Great Detective Stories

Great Detective Stories

Stories include: The Boscombe Valley mystery - Arthur Conan Doyle; Mr. Bovey's unexpected will - L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace; A Bracelet at Bruges - Arnold Bennett; Who Stole the Black Diamonds? - Baroness Orczy; The Blue Sequin - R. Austin Freeman

A Watermill Classic, Watermill Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8167-0800-2. Paperback, 124 pages. Wear and creases to cover. A few slightly bent corners. Clean and firmly bound.

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Circa: 1986
Condition: used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Watermill Press
Pages: 124
ISBN: 0-8167-0800-2  

Beware the Laughing Gull

Beware the Laughing Gull

Lydia Adamson,

A group of New York bird-watchers, led by librarian Lucy Wayles, must solve a murder of one of their members in Central Park.

Signet, first printing, Aug. 1988. Paperback, 240 pages. ISBN 0-451-19598-1

Light spine creases, very light edge wear. No writing, or tears.

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Circa: 1988
Condition: used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Signet
Author: Lydia Adamson
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0-451-19598-1  

A Cat of One's Own, An Alice Nestleton Mystery A Cat of One's Own, An Alice Nestleton Mystery

Lydia Adamson

Alice Nestleton may be an acclaimed New York actress, but it's her performance as a cat-sitting sleuth that pays the bills. Now, in her seventeenth tantalizing adventure, Alice meets a striking-looking, unattached male. Enter Jake: Hostage. Escape artist. Eyewitness to murder. Cat.

Dutton, 1998. ISBN 0-525-94428-1. Hard cover, 5-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches, 186 pages.

USED: The dust jacket has been cut apart and there are three...
Circa: 1998
Condition: used
Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches
Type: hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Dutton
Author: Lydia Adamson
Pages: 186
ISBN: 0525944281  

The Evidence that Wasn't There

The Evidence that Wasn't There

C. S. Adler

Together, Morey and Kim set out to prove that Malcolm Davis Orlop, who has been behaving strangely, and taking money to pursue the Davises' inheritance, is indeed a dangerous con man -- even though the evidence isn't there.

Clarion Books, 1982. Hard cover, with dust jacket in mylar. 171 pages.

Ex-library. Discard mark and remnants of a pocket inside back. Dust jacket taped to inside covers. Very good...
Circa: 1982
Condition: used
Type: hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Clarion Books
Author: C. S. Adler
Pages: 171
ISBN: 0899191177  

The Cat Who Played Post Office Braun - copy1

From the back cover: While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to [life] in an enormous mansion, [Jim] Qwilleran . . . [hires] a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder soon show Qwill the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it's Koko's purr-fect propensity for clues . . . that gives Qwilleran pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects...
Circa: 1987
Condition: used
Size: 6-27/32 inches tall by 4-1/8 inches wide by 11/16 inch thick
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Jove
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Pages: 262
ISBN: 0-515-09320-3  

The Cat Who Played Post Office Braun - copy 2

From the back cover: While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to [life] in an enormous mansion, [Jim] Qwilleran . . . [hires] a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder soon show Qwill the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it's Koko's purr-fect propensity for clues . . . that gives Qwilleran pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects...
Circa: 1987
Condition: used
Size: 6-7/8 inches tall by 4-3/16 inches wide by ½ inch thick
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Jove
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Pages: 186
ISBN: 0-515-09320-3  

Cat Who Talked to Ghosts - Lillian Jackson Braun

The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

Lillian Jackson Braun

Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter Farmhouse Museum? Qwill doesn't think so, although Iris Cobb, his former housekeeper and the current curator of the museum, believes otherwise. Every night strange sounds permeate the farmhouse -- knocks, screams, and moans that no one but Iris ever hears.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, BCE. No ISBN. Hard cover, with dust...
Circa: 1990
Condition: used
Size: 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches
Type: hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Pages: 184
ISBN: 0399134778  

The Cat Who Smelled a Rat - Braun

From the back cover: Reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraoridinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum are the . . . most delightful team in detective fiction. A rash of fires at local historic mine sites, during a record breaking drought in Moose County, has Quill thinking arson. And when a mysterious explosion is followed by a blood - chilling murder, he starts seriously praying for snow --- and answers. Good thing...
Circa: 2002
Condition: used
Size: 6-25/32 inches tall by 4-1/8 inches wide by 13/16 inch thick
Type: softcover
Publisher: Jove
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Pages: 293
ISBN: 0-515-13226-8  

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

Lillian Jackson Braun

The traditional revelry at the Highland Scottish Games is marred by troublesome rumors when a visiting jewelery dealer, renouned for his romantic streak, (and his mysterious cash-only policy), is found dead in his hotel room. His assistant is missing -- and soon, the winner of the caber-tossing contest disappears as well. Quill has a lot of mysteries to sort out -- not the least of which is Koko's sudden interest in photographs,...
Circa: 2001
Condition: used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Jove Books
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Pages: 292
ISBN: 0-515-12994-1  

Cat Who Moved a Mountain

Cat Who Moved a Mountain

Lillian Jackson Braun

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain.

Jove Books, 1992. Paperback, 261 pages.

Very good, with just a slight bit of edge wear and spine crease.

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Circa: 1992
Condition: Used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Jove Books
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Pages: 261
ISBN: 0-515-10950-9  

Cat Who Had 14 Tales - Lillian Jackson Braun

Cat Who Had 14 Tales

Lillian Jackson Braun

A fabulous collection of feline fiction from the author of the acclaimed The Cat Who .. series!

Jove Books, 1988. Paperback, 243 pages.

Corner wear and crease. Small thumbing tear on a couple of pages. Name inside front. Clean and firmly bound.

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Circa: 1988
Condition: Used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Jove Books
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Pages: 243
ISBN: 0515094978  

Hallowe'en Party - Hercule Poirot - Christie - murder

From the back cover: A boastful little girl at [the preparations for] a party announces that she witnessed a murder --- a murder that the police of peaceful Woodleigh Common insist never took place.
But when the same little girl is found drowned later that night, there is every reason to believe her . . .
Hercule Poirot, the canny Belgian...
Circa: 1986
Condition: used
Size: 6.75 inches tall by 4.125 inches wide by 0.6875 inches thick
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Pocket Books a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 255
ISBN: 0-671-54203-6  

Fool the Toff - Creasey

Fool the Toff

John Creasey

The Toff investigates a marriage bureau and finds he's a good catch -- for death!

Pyramid Books, 1968. Paperback, 174 pages.

Rubbed cover, worn edges, with a small thumbing tear. Store stamp inside front. Good for reading.

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Circa: 1968
Condition: used
Size: Paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Pyramid Books
Author: John Creasey
Pages: 174  

Three Days for Emeralds

From the back cover: 'Lacy, please come,' Rose pleaded. Anxious and ditraught, the young woman was convinced that she was being set up for murder and that only her old school friend could save her. Then Lacy poured her a drink -- and watched in utter horror as she slumped forward in her chair, dead by Lacy's own hand. It was the beginning of a nightmare that would not end as Lacy's...
Circa: 1989
Condition: used
Size: 6-3/4 inches tall by 4-1/8 inches wide by 3/4 inch thick
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Warner Books Inc.
Author: Mignon G. Eberhart
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0-446-35247-0  

The Edge - Dick Francis The Edge

Dick Francis

''Beware. Many people are not what they seem.'' So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glittering rail junket that not only promises the opportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but something more; an intriguing mystery to be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But included on the guest list is one Julius Apollo Filmer, justifiably reputed to be the most ruthless operator lurking in...
Circa: 1990
Condition: used
Size: paperback
Type: softcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Fawcett
Author: Dick Francis
Pages: 348
ISBN: 0449217191