Detective Short Stories
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
by James, Jr Tiptree
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is a collection of Science fiction and fantasy stories by author James Tiptree, Jr.. It was released in 1990 by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,108 copies and was the author's second book published by Arkham House.
Detective Short Stories Books & Ephemera
Field Of Thirteen
by Francis, Dick
A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
A Woman's Eye
by Sara Paretsky
Dell NY 1992. 448 pages. Reprint Edition Very good condition with lightwear and readers crease to spine. See photos. Cel/PB2
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SGD 14.87
THE LADY OR THE TIGER?
by SMULLYAN, Raymond
NY: Times Books, 1996. FINE condition in NEAR FINE original paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. 1996. FIRST Times Books Paperback Edition, trade size. AS NEW, bound in heavy glossy pictorial paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD. Light/faint scratches and small hole on front cover. Includes The Lady or The Tiger? and Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Original Wraps.
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SGD 34.42
THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY ~ Fredric Brown In The Detective Pulps Volume 6
by BROWN, Fredric
NM: Dennis McMillan, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NM. Dennis McMillan. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION, Thus, LIMITED EDITION, Number 210 of 375 copies. SIGNED and Numbered by William Campbell Gault, Author of the Introduction. AS NEW, bound in dark blue cloth with bright yellow titles in blue pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD. First hardcover collection of eight short stories previously published in the Pulps. Cover Art and Endpapers by William L McMillan. . Signed by Author of...
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SGD 61.96
THE YEAR'S BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
by HOCH, Edward D ~ Edited By
NY: Walker, 1984. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Walker. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in black boards with gold title in yellow printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Laurie McBarnette. Thirteen short stories, see image of back panel for list.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair.
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SGD 28.92
A Classic Christmas Crime
by P. D. James, Simon Brett, Susan Moody, Tim Heald, David Williams, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Yorke, et a
A Classic Christmas CrimeBerkley NY 1999 216 pages. First paperback edition Fine unread condition. See photos. bx11
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SGD 11.02
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
by Haining, Peter
New York, New York: Chartwell 1993. A collection of the most famous detectives and the crimes they have solved. Near fine in fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light toning to page margins, esle fine in fine dj. ref 10
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SGD 17.89
THE WEB SHE WEAVES ~ An Anthology Of Mystery & Suspense Stories By Women
by MULLER, Marcia & Bill Pronzini ~ Edited and With An Introduction By
NY: Morrow, 1983. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1983. HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in gray on gray with silver titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 35.80
TALES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE
by SULLIVAN, Eleanor and Cynthia Manson ~ Selected By
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Harcour Brace Jovanovich. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in black and gold with red titles in pale mustard pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket illustration by Michael Hays. With an Introduction by Joan Lowery Nixon. Short stories for Young Adults.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 34.42
MR RACCOON AND HIS FRIENDS ~ And Two Other Stories
by MCCARTHY, Eugene J
Il: Academy Chicago, 1992. FINE condition in FINE original yellow glossy pictorial stiff paper wraps. IL. Academy Chicago. SOFTCOVER. 1992. REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine creasing. Cover art by Julia Anderson-Miller. Ten stories featuring Mr. Raccoon and other animals. Stored in Archival cover.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 20.66
THE POCKET BOOK OF FATHER BROWN
by CHESTERSON, G K
NY: Pocket Books, 1943. VERY GOOD condition in NEAR FINE original brown pictorial paper wraps. NY. Pocket Books 236. SOFTCOVER. An Original Pocket Book Edition. FIRST Printing October 1943. Square and tight. Age toning to pages and endpapers. Front hinge crease. Light edge wear. Seventeen short stories featuring the famous priest-detective. Stored in Archival sleeve.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good/Near Fine Original Wraps.
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SGD 31.67
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER
by BLOCK, Lawrence
NY: Arbor House, 1984. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Arbor House. HARDCOVER. 1984. FIRST EDITION, SECOND Printing. SIGNED By Author. AS NEW, bound in black and gray with red titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. Collection of nineteen short stories. Introduction by Joe Gores. ~ SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED By Author on Front-Free Endpaper to Owners of Scene Of The Crime ~ For Ruth & Al - At The Store 3 May...
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SGD 55.08
NUTZENBOLTS
by GOULART, Ron
NY: Macmillan, 1975. NEAR FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1975. FIRST PRINTING. Bound in gray boards with silver shadow titles, square and tight. REMAINDER copy, small red dot bottom edge, and some soiling to dust jacket back panel, else FINE. 'Man and machine confront each other in eleven futuristic parables by the foremost chronicler of 'homo mechanicus.'. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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SGD 41.31
SIX OF THE BEST ~ Short Novels By Masters Of Mystery
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Edited By
NY: Carroll & Graf, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Carroll & Graf. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in periwinkle and purple with gold titles in black printed dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter. Includes - Ellery Queen, Michael Gilbert, Ed McBain, Georges Simenon, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D MacDonald.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 31.67
BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH ~ 17 Stories Of Vampirism
by DATLOW, Ellen ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1989. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1989. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in red and black with gold titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket illustration by Don Maitz, design by Rats Paterson. Seven classics and ten new tales and poems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 45.44
FROM EVIL'S PILLOW
by COPPER, Basil
WI: Arkham House, 1973. NEAR FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. WI. Arkham House. HARDCOVER. 1973. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black boards with gold titles in black pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Light rubbing to back panel, see image. Light ripple to dust jacket. Cover art by Frank Utpatel. Five tales.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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SGD 48.20
PRIVATE DETECTIVE Stories ~ Volume 16 No. 3, February 1945
by VARIOUS
NY: Trojan Publishing, 1945. FAIR condition in illustrated wraps. NY. Trojan Publishing. MAGAZINE, Volume 16 No. 3, February 1945. Nicks, tears and chipping to edges. Open tears at spine head and heel. Front cover tearing away from spine. Old moisture damage stains throughout. Pages brown, brittle. Fragile. Stored in Mylite sleeve with acid-free board. Includes Delayed Death by Roger Torrey.. Magazine. Soft Cover. Fair/Original Wraps. Magazine.
