Gialli e polizieschi

Gun with Occasional Music

JONATHAN LETHEM · 1995 · Marion Pitman Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London, New English Library - NEL / Hodder & Stoughton. 1995, First UK. Soft cover. Book, Covers creased, edges and one page corner marked. Futuristic noir hard-boiled detective. Fair/No Jacket.

The Last Camel Died at Noon

ELIZABETH PETERS · 2002 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York, Warner Books. 2002, Reprint. Soft cover. Book, Spine creased, some curling of front cover. An Amelia Peabody mystery. Good/No Jacket.

On Trial - the story of a woman at bay

ELMER RICE · 1929 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Readers Library. 1929, New Edition. Hardcover. Book, Spine and covers detached from text block and from each other. Pages brown. Made into a book from the play of the same name by D. Torbett, illustrated with scenes from the photo play, a Warner Brothers Vitaphone prod...

A Legacy of Vengeance

PAUL TRENT · 1924 · Marion Pitman Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London, Ward, Lock. 1924, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Cloth worn, spine dull, slight lean, much foxing; small piece missing from corner of last advert page. Red cloth, 251 pages + catalogue. Novel involving instructions from the dead, revenge, romance, several murders, and innoc...

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine No 92

ELLERY QUEEN, EDITED BY, · 1960 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Mellifont Press. 1960. Soft cover. Book, Covers worn & detached from text block, pages rather brown. Stories by Philip MacDonald, Arthur C. Clarke, Steward Beach, Theodore Mathieson, John F. Suter, Dana Lyon, Richard Harding Davis, Gerald Kersh. Fair/No Jacket.

Dead Man's Bluff

RODERIC JEFFRIES · 1990 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

UK, Chivers Press. 1990, New Edition. (ISBN: 0862207959) Hardcover. Book, Very slight spine slant, slight wear top of dustwrapper. Black Dagger Crime series. Good/Good.

The Dust and the Heat

MICHAEL GILBERT · 1989 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Mysterious Press / Hutchinson. 1989, New Edition. Soft cover. Book, Covers a little worn and creased. Although published by Mysterious Press, presumably because Michael Gilbert wrote a number of detective stories, this is not a mystery, but a straightforward novel of a...

The Chatter of the Maidens, a Hawkenlye Mystery

ALYS CLARE · 2001 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Medieval mystery. Some very light creasing of dustwrapper. Very Good/Very Good.

Man of Two Tribes

ARTHUR UPFIELD · 1960 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1960, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Smears of white paint on cover; corners a bit curled; page edges brown. Good/No Jacket.

Argosy Short Story Magazine July 1959

JOHN CHRISTOPHER, NICHOLAS MONSARRAT, RAY BRADBURY, MICHAEL GILBERT ET AL · 1959 · Marion Pitman Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Amalgamated Press. 1959, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Edges bit brown, covers a little marked. Vol XX, No. 7, July 1959. Stories by John Christopher, Nicholas Monsarrat, Ray Bradbury, Michael Gilbert, Robert Blake, Ken Hardman, Janet Green, Michael Forrestier, Nich...

Twisters : Stories of the Sinister and Macabre

STEVE BOWLES, EDITOR · 1981 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Collins. 1981, First Thus. (ISBN: 0001958437) Hardcover. Book, Some foxing; some page corners creased; dustwrapper bit creased on edges; faded on spine, stained inside back panel, closed tear edge of rear flap fold. Jacket illustration Justin Todd. Stories by Robert T ...

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

JOHN DICKSON CARR · 1949 · Marion Pitman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, John Murray. 1949, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Green cloth, gilt motif & letterning. Illustrated; 362 pages. Spine dull, two pages creased, very slight creasing to one plate. Good Plus/No Jacket.

The Cat Who Said Cheese

LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN · 1996 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Headline. 1996, First GB p/back. Soft cover. Book, Cover edges a little worn, one corner creased. Good/No Jacket.

The Sophisticates

GERTRUDE ATHERTON · 1931 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Chapman & Hall. 1931, First UK. Hardcover. Book, Pale orange cloth, a little worn and grubby; spine faded; flyleaf removed; some damage to margins of two leaves. Novel. A young woman with the extraordinary name of Melton Abbey is accused of murdering her husband, a ban...

Experiment Perilous

MARGARET CARPENTER · 1943 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, George G. Harrap. 1943, First Edition ?. Hardcover. Book, Psychological mystery, filmed in 1944. Cloth very worn, hinges cracking, flyleaf missing, slight foxing, some page edges creased. Fair/No Jacket.

Night Waking

KATHLEEN SNOW · 1980 · Marion Pitman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, Arrow. 1980, First GB. Soft cover. Book, Psychological thriller, rape & murder. Page edges bit brown, covers bit worn at edges, spine creased. Good/No Jacket.

As a Man Lives

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, Ward, Lock. 9999, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Red cloth, 256 pages.Spine faded, endpapers foxed, hinge weak, rather worn. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Ten Crowded Hours

C. A. ALINGTON · 1940 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Macdonald. 9999, Not Given. Hardcover. Book, Red cloth, 152 pages. Mystery/thriller, set in late thirties, with Nazi spy, IRA dynamiters, & girl guides. No date of publication but war economy standard so early 1940s. Few spots of foxing, corners a little bruised. Good/...

Half-term Adventure

ERIC LEYLAND · 1958 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Thomas Nelson (Panther Library). 1958, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: George Lane. Book, Crime thriller for boys. 6 line illustrations. Red boards decorated in black. Very slight spine lean, few spots of foxing, name inside front cover. Good/No Jacket.

Sunk Without Trace

SYDNEY M. PARKMAN · 1933 · Marion Pitman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1933, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Pale blue cloth, 319 pages. Spine faded; slight lean; one page edge slightly damaged. Thriller / adventure novel involving yachting. Good/No Jacket.