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The Story Behind the Verdict (1915)

By: Danby, Frank [ie Julia Frankau]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: 89059

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Coloured frontispiece. Original blue-grey cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners bumped, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, signature (1916), stamp on rear pastedown, spine a trifle dulled, otherwise good+. Nine linked crime stories. Listed in Hubin. Scarce. "Everybody both in and out of London...knew of the Keightley Wilburs. To begin with, their relationship was peculiar. To continue, so were they. Plutocrats...mother and son, yet lovers and intimate companions living together in a rare and perfect sympathy. Keightley wrote plays, poems, essays, professed Socialism and practised th...
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The History of Godfrey Kinge (1896)

By: Dawe, W. Carlton [William Carlton Dawe]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 02898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint, c1901. Original red cloth, with blindstamped designs on front board/spine: lettered in gilt. Small label for South African Public Library on rear board and their list of rules on front pastedown. Front free endpaper excised, acquisition stamp (June 1901) and handwritten note on verso of title page. A little foxing. No library markings on binding. An adventure novel by an Australian novelist: this story set principally in Devon and London. A decent reading copy of a scarce title.
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The Yellow Man (1900)

By: Dawe, W. Carlton [William Carlton Dawe]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: VN2703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Early C20th rebinding in navy-blue cloth over beaded black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, crease on spine, signature (Japan, 1907) on front free endpaper, good. A good reading copy of this scarce title of intrigue.
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Records of Vincent Trill of the Detective Service (1899)

By: Donovan, Dick [ie James Edward Preston Muddock]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1899

Seller ID: 88053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original grey cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and yellow on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; flower-patterned endpapers. Corners bumped. light scuffing and marking on boards, wear to edges of endpapers and last leaf of catalogue. blank pelim excised, good. Publisher's catalogue for September 1898 bound in at end.
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Lucia and Her Problem

By: Douglas, Amanda M.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Cameron & Ferguson: 1900

Seller ID: 00717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint, c1900. Late C19th mauve cloth over mauve/black mottled boards. No title appears on board or spine. Paper faintly browned and foxed/spotted throughout. A reading/working copy of this American novel, uncommon in a British edition; from an unusual Scottish publisher.
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A Baffling Quest (1891)

By: Dowling, Richard

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Ward & Downey: 1892

Seller ID: 92170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth with raised design: alternating squares of flowers and blanks; grey-and-white patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, signature of front free endpaper, very good. Scarce. Crime story originally serialised in Cassell's Saturday Journal.
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Tinsley's Magazine Christmas Numbers for 1880 & 1881. High-Water Mark & My Darling's Ransom

By: Dowling, Richard

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Tinsley Brothers: 1881

Seller ID: 94067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two Christmas numbers bound (without original wrappers) in late C19th grey-green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. A few light marks, good. Two short crime/mystery novels. Scarce.
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The Convict Colonel

By: Du Boisgobey, Fortuné

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co.: 1920

Seller ID: 01697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint: The International Library, no date (c1920). Frontispiece. Original blindstamped navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt on spine. A crisp, bright copy, very good.
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The Millbank Case. A Mystery of To-day (1905)

By: Eldridge, G. D [George Dyre Eldridge]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1907

Seller ID: 03726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. A few spots on front board, trace of plate on front pastedown, very good. A crime novel set in the New England state of Maine. The original sub-title had, indeed, been A Maine Mystery of To-day.
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The Chronicles of Cardewe Manor (1891)

By: Farmer, Lucy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: VN2692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Idle Hour Series. Undated, c1891. Frontispiece. Dark grey cloth spine lettered in gilt, with blue title label; dark green and gilt boards with blindstamped designs; grey and white patterned endpapers. Extremities scuffed, edges of spine label chipped, child's doodling (with spirograph) on 3 prelims. Doodles apart, a good copy of this collection of twelve crime/mystery stories originally published in Cassell's Family Magazine. The narrator/heroine is (at least initially) a lady's maid in service to Mrs Cardewe of Cardewe Manor.
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Out of the Darkness (1897)

By: Fendall, Percy & Fox Russell

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: VN2851

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with small blindstamped art-nouveau design around title on front board, black endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good. The story of a femme fatale and forbidden passions: when Sir Eustace Bevan QC falls seriously ill, he needs the loving care of his beautiful wife Angela. Unfortunately she is less than pleased as she has recently acquired a hot-blooded Spanish lover, Gonzalo....
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The Wolves and the Lamb (1914)

By: Fletcher, J. S. [Joseph Smith Fletcher]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 95052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original blindstamped green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, foxing, otherwise very good.
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The Champdoce Mystery. A Sequel to "Caught in the Net".

By: Gaboriau, Emile

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 03518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated English edition (c1910), printed in the U. S. A. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks on cloth, corners bumped, light foxing, very good.
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Ombra the Mystery (1904)

By: Graves, Frederick

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, George A. Morton: 1904

Seller ID: VN2272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pink cloth, lettered in dark red (gilt on spine); dark red endpapers. Spine rubbed on tipped and sunned to brown, some sunning and marking on boards, corners lightly rubbed, undated inscription on verso of front free endpaper, good. Scarce and obscure novel with elements of crime and mystery. The narrator hero rescues the mysterious Ombra from a suicide attempt: she influences his life as the action moves to Edinburgh and later Venice and an unexpected end....
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Three Thousand Dollars

By: Green, Anna Katharine

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Boston (Mass), Richard G. B adger, The Goreham Press: 1910

Seller ID: VN1251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Original fine-ribbed grey cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and orange. Spine dulled, small brown stain on bottom corners of all pages (text unaffected), damp mark on lower corner of rear board. A good reading copy of this mystery/crime novel.
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The Rome Express (1907)

By: Griffiths, Arthur

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, L. C. Page: 1907

Seller ID: VN2627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed cream cloth, lettered and illustrated in red, black and white. Lacks frontispiece. Corners scuffed/rubbed, some light marks on text, inner joint papers lightly cracked (joints tight), good only.
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Criminals I Have Known (1895)

By: Griffiths, Major Arthur

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1895

Seller ID: 86062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's brown-and-white monogrammed endpapers. Spine sunned and rubbed at foot, a few marks on cloth, light foxing, armorial bookplate of John Rashleigh on front pastedown, good. Sixty-two stories and sketches of criminals and crime.
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Tales of a Government Official (1902)

By: Griffiths, Major Arthur

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: 95087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original orange cloth, framed and lettered in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, owner's signature (1905) at head of front board and (1907) on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Griffiths was H. M. Inspector of Prisons from 1878 to 1896, and had a lifelong interest in crime and criminology. The stories in this volume are based on his own experiences: "Moving episodes in town and country; gaol outbreaks, affrays, assaults; escapes that have succeeded or failed; sentences borne by the wrong people; great frauds that failed; wild schemes of vengeance for ...
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A Modern Siren (1896)

By: Harvey, Julian

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John Long: 1896

Seller ID: VN0988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; green patterned endpapers. Spine tips rubbed, W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate on front pastedown, inner joint paper chipped (but joints tight) good. A late sensation novel dealing with adultery.
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Old Myddleton's Money (1874)

By: Hay, Mary Cecil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1875

Seller ID: VN2998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Mid C19th black leather over dark-grey beaded cloth-covered boards. Spine ends rubbed, with small chips at head, front inner joint paper cracked, fair/good. Domestic mystery/sensation novel in the school of M. E. Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood.
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