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The Mystery of Swordfish Reef – Arthur Upfield – First UK Edition 1960

Published by Heinemann, Lonon in 1960, a first UK edition. Octavo, 247 pages. Jacket a bit rubbed still a nice copy of perhaps our favourite Upfield / Bonaparte book. Dust jacket design by Bill Morden.

A fishing boat disappears along with its four occupants. It all happens in the New South Wales game fishing grounds – something the author was familiar with.

A skull is found by a passing trawler. Our Favourite police inspector, “Bony” Bonaparte is called in, and the “mystery” is unravelled.

Based on a true story the disappearance of geologist Lamont Younger at Mystery Bay, NSW in 1880

True mystery behind this entertaining Upfield “fishy” mystery.

$80.00

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The Wedding Guest Sat on a Stone – Richard Shattuck – First US Edition 1940

Published by the World Syndicate, New York in 1940. Another that made it into a movie.

Octavo, 262 pages, pretty good condition.

A somewhat amusing mystery concerning, amongst a lot of frivolity, numerous attempts to hide a dead body which after one failed attempt in an elevator … disappears.

The title comes from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, if you understand how that is framed – each chapter here has some context – a bit high-brow really for the genre.

If you want to hide a dead body this will tell you where not to hide one!

$50.00

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She Shall Have Murder – Delano Ames – First US Edition 1949

Published by Rinehart, New York in 1949.

Octavo, 245 pages. The first book in a series of murder mysteries featuring Jane Hamish and Dagobert Brown. Super stuff a plot that would fit today’s take on the classic murder mystery.

Delano Ames and American, who moved to England and then Spain had huge success with this genre.

Made into a movie the following year.

A plot built on a fantasy of a plot.

$50.00

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The Deadly Dowager – Edwin Greenwood – First US Edition 1937

Published by Doubleday, New York in 1937, first US Edition.

Octavo, 307 pages, pretty good condition, striking period jacket.

Watch out for life insurance! As often behind the plot of the Deadly Dowager to restore the family fortunes by killing them off. Unusual murders.

Watch out for the wet sponge!

$50.00

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Gallows Orchard – Claire Spencer – First Edition 1930

First edition of Gallows Orchard – in or opinion – in the best dust jacket design we have ever seen.

Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Octavo, 285 pages, a little age, generally very good condition.

Lucy antagonises a small village in Scotland … she has numerous suitors but in the end the village folk have their way. Murder, marriage and death ….

This was Scottish born Clair Spencer’s first novel. By this time, she was in the US married to publisher Harrison Smith.

Approaching 100 years – First edition challenging story

$70.00

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Jack O’Lantern – George Goodchild – First Edition 1930 – Dust Jacket Designed by “Gene”

First edition published by The Mystery League in 1930. Scarce and in very good condition albeit the dust jacket chipped at the corners and spine ends … but what a beauty

Jack O’Lantern the cleverest of criminals ever to pit his wits against the machinery for man-finding! Superb entertainment and the “Gene” Art Deco dust jacket a Voyager favourite.

Could anyone beat Jack O’Lantern?

$60.00

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