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The Penrose Mystery - R. Austin Freeman

1936 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Dr. Thorndyke is concerned with the mysterious disappearance of Daniel Penrose, a well-to-do collector of antiquities. 
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The Concrete Castle Murders - Francis G

1936 - Henry Holt and Company, New York - First American Edition
An exceptional example of Gérard’s second novel, continuing the adventures of Inspector John Meredith of the C.I.D. and Detective-Sergeant Beef.

In a pristine dust jacket designed by Nat Falk (1898-1989).

First American edition (May 1936), published the same year in London by Rich & Crown as ‘
Concrete Castle’. 
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Price HK$ 2,500



The D. A. Cooks a Goose - Inscribed - Erle Stanley Gardner

1941 - William Morrow and Company, New York - First Edition
First edition, inscribed to his secretary Louise Weissberger - ‘To Louise, Who is one of the the fiction factory with much love, yours Erle’ and signed ‘Erle Stanley Gardner’.

‘A midnight hit-and-run accident on a lonely mountain road...
a tragic fatality
discovery of the missing car...
and Doug Selby, District Attorney of Madison City, finds himself not only up against a most involved case but in the hottest spot of his career.’
 
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Stay of Execution, and Other Stories of Legal Practices - Michael Gilbert

1971 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition without foxing, in a fine dust jacket, scarce as such.

Gilbert, a rather self-effacing lawyer with a dry sense of humour, was well known as a natural storyteller, a good examples of which can be seen in two of these short stories in which rascally solicitors "get away with it", ‘
Back on the Shelf’ and ‘Mr Portway's Practice’, they were also written in the first person. 
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A Jury of Her Peers - Susan Glaspell

1927 - Ernest Benn Limited, London - First Edition. One of 250 Copies
A fine first edition, one of only 250 printed, each signed by the author. A Queen’s Quorum title.

Glaspell’s classic story based on a case of spousal abuse that Glaspell had covered as a journalist. Demonstrating that two housewives from the American heartland are able to discover the motive for a murder identifying certain clues that the blundering male police are unlikely to comprehend.

Although included in America for a number of anthologies, ‘
A Jury of Her Peers’ was never actually published in any Glaspell’s own books until being selected by Ernest Benn of London to be one of their ‘Benn's Yellow Books’ titles.

In the 1970’s ‘
A Jury of Her Peers’ was rediscovered as an early work of feminist literature ‘applauding its innovative exploration of the gender inequalities affecting women’s lives in both the public and private spheres’. 
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A" Is for Alibi. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery - Inscribed - Sue Grafton

1982 - Holt, New York - First Edition
A fine copy, inscribed –

For Becky with warmest regards
from Kinsey & me
Sue Grafton
Sue 10-27-85


Introducing the sassy California private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton’s alter ego, one of the earliest females of the hard-boiled detective variety –
‘There’s no place in a p.i.’s life for impatience, faintheartedness, or sloppiness. I understand the same qualifications apply for housewives’. 
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Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

1938 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Graham Greene’s exposé of violence and gang warfare. Spine with bright gilt and no fading, no foxing, no inscriptions, scarce thus.

The chilling tale of teenage mob-leader Pinkie; a masterpiece of psycho-realism, a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the 'appalling strangeness of the mercy of God' withholds easy judgement as a narrative takes us through the moral question of what is simultaneously fascinating and repellent.
 
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Tragedy at Wembley. A Tale of Inspector Higgins - Cecil Freeman Gregg

1936 - The Dial Press, New York - First American Edition
The thirteenth title to feature Inspector Cuthbert Higgins of Scotland Yard, who, returning from home long after midnight stumbles in the darkness over the body of a uniformed constable... 
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