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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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Garden District – Two Plays .. Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer – Tennessee Williams – First Edition 1959

A first UK edition published by Secker and Warburg, London in 1959.

Octavo, 72 pages, very good condition.

Two plays … a short one Something Unspoken a type often referred to as a curtain-raiser; and the longer Suddenly Last Summer.

Both had just been performed in England at the London Arts Theatre to much acclaim

Suddenly Last Summer is a gothic psychological drama. It was adapted and made into a brilliant movie with Katherine Hepburn, Montgomery Cliff and Elizabeth Taylor …. Elizabeth Taylor stole the show …. it is a must watch movie … particularly if you cannot find the play in progress.

Entertaining and still challenging from T.W. …

$30.00

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Wild Geese – Martha Orstenso – 1926 First Photoplay Edition

A very good first Photoplay [movie connected] edition published in 1926 by Grosset and Dunlap. Octavo, 256 pages, superb dust jacket and beneath that striking pictorial boards. Designs by H.o.H … not sure who that was?

This is a special edition with images from the silent movie made from this book directed by Phil Stone and released in 1927.

An Epic of the Northern Frontier, the prairies of northern Manitoba, and packed with living character.Regarded as a new standard in Modernist writing … love, tyranny, destruction and survival ….

A special book of the era

$50.00

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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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