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London : Michael Joseph, (1954). First edition. “If an impecunious author had not accidentally intercepted a telephone call, the mysterious case of Miss Faintley might have defied even Mrs Bradley’s efforts at solution ... It seemed at first unlikely that she, a prim, quiet schoolmistress, could have anything to do with gang-work – or with currency smuggling”. F. E. Pardoe in the Birmingham Daily Post (13th April 1954) noted “It is certainly the best she has written for some years ... Mrs Bradley is a perennial joy”, while for the News Chronicle, “Mrs Bradley is easily the best woman detective in fiction”.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (224)pp. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good, bright and sound copy in the Peter Rudland dust-jacket – just lightly rubbed, with a short tear to one corner, but otherwise very good.

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London : The Bodley Head, (1959). First edition. Search for missing man in Yugoslavia, Greece and the Aegean, mysterious fellow-travellers, etc. In the Earlham Library series.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (192)pp. Map by Leo Vernon. Original light blue boards, ruled and lettered across spine in black and blue; some mild discolouration to boards; edges a little spotted, but a good and sound copy in the original Don Higgins dust-jacket – a pictorial design in shades of blue – price clipped and just very lightly worn.

£25

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London : Michael Joseph, (1961). First edition. A review copy, with the publisher’s slip loosely inserted – and from the library of the crime writer, reviewer and broadcaster “Anthony Lejeune” (1928-2018). Dame Beatrice is called on by a school-mistress friend to extricate her from the possibility of an attempted murder charge – and then there’s a corpse – “a combination of murder, archaeology and games mistresses” (Illustrated London News, 2nd September 1961).
Crown 8vo (20cm). (240)pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a few edge spots; endpapers slightly tanned, but a very good copy in the Kenneth Farnhill dust-jacket – the jacket just lightly used and a little tanned on rear panel, but also very good.

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London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First edition. Timothy Herring inherits a house of mystery on the east coast – crime and skulduggery from Gladys Mitchell under her “Malcolm Torrie” pseudonym.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (232)pp. Original grey-black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; slight press-flaw to margins of a few leaves, but a very good, clean and sound copy in the original John Storey dust-jacket (white, black, gray) – also very good. Hubin p.396.

£40

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