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The Croaking Raven - with - The Crozier Pharaohs -
Gladys Mitchell
1966 - Michael Joseph, London - First Edition, First Edition Second Impression
Two volumes starring Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, doctor, psychoanalyst and consultant to the Home Office.
The first female literary character to be both a detective heroine and a member of an 'established profession’.
‘The Croaking Raven’ features a Norman Castle complete with Ravens, and brothers who are due their inheritance... together with ‘The Crozier Pharaohs’, the final appearance of Dame Beatrice who appeared in 66 of Mitchell’s detective novels, beginning in 1929.
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Price HK$ 900
1966 - Michael Joseph, London - First Edition, First Edition Second Impression
Two volumes starring Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, doctor, psychoanalyst and consultant to the Home Office.The first female literary character to be both a detective heroine and a member of an 'established profession’.
‘The Croaking Raven’ features a Norman Castle complete with Ravens, and brothers who are due their inheritance... together with ‘The Crozier Pharaohs’, the final appearance of Dame Beatrice who appeared in 66 of Mitchell’s detective novels, beginning in 1929.
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Price HK$ 900
A Rope for the Hanging. A Mrs. Pym Story -
Nigel Morland
1939 - Farrar &, New York - First American Edition
First edition in exceptional condition,.
Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”.
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Price HK$ 2,700
1939 - Farrar &, New York - First American Edition
First edition in exceptional condition,.Featuring Scotland Yard’s thuggish lady detective Palmyra Pym, who, in the words of Julian Symons, ‘is a figure straight out of the ‘Beano’ or the ‘Dandy’, tearing about London in a preposterous hat,indulging in dangerous driving, snarling at her subordinates, coming up slap against gangsters with WHAMS and THUDS. According to Russell James [’Great British Fictional Detectives’], ‘A Rope for the Hanging’ “best typifies her early bludgeoning manner”.
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Alias Blue Mask -
Anthony Morton (John Creasey)
1939 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First American Edition
A near fine copy in near fine and thus scarce dust jacket.
Featuring the legendary ‘Baron’, debonair jewel thief turned detective.
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Price HK$ 3,000
1939 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First American Edition
A near fine copy in near fine and thus scarce dust jacket.Featuring the legendary ‘Baron’, debonair jewel thief turned detective.
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Price HK$ 3,000
The Shadow on the Left -
Augustus Muir
1928 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A fine example in a bright sharp and thus rare dust jacket. A murder mystery set in the Scottish highlands,
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Price HK$ 2,300
1928 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A fine example in a bright sharp and thus rare dust jacket. A murder mystery set in the Scottish highlands,
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Dead Man Murder -
Bernard Newman
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition.
Monsieur Papa Pontivy, tired of catching German spies is set off on a different investigation when his friend Colonel Everidge, MBE and late of the British Intelligence Service is brutally murdered.
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Price HK$ 800
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition.Monsieur Papa Pontivy, tired of catching German spies is set off on a different investigation when his friend Colonel Everidge, MBE and late of the British Intelligence Service is brutally murdered.
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The Third Policeman -
Flann O'Brien
1967 - Walker and Company, New York - First American Edition
‘The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.
The last of O’Brien’s novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O’Brien’s other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, and The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland’s great comic geniuses.’ [blurb from later publisher]
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1967 - Walker and Company, New York - First American Edition
‘The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe, " he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.The last of O’Brien’s novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O’Brien’s other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, and The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland’s great comic geniuses.’ [blurb from later publisher]
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The Old Man In the Corner -
Baroness Orczy
1909 - William Briggs, Toronto - First Canadian Edition (or first edition, Canadian issue, comprised of the sheets from the Greening and Co. publication of the same year with a new title-leaf)
‘The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. ‘Mysteries!’ he commented. ‘There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.’
A superb copy, illustrated with eight full page plates by H. M. Brock.
The nameless hero of this masterpiece has since been credited as the world’s first ‘armchair’ detective, solving crimes simply by reading newspaper articles whilst sipping tea in the corner of London’s A.B.C Teashop. His eccentricities include tying and unravelling complicated knots of string as he explains his deductions to his primary audience, Polly Burton, a young journalist who eagerly chronicles his adventures.
Throughout a series of twelve short stories and anecdotes, our protagonist does occasionally find purpose to leave his chair for the odd courtroom visit, and extremely polite interrogations, though, unusually for the genre, our hero disdains the police and seldom gives up the identities of the various perpetrators, often leaving them to wander the streets of London unassailed.
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Price HK$ 1,200
1909 - William Briggs, Toronto - First Canadian Edition (or first edition, Canadian issue, comprised of the sheets from the Greening and Co. publication of the same year with a new title-leaf)
‘The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. ‘Mysteries!’ he commented. ‘There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.’A superb copy, illustrated with eight full page plates by H. M. Brock.
The nameless hero of this masterpiece has since been credited as the world’s first ‘armchair’ detective, solving crimes simply by reading newspaper articles whilst sipping tea in the corner of London’s A.B.C Teashop. His eccentricities include tying and unravelling complicated knots of string as he explains his deductions to his primary audience, Polly Burton, a young journalist who eagerly chronicles his adventures.
Throughout a series of twelve short stories and anecdotes, our protagonist does occasionally find purpose to leave his chair for the odd courtroom visit, and extremely polite interrogations, though, unusually for the genre, our hero disdains the police and seldom gives up the identities of the various perpetrators, often leaving them to wander the streets of London unassailed.
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The Motives of Nicholas Holtz. Being the Weird Tales of the Ironville Virus -
Thomas Painter, Alexander Laing, Lynd Ward (illustrator)
1936 - Farrar &, New York - First Edition
A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward.
“‘The Ironville Virus’, a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man’s grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus...”
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Price HK$ 2,200
1936 - Farrar &, New York - First Edition
A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward.“‘The Ironville Virus’, a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man’s grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus...”
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Price HK$ 2,200