Detective Short Stories
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Field Of Thirteen
by Dick Francis
A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
Detective Short Stories Books & Ephemera
A Woman's Eye
by Sara Paretsky
Dell NY 1992. 448 pages. Reprint Edition Very good condition with lightwear and readers crease to spine. See photos. Cel/PB2
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$10.80
THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN ~ Presenting The Early Adventures of A J Raffles, Gentleman Thief
by HORNUNG, E W
NY: Carroll & Graf, 1988. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Carroll & Graf. SOFTCOVER. 1988. Reprint, FIRST Printing. Originally published 1899. AS NEW, bound in original mauve glossy pictorial stiff papaer wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Eight short stories. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.
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$30.00
GREAT CASES OF THE THINKING MACHINE
by FUTRELLE, Jacques
NY: Dover, 1976. FINE condition in NEAR FINE original brown pictorial paper wraps. NY. Dover. SOFTCOVER. 1976. FIRST PRINTING. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Covers have bend to front top corner and very light edge wear. Introduction by E F Bleiler. Cover design by Kiffi Diamond. Thirteen detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S F X Van Dusen, The Thinking Machine. Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine/Near Fine Original Wraps. Trade.
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$25.00
THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY ~ Fredric Brown In The Detective Pulps Volume 6
by BROWN, Fredric
NM: Dennis McMillan, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NM. Dennis McMillan. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION, Thus, LIMITED EDITION, Number 162 of 375 copies. SIGNED and Numbered by William Campbell Gault, Author of the Introduction. AS NEW, bound in dark blue cloth with bright yellow titles in blue pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD. Cover Art and Endpapers by William L McMillan. First hardcover collection of eight short stories previously published in the Pulps.. Signed by Author of...
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$55.00
THE POCKET BOOK OF FATHER BROWN
by CHESTERSON, G K
NY: Pocket Books, 1943. VERY GOOD condition in NEAR FINE original brown pictorial paper wraps. NY. Pocket Books 236. SOFTCOVER. An Original Pocket Book Edition. FIRST Printing October 1943. Square and tight. Age toning to pages and endpapers. Front hinge crease. Light edge wear. Seventeen short stories featuring the famous priest-detective. Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/Near Fine Original Wraps.
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$23.00
NUTZENBOLTS
by GOULART, Ron
NY: Macmillan, 1975. NEAR FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1975. FIRST PRINTING. Bound in gray boards with silver shadow titles, square and tight. REMAINDER copy, small red dot bottom edge, and some soiling to dust jacket back panel, else FINE. 'Man and machine confront each other in eleven futuristic parables by the foremost chronicler of 'homo mechanicus.'. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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$30.00
100 DASTARDLY LITTLE DETECTIVE STORIES
by Weinberg, Robert and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg (edited by) [Morris Cooper, Dorothy Dunn, Jim Knapp, R. C. Lehmann, John McCurnin, Abraham Lincoln, V. E. Thiessen, Victor K. Ray, J. V. Drexel, William Manners, Dick Donovan, et al]
New York: Barnes & Noble Books [1993]First edition [printing code line ends with a "1"]. 561 pages. Near Fine copy text paper starting to tan. ref28
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$11.80
Cosmopolitan Crimes Foreign Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
by Greene Hugh edited by
NY, Pantheon Books, 1971 First American Edition 347 page collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporaries.
A near fine book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to top page edges, in price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, small closed tear top edge front panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. See photos
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science 17
A near fine book with light edge wear, light dust soiling to top page edges, in price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, small closed tear top edge front panel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. See photos
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$10.00
THE WEB SHE WEAVES ~ An Anthology Of Mystery & Suspense Stories By Women
by MULLER, Marcia & Bill Pronzini ~ Edited and With An Introduction By
NY: Morrow, 1983. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1983. HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in gray on gray with silver titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$26.00
KILLERS UNKNOWN ~ True Crime Stories
by GODWIN, John
NY: Collier Books, 1962. NEAR FINE condition in VERY GOOD original green and white pictorial paper wraps. NY. Collier Books No. AS223Y. SOFTCOVER. 1962 FIRST Edition. Tight, nice white pages. Light toning to page edges. Spine crease. Light toning to top edges. Light rubbing and edge wear to covers. '13 real-life murder cases that shocked the world, baffled the police - and remain unsolved to this day.' Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Original Wraps.
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$20.00
CRIME ON HER MIND ~ Fifteen Stories Of Female Sleuths From The Victorian Era To The Forties
by SLUNG, Michele ~ Edited and Introduction By
NY: Pantheon, 1975. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Pantheon. TRADE SOFTCOVER. 1975. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in original pale lilac glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Toning to page edges, else FINE. Cover illustration by David Palladini, design by Louise Fili. Stored in Archival sleeve. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.
