Search Results: Mystery Fiction from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

A handsome 10 volume hardcover set of Emile Gaboriau mysteries as pictured. Originally published between 1866 and 1876, these very popular detective stories predated Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. The set includes Within An Inch Of His Life, Baron Trigault's Vengeance, The Count's Millions, Other People's Money, The Champdoce Mystery, The Clique Of Gold, The Honor Of The Name, File No. 113, Caught In The Net, The Mystery Of Orcival. Bindings are intact in all. Embossed maroon cloth covers with gold stamping on spine are dusty and show some edge wear. Text blocks are rough cut. Texts are age tanned but clean and unmarked. Front hinges are cracked on File No. 113 and The Clique Of Gold. Both front and rear hinges cracked on Other People's Money.Pages 6-10 of The Champdoce Mystery have a small tear at top. No dust jackets. Price includes mailing costs. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (OO1)

1930 hardcover as pictured. This is the UK edtion. This is a scholarly collection of case studies attempting to explore and define the criminal mind. Binding is firm. Yellow boards with red stamping are soiled with light edgewear and bumped corners. Endpapers and a few pages of text are mottled. Text appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

2012 softcover as pictured. A literary whodunit with an unusual ending. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Text clean and unmarked. would be as very good except for slight shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Published 2022, latest Thomas Lynley novel from Elizabeth George. Carefully read once, would be listed as new but for minor shelf wear. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

2000 softcover as pictured. Inscribed and signed by author. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Text clean and unmarked. Would be as new aside from slight shelf wear. sAR

Circa 1900 hardcover as pictured. A handsome book, this is an early but undated American edition of the first tale of Sherlock Holmes and James Watson. Binding is intact. Red cloth boards with gold stamping are lightly soiled and faded at spine with slight fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Owner's name on FEP. Rough cut text block with gilt top edge. Text is lightly tanned with some mottling but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OG2

1923 hardcover as pictured. A classic Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. Binding is firm. Gray boards with violet stamping are tanned at edges with dent at top of front and small tears at head and tail of spine. Pencil notation on FFEP. Endpapers lightly tanned. Text appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. AR