p.288.fictionA beautiful girl is found murdered in Sydney's Opera House. Four men are possibly involved. Scobie Malone will solve it, it the politicians will let him.fiction - australia, crime fiction - new south wales

xxxii, 336 p. Frontispiece illustration. Includes dedication to author's mother from first published edition 1840, p. iii-iv, biographical notes 'Bulwer Lytton and his works' dated 1868, p. v-xxxii). Embossed, decorative brown cover, gold embossing on spine.fictionThe life and adventures of a young gentleman and dandy, in London, Paris and Cheltenham. In part a murder mystery.fiction, james dodds, original collection, lord lytton, english literature, mysteries, crime fiction

Hardcover book, 258 pages. Front cover of book has an image of a man wearing a hat and a white cravat.fictionCrime novel.fiction, crime fiction, mysteries, dick donovan (j. e. preston muddock)

192 p. : plain red cover (faded), section of original dust jacket (shows title and author's name) pasted to front cover, title and author's name hand-printed on spine in black. Title page tornfictionfiction, crime fiction, rex stout

322 p. : dark greycover with red leather trim. Book appears to have been re-bound, bookbinder's label, "James Curtis Printer and Bookbinder, 39 Armstrong Street, Ballarat", affixed lower right, inside front cover.fictionSix stories of mystery and intrigue.fiction, crime fiction, mysteries, arthur morrison

285 p. : grey-brown cover, with illustration of a shadowy man in a bowler hat threatening a frightened-looking man. Title "Vincent Trill of the Detective Service", and author's name embossed in large gold letters on cover, "Records of Vincent Trill" and author's name in gold on spine. Endpapers have decorative pattern of leaves.fictionfiction, short stories, crime fiction, mysteries, dