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BACHMANN, Lawrence P. (Lawrence Paul), 1911-2004 : KISS OF DEATH. London : United Anglo-American Book Co., [ca.1948]. First British edition. Brilliant but clumsy and absent-minded doctor divines from some Rorschach tests that someone is about to be killed and that another guest of nurse Judy Ford will be the murderer. An interesting debut murder mystery from the American film producer and maker of Agatha Christie movies in the UK. Originally published by Knopf in New York in 1946. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45915 – or simply click on the button
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“BARNATO, Bart” : RACKETS AND DAMES. London : Edwin Self, [ca.1951]. First edition. “Bart Barnarto grew up on the sidewalks of the East side of New York. He learned the facts of life in a hard and vicious school – and writes as he has lived – brutally, truthfully and without fear of the public enemies whose evil lives he exposes” – an early Barnato title published from Edwin Self’s original Grays Inn Road address. Barnato (occasionally Barnarto) was a house-name dreamed up for his stable of writers by Self when he set up independently in 1951: most of the titles appear to have been written by the very much London-born Albert Edward Garrett (1917-1968). SOLD |
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“CAPELLI, Ace” : THE FIX. London : Kaye Publications, [ca.1950]. First edition. “Heading San Francisco’s racket bosses was Jamie Riggs – Jamie and Pal Joey, the kid he had trained to think his way, and the guy he trusted with his shirt. These were the two closest pals in the game – until the night of the big fight when it didn't suit Jamie any longer”. SOLD |
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“CARSON, Bart” – [MACONACHIE, William] : CHAMPAGNE AND CHOPPERS. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1951]. First edition. “I got biggity once, when I figured I was a real night club baron. I quit rum and coke and started using a little champagne. Well, I guess it had no link-up really, but before I knew where I was choppers [tommy-guns] were blasting around me”. Later published in the USA as “Dope Doll” by “Steve Harrigan”. SOLD |
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“CARSON, Bart” – [MACONACHIE, William] : REDHEAD RHAPSODY! London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1951]. First edition. “I got more trouble from just looking at that dame than a worm can find in a pool full of rainbow trout”. Later published in the USA as “Sin is a Redhead” by “Steve Harrigan”. SOLD |
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : SAFER DEAD. London : Robert Hale, (1954). First edition. Staff writers for a monthly crime magazine investigate the strange disappearance of an unknown showgirl in small town America. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45329 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : SAFER DEAD. London : Robert Hale, (1956). First paperback edition. Staff writers for a monthly crime magazine investigate the strange disappearance of an unknown showgirl in small town America. Originally published in 1954. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41972 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : YOU’VE GOT IT COMING. London : Robert Hale, (1955). First edition. “The world is made up of smart guys who get rich and suckers who stay poor” – Harry Griffin decides to hijack an aircraft and steal a collection of industrial diamonds. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45334 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : HIT AND RUN. London : Robert Hale, (1959). First paperback edition. We don’t know why the lovely Lucille wants so badly to learn to drive; why the blood-stains on the Cadillac are on the wrong side; or why the patrol officer was run over on a lonely beach road. Originally published the previous year under the “Raymond Marshall” pseudonym. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41971 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : NOT SAFE TO BE FREE. London : Robert Hale, (1959). First paperback edition. Starlet strangled to death in a hotel lift at the Cannes Film Festival. Originally published in 1958. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42551 – or simply click on the button
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“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : YOU FIND HIM – I’LL FIX HIM. London : Robert Hale, (1959). First paperback edition. American journalist in Rome is asked to look after his boss’s daughter – she ends up dead in Sorrento and he has no alibi. First published under the “Raymond Marshall” pseudonym in 1956. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42586 – or simply click on the button
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CRONIN, Michael (Brendan Leo), 1907-1987 : I CAN COPE. London : Museum Press, [1955]. First edition. Charles Fawcett has invented something very special, but his plans unravel – Richard Maidment, a.k.a. Mr Pilgrim, to the rescue. A mystery with “all the speed, wit and technical excellence of the Americans, Michael Cronin ... can infuse as much glamour into his (British) lovelies as even Mr. Goldwyn could wish for” (London Evening News). £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45269 – or simply click on the button
