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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Charter #31618-2, 1980. 1st ed. Paperback Original, a near fine copy with just a trace of rubbing, reading creases, slight spine slanr and page edges beginning to age darken as usual with this book. A locked room mystery. Author's first book. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1991. 1st ed., front flyleaf neatly cut out, else near fine in dust jacket. The murder couldn't have happened -- several people had the stateroom door under observation at all times -- but it did.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2003. 1st printing. A fine, unread copy of the Tfrade Paperback. Locked Room / Impossible Crime, Adey #26. The 5th C.D. Sloan title. Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan puzzles over an industrialist crushed under the rubble of a church tower in this crime novel by a CWA Diamond Dagger winner. On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide. In the course of solving murder cases, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan has seen all manner of ugly death. But there's something particularly gruesome about this one, the body crushed beneath the marble and iron of an old Saxon church tower. With rubble blocking off access to the crime scene, no one can get close enough to inspect the body. What little evidence is available - a burned match, a black thread, an earring - doesn't bode well for a… Leer más

N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1961. 1st paperback printing, August 1961, so stated. Vintage Paperback. Bantam #A2267 [.35 cover price]. Reading crease, spine edge rubbed, long crease at rear cover else very good-near fine copy On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind. With characteristic stubbornness, if not trusting naivety, she refuses to be detained and is immediately encircled by terror, while the jaws of a murder trap swing closed. When Innes is called to Eve Ferrier's villa by a desperate Audrey, he arrives in time to see Eve fall to her death from a high balcony--and no one was near her at the time. It takes the investigative genius of Gideon Fell to penetrate the ingenious murder method and reveal the criminal..All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the… Leer más

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Matt Cobb title set in a "country house" in the Adirondack Mountains. An Impossible Crime-- Adey #580.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 225 copies sewn in cloth and SIGNED and numbered by the author [this being #138]. Accompanying each copy of the Limited Edition is a separately printed pamphlet, "Lodgings for the Night" by Eric Wright. Cover illustration by Native American artist Barbara Mitchell. COLD KILLINGS!!! Eric Wright, the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is one of Canada's most honored mystery writers. The Crime Writers of Canada have recognized his work with four Arthur Ellis Awards, two for Best Novel and two for Best Short Story. A Killing Climate contains all of Eric Wright's short stories in the mystery field, including a locked-room mystery ("An Irish Jig"), espionage in the Far North ("Caves of Ice"), a comic caper story ("Two in the Bush"), and other exercises in ingenuity, character, and atmosphere. Many of the stories are set near Canada's Hudson Bay… Leer más

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2003. 1st printing. Fine, unread copy of the trade paperback, still in shrinkwrap. Cover illustration by Native American artist Barbara Mitchell. COLD KILLINGS!!! Eric Wright, the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is one of Canada's most honored mystery writers. The Crime Writers of Canada have recognized his work with four Arthur Ellis Awards, two for Best Novel and two for Best Short Story. A Killing Climate contains all of Eric Wright's short stories in the mystery field, including a locked-room mystery ("An Irish Jig"), espionage in the Far North ("Caves of Ice"), a comic caper story ("Two in the Bush"), and other exercises in ingenuity, character, and atmosphere. Many of the stories are set near Canada's Hudson Bay area, but a few (especially "Hephaestus" with its Caribbean vactioners) are in more temperate regions. The book concludes with the… Leer más

N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1973. First American edition, so stated, 2nd printing. Page edges lighty age spotted else about fine in price clipped dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine. There are two investigations in this, the 8th Martin Beck title. A special squad is looking into a rash of bank robberies. And Martin Beck is working by himself on a classic locked room mystery. A Stockholm bank was robbed by a young woman who shot and killed a bank customer during the holdup, and the police force is scrambling to find the bank robber. Detectives we know and love from previous books: most notably Beck's able associates Kollberg and Larsson, but also a trigger-happy junior, are on the cast. Meanwhile Martin Beck is just back from fifteen months of recuperation from a bullet to the chest. The locked room mystery is a kind of therapeutic welcome-back gift from the homicide squad. It's a puzzle. A pensioner who locked and bolted himself into his room, and locked or taped both windows, has been shot… Leer más

NY: Ace, 1981. 1st Ace printing September 1981. Paperback Original. Wraparound cover art. Impossible crime. The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines. 229 pages. The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, in which King John never reigned and most of Western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in place of the science of our own world.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1997. 2nd ed. fine in dust jacket. Locked-room title. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2006. 1st. Ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Limited to 230 clothbound copies, this being #88, SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "The Bad Samaritan" by Hoch. Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the 20th century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms, impossible disappearances, and other so-called "miracle crimes." This book contains fifteen of Dr Sam's extraordinary cases solved between 1927 and 1931, including: Impossible murder in a house that whispers; Poisoning by a gargoyle on the courthouse roof; The case of the Devil in the windmill; The houseboat that resembles the Mary Celeste; The affair of the vanishing Gypsies; Stabbing in the locked cocpit of a plane in midair; A ghostly pirate in a lighthouse...... Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1937. 1st edition, so stated. Black cloth with bright red-inked print on the spine, rubbed along edges with stained and spotted covers, in dust jacket rubbed at spine edges, soiled at rear, label remains at rear endpaper, not priceclipped, $2.00 price intact but all corners have been trimmed. One story, "The Border-Line Case" is a locked room mystery [Robert Adey-Locked Room Murders, revised edition, 1991; #39]. Very scarce. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.

