s. "Daniel Webster's bust had been gathering dust in EMily's shop for a year now. Unfortunately, there was no dust on the gun she found in the bust." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1940s. "Eugenia wanted a little peace an quiet. Instead, she got an amorous army sergeant for a housemate, several dead bodies, a mummy, and a clean freak for a hostess." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery from the 1940s. "Spies and murderers on the loose in San Francisco during World War II." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1950s. "Two elderly aunts like a glass of sherry, a plate of cookies . and a nice little game of Russian roulette. But someone else was playing a deadlier game." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Inspector Purbright is on loan to the police in Chalmsbury to investigate a series of bombings. He quickly learns that Chalmsbury may be the Sodom to Flaxborough's Gomorrah. Detective Inspector Purbright finds himself on loan to the police in Chalmsbury, a town that neighbors Flaxborough and is very like it in the general licentiousness of its citizenry. It seems that one ofthem has been blowing up the town's monuments and all the efforts ofthe Chalmsbury police force to find the miscreant have been in vain. Also, explosives have gone missing from the Flaxborough civil defense center where, by an odd coincidence, Chief Inspector Hector Larch ofthe Chalmsbury police force spends his Tuesday nights. Determined not to get in Larch's way, Purbright takes his time getting to know the locals, but when one of them is killed in the latest explosion, he steps up his investigations. With almost no clues to go on save a few scraps of cobbled together verse, he sorts through the town's eccentric residents until he finally gets his man. First published in 1960, this is the second of Colin Watson's witty Flaxborough chronicles. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Flaxborough is a "high-spirited town . .like Gomorrah." It's Inspector Purbright's job to keep its citizens on the straight-and-narrow in this comic romp. He hasn't got a chance. There were surprisingly few mourners at Harold Carobleat's funeral, just his widow and a handful of prominent Flaxborough citizens, including newspaper publisher Marcus Gwill. When Gwill' s naked body is found electrocuted some months later, its mouth stuffed with marshmallows, Inspector Purbright and his cherubic assistant, Sergeant Love, begin to suspect the two deaths are connected. But what are they to make of a series of peculiar coded advertisements that has been appearing in the Flaxborough newspaper? And why is the doctor's surgery so busy after hours? Remember, this is Flaxborough, a "high-spirited town . .like "Gomorrah," where anything can happen, and usually does. First published in 1958, this is the first of eleven satirical mysteries featuring Purbright, Love, and other denizens ofthis anything but peaceful East Anglian town. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback. …

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. An Abercrombie ("Filthy") Lewker climbing mystery. Wales. (orig. 1951). Book.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of this Trade Paperback. An eccentric Brit's attempt to summon ancient Greek gods ends in murder most foul. Sir Rudri Hopkinson, a slightly cracked rich Englishmen with a penchant for history, is determined to reenact the ancient rituals at the temple of Eleusis in hopes of summoning the goddess Demeter. Among the thirteen people he's gathered for the experiment is a rival scholar, a handsome photographer, his adult children, and a trio of mischievous boys, whose nefarious activities are financed by criminal psychologist Beatrice Bradley. When one of their number goes missing and a severed head turns up in a box of snakes, it's time for Mrs.Bradley to set aside her babysitting chores and turn sleuth. First published in 1937, Come Away, Death is Mitchell at her best and shows why contemporary critics lumped her with Sayers and Christie as one ofthe "big three" of English women mystery writers. In addition to a tight plot, a fascinating locale, a short but informative history of minor Greek gods, and some well-drawn characters, Mitchell displays a delicious, almost Noel Cowardish wit. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. Oversize trade paperback, fine in decorated wraps. First published in 1953, The Black Iris was the twentieth of twenty-one screwball mysteries by the incomparable Little sisters. The Little sisters were the reigning queens of the cozy screwball mystery from the 1930's to the 1950's. Combining the the charm and laughs of a Frank Capra movie with the eccentric characters of a George S. Kaufmann play. "The two elderly aunts liked a glass of sherry, a plate of cookies. .and a nice little game of Russian roulette. But someone else was playing an even deadlier game. Miss Ivy and Miss Violet quarreled about everything, especially about who would get their money when they were gone: their nephew Richard or the glamorous Broadway actress Ada Terry, related to them by marriage. It got to the point that the only way they could settle the dispute, or so they thought, was to play Russian roulette with one another. The wishes of whichever sister survived would prevail. Richard was upset when he learned about their little game and began substituting blanks for the live cartridges they used. He also thought he'd come up with the perfect scheme to end the quarrel by telling them he intended to marry Ada. But the last thing he expected was for Ada to set a date for the wedding and announce it to the whole town. His plan was turning into a total disaster when the two old ladies, still quarreling, disappeared. Searching for the missing sisters, Richard, Ada and the police uncover a game even more dangerous than the one Ivy and Violet enjoyed." -- publisher. