Presumed First Edition, no statement. Samuel Bernard Schaeffer dustjacket art. French detective ferrets out the murderer of a woman with a past. England set mystery. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #25744

First Edition. Rare Hubin listed collection of fictionalized accounts of true crime events, including narratives of Vidocq, Robert Pinkerton, Inspector Sweeney, General Trepoff and others. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #32497

First Edition. Ole dustjacket art. Psychological novel of a group of murderers and criminals working as sponge divers for a Greek company to avoid contact with society. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, spine ends with some nicks and wear. Item #14540

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

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

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

First Edition. Gene dustjacket art. Hubin listed murder mystery novel in which terror strikes a small fishing village. A Haycraft Queen Corner Stone. Almost Near Fine, contemporary previous owner gift inscription at front endpaper, bit of foxing to top page edge, green ink dash across top page edge, in Fine dustjacket. Item #40910

First Edition stated. Ernest Walker dustjacket at. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard investigates the murder of a housekeeper at a preparatory school who goes to France to collect a lottery winning. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, half inch chip at top spine end. Item #39660

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

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

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