FICTION / CRIME from Chilton Books

London: The Crime Club /Collins, 1971.. 1sr edition. Miss Marple story. A sequel to "A Caribbean Mystery". Pp.256, minor toning to endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper has tear to lower rear edge and tears with chipped losses to top and tail of spine. VG/G.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1943.. 1st edition. The fourth in the Mr Moto series, featring the Japanese secret agent, this story was written before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, nut prudently not published till later. Bob Bolles, a beachbomber and former US officer, gets involved in a plot on Mercator Island in the Caribbean. Pp.189, slight… Read more about this item

London: T.V.Boardman & Company Ltd, 1961.. 1st edition. British Bloodhound No.336. "A large quantity of very valuable jewellery had disappeared from the strong-room of the luxurious London Brentlow Hotel. There was no trace of forcible entry, and it was immediately obvious that it was an inside job. But there was not only the question of who did… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.. 1st Penguin edition. The outline of the original manuscript for this novel was made into a1947 film-noir starring Victor Mature and Richard Widmark. Pp.174, pages tanned. Paperback, slight darkening to spine and edges. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.. 1st Penguin edition. "Henry Cargate was a most unlovable and unloving man, and it was hardly surprising that he should die unmourned. Bu the facts were facts - he had died by someone else's deliberate doing, and that someone else could not go unhung....The suspense of this story is that we are not allowed even to… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953.. 1st Penguin edition. Set during World War II, a network of German secret agents plans to derail a train carrying vital war supplies. Due to a delay another train is derailed instead, the intended one then being diverted safely round the blockage. Inspector French tracks down the conspirators, nearly losing his life in a heroic… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947.. 1st Penguin edition. Alec Maitland takes on a Government mission to investigate strange happenings in Africa and to regain possession of some missing papers. But through his efforts he becomes implicated in a sensational murder and soon his efforts are hampered by having the police on his heels. "A story of wits pitted against wits, of… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.. 1st Penguin edition. "Abel Pomeroy, the publican, was in a fine state of anger and outrage, particularly at the insidious remarks made be George Nark. As for Robert Legge, who had thrown the dart, he became very jittery indeed, poor man. Then there were the two friends of the murdered man, both knowing they were to… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.. 1st Penguin edition. Death from the gas tap - suicide or murder? A detective story without a moral. Pp.192, pages tanned. Paperback, toned with creases to rear corners. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947.. 3rd Penguin printing. "When murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impersonate famous murderers and the victim - the hated wife of David Stratton - is found hanging from a fake gallows erected as a joke. Does the lack of evidence prove suicide? - or is this the… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953.. 1st Penguin edition. (US title: Wilful and Premeditated). (An Inspector French mystery). A murder which is committed during a flight over the English Channel. The identity of the killer is revealed quite early in the book (making it an early example of the inverted detective story or "howcatchem"), and the reader can watch the preparations for… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950.. 1st Penguin edition. Third crime fiction novel by the author of 'The Murder of My Aunt'. Pp.224, pages tanned. Paperback, spine slightly toned. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948.. 1st Penguin edition. Third in the series of 35 books involving Sgt Bobby Owen. The curious crossword devised by Mr. George Winterton turned out to be part of a game for high stakes � it was the creation of a man whose brother had just drowned and who feared for his own life. Yet the… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.. Rep. "Driscoll was found on the steps of the Traitor's Gate at the Tower of London. A cross-bar bolt was driven through his heart and a stolen top-hat was on his head. Faced with a daring killer who left his signature at the scene of his crime, the police called in Dr Gideon Fell to solve… Read more about this item

London: Wright & Brown Ltd, 1947.. 1st edition. Murder mystery set in India. Pp.160, endpapers tanned, ex-libris bookplate to inside front cover, small worm-holes to lower page margins (not affecting text) minor stain to p.124. Pink cloth faded and discoloured, crease and worm trail mark to rear, spine darkened and spotted. Scarce. Good.Born in 1893, Anthony Parsons did… Read more about this item

London: Piatkus, 1985.. 1st edition. "Bethany Carr returned to the Scilly Isles to try and find out why her beloved husband Martin had died. They had been madly in love and she had believed they kept no secrets from one another - until the mysterious telephone calls started and she found herself under surveillance. What had Martin been hiding… Read more about this item

Sutton: Severn House Crime, 1994.. 1st edition. "A baby is snatched from its pram in the centre of the typica English village of Felstone and never seen again. Further disappearances of infants and toddlers, hold the local community in a grip of terror...Detective Inspector James Roland is convinced the children are being abducted and sold but then one of… Read more about this item

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1949.. First printing. Ex W.H.Smith 'Day by Day Service' library. Colonel Crisp is summoned to Watlington Lodge by a mysterious caller to investigate the murder of Lord Watlington. Lord Watlington, a self-made millionaire, elevated into the Peerage, decided that the woman his nephew � and sole heir � plans to marry is not… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1951.. Fifteenth thriller featuring Berkeley Gray's hero Norman Conquest, who was known as 'a gay desperado'! Pp.192, pages tanned. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine slightly dulled, wear to spine edge, a couple of dark spots to front. Good.** "Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 � 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote… Read more about this item

London: The Crime Club / Collins, 1950.. 1st edition. Max Easterbrook arrives in London to discover that his best friend, kindly George Lambert, has been charged with wife-murder. Max can't believe that his friend is guilty, and tries to find evidence that will prove his innocence, but the picture is bleak, with George known to be in a love… Read more about this item