Crime of the Fictional Variety

Bony & The white Savage – Arthur Upfield – First edition 1961

A hard to find first edition published by Heinemann, London in 1961.

Octavo, 230 pages, reproduction dust jacket. Ownership details on title; free end paper with a piece cut out. Otherwise a very clean and bright copy of an often badly foxed edition.

An old timer in the deep south-west of Western Australia spots a violent criminal on his way back to the caves of Rhudder’s Inlet. Inspecter Napoleon “Bony” Bonaparte is called in with his tracker Lew. What they find leaves them shaken to the core.

Bony discovers strange goings on in the very south-west.

$60.00

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Maigret’s Pickpocket and Maigret and the Nahour Case– Georges Simenon

Translated from the French another double helping of Maigret published by the Companion Book Club in 1968. A first of type.

Octavo, 288 pages in very good condition.

Maigret has his wallet stolen on a bus .. the young offender telephone Maigret and a murder enquiry ensues. In Nahour a gambler is murdered and his wife, who has fled with her lover, is suspected.

Two different Maigret cases but with murder at the heart of each.

$35.00

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Maigret – Hesitates and Takes the Waters – Georges Simenon

Two classic short stories by Simenon in Paris and also out in the Vichy countryside – superb

First edition in this form published by The Companion Book Club in 1971 the individual editions being published in 1969 and 1970.

Octavo, 288 pages, page edges and end papers bright red. A very clean copy.

Maigret unsurpassed – a double helping.

$35.00

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Maigret in Court – Georges Simenon

Translated from the French of 1960, this edition by the Thriller Book Club, Charing Cross, London in conjunction with Hamish Hamilton. A first of type.

Octavo, 192 pages in very good condition.

Gaston Meurani is on trial and on first blush deserves to get off having been accused of the murder of his aunt and a little girl. Maigret convinced he is innocent. However, things come out in the trial that require a different type of justice. Intrigued?

Maigret has a moral viewpoint but how does it pan out?

$35.00

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Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife – Georges Simenon – First UK edition 1955

A first UK edition of an early Simenon published by Hamish Hamilton in 1955, the French equivalent being 1953.

Octavo, 160 pages, a little age and spots but not a bad copy for a sought after Maigret.

The burglar’s wife had a history with Maigret – she tried to spoil his arresting of her by taking her clothes off. This is years later when Loft is married to Sad Freddie a not very successful burglar. Sad Freddie comes across a dead body during one of his late night escaped and it all starts from there.

Early Maigret First Edition and the story of Lofty and Sad Freddie

$50.00

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Agatha Christie – Complete Set of the Collected Edition by Hamlyn – 24 Volumes – 72 Novels.

Published by Hamlyn, London various dates as issued in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Uniform octavo, over 12,000 pages. Nicely bound in decorated black cloth covered boards with gilt adornment and titles, super headbands, all top edges stained red as required. Each covered in the original “Crime Themed” dust jackets of the period .. now all protected in removeable Brodart. Very good condition, the tiniest bit of age to a couple, all clean as a whistle internally … as fine a set as you could find.

To be read over a lifetime … maybe twice. Comprising …

1. 4:50 From Paddington; Lord Edgware Dies; Murder in Mesopotamia;
2. Sparkling Cyanide; The Secret of Chimney; Five Little Pigs;
3. A Caribbean Mystery; Taken at the Flood; The Seven Dials Mystery;
4. Evil under the Sun; Death Comes as the End; The Sittaford Mystery;
5. Ordeal by Innocence; One, Two, Buckle my Shoe; The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding;
6. Partners in Crime; At Bertram s Hotel; The Hound of Death;
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; They Do It With Mirrors; Mrs. McGinty s Dead;
8. The Clocks; Third Girl; Murder in the Mews;
9. Halloween Party; Passenger to Frankfurt; The Thirteen Problems;
10. The Hollow; The Moving Finger; Three Act Tragedy;
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Ten Little Ni*****s; Dumb Witness;
12. Appointment with Death; Crooked House; Sad Cypress;
13. The Pale Horse; The Big Four; The Secret Adversary;
14. Cat Among the Pigeons; The Labours of Hercules; Hickory Dickory Dock;
15. Nemesis; Parker Pyne Investigates; Poirot Investigates;
16. Death on the Nile; Towards Zero; After the Funeral;
17. By the Pricking of My Thumbs; The Mysterious Mr. Quin; Endless Night;
18. Peril at End House; The Body in the Library; Hercule Poirot’s Christmas;
19. Murder is Easy; Dead Man s Folly; The Man in the Brown Suit;
20. The Mirror Crack d from Side to Side; They Came to Baghdad; The ABC Murders;
21. Murder on the Orient Express; Death in the Clouds; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?;
22. The Mystery of the Blue Train; The Listerdale Mystery; The Murder at the Vicarage;
23. The Murder on the Links; A Pocket Full of Rye; Destination Unknown;
24. Cards on the Table; N or M; A Murder is Announced.

Total weight packed is approaching 20 kgs so we will have to quote postage to any buyers location. We always pack well and find the best mailing arrangement for all our customers.

Agatha Christie simply the best complete set.

$440.00

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Bony & The white Savage – Arthur Upfield – First edition 1961

Maigret’s Pickpocket and Maigret and the Nahour Case– Georges Simenon

Maigret – Hesitates and Takes the Waters – Georges Simenon

Maigret in Court – Georges Simenon

Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife – Georges Simenon – First UK edition 1955

Agatha Christie – Complete Set of the Collected Edition by Hamlyn – 24 Volumes – 72 Novels.

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