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Oxford : Oxford University Press, (1989). First edition. A scholarly history of the fictional detective, from Dupin, Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes through to the moderns – with discussion of types, professional amateurs, amateur amateurs, policemen of various kinds, the private eye from Williams to Warshawski, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). viii,166,[ii]pp. Original boards; very good in a very good dust-jacket.

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London : Windward, (1982). First edition. Essays on Crime Fiction and its Categories by Michael Gilbert, Reginald Hill, Keating himself, Jessica Mann, Hillary Waugh and others – on How I Write My Books by Eric Ambler, Len Deighton, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, P. D. James, Keating again, and others, with a consumers’ guide, etc.
Medium 8vo (24cm). 320pp. Numerous illustrations. Original ivory boards, lettered in red; very good in the original Roger Pring dust-jacket – a little sunned at spine.

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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (1976). Third printing of the original 1976 edition. A thoughtful study of the early fictional detectives – with much on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emile Gaboriau, William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, William Russell (Waters), Eugène-Francois Vidocq, etc.
Royal 8vo (24cm). (xiv),194pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; very good.

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London : Hammond, Hammond & Co., (1954). First British edition. An interesting guide to literary craftsmanship from the well-known literary agent – with chapters on clues, suspense, taboos, plotting, etc. With an introduction by Maurice Richardson. “One of the most entertaining textbooks ever written” (Vincent Starrett).
Crown 8vo (20cm). xviii,(172),[ii]pp. Original boards; very good in a very lightly used and just slightly nicked dust-jacket.

£10

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London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1953). First edition. With much on John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, Mignon Eberhart, Austin Freeman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, C. Daly King, A. E. W. Mason, Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, etc. With a foreword by A. Beverley Baxter.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 200pp. Original boards; a very good copy in a just faintly creased dust-jacket. Neat 1960 ownership inscription of Roger Marshall on front free endpaper.

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Newton Abbot & North Pomfret : David & Charles, (1980). First edition. With much on H. C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Emile Gaboriau, James McGovan, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (352)pp. Original boards; a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

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Harmondsworth : Viking, (1985). Second edition : an extensively revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre.
Demy 8vo. (262),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in metallic red; very good indeed in the original black, red and white dust-jacket, just faintly sunned.

£15

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New York : Mysterious Press, (1993). Third American edition : a revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre, adding a highly interesting 36pp "Postscript for the Nineties".
Demy 8vo (22cm). [xiv],(350),[iv]pp. Original boards; just very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in a just lightly used and slightly nicked dust-jacket.

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London : Eyre Methuen, (1979). Second edition : a slightly revised version of Watson’s interesting 1971 study of the crime story as the mirror of its times and social attitudes.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 256pp. Illustrations. Original mauve boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good in the original Norman Mansbridge dust-jacket – a design in cream, red, yellow, black and white – very good and unworn.

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