Crime of the Fictional Variety

The Trial of Mary Dugan – William Almon Wolff – First Edition 1928

First Edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York in 1928. Octavo, 335 pages, ownership inscription on front end paper. A very good copy in an excellent dust jacket.

At trial, Broadway showgirl, Mary Dugan is accused of murdering her lover with a knife. She appears done for when her lawyer pulls out … but a twist and turn provides an uncertain and baffling mystery. Superb adaptation of the 1920’s play. Was to be made into a successful talkie in 1929 by MGM and then a second go in the 1940’s

1928 First edition – Courtroom Drama keeps you alert

$50.00

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The Counterfeit Eye – Erle Stanley Gardner – First Edition 1935

A first edition from the esteemed Erle Stanley Gardner. Published by Grosset & Dulap, New York in 1935. Octavo, 304 pages, dust jacket edge worn otherwise a very nice copy.

Pete Brunold had not one artificial eye but six. It was the bloodshot number, for use the morning after that was stolen – Someone is going to try to frame me …. And they did!

A gripping Perry Mason story – hold on to your false eyes!

1935 Perry Mason First

$60.00

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The Shorn Lamb – William Locke – First edition 1930

Published by Dodd, Mead etc., New York in 1930. Octavo, 331 pages, a little age otherwise a super copy in a classic dust jacket albeit chipped to top. Protected in Brodart.

A classic art deco period novel by the prolific and brilliant writer William Locke. Our “shorn lamb” is near the end of his road when good fortune shines down on him. A case of mistaken identity helps along with the skill of a master conjurer. Plot with humour.

1930 First Edition about improved circumstances!

$60.00

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The Four Stragglers [Thriller] – Frank Packard – First Edition 1923

Published by Burt, New York in 1923. Octavo, 303 pages, dust jacket art by A D Rahn. Light jacket creasing, otherwise, a super copy.

Frank Packard was a prolific Canadian writer who started off as an engineer on the railroads. Several of his books became movies.

Captain Francis Newcombe (also known as Shadow Varne) and three other crooks lead a complex and criminally exciting path from the London underworld to the USA.

Shadow plots within plots

$50.00

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The Hunted – Albert Guerard – First Edition 1944

First Edition published by Alfred Knopf, New York in 1944. Octavo, 288 pages. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A very good if not fine copy.

Albert Guerard was in the US Army when this book was published. It was his second novel of the published in his lifetime. He also published many works on literary criticism. Educated at Stanford and Harvard he would go on to be Professor of Literature at Stanford after the whole and was highly influential in developing the Stanford program in modern writing. His father also an author held the same position.

the author was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956 and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Literature in 1964.

The Hunted is a physiological thriller. Claire Harcha, a singing waitress of New England marries a Cambridge English graduate (an odd ball). She becomes ostracised from the fraternity group and sympathetic to a hunted violent outlaw “Bomber”.

First edition 1944 – distinguished author.

$70.00

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The Boy Biggles – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1968

First edition 1968 published by Dean, London. Octavo, 182 pages, dust jacket edge chips, internally very good and clean.

Retrospective of Biggles early life in India where nerves are tested, thugs and intruders abound, and a Foolish Tiger mixes with the Big Bad Bear.

Scarce Biggles in his early and no less adventurous years

$30.00

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The Trial of Mary Dugan – William Almon Wolff – First Edition 1928

The Counterfeit Eye – Erle Stanley Gardner – First Edition 1935

The Shorn Lamb – William Locke – First edition 1930

The Four Stragglers [Thriller] – Frank Packard – First Edition 1923

The Hunted – Albert Guerard – First Edition 1944

The Boy Biggles – Captain W.E. Johns – First Edition 1968

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