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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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“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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“DRAYTON, Ricky” – [BARNES, Michael Lethbridge Gorell, 1926-1982] : ONE FALSE MOVE. London : Milestone Publications, (1954). First edition. “Frank Marlowe, high-ranking Government executive engaged on top-secret work in Washington’s Pentagon building, made his one false move when he met copper-haired Fran Waring – a move that landed him in a web of blackmail, espionage – and murder”. £60 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45914 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : SNATCHED. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. First edition. An army veteran on the brink of madness and despair cleans his rifle – and then he loads it. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46054 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : SNOW VOGUE. Robin Hood Press, [1950]. Second edition. “Fiendish drug-orgies shock America”. Originally published By Wells Gardner in 1941, but almost certainly withdrawn from sale in the wake of the Old Bailey obscenity trial in May 1942. Although undated, the present copy has a small and neat date-stamp of October 6th 1950 on the title-page, presumably representing a date of acquisition. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46052 – or simply click on the button
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JAGGER, Arthur : MURDER INTENDED. Glasgow : McKenzie Vincent & Co., [ca.1950]. First edition. Murder on the outskirts of St Albans – Scotland Yard is called in. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45916 – or simply click on the button
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L’ARNAUD, D. : MARION’S DILEMMA. Glasgow : M. C. Publications, [ca.1948]. First edition. “The lights in the window of the Ralph Rolland Detective Agency had just gone out”. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46060 – or simply click on the button
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L’ARNAUD, D. : “SANDRA”. Glasgow : M. C. Publications, [ca.1948]. First edition. Music critic spellbound by tall, slender, lovely and mysterious pianist – “a creature of another world”. This obscure and probably pseudonymous writer, author of at least half a dozen titles for M. C. Publications, here has his or her name mis-spelt “L’Aurnaud” on the title-page. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46061 – or simply click on the button
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“LINKLATER, J. Lane” – [WATKINS, Alexander William, 1892-1971] : SHE HAD A LITTLE KNIFE : A SILAS BOOTH MYSTERY. London : W. Foulsham & Co., (1951). First British paperback edition. “She was beautiful. That in itself was a good enough reason for Silas Booth to watch her. Apart from that, he had received a mysterious telephone call asking him to keep an eye on her because – she carried a knife. It was an antique knife which many people would have paid dearly to possess, and two of them did pay – with their lives ...”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46063 – or simply click on the button
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“LINTON, Duke” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : BURY ME DEEP. London : Scion, [1950]. First edition. An early “Duke Linton”, attributed to Stephen Frances (a.k.a. Hank Janson), almost certainly with the involvement of Geoffrey Pardoe, by Steve Holland – the hotel heist plot owing much to W. R. Burnett’s “High Sierra”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46064 – or simply click on the button
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“SHANE, Mark” – [NORWOOD, Victor (Victor George Charles), 1920-1983] : THEY KILL TO LIVE. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. “It’s close to sundown, and way ahead lights are winking up along the sprawling sucker-trap that is the Hellfire Strip, wide open merry-go-round of the good-time dolls and the sugar-daddies ...” – a pacy tale set in Las Vegas. Originally published under Reginald Carter’s earlier Comyns imprint in 1953. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45933 – or simply click on the button
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“VALOIS, Jean-Paul” – [WILLIS, Ernest Lister Hale (Lisle), 1919-1988] : COLETTE CHÈRIE. London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1952]. First edition. “A fascinating story of the modern Paris underworld with all the romantic and glamorous aspects of life with artist’s models and midinettes” from “one of the newest successes in modern French literature”. This and the rest of the authorial biography – poor boy from Montmartre, served with the Maquis, imprisoned by the Gestapo – is all a complete fiction. Valois was the pseudonym of Lisle Willis, ex-RAF English school-teacher, local councillor and prospective parliamentary candidate. Both he and his publisher, Edwin Self, were tried on bizarre obscenity charges in 1954 and, even more bizarrely, found guilty. Self went to prison, Willis heavily fined and barred for life from teaching (he went into television). For an excellent account of the whole affair see Steve Holland’s “The Big Panic : The Story of Edwin Self and Pedigree Books”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45944 – or simply click on the button
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“VANE, Roland” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : LADIES OF THE RED LAMP. Cleveland : Kaywin Publishers, (1951). First American edition. “Love, luxury, and lust in Latin America” – the white slave trade exposed. Originally published by Archer in the UK in 1950. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46080 – or simply click on the button
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WHEATLEY, Chris : NEVER TRUST A DAME : AMERICAN GANGSTER THRILLER. Leigh-on-Sea : Barrington Gray, [1956]. First edition. Handsome New York ex-boxer private eye Cliff Hale is summoned to the Hotel Crichton – he would not have taken the job, an assignment at the Opal Club, were it not for slender golden-headed Paula. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46066 – or simply click on the button
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