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$30.00
THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY ~ Fredric Brown In The Detective Pulps Volume 6
by BROWN, Fredric
NM: Dennis McMillan, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NM. Dennis McMillan. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION, Thus, LIMITED EDITION, Number 210 of 375 copies. SIGNED and Numbered by William Campbell Gault, Author of the Introduction. AS NEW, bound in dark blue cloth with bright yellow titles in blue pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD. First hardcover collection of eight short stories previously published in the Pulps. Cover Art and Endpapers by William L McMillan. . Signed by Author of...
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$45.00
MR RACCOON AND HIS FRIENDS ~ And Two Other Stories
by MCCARTHY, Eugene J
Il: Academy Chicago, 1992. FINE condition in FINE original yellow glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. IL. Academy Chicago. SOFTCOVER. 1992. REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Cover art by Julia Anderson-Miller. Ten stories featuring Mr. Raccoon and other animals. Stored in Archival cover.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$15.00
THE YEAR'S BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
by HOCH, Edward D ~ Edited By
NY: Walker, 1984. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Walker. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in black boards with gold title in yellow printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Laurie McBarnette. Thirteen short stories, see image of back panel for list.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair.
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$21.00
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
by Lovesey Peter
NY: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hard Cover. 0892961953 . The dust jacket is protected by an adjustable mylar cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
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$10.00
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY ~ THE PRIZEWINNERS
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Selected By
NY: Davis Publications, 1976. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Davis Publications. HARDCOVER. 1976. FIRST EDITION, Thus. AS NEW, bound in red leatherette with gold gilt lettering, cover design and page edges, with red endpapers and red ribbon marker. No dust jacket, as issued. Square and tight, UNREAD. Short stories written by nine Nobel prizewinners and twelve Pulitzer prizewinners. Includes black and white photoraphs of the authors. Nicely packaged. Nice gift. Stored in Archival...
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$40.00
The Plot Thickens
by Mary Higgins Clark (editor)
Pocket Books NY 1997 257 pages. First Pocket Books Edition Near Fine condtion with a tiny nick to the head of the spine and another one to the lower edge of the rear cover. See photos. Cel/PB2
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$10.80
BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH ~ 17 Stories Of Vampirism
by DATLOW, Ellen ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in red and black with gold titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket illustration by Don Maitz, design by Rats Paterson. Seven classics and ten new tales and poems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$33.00
Cherry's Diary
by Cassenna Chan
ASM / Association of Stories in Macao 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 9993786454 . First edition . "A series of [4] detective stories with a Macao setting. With a strong interest in solving murders, the heroine Cherry Lam is always seen as a troublemaker by her colleagues in the police force". Pictorial wrappers, 95 pages. Fine copy. bx207
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$12.50
SIX OF THE BEST ~ Short Novels By Masters Of Mystery
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Edited By
NY: Carroll & Graf, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Carroll & Graf. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in periwinkle and purple with gold titles in black printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter. Includes - Ellery Queen, Michael Gilbert, Ed McBain, Georges Simenon, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D MacDonald.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$23.00
Murder to Music
by Cynthia Manson; Kathleen Halligan
Berkley NY 1998. 262 pages. First Thus Edition Fine unread condition. See photos. Cel/PB2
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$10.80
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER
by BLOCK, Lawrence
NY: Arbor House, 1984. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Arbor House. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, SECOND Printing. SIGNED By Author. AS NEW, bound in black and gray with red titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. Collection of nineteen short stories. Introduction by Joe Gores. ~ SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED By Author on Front-Free Endpaper to Owners of Scene Of The Crime ~ For Ruth & Al - At The Store 3 May...
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$40.00
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine June 1952
by Edited by Ellery Queen with stories by MacKinlay Kantor P.G. Wodehouse Arthur Miller and others
American Mercury , NY , 1952 First Edition 144 page Digest Sized magazine Edited by Ellery Queen with stories by MacKinlay Kantor , P.G. Wodehouse , Arthur Miller and others
A very good copy with light edge wear, light dust soiling , Text lightly toned. See Photos
mag bx 8 / E
A very good copy with light edge wear, light dust soiling , Text lightly toned. See Photos
mag bx 8 / E
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$10.00
CHAPTER AND HEARSE ~ Suspense Stories About The World Of Books
by MULLER, Marcia & Bill Pronzini ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in creme on creme with gold titles in rasberry and green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. Sixteen short stories from Robert Bloch to Cornell Woolrich, with fourteen others in between.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$35.00
