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The Virtue of this Jest. James Stuart Montgomery. New York: Greenberg. (1929). First edition. Original dust jacket.
Crime novel of “full-blooded ruffians and lovable rogues…thieves, gamblers, highwaymen, swindlers, debauchees, with their schemes, trials, triumphs, and punishments in the spacious days of old London.”
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1925 Dodd Mead hardcover
“First Edition. L. C. dustjacket art. Murder mystery in which a detective and a friend sitting around the fire are interrupted by a dead man at the door.“
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1930 Knopf and Longmans Green hardcover
“First Canadian Edition (in correct Knopf issued First American Edition dustjacket). M. dustjacket art. Very scarce Fletcher title and biblio-mystery. ‘Would anyone commit violent murder for one musty old book? A famous American book collector, his body a mass of battered flesh, was found at the bottom of Harlesden Scar on the lonely Yorkshire moors.’ As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that Dr. Essenheim was murdered shortly after having purchased a first edition of Pilgrim’s Progress and a medieval book of hours, both of which were missing when the body was found. In one of his Saturday Evening Post articles, Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach claimed that Essenheim was based on him, an homage which the mystery-loving Dr. Rosenbach enjoyed.”
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1934 Macaulay hardcover
“First Edition. Mystery and horror novel of a series of murders in Paris, ‘each of the murder victims is found wrapped in the same cloak, a stiletto pierces the heart, and a note identifies the deed of the Ambassador of Death’.”
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1934 Mcaulay hardcover
“First Edition. Rare Hubin listed mystery of ‘a set of rogues as colorful as the crooks and swindlers of the Beggar’s Opera. Lou Kiser, impresario of the 'Social Arbiter’, New York’s swankiest and most murderous scandal sheet, a man born without a conscience; Ed Ragan, adept in the arts of love and blackmail; Tracy Mull, the man with the editorial face; Harrison Chumley, the drunken brain-trust of the outfit; Flo, the pushover, who knows how and where to fall; and on the other side, the suckers who cannot sin in secret, and dupes of their own vanity; Dick Ellington, the careless playboy; Reginald Libaire, the professional husband… The racket plunges on its dizzy course like a reaping machine in a field of dollar bills, until it meets with a nervy Tammany politician, a stock broker with a punch, and an Irish debutante with morals’.”
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1930 Hodder Stoughton hardcover as The Clue of the Silver Key
1930 Doubleday Doran, The Crime Club series
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Fingers of Fear. J. U. Nicolson. New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, (1937). First edition. Original dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins Jr.
“A dark tale of the mystery and horror that gathered over the vast pile of gables that was Ormesby, the ancestral home of the Ormes family, lost in one of the wildest and most isolated reaches of the Berskshires. Recluses in the great mansion, guarded by a pack of ferocious dogs, the family jealously nursed its secret. Gray, was at home with the ghosts, even jested about them with a kind of macabre humor.”
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Robert McGinnis, original art
Gouache on board
11 x 15 in. (image)
Not signed
1970 Signet paperback original
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“John Evans” a pseudonym of editor and novelist Howard Browne
Halo for Murder published in hardcover by Bobbs Merrill, 1948
2nd of his 45 novels with Chicago PI Paul Pine
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How to Murder Your Husband writer found guilty of murdering husband
As the saying goes, write what you know.
The Golden Hairpin, a fun mystery set in Ancient China. I chose to read the English translation rather than the one in my native language, and I was not one bit disappointed. If you grew up watching Chinese series, the book will take you back to the atmosphere you used to be so familiar with. If you’re not familiar with these images, you’re sure to enjoy this new unique setting. I love the two main characters, and I sure would love to read the author’s next installment. Hope it gets translated into English soon.
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