Resultados de búsqueda: Crime & Mystery from Harry E Bagley Books Ltd

London: Artus, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo,.. pict. fabroid covers, 484 pages, clean, bright copy, in protective mylar d.j., includes tales of murder on trains by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Roald Dahl,Elmore Leonard,Ken Follett and Dorothy L.Sayers Size: 8 Vo.,.

New York : Thomas Dunne Books,St. Martin's Press, 2017. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. illustrated hardcover, dust jacket, First U.S. edition, 239 pages : illustrations, Surveys a decade of murder and violent crime in early twentieth-century New York, drawing on photos, medical records, police reports, testimonies, and period analysis to explore how crime in the 1910s impacted the lives of ordinary citizens. A large, heavy tome, may need extra post..

Garden City: Doubleday Crime Club, 1980. Book. Illus. by D.j. By Jan Esteves. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed Presentation Copy. First Edition. red fabroid covers, 180 pages, 6 line author presentation inscription on front free end paper dated 5/25/81, light wear at edges with one small edge tear near spine of front cover, spine is slightly cocked, in protective mylar dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1957. Book. Illus. by D,j, Design By Arthur Hawkins Jr.. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club. cloth, 214 pages, very light wear to edges of d.j. else a clean, bright copy in protective mylar wrap, Size: 8 Vo.,.

Toronto: J.S. Robertson & Brothers, 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. green cloth,gilt spine, 174 pages, illustration, frontis., 5 full page b & w illustrations, text pages toned, corners lightly bumped, light wear at corners, the author, Allan Pinkerton ( 1819 - 1884) Scottish American detective and spy, created the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the first detective agency of the United States. I cannot find a Canadian library that holds this particular title published by this publisher. Size: 12mo.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson;, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First UK Edition. blue cloth, 360 pages, Small town America is Collins heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision.his "The Keepers of Truth" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000 Size: 8 Vo.,.

Toronto: Lorimer, 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. pictorial paper, viii, 301 pages : map ; 24 cm, In New Brunswick's Hopewell Cape courthouse a sensational turn-of-the-century trial put young, handsome Tom Collins in the prisoner's dock. Collins was charged with the grisly murder of Mary Ann McAuley, housekeeper to the New Ireland parish priest. Newspaper reporters carefully chronicled every detail revealed in court of how the victim met her death. Author Kenneth Saunders focuses on this story to present a vivid picture of rural society in the early 1900s. Looking at the events of the murder and the trial through the eyes of farmers, tradesmen, clergy, town officials, police and the notorious hangman Jon Radclive, Saunders makes their voices sound so real, so genuine that they seem to be with us still. The rectory murder case was a real mystery, Some contemporary New Brunswickers were convinced that the accused was innocent. They… Leer más

Boston, Little, Brown.(1955) Book Club Edit. hardcover, Book. 8 vo., cloth, dust jacket, 224 pages, light scuffs and edge wear to d.j. ex private lib, with bookplate and ink sig on the front free end-paper, else v.g..

Grand Rapids,: Wm B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1945. Book. Good. Pict. Cloth,. 1st Amer.. pp., 88, illustrated, text illustrations, title-page vignette, half the front free end-paper missing, light soil and minor edge tears in d.j. A Chinese mystery story for young people from the author of Harrison Road Mystery, The Chicken Devil Mystery and The Dragon Boat Mystery. Size: 8 Vo.,.

Mississauga, Ont: Wiley & Sons Canada, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8 Vo.,. cloth, gilt spine, pp.,xiv, 386 ,xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits Includes ibliographical references (p. [363]-371) index, "In a mansion in an exclusive area of Montreal, Canada, lives a clan named Rizzuto. When the Rizzuto patriarch, Nick, arrived in the New World from a remote village in western Sicily, he brought with him his most valued possessions: his young family and the old code of the Mafia. He relied on both - his family and his code - to build a robust criminal organization that flourished in the shadow of the notorious Five Families of New York City." "Decades later, three rebellious captains in the Bonanno crime family were slaughtered inside a Brooklyn social club. For 25 years the details of the crime remained a closely guarded secret while, at the same time, rumors of the bold attack became underworld legend. Now, mob turncoats have come… Leer más

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. blue cloth, gilt spine, 396 pages, signed by author on t.p., in protective mylar Size: 8 Vo.,.

