Resultados de búsqueda: Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (paperback) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: Bantam 811, 1950. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Bantam edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A guy throws a party in order to let his wealthy aunt meet her stepchildren. Then women start getting themselves murdered (pretty inconsiderate of them, but whaddaya gonna do?), and Henry Gamadge's brief vacation from detecting comes to an end. 182 pages. Rubbing, handling creases, some spine slant/roll, impressions/scratches, light chipping to spine ends, light soil, tanning..

New York: Dell 105, 1946. Book. Illus. by Gerald Gregg (cover illustration). Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. When a sadistic, domineering woman is found dead on a trip to Petra, an archaeological site in Jordan, Hercule Poirot takes on the case, which he claims he can solve within 24 hours. Mapback, 192 pages, uncredited cover illustration (but it's definitely Gerald Gregg, because Gary Lovisi says so). Internally tight and clean w/light edgewear, scrape to bottom right corner of front cover, a couple of longish vertical bubbled creases to back cover. All in all a fairly nice copy of an early Dell..

Dell First Edition 12, 1954. Book. Illus. by Stanley Borack (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. The author of the Travis McGee novels gives us the story of a woman with "two pasts--and no future," a woman who "didn't look like the kind of girl she was." 254 pages. A bit cocked, reading crease to left edge of front cover, general handling wear..

Montreal: Pocket Books of Canada 714, 1950. Book. About Very Good. Paperback. 2nd thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. "It had been 'the perfect crime' until one small thing went wrong -- blowing the gang sky-high and leaving the boys clawing for life." 247 pages, cover illustration of one thug hammering another, and looking as if he means it. Vertical creases to left edge of front cover, 1/8" tear to bottom right spine edge, subsequent creasing between that and bottom of vertical creases, light rubbing, a few impressions, wear to top tips of final 15 or so pages, a little bleed from edge colour to cover edges of back cover. Internally tight and clean..

Panther 2204, 1967. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback original. A novel based on the television series, "The Avengers," which starred Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. In this one, Steed meets an old man living in Hertfordshire, and is subsequently concerned that the old fella might be a guy named Hitler, "who dreams of catastrophe and is clearly connected with mystic rites being practised in the Herts countryside." 124 pages. Light edgewear, moderate corner wear, thin crease to top right corner of front cover, bumped top left corner, light tanning. Internally tight and clean..

DC Comics, 2005. Bound Comic/Digest. Illus. by Dick Giordano, Bob Kane and Tim Sale. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Special DVD issue.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing of an insert with the "Batman Begins" DVD. Originally published as "Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes," copyright 1989; "Detective Comics #27" copyright 1939, and "Batman: The Long Halloween #1, Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special," copyright 1996. Tiny bump to bottom edge of front cover..

New York: Gold Medal 430 / Fawcett Publications, 1954. Book. Illus. by Jack (John) Roherty, Jr. (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. In San Francisco of the 1860s an impudent young woman and her gentleman partner pull off "one of the biggest swindles of this gay and gaudy century." 186 pages + advertisements for other Gold Medal titles. Rubbing, impressions, some edgewear, scraping to edges, tanning. A fragile vintage paperback that's in okay shape at the moment, but which must be handled with care or it'll crumble before your very eyes..

New York: Dell 601, 1952. Book. Illus. by Willard Downes (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. 1st Thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. First published in 1950 under the pseudonym of Jay Stewart. Someone wants to kill a young bride-to-be, and will stop at nothing to see that it happens. 224 pages, map-back. Handling wear, moderately cocked spine, ugly 1" separation to bottom right spine edge, the usual vintage paperback tanning. If it's going right into that empty slot in your collection, great, but if you're going to read it first, do so with care, or you'll have a collection of individual sheets that won't be nearly as cool jammed into that empty slot..

New York: Bantam 1119, 1953. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Bantam edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A Dr. Gideon Fell/Patrick Butler story, this one having to do with a pesky cult of devil worshippers, and finding a woman "caught in a web of murder and profane desire" (those profane desires are always a lot more enjoyable than the righteous ones). Edgewear, 1/4' X 1/4" chip from bottom left corner of front cover, rubbing/handling wear, edge spotting, tanning, general wear. Must be handled with care, or you'll be holding sheets of paper instead of a book..

Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2002. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. The second mystery featuring Staff Sergeant Dan Laurenson. 231 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Macfadden 60-424, 1969. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Macfadden edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. Originally published in 1954. One of three people responsible for a murder is trying to pin it on a man just back in town after two years in a Communist prison camp. A bit of spine slant, a bit of waviness at spine, thin scratches, minor dampstain w/subsequent bleeding to fore-edge. Internally tight..

Lion Library LL 158 Book. Illus. by Robert Maguire (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Originally published as 'Little Killer,' this one tells the story of a man who will have the woman of his dreams, at any cost. Ding to bottom right corner of front cover, light general wear..

New York: Avon Murder Mystery Monthly No. 7, 1942. Book. Illus. by Wm. Frost. Fair. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Thus.. Digest. Chandler's first novel, which he based on two of his short stories ("Killer in the Rain" and "The Curtain"). 170 pages. Strongly cocked, significant handling wear, creases, spine edges scraped, short tears to bottom spine edges, tanning..

Montreal: Pocket / Pocket Books of Canada 133, 1944. Book. Good or better. Paperback. 10th printing.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. When an actress is murdered, our philosophical detective oozes into something approaching action as he deals with "the confusion of alibis, false clues, and a weird crystal gazer," until, "at the forty-eighth hour the tangled skein unravels to reveal a nerve-tingling solution!" 275 pages + author biography and advertisements for other Pocket titles. Spine cocked/rolled, moderately sunned spine, light soil, surface wear, moderate wear to corners/spine ends..

Harlequin 315 Book. Illus. by Paul Anna Soik (cover illustration). Fair. Soft cover. In wild and lawless Mexico the Black Eagle fights greedy oilmen in the only language they understand, the language of blood, Spine cocked, scraping to spine edges, crosscrack, gentle creasing, crinkling/handling wear, moderate edgewear, some small scrapes to front cover, general wear..

Hammondsworth: Penguin 1105, 1955. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. The 16th Detective Arthur Crook title, telling the story of a murder victim feared and hated by all who knew him, and whose death results in nothing close to sadness or remorse. 219 pages + four pages promoting other Penguin books/writers. Mildly cocked w/edgewear, lightly smudged covers, lightly soiled edges, a couple of creased corners, tanning. .

Methuen Paperbacks 34600, 1976. Book. Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. George IV sends Blackstone to St. Helena to investigate rumours that Napoleon Bonaparte is planning to escape (spoiler: he was). 192 pages. Light edgewear, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Zenith ZB-39 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Originally published in hardcover in 1959 by E.P. Dutton & Co. A woman who has wasted her beauty and her youth trying to make the big time believes that her break has finally come, but ends up murdered, instead. Light rubbing, thin crease to top left tip of back cover, dusty edges, tanning. An appealing copy. .

Pocket 975, 1953. Book. Illus. by James Meese (cover illustration). Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st Pocket edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A private eye who is supposed to take care of a lush who witnessed a horrible knifing in Central Park finds himself tracked by bloodthirsty goons. Terrific cover painting depicts the private eye bound to a chair, a thug's hand holding a gun on him, and a nurse savagely applying tape to the poor sap's mouth. A bit cocked, light edgewear, light general wear; a nice copy..

Perma M-4294, 1963. Book. Illus. by Harry Bennett (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. When a spoiled rich kid dies, the police are willing to accept drunken driving as responsible, but his brother believes otherwise. Impressions, handling wear, general wear. Internally tight and clean..