The Woman in Red by Gilbert, Anthony - 1945

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

Paperback / softback. New. They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

The Murder Room, 2019. Paperback. New. 208 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.63 inches.

Toronto: Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd.. VG. 1945. 1st Printing. Paperback. Collins White Circle #217, 1945. Very Good condition. Slight spine lea n. Rubbing to the spine edges. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Mil d damp stain to the lower right corner. Some mild surface creases to t he front cover. Tiny chips to the rear cover's upper and lower outer c orners. The pages are tanned but are still supple. A scarce paperback. .

Mercury Mystery. NY: Lawrence E. Spivak. Digest size. , 1946 . 91 near fine, name written inside, appears unread Abridged. Cover by George Salter. paperback,

New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943 197 pages. Top inch of front free endpaper cut off, otherwise the book is very good. The jacket is very good with light edge wear, a couple of tiny chips, and a small tear. The novel has been the basis for two movies.. First Edition.. Red Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Smith and Durrell, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. 8vo in red cloth, spine title in black. Very modest shelf wear, glue residue offsetting to the pastedowns. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, mildly rubbed at the corners, very shallow chipping at the spine ends.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.: Collins White Circle (of Canada) Pocket Edition., 1945. Book. Illus. by Isabelle McQuire. Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Soft cover. 1st Edition. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 217). 190 pages. *** RARE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage Canadian Collins WHITE CIRCLE Paperback Series; "The Dark Page says, "Anthony Gilbert was born Lucy Beatrice Malleson in 1899 and was an English author of novels and short stories. Although her mother wanted her to be a schoolteacher, Ms. Malleson succeeded in fulfilling her own ambition and became a novelist. After seeing John Willard's play, THE CAT AND THE CANARY in 1922 she became thriller-concious, and in 1927 published her first mystery as Anthony Gilbert. For many years Gilbert's true identity was kept secret and most readers assumed that the author was a man." Some color fading to top edges of the cloth, else near fine in price-clipped, lightly professionally restored dust jacket at head of… Read More

London: The Crime Club Collins, c. 1941. First printing. Paperback. Fair. No date. 192 pages Crease in front cover, piece of paper missing from base of spine. First 50 pages have some pinholes from insects I can not find this edition anywhere else. "Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (15 February 1899 – 9 December 1973), was an English crime writer who was a cousin of actor-screenwriter Miles Malleson.[1][2] She also wrote nongenre fiction as Anne Meredith and published one crime novel and an autobiography (Three-a-Penny, 1940) under the Meredith name. She published 69 crime novels, 51 of which featured her best-known character, Arthur Crook. Crook is a vulgar London lawyer totally (and deliberately), unlike the aristocratic detectives who dominated the mystery field when Gilbert introduced him such as Lord Peter Wimsey. Instead of dispassionately analyzing a case, he usually enters it after seemingly damning evidence has built up against his client, then conducts a… Read More