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CLEVELY, Hugh (Hugh Desmond) 1897-1964 : CALLING WHITEHALL 1212. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. Warehouse fire in the London docks, insurance scam, American heiress, down-and-out acrobat, etc. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 275, issued in November 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42396 – or simply click on the button
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CLEVELY, Hugh (Hugh Desmond) 1897-1964 : THE NIGHT CLUB MYSTERY. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Greedy solicitor, rich innocent, cocaine-addicted actress, London night-club, Sexton Blake. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 284, issued in March 1953. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37412 – or simply click on the button
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CLEVELY, Hugh (Hugh Desmond) 1897-1964 : THE CASE OF THE SMUGGLED CURRENCY. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Travel agent who more than dabbles in black market currency needs to move money out of Paris. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 289, issued in June 1953. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42398 – or simply click on the button
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HARDINGE, Rex (Charles Reginald), 1905-1990 : THE CASE OF THE CRIME REPORTER. London : Amalgamated Press, [1949]. First edition. A Sexton Blake tale that commences in the Fleet Street office of “Crime Weekly”. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 205, issued in December 1949. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37405 – or simply click on the button
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HARDINGE, Rex (Charles Reginald), 1905-1990 : THE MAN FROM SPACE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. A Sexton Blake tale from Rex Hardinge – the Cold War, espionage, and the recovery of a golliwog with a secret from the repressed Baltic state of Litona. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 265, issued in June 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36172 – or simply click on the button
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HUNTER, John (Alfred John), 1891-1961 : THE CASE OF THE DOPED FAVOURITE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. “It is often the innocent who suffer most from the operations of cunning racecourse doping gangs, today’s greatest menace to the sport of kings” – Sexton Blake on the case. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 263, issued in May 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37416 – or simply click on the button
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HUNTER, John (Alfred John), 1891-1961 : THE THIEVES OF ALEXANDRIA. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. The death of a seaman in Alexandria, the death of an old lady in Dorset – a Sexton Blake tale featuring Captain James Dack. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 301, issued in December 1953. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36191 – or simply click on the button
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HUNTER, John (Alfred John), 1891-1961 : DESTINATION UNKNOWN. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Respectable Charles Stranway takes his wife to France in pursuit of a fortune – murder south of Arles. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 294, issued in August 1953. £5 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42397 – or simply click on the button
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LONG, Derek : THE MYSTERY OF THE ITALIAN RUINS. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. The second of only two Sexton Blake stories from Derek Long – a burglar discovers a map – and a murder. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 224, issued in September 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36195 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE RIDDLE OF THE RAJAH’S CURIOS. London : Amalgamated Press, [1949]. First edition. An English charter plane goes down near Rennes, Sexton Blake is called in. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 198, issued in August 1949. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36194 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THOSE ON THE LIST. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. Millionaire financier caught in an arms racket emerges from six years in prison – a Sexton Blake mystery from Anthony Parsons. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 211, issued in March 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36178 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE RIDDLE OF THE PRINCE’S STOOGE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. Two London villains go in search of a blonde to trap a prince – a Sexton Blake mystery from Anthony Parsons. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 207, issued in January 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36193 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE GREAT DOLLAR FRAUD. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. The Treasury ask Sexton Blake to investigate the disappearance of £100,000 in Threadneedle Street – their own investigators can find nothing amiss. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 217, issued in June 1950. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42400 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE CASE OF THE SPIV’S SECRET. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. The Hon. Gerald Corbishley’s father threatens to stop his allowance unless he gives up the beautiful Conchita. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 225, issued in October 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42401 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE CASE OF THE JAPANESE CONTRACT. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. Cotton mill in the north in financial difficulty. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 271, issued in September 1952. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36209 – or simply click on the button
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PARSONS, Anthony, 1893-1963 : THE CASE OF THE MISSING SCIENTIST. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. A sequence of murdered women – and a top secret scientist goes missing. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 257, issued in February 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37430 – or simply click on the button
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PASSINGHAM, W.J. (William John), 1897-1957 : THE CASE OF THE ACE ACCOMPLICE. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Body in the Thames, ghost ship, diamond robberies, and a Thameside pub called The Marquis of Grimsby. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 298, issued in October 1953. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42402 – or simply click on the button
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“REID, Desmond” – [BROWNE, Noel] : CONTRACT FOR A KILLER. London : Fleetway Publications, (1960). First edition. Sexton Blake in New York – “The radio played in the room. A soft sound. Sweet and gentle. Flies buzzed, blood-drunk, against the slatted blinds. Others squatted on what had once been a man ...”. Sexton Blake Library, Fourth Series, No. 463, issued in November 1960. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42395 – or simply click on the button
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STAGG, James (Gilbert John), 1918-1996 : TIME FOR MURDER. London : Amalgamated Press, (1959). First edition. “Shelley Glanville was the type of girl everybody looked at ...” – murder on the Isle of Wight. Sexton Blake Library, Fourth Series, No. 428, issued in April 1959. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42393 – or simply click on the button
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TYRER, Walter, 1900-1978 : THE MYSTERY OF THE RIO STAR. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. Young English football star lured abroad – a case for Sexton Blake. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 230, issued in December 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37409 – or simply click on the button
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TYRER, Walter, 1900-1978 : THE CASE OF THE NAVAL DEFAULTER. London : Amalgamated Press, [1950]. First edition. Sailor ashore – his girl taken up by a spiv – but she knows Sexton Blake. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 219, issued in July 1950. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37418 – or simply click on the button
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TYRER, Walter, 1900-1978 : THE CASE OF THE BOGUS BARON. London : Amalgamated Press, [1952]. First edition. A Sexton Blake tale here in the hands of Walter Tyrer – “It frequently happens that the gaiety of high life offers such attractions some people cannot resist. A young woman of ambition saw such an opportunity in a person of title but it led to untold trouble”. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 276, issued in November 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36165 – or simply click on the button
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TYRER, Walter, 1900-1978 : THE SECRET OF THE SNOWS. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Suspicious death on an Arctic expedition. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 282, issued in February 1953. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37432 – or simply click on the button
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TYRER, Walter, 1900-1978 : THE CASE OF THE NAVAL STORES RACKET. London : Amalgamated Press, [1953]. First edition. Sailors on shore leave are robbed of their back-pay. Sexton Blake Library, Third Series, No. 287, issued in May 1953. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42403 – or simply click on the button
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“WILLIAMS, Richard” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : TORMENT WAS A REDHEAD. London : Fleetway Publications, (1962). First edition. Tinker goes to Hatton Garden to escort the diamonds – redhead awaits – the Sexton Blake mantle here taken over by the author of the “Hank Janson” tales. Sexton Blake Library, Fourth Series, No. 498, issued in April 1962. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42394 – or simply click on the button
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