Service of All the Dead by Dexter, Colin - 1979

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot else fine in a lovely, about near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a couple of letters), and some very neat professional reinforcing at the folds. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII. An uncommon book, and genuinely rare in jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

CT: Yale University Press, 1981. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1981. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in orange cloth in orange-red pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, jacket not price clipped. 'Focusing particularly on classic works by Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Georges Simenon, Porter shows how the detective narrative achieves its artistic ends through the erotic management of suspense.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and… Read More

First edition first printing of this stand alone thriller. Made into the 1997 movie Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier as Jackie Brown. SIGNED by Elmore Leonard on the half title page. SIGNED by Pam Grier on the half title page at the 2023 Steel City Con in Monroe Pittsburgh. Will include an e-ticket and floor map of the show. Light shelf wear. In near fine / near fine condition.

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot else fine in a lovely, about near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a couple of letters), and some very neat professional reinforcing at the folds. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII. An uncommon book, and genuinely rare in jacket.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

CT: Yale University Press, 1981. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1981. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in orange cloth in orange-red pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, jacket not price clipped. 'Focusing particularly on classic works by Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Georges Simenon, Porter shows how the detective narrative achieves its artistic ends through the erotic management of suspense.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Five Star Waterville, Maine, 2006 HBDJ, August 2006, stated 1st edition, NF+/VG+, This book is very good +condition except for minor shelf wear.287 pgs,Alex Night moves out of the private eye business on Larchmont Boulevard in Hollywood and into the mystery writing profession at the WRITERS AND ARTISTS BUILDING in Beverly Hills, where he intends to follow in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But Night is persistently plagued by former clients who won't let him get past the title page of his potential Edgar Award mystery novel The Big Changeover. After too many false starts and near fatal distractions, Night finds himself on the treacherous trail of two missing objects. The first: an Imperial Fabergi Egg, The Tear of Russia, given by William Randolph Hearst over a half century ago to his mistress - --a Fabergi now valued at over ten million dollars. The second: his missing fianci, the beautiful Goldie Rose. It's soon evident that Goldie has been kidnapped, but by whom - and… Read More

First edition first printing of this stand alone thriller. Made into the 1997 movie Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier as Jackie Brown. SIGNED by Elmore Leonard on the half title page. SIGNED by Pam Grier on the half title page at the 2023 Steel City Con in Monroe Pittsburgh. Will include an e-ticket and floor map of the show. Light shelf wear. In near fine / near fine condition.