76. Secret Sentence. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1932.
Third Edition. Romance and Mystery novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with general wear to edges and mild soiling to rear panel. Item #16601
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77. Calamity Comes of Age. New York: Macaulay Co., (1935).
First Edition. Mystery novel of a young woman who gets herself mixed up in murder and the intrigues surrounding the Balkan throne. Novel opens with a golf game. Near Fine, with some light soiling at edges, in Very Good plus dustjacket, with few tiny chips and light edge wear. . Item #8474
78. Big Brother and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1923).
First Edition. M. P. dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories, the title story "of Robin Hood city gangster, Jim Donovan, Midge, and Kitty Costello". Stories served as the basis for two black and white silent films, with Big Brother being remade in 1931 as Young Donovan's Kid produced by RKO, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper and a young Boris Karloff. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, wear to spine and flap edges, shallow chipping to spine ends and flap corners and few edges. Item #15696
79. Big Brother and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1923).
First Edition. M. P. dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories, the title story "of Robin Hood city gangster, Jim Donovan, Midge, and Kitty Costello". Stories served as the basis for two black and white silent films, with Big Brother being remade in 1931 as Young Donovan's Kid produced by RKO, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper and a young Boris Karloff. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chip at top spine end, modest edge wear and some mild soiling to white of front panel. Item #15912
80. Big Brother and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1923).
First Edition. M. P. dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories, the title story "of Robin Hood city gangster, Jim Donovan, Midge, and Kitty Costello". Stories served as the basis for two black and white silent films, with Big Brother being remade in 1931 as Young Donovan's Kid produced by RKO, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper and a young Boris Karloff. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #29583
81. The Goose Woman and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925.
First Edition. Hubin listed short story collection which includes The Michigan Kid. Basis for more than one film. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips and wear. Item #30681
82. Death of a Gossip. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1985).
First Edition. Vilma Ortiz dustjacket art, with Peter Thorpe dustjacket design. "A murder mystery introducing Police Constable Hamish Macbeth." Author's first book, written under Marion Chesney's pseudonym. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with slight edge rubbing an few short closed tears. Item #19642
83. The Shadow. New York: The Fiction League, 1930.
First Edition. Mystery and horror novel "of the Shadow - a strange, strong man, a man of evil destiny - who dwelt in that land of romance and adventure, Lower California". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipping and short closed tears along lower edge. Item #23515
84. The 12 [Twelve] Disguises. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1942).
First Edition stated. World War Two set mystery novel of occupied Paris and the chief of England's Secret Service. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nicking and rubbing at spine ends. Item #27627
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85. Death Walks In Eastrepps. New York: The Mystery League, 1931.
First Edition. Gene dustjacket art. Hubin listed murder mystery novel. A Haycraft Queen Corner Stone. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, modest shelf wear. Item #17005
86. The House of Dr. Edwardes. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1928.
First Edition. "Professor Anselm Kreuzemark, the brilliant criminal, [is] in Barcelona visiting one of Spain's most powerful grandees. Thomas Preston, an Englishman and an old enemy of the Professor, work[s] to discover and block the Professor's plans to arouse the hidden hordes of Asia". Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film-noir classic, Spellbound, that starred Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Near Fine but for few smudges and foxing to page edges, in Very Good plus dustjacket, centimeter chip at top spine end, top edge with some wear and several very short closed tears. Item #22100
87. The Nine Waxed Faces. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936.
First Edition. Suspense novel of international intrigue leading up to world war. Near Fine, some spotting to front cover, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21120
88. The Seven Sleepers. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1925.
First Edition. Henry Pitz dustjacket art. Author's first book, a Hubin mystery and novel of intrigue in Europe as a diabolical secret German society plot the next World War. "No more sinister figure has appeared in fiction than Professor Kreutzemark, inventor of many new chemical concoctions" who is featured in the dustjacket art by Pitz, with the good doctor about to inject some kind of drug into the arm of a prostrate woman. Francis Beeding was the pseudonym used by a pair of writers, John Leslie Palmer (1885-1944) and Hilary Aidan St George Saunders (1898-1951). They were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI and worked for the Air Ministry in WWII, writing the famous pamphlet, The Battle of Britain. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian of the House of Commons. They also wrote mainstream fiction under the name David Pilgrim. Almost Near Fine, spotting to top page edge, small foxed area at fore-edge of pages, heavy erasure at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket with fairly shallow chipping along top front panel and spine ends. Item #20584