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A six page introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. When a man is found suffocated to death in an escape tunnel under impossible conditions, British POWS turn detective. Based in part on Gilbert's own experiences as a prisoner-of-war during World War II, The Danger Within (Death in Captivity in Britain) is often considered one of the author's best books. British prisoners in Campo 127 . are concerned when they learn that the Allies are about to invade Italy since this means that it's only a matter of time before the Germans seize control of their camp and so escape plans are escalated. But it appears that there may be a spy in the camp and when a man turns up dead under extremely odd circumstances in an escape tunnel, the prisoners have even more to be concerned about. It was filmed in 1959 with Richard Attenborough, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. "A superb, though harrowing, story of murder in a prisoner-of-war camp . the skill with which suspense is kept up during a series of trivial incidents related to oppression and plans of escape is equaled only by the management of a large number of characters, Italian and English. "-Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime. Gilbert is one of the most highly honored mystery writers of the second half of the twentieth century -- A MWA Grandmaster, a CWA Diamond Dagger Winner and a Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement honoree. 160 pages. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A modern edition of a mystery comedy from the 1950s. "Bickering ex-lovers and a disappearing corpse highlight this 1952 comedy by the queens of screwball ." Minimal wear. A very good or better copy.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. Mrs. Bradley is summoned when a faculty-student production of "The Mikado" at a progressive English school turns deadly in this 1934 classic. When Miss Ferris drowned in a wash basin duriqg a perfonnance of The Mikado at the Hillmaston Coeducational Day School, the police ruled it a suicide. The school's headmaster wasn't so sure. He called in that grand dame of detection, the psychoanalyst-sleuth Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley. The innocuous Miss Ferris wasn't popular among her fellow teachers, several of whom feared she would expose their guilty secrets. But these transgressions, for the most part, appeared too inconsequential to end in murder. "Death at the Opera" (Death in the Wet in the U.S.) is an early mystery by Gladys Mitchell, lumped with Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers by contemporary critics as one of England's "big three" women mystery writers. Mitchell wrote 66 mysteries featuring Mrs. Bradley between 1929 and her death in 1983. Death at the Opera was filmed for British television (with a different motive, killer and method of murder than in the book) in 2000 with Diana Rigg portraying Mrs. Bradley. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. The Golden Age of detective fiction was known for elaborate plots. This may well be the most ingenious one of them all. Emma Betony was content to live out her remaining years in a home for decayed gentlewomen when she receives an urgent appeal for help from a former student. Grace Aram is running Makeways, a struggling boarding school for girls, newly relocated in a former nursing home in Dorset far from the falling German bombs. But Grace isn't interested in Miss Betony's teaching skills. She needs someone she can trust to expose the culprit behind a series of troubling events, induding the possible poisoning of one of the two remaining nursing paitents. What Miss Betony finds is an overwhehning sense of fear on the part of the Makeways' inhabitants. Miss Betony follows a series of clues that eventually lead her to The Great Arnbrosio, a charismatic, extremely handsome fortune teller with more than one trick up his sleeve. First published in 1941, Fear and Miss Betony marks the final appearance of lnspector Dan Pardoe. But it is Miss Betony herself who fights through fear and solves the case. Contemporary critics immediately proclaimed the book an instant classic, with two-time Edgar-winning critic James Sandoe including the book in his Readers' Guide to Crime (1944), one of the earliest-and most astute-lists of the best books in the genre. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. 1st Prtg. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Bickering ex-lovers and a disappearing corpse highlight this 1952 comedy by the queens of screwball. There was no question that Agatha Bunson hated her cook. Em could cook. Just about everyone agreed on that point. Agatha, however, despised Em's slovenly ways and was forever cleaning up after her. If she could, she would have fired Em ages ago. But an odd clause in her father's will prevented her from doing that. Now Em was dead and Agatha assumed she must have done it, although she had no recollection of killing her. But lately, Agatha had been prone to walking in her sleep and she figured it was during one of these nocturnal rambles that she did in the disgusting old creature. What's done is done, Agatha thought, and so she propped Em up in a rocking chair and squirreled her away in a sealed closet. There'd be time enough later to figure out what to do with the body. Of course Em was soon missed. Cleanliness might not have been her forte but her food tasted good and Agatha's cooking was a poor substitute. In fact, people were beginning to get a bit testy at meal times. And Christine and Allen, two doctors who had sleeping rooms as well as medical offices in the boarding house, were naturally testy-at least with each other, having once been engaged back before Christine went to medical school. Although Agatha had the most to gain from Em's death, Inspector Lewis had plenty of other suspects among Em's relatives and the other boarders. But everything got a lot more complicated when Em's corpse went missing and things started to go bump in the night in the basement. This 1952 charmer is vintage Little, writing in the second to the last year oftheir collaboration. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. First Printing. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback edition (orig published in 1939). When his chryseldephantine statue of the Lady of the Golden Serpents is stolen, a department store magnate askes the help of Theocritus Lucius Westborough, professor of Roman history and amateur sleuth, to help get it back. the magnate has recreated the Minoan palace of Knossos on an island off the coast of California. Clason's elaborate puzzles, often featuring locked rooms or impossible crimes, were among the most heavily researched mysteries of the era. An extensive bibliography on Minoan culture is provided by the author to show where he got his information. With a wonderful introduction by Tom & Enid Schantz on Clason and a jab at some of the golden Age writers of the time. 224 pages. Pudim, Rob (illustratore). Trade Paperback. …

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. A volatile father, a maddening beau, and a diabolical murderer mean trouble for a runaway heiress in this 1941 screwball comedy mystery. NYC. Trade Paperback.