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SGD 48.20
CHAPTER AND HEARSE ~ Suspense Stories About The World Of Books
by MULLER, Marcia & Bill Pronzini ~ Edited By
NY: Morrow, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Morrow. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in creme on creme with gold titles in rasberry and green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. Sixteen short stories from Robert Bloch to Cornell Woolrich, with fourteen others in between.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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SGD 48.20
THE DEPARTMENT OF QUEER COMPLAINTS
by DICKSON, Carter
MA: Gregg Press, 1981. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. MA. Gregg Press. HARDCOVER. 1981 Republication of 1940 Edition with a New Introduction by Richard Levinson and William Link. AS NEW, bound in navy with silver titles in black and white pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Jacket design by Sheryl White. Eleven very interesting tales by John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson. ~ SIGNED By Authors of Introduction ~ For Al & Ruth - thanks for a most...
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SGD 344.25
Witches Brew
by Edited by Alfred Hitchcock with stories by Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Henry Kane, and others
NY, Dell, 1965 First Mass market paperback Edition 192 pages.
A very good copy with light wear, text paper lightly age toned, tight clean copy. See Photos
SR 2/3
A very good copy with light wear, text paper lightly age toned, tight clean copy. See Photos
SR 2/3
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SGD 13.77
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY ~ THE PRIZEWINNERS
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Selected By
NY: Davis Publications, 1976. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Davis Publications. HARDCOVER. 1976. FIRST EDITION, Thus. AS NEW, bound in red leatherette with gold gilt lettering, cover design and page edges, with red endpapers and red ribbon marker. No dust jacket, as issued. Square and tight, UNREAD. Short stories written by nine Nobel prizewinners and twelve Pulitzer prizewinners. Includes black and white photoraphs of the authors. Nicely packaged. Nice gift. Stored in Archival...
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SGD 55.08
THE AGATHA CHRISTIE HOUR
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
UK: Collins, 1982. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. UK. Collins. HARDCOVER. 1982. FIRST PRINTING. Cover Art by Ian Kestle. AS NEW, bound in black boards with rose stylized illustrated wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Non-visible small swipe of color overrun inside dust jacket, else FINE. This volume contains the ten short stories dramatized on the Thames Television series, The Agatha Christie Hour. Includes first appearance in book form of Magnolia Blossom,...
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SGD 206.55
DEAD MEN'S LETTERS AND OTHER SHORT NOVELS
by GARDNER, Erle Stanley
NY: Carroll & Graf, 1990. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. NY. Carroll & Graf. HARDCOVER. 1990. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing. AS NEW, bound in mulberry and blue with silver titles in creme pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Dust jacket has light wear to bottom edge. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter. First collection of short novels featuring Ed Jenkins aka The Phantom Crook'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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SGD 48.20
THE GLASS TRIANGLE
by COXE, George Harmon
NY: Dell, 1940. VERY GOOD condition in VERY GOOD original paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. DELL MAPBACK #81. 1940. Mass Market Paperback. Square, tight. Minor nicks, creases and rubbing to covers and spine. Reading creases. Pages browning, edges faded with age. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Cover and mapback colors sharp, bright. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good Original Wraps. Mass Market Paperback.
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SGD 34.42
100 DASTARDLY LITTLE DETECTIVE STORIES
by Weinberg, Robert and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg (edited by) [Morris Cooper, Dorothy Dunn, Jim Knapp, R. C. Lehmann, John McCurnin, Abraham Lincoln, V. E. Thiessen, Victor K. Ray, J. V. Drexel, William Manners, Dick Donovan, et al]
New York: Barnes & Noble Books [1993]First edition [printing code line ends with a "1"]. 561 pages. Near Fine copy text paper starting to tan. ref28
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SGD 16.25
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY ~ DETECTIVE DIRECTORY II
by QUEEN, Ellery ~ Selected By
NY: Davis Publications, 1978. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Davis Publications. HARDCOVER. 1978. FIRST EDITION, Thus. AS NEW, bound in red leatherette with gold gilt lettering, cover design and page edges, with red endpapers and red ribbon marker. No dust jacket, as issued. Square and tight, UNREAD. Nineteen short stories featuring the amateur detective ~ Priest, Teacher, Thief, Valet, etc. Includes black and white photographs of the authors. Nicely packaed. Nice gift. Stored in...
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SGD 55.08