89. The Three Fishers. New York: A. L. Burt and Co., (1931).
Reprint Edition. Sugar dustjacket art. Mystery of two characters hoping to gain wealth by embroiling France and Germany in a war, and a young man sent by the British Secret Service to figure it out and prove his worth. Near Fine but for front endpaper removed, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips. Item #25070
90. Puck in Petticoats. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1931).
First Edition. L. B. dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery novel whose main character, Ellen Gilchrist, is found in the bibliography 'Mystery Women' by Colleen Barnett. "Percival Soames, the gentleman with a fanciful imagination and a glib tongue, and Ellen Gilchrist, now his wife, whose shrewd and canny ways have endeared her to many readers. The practical Ellen, as fresh and bustling as ever, has a hard time to manage Percival and, in spite of the matrimonial knot which now joins them, there are frequent explosions in the Soames menage". Illustration at rear jacket panel suggests gambling content. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #30723
91. The Disturbing Affair of Noel Blake. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932.
First Edition. Ancestral memories induce criminal acts. [Bleiler 1948 Checklist; Locke Spectrum of Fantasy; Stableford Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950]. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and soiling. Item #31174
92. The Brass Gong Tree. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1936.
First Edition. Dunsany dustjacket art. "Japan and Manchukuo of the present day and a striking element in the story is the assassination of two of Japan's leading statesmen. Americans, Russians, Japanese, an Englishman and a German, who are caught up in a tangled web of murder, hate, love and mystery. The murder of the Japanese statesmen, the sinking of a ship in the Yellow Sea, a man hunt by Japanese secret service agents." Author served in the First World War as a second-lieutenant with the Royal Air Force. Several of Bellah's western stories served as the basis for acclaimed films including: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande. Very uncommon in attractive dustjacket. Near Fine in an almost Near Fine bright dustjacket, spine ends rubbed. Item #26765
93. Shadowed! New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929.
First Edition. G. K. Chesterton dustjacket art and illustrations. Mystery and fantasy novel of "Devious diplomacy in the year of grace 1979". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at edges. Item #25400
94. The Chianti Flask. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1934.
First Edition. Murder mystery by the author best known for her novel The Lodger, found in Hubin. Near Fine, bit of foxing to endpapers, in Near Fine dustjacket, hint of a vertical crease at spine. Item #35586
95. Waters of Strife. New York: W. J. Watt and Co., (1921).
First Edition. Franty dustjacket art. Scarce western title of murder and cowmen. Scarce in illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good-Near Fine dustjacket, inch closed tear at front panel, small chip at top spine end. Item #7031
96. Murder Unleashed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club Inc, 1935.
First Edition. San Francisco set murder mystery which begins with a man finding the 'White Flower' of San Fran's nightlife dead in his hotel room. Very Good or Near Fine, some wear at spine ends, very mild cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, nicking and wear to edges. Item #25057
97. Son of the Typhoon. New York: Duffield and Co., 1928.
First Edition. Hubin listed novel of intrigue set in contemporary China, surrounding a young man of Chinese and Anglo-Saxon parents who becomes a leader of the "New China" movement. Great stylized wrap-around dustjacket art. Author's first novel. Very Good, some areas of mild cloth discoloration, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, half dollar sized chip at mid spine. Item #35062
98. The Challoners. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1904.
First American Edition. Early novel by this Hubin listed author. Very Good-Near Fine with light shelf wear. Item #6826
99. The House of Defence. New York: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906.
First American Edition. O. B. dustjacket design, H. Richard Boehm color plates. "J. K. Gill Company Special Edition" statement at title page. Extremely rare Bleiler listed fantasy novel to be found in original decorative thin-paper dustjacket. A contemporary review states: "The author of ' Dodo' has written a ' thriller.' It is a spiritualistic story. Mr. Benson sets part of his story in the East, and part in London, and tells it in a manner to keep the reader wide awake and interested to the end". Not found in Hubin despite the "thriller" aspects of the novel and the theme of opium addiction. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, nickel sized chip at top front panel, some narrow strips of paper tape at verso at some edges. Item #21006
100. Trent's Last Case. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1930).
Early Reprint Edition. N. B. dustjacket art. An uncommon edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery novel, with dustjacket artwork depicting a golf-course scene. Perhaps published in order to bank on the popularity of the 1929 Howard Hawk's feature film, starring Raymond Griffith. Very Good, modest cocking, in near Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends and flap corners, some mild staining to spine. Item #24473