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“DRAYTON, Ricky” – [BARNES, Michael Lethbridge Gorell, 1926-1982] : HELL AND HIGH WATER. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. “Right then Marcelle was doing a good job of intoxicating me, sitting there in a Bikini that wouldn’t have made a moth’s hors d’oeuvre, singing a smoochy ditty in a voice that would have been a swell contralto if there hadn’t been so much gin in it”. Murder and mayhem in New Orleans. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45904 – or simply click on the button
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“GRIFF” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : RUB-OUT SPECIALITY. London : Modern Fiction, [1949]. First edition. “When Jinx Engels got a glim of the blonde in the mink coat in the foyer of the Blue Orchid he stopped dead on the sidewalk and took another gander through the plate-glass swing doors. It was Marilou all right. Then his grey matter side-stepped and took an eight-year flash-back. He remembered her when last he had seen her ...”. McKeag with a lively early title in the “Griff” series. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45673 – or simply click on the button
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“LAROCHE, Rene” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : LADIES OF LEISURE. London : Modern Fiction (London), [1951]. First edition. Diane repents of her hasty marriage in a wartime suburb – the chapters tell the tale: loveless marriage, on the verge, marriageless love, bitter parting, out of her past, unwilling wife, silken sin, the goad of loneliness, the way of transgression, conquest, gathering clouds, betrayed, the choice – aftermath. “Translated from the French” claims the cover – a statement even less accurate than the mis-spelling of McKeag’s nom-de-plume as “Rene Larouche” on the title-page. SOLD |
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“RÉNIN, Paul” – [GOYNE, Richard, 1902-1957] : MIRAGE. Leicester : Beacon Publishing Co., (1951). First edition. “She had marriage – she wanted love” – “The great screen lover, in his search for the perfect mate for a temperamental genius like himself, chooses the young and lovely wife of a doctor”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45913 – or simply click on the button
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“RICHARDS, Rex” : [COVER TITLE] FLOOSIE FOR HIRE. London : Brown, Watson, [1951]. First edition : the title-page of this Dutch printed production is mysteriously blank. “The night it happened was one of those cold bleak nights with the wind screaming through the trees, and if you had any sense you were stuck round the fire with a book, or curled up on a divan with a bottle of rye, a packet of weeds and a blonde. Being sensible, I was doing the latter!” – cosy scene interrupted by best friend being found hanged. SOLD |
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“ROSS, Gene” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : TWO SMART DAMES. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Private-eye Shaun O’Malley’s partner gets killed. Enter Elvira, “a girl with a nice figure, a nasty mind, and a husband too fond of the booze” – but Louisa’s pretty smart too. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32767 – or simply click on the button
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“ROSS, Gene” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : “LADY, THROW ME A CURVE”. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. The beautiful Carole comes calling on private-eye Shaun O’Malley. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32881 – or simply click on the button
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STANDISH, Walter : I LIKE MY WOMEN TOUGH. London : Brown Watson, [1950]. First edition. Corpse disappears, redhead comes looking – “She was a red-head and I got a pash for that kind. Red-heads with green eyes. That adds up to my sort of homework ...”. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE A CORPSE. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1950). First edition. Pretty stranger leaves her bag behind – then she’s dead. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE A HARLOT. Cleveland : Kaywin Publishers, (1952). First American edition. Private eye Nick Cranley “up to his big ears again in luscious lovelies and trigger-happy hooligans”. First published in England in 1949. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42466 – or simply click on the button
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE A VIRGIN. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. A Nick Cranley tale – Nick waits for a redhead and is mistakenly given a large envelope. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE BEAUTIFUL. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Mrs Cranley has become suspicious. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE DANGEROUS. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. Nick Cranley hunts down a boyfriend for ten dollars a day and a few stolen moments – “beautiful dames and ugly corpses”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30701 – or simply click on the button
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