N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1988. 1st US edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. bottom of rear cover worn, page edges lightly soiled, else very good in dust jacket, couple of closed tears, rubbed at rear bottom, with protective mylar cover. "Deft characterization draws the reader into a cutthroat world of computers, technology, mergers and takeovers in this well-written mystery by the Canadian author ( By Reason of Doubt ). Jane Tregar, a headhunter for Orloff Enterprises, is asked to find a replacement for Gary Levin, vice-president of finance for BTS, a Toronto-based software company in the midst of transition. Levin had been found dead of an apparent heart attack in a locked computer room. Jane has strong reservations: BTS president Brian Taylor seems to be withholding important information, and rumors are flying over the cause of death. She takes on the job, however, because she has not had a big commission and is afraid her boss is looking for an excuse to fire her...Godfrey… Leer más

N.Y.: Holt, 1978. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. One tiny tear at bottom edge else fine in dust jacket, lightly soiled at rear, not price clipped, in protective mylar dust jacket cover. Ben Franklin in 1757 London solves a Locked-Room mystery. When Ben Franklin arrives in London in 1757, he is intent upon little more than renewing old friendships, refurbishing his wardrobe, and conducting a bit of business with the Penn family on behalf of the Pennsylvania colony. Instead, he is drawn into the bizarre doings of London's notorious Hellfire Club. It all begins when the porter at the Vulture Tavern is found dead in a room bolted from within, his body unmarked by any signs of violence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mill-Morrow, 1960. 1st ed. light remains at bottom of inside covers and endpapers, boards lightly faded else very good copy in lightly rubbed, soiled dust jacket, unclipped, $2.95 price intact. Locked Room mystery, Adey #700. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Illus. by Bacon, Paul. Book.

N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1949. 1st pbk printing, October 1949, so stated. Pocket Book #633. Vintage Paperback. A pristine, bright and tight copy with an almost unnoticeable tiny cut at rear. Cover illustration by Louis S. Glanzman. Impossible Crime, Adey #611. Very scarce in this condition.."In post-war England, nerves are frazzled already, and when a man comes down to a quiet seaside village and gives the locals the impression that he's a notorious serial killer whom the police have never captured, there's consternation--especially by a family whose daughter he's wooing. We know, of course, that he's really Ben Ransom, a noted actor trying to win a bet. Or is he? Could Bruce really have married and killed several women before the war? And what is his trick of disposing of the bodies so they've never been found? Fortunately, Sir Henry Merrivale is on hand to elucidate..." -- Sean Brennan , Goodreads. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped… Leer más

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st prtg with complete number line beginning with 1. Published simutaneously with the hardcover. Limited to 200 copies. The First volume in the "Crippen and Landru Lost Classics" series. Godfrey, a South African journalist and short-story writer created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux. In the ten stories in this collection he investigtes such riddles as the man who can't remember 52 minutes of his life, an egg which becomes filled with poison before it is opened, and the impossible murder in a cable car hanging many feet above the ground. Three of the stories are impossible crime stories. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Illus. by Miller, Deborah. Trade Paperback.

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out of Print. LIMITED to 175 copies. The First volume in the "Crippen and Landru Lost Classics" series. Godfrey, a South African journalist and short-story writer created one of the most imaginative of modern sleuths, Rolf le Roux. In the ten stories in this collection he investigtes such riddles as the man who can't remember 52 minutes of his life, an egg which becomes filled with poison before it is opened, and the impossible murder in a cable car hanging many feet above the ground. Three of the stories are impossible crime stories. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. Illus. by Miller, Deborah. Book.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 1st ed. Near fine in dj. Dr. Fell title. Fell and well-known writer Philip Knox were sailing across the Atlantic to New York along with Lady Tiverton (who'd once been Margery Vane, the well-known actress). In the U.S. Fell and Knox find their lives tangled with Miss Vane's along with a ghost who haunts the opening of a production of 'Romeo and Juliet'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

N.Y.: Morrow, 1987. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, very lightly soiled at rear, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. In this story the clues are hidden in the photographhs that accompany the text, as well as the story itself. Photographs by Marjory Dressler. 38 black-and-white photographs. Adey #405 [Locked Room Murders by Robert Adey].. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.