London: Octopus Books Ltd., 1986. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Very Good. Hardcover. 4 to.,. blue, blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, 317 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), Facsim of ed. published London : Harrap, 1935. in protective mylar jacket,CONTENTS: The imp of the perverse -- The tell-tale heart -- A descent into the maelstrom -- The cask of Amontillado -- The premature burial -- Hop-Frog -- The assignation -- King Pest -- The pit and the pendulum -- The masque of the red death -- The man of the crowd -- The fall of the house of Usher -- The oval portrait -- The gold bug -- Ligeia -- Eleonora -- Berenice -- Morella -- Ms. found in a bottle -- William Wilson -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar -- Metzengerstein -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The mystery of Marie Roget -- The purloined letter.

Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 1998. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. First Edition. pict.paper wraps, xxvi, 575 pages, [16] p. of plates : illustrated, map, "This is the history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material - including the papers of prison inspectors and officials and the correspondence of those who wrote to the authorities - Peter Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in nineteenth-century Ontario." "'Terror to Evil-Doers' focuses on the purposes and internal management of particular institutions. By synthesizing a wealth of new material into a comprehensive framework, Oliver's seminal study lays the groundwork for future students and scholars of Canadian history, criminology, and sociology."(from the introduction) Size: 8 vo,.24 cm..

New York: Manor Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. 18 cm.. trade paperback, 176 pages, a very good, clean copy The killer of a pawnbroker left few clues--not even a body--but Albert Campion has reservations when the outlandish theory of Superintendent Charles Luke leads them to a curio museum called Tether's End..

New York: Doubleday, 1958. Book. Illus. by d.j. painting by Claus Hoie. Very Good. Hardcover. Doubleday Book Club. pp., 215, light wear at spine ends, small closed tear to d.j. at top of spine, light wear to d.j. corners, light soil to back panel of d.j. cover art is bright, in mylar protective d.j. Size: 8 Vo.,.

London: Cassell & Company,, 1957. Book. Very Good. Black Cloth,. First UK Edition. pp., xi, 269, illustrated, illustrations in text, minor bumping at corners, dust jacket is dusty and has edge chips and small edge tears, small loss at very bottom of spine of d.j. stain at center of front free end-paper. Graves story of William Palmer, the Staffordshire surgeon and racehorse owner (publicaly hanged in 1856).Palmer's twelve-day trial for the murder of his frien was among the most notorious ever held at the Old Bailey Size: 8 Vo.,.

Presque Isle, Maine: Sleepy Hollow Publishing, 2005. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. pict. paper wraps, pp., ix, 212 , illustrated, 15 pp bibliography, index, originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maine, 2000., The story of the lynching of James Cullen, in Mapleton, Maine, in 1878, the only known lynching in New England. It also compares this lynching to others that took place in the US ,examining the phenomenon as a whole. Few events in the history of the Northeast borderlands region between Maine in the United States , and New Brunswick in Canada, can match the story of the lynching of Jim Cullen. It involved brutal axe murders, a mob lynching ot Cullen, his burial at the town dump, and the eventual decapitation and removal of the murderer's head by a phrenologist who hoped to prove criminals had differently shaped heads Size: 8 vo,..

New York: The Book League of America,, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. black cloth, gilt spine, pp., viii, 296, very top and bottom of spine sunned two line ink inscription on front free endpaper, some soil & light foxing to pastedowns and front free endpaper, edge chips and tears to d.j. with some loss at spine ends, back panel of d.j. is toned, slight sign of moisture to d.j. at foot of spine, in protective mylar d.j. A Crime Club selection Size: 8 Vo.,.

Garden City: The Crime Club, Inc, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. black cloth, pict. spine, top edges red, 306 pages, some unobtrusive soil to covers, light wear at extremities, sound, tight, clean copy Size: 8vo.

New York: Doubleday, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8 vo,. black cloth, 254 pages, dust jacket, An Albert Campion detective story light spine fade, else, a very good copy, in a v.g. dust jacket. Eerie London fog complicates detective work for Albert Campion as he sets out to put an end to the activities of the "Tiger" and his evil mob..