Crime Fiction
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Rough Trade
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Second Paperback Library Printing.
18cm x 10.5cm. 160 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Second printing of the paperback reissue of the first gay detective novel, originally published as The Gay Detective. Lou Rand Hogan was the pseudonym of Louis Randall, a San Francisco chef and author of The Gay Cookbook. Gay pulp. Reprint of YOUNG 3194*.
Small rubs to wrappers front panel. Good Condition. -
Murder in Melbourne
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First Edition.
19cm x 12cm. 192 pages. Red cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.
A Museum Street Thriller. “Richard Quayle, an Australian air-line pilot, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead…”
Minor blemish to upper board cloth. Minor foxing to edges. Minor shelf wear and <0.5cm closed tear to jacket. Very Good Condition. -
Cobalt
$150.00 Add to cartWill Lee
New York: Vantage Press, 1999.
A gay murder mystery set in San Francisco featuring “Miss Haight-Ashbury (Private Eye), Party Girl-Showgirl-Balloon Girl-Man Stealer” and gay police officer Frank Lee. -
Deadly Diamond
$80.00 Add to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.
A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation. -
Goblin Market
$10.00 Add to cartLauren Wright Douglas
Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1993.
A Caitlin Reece Mystery. -
Miles Diamond and the Demon of Death (The Adventures of Miles Diamond II)
$40.00 Add to cartDerek Adams
New York: Badboy, 1995. -
Time to Check Out
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First Paperback Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 242 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
A Stan Kraychik Mystery.
Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Ninth Life
$10.00 Add to cartLauren Wright Douglas
Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1990.
A Caitlin Reece Mystery. -
The Beverly Malibu
$8.00 Add to cartKatherine V. Forrest
London: Pandora Press, 1990.
A Kate Delafield Mystery. -
Crosswords
$10.00 Add to cartPenny Sumner
Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1994.
The second Victoria Cross mystery. -
Playback
$10.00 Add to cartRaymond Chandler
London: Harrap, 1985. -
Jim Thompson: The Killers Inside Him
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
22cm x 14cm. 104 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Numbered edition of 425, of which this is number 231. This copy inscribed ‘To Ron’ by Max Allan Collins.
Minor shelf wear to wrappers. Near Fine Condition. -
Murder is Material
$10.00 Add to cartKaren Saum
Norwich: New Victoria Publishers, 1994.
A Brigid Donovan mystery. -
Past Due
$10.00 Add to cartClaire McNab
Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1998.
The 10th Detective Inspector Carol Ashton mystery. -
Murder Undercover
$10.00 Add to cartClaire McNab
Tallahassee: The Naiad Press, 1999.
A Denise Cleever thriller. -
Murder and Mayhem: An Annotated Bibliography of Gay and Queer Males in Mystery, 1909-2018
$60.00 Add to cartMatt Lubbers-Moore
Los Angeles and Toronto: ReQueered Tales, 2020. -
Gold Fever
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First Edition.
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The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories
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Eleventh Folio Printing.
23cm x 15cm. xv, 296 pages, 10 black and white plates. Brown decorative cloth in gilt, white, and black, slipcase.
Introduction by Stella Duffy. Illustrations by Christopher Brown. FORD-SMITH 1146.
. Fine Condition. -
A Star of Death
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
19cm x 13cm. 255 pages. Brown cloth, black lettering, pictorial jacket.
Mystery novel set in England and Australia. This copy inscribed by the author to Kay Kearney.
Very small chips and tears to jacket edges. Minor foxing to edges. Interior clean. Very Good Condition. -
Rough Trade
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First Paperback Library Printing.
18cm x 10.5cm. 160 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
First printing of the paperback reissue of the first gay detective novel, originally published as The Gay Detective. Lou Rand Hogan was the pseudonym of Louis Randall, a San Francisco chef and author of The Gay Cookbook. Gay pulp. Reprint of YOUNG 3194*.
Minor shelf and tanning. Near Fine Condition. -
Davo’s Little Something
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First Edition.
18cm x 11cm. [viii], 323 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
The Gay Detective
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First Cleis Printing.
20.5cm x 14cm. 139 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The Cleis reprint of the first American gay detective novel, later reprinted as Rough Trade, and here returned to the original title. Lou Rand Hogan was the pseudonym of Louis Randall, a San Francisco chef and author of The Gay Cookbook. Gay pulp. The first edition being Saber Book SA-18. YOUNG 3193*.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Ninth Life
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 242 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
A Caitlin Reece Mystery.
Very minor foxing to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Doing Business
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 12.5cm. 158 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to upper joint and wrappers. Minor tanning. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
Snapshots for a Serial Killer: A Fiction and a Play
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. vi,130 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Tanning to wrappers. Very minor chip to fore-edge of wrappers lower panel. Foxing to top edge. Previous owner’s stamp. Very Good Condition. -
One Wife’s Ways
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First Edition.
18cm x 10.5cm. 143 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Spine creased and cocked. Minor tanning. Good Condition. -
Pretty Boy Dead
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Revised Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 203 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor shelf wear. Minor tanning to wrappers verso. Near Fine Condition. -
Doing Business
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First Edition.
19.5cm x 12.5cm. 158 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Creasing to spine, minor to wrappers. Minor tanning to pages. Good Condition. -
Backtrack
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First Edition.
22cm x 14.5cm. [vi], 167 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Near Fine Condition in Very Good Jacket. Very minor soiling to top edge. Minor discolouration to jacket spine, and a 2cm closed tear to fore-edge at crown. Near Fine Condition. -
Nightwork: A Dave Brandstetter Mystery
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Revised Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [viii], 172 pages. Blue cloth, blue lettering, illustrated jacket.
Foxing to top edge, minor to endpapers, and jacket verso. Book plate of Dr. Gary Simes, pencil annotation to rear endpaper. Good Condition.