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The Dead Lock; A Story in Eleven Chapters. Also Tales of Adventure &c (1863)

By: Smith, Charles Manby

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Virtue Brothers: 1863

Seller ID: 04342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece. Original blindstamped maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; cream endpapers. Cloth a little darkened on boards, with a few light marks; faint signature (1871) on front free endpaper; some foxing, good. The title novel (177 pp) is a sub-Dickensian story of low and high life, owing something of its plot (a lost child working with criminals) to Oliver Twist. The volume also contains 4 linked stories (In Prison Under Robespierre, Burgomaster Law in Prussia, In the South Seas & Down the Danube) relating a life of adventure; a poem - The Ballad of the Magic Viol; and 7 other miscell...
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The Web of an Old Weaver (1896)

By: Snowden, J. Keighley [James Keighley Snowden]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 04396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt Spine lightly sunned and rubbed on tips, inscription (1896) on front pastedown, a little foxing, otherwise good. A Yorkshire tale, written partly in dialogue, involving a murder (although this is not one of the three crime novels by Snowden listed in Hubin).
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Miriam Lemaire, Money Lender (1906)

By: Stanton, Coralie & Heath Hosken [ie Alice & Ernest Hosken]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1906

Seller ID: VN2392

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; patterned endpapers. Although not stated, this is the second edition or impression, the first having been issued in green cloth with an illustration pasted to the front board; the blue cloth being a standard reprint style used by Cassell at this period.
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The Muzzled Ox A Romance of Riches (1911)

By: Stanton, Coralie &Heath Hosken [ie Alice & Heath Hosken]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1911

Seller ID: 96094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition, late issue. Undated [1911]. Original red cloth, lettered in black. Board edges quite speckled and a little darkened, otherwise good. Romantic crime novel: a conventional young Englishman, called Mornington Pelham, and his fiance -- Mary Campbell-- become involved with Queen Carlotta of Morania and some stolen jewellery. Listed in Hubin. Publisher's catalogue for January 1913 bound in at end.
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The Mysteries of Paris from the French of Eugene Sue (1844) [Les Mystres de Paris, 1842 - 3]

By: Sue, Eugene

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, S. Richardson: 1867

Seller ID: 81086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"With illustrations by Gavarni etc etc. ". Original blindstamped green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Corners rubbed, later endpapers, spine gilt dulled, inscription (1867) on half-title good. 595 pages with very small font (with over 65 lines per page). Sue's novel started a fashion for stories of criminal low-life, set in large cities.
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A Legal Practitioner Being Certain of My Own Experiences (1907)

By: Tearle, Christian [ie Edward Tyrrell Jaques]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1907

Seller ID: VN2417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, light foxing, good+. Stories of crimes and inheritances, wills and water rights. Listed in Hubin. Scarce.
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The Vintage of Vice (1912 as The Drunkard)

By: Thorne, Guy [ie Cyril Ranger Gull]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Greening & Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 84040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated [1913][. Original blindstamped mauve cloth. Inscription (1914) on front free endpaper, very good. The story (as the original title suggests) of a drunkard, based (the author claimed) on the papers of a deceased but brilliant man-of-letters. Perhaps the name was changed to make it more attractive (or more sensational): the text has the original wording as its running title.
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The Summer Number of the Argosy (1887)

By: Various Authors: E. Oe Somerville

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1887

Seller ID: MC237

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Short stories include: The Death-Card (anonymous), Philip Fanshawe's Wife (anonymous), The Clock on the Stairs (anonymous), Lost and Found by Helen Prothero Lewis, A Night in the Suburbs by E. Oe Somerville, The Banshhe (anonymous), The Widow's Adonis (anonymous). Modern card wrapper. Foxing, good. Somerville's chilling story predates her partnership with Martin Ross.
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Blindfolded

By: Walcott, Earle Ashley

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1906

Seller ID: VN0166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial boards. Lightly scuffed, pencilled name on front free endpaper, very good
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The Joker (1926)

By: Wallace, Edgar

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1926

Seller ID: 01997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated [1926]. Original blue cloth, lettered and illustrated (car) in black. A couple of small spots on bottom edge of front board, light foxing, especially on prelims, inscription (August, 1926) on front pastedown, good++
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Louise Reignier: The Communion of Crime and Criminal. A True Story (1895)

By: Watson, Robert

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Ainslie & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 03707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1895]. Illustrated. Original pink cloth, lettered and illustrated in dark blue (gilt on spine); patterned endpapers. Some light marks on cloth, foxing spots, very good. Watson states in his introduction that "it is a novel founded upon absolute and reliable facts", and that he had regular access to Wormwood Shrubbs to gather material.
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Old Ebbie: Detective Up to Date (1923)

By: Webster, F. A. M. [Frederick Annesley Michael Webster]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: VN2598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Original light green cloth, lettered in black. Faint stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. the first collection of stories featuring detective Ebbie Entwhistle. [The first edition was published by Chapman & Hall in 1923]
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Last Year's Wife (1932)

By: Williamson, Mrs C. N. [ie Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1932

Seller ID: VN0301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Ninepenny Novels, Leaders of Modern Fiction. Original grey card, decorated in blue. A little rubbed head/foot of spine, otherwise very good. Alice Williamson found her greatest fame writing motoring romances (for example The Lightening Conductor, 1902) with her husband Charles during the Edwardian era. After his death she continued to write (using her late husband's initials, rather than her own), until she committed suicide in 1933.
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For a Woman's Honour. A Mystery of Mount Street (1911)

By: Wilson, Christopher

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1911

Seller ID: 87006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. A few faint marks, a few foxing spots, very good. Medical crime novel, listed in Hubin. Murder is committed using "the serum of death" which activates dangerous bacteria in the victim's body.
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Strange Partners (1905)

By: Wintle, Gilbert

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 87068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original blindstamped black cloth with border in green, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, a little foxing, very good. Crime novel.
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Nights with an Old Lag (1911)

By: Wintle, W. J. [William James Wintle]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, John Ouseley: 1911

Seller ID: 85064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Frontispiece. Original black cloth, framed and lettered in red on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners bumped, light foxing, signature (1915) on front pastedown, very good. Confessions of "one of the most daring and expert burglars and safe-breakers in Great Britain". Wintle claims the material is "true", but the book is listed in Hubin's Crime Fiction.
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Mildred Arkell (1865)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: VN0662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Thousand. Smaller format blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Small note on top edge of front free endpaper, otherwise very good
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The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: VN1510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundredth Thousand. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt.Lightly scuffed, faint foxing, light stamp on front free endpaper, very good.
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Johnny Ludlow Third Series (1885)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: VN1517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Thirtieth Thousand. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, bookplate on front pastedown, inscription (1935) on front free endpaper, light foxing, very good. Contains 19 linked short stories. The third of six collections of Johnny Ludlow Stories.
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The House of Halliwell (1890)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: VN1518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundred and Twenty-Third Thousand. Original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, very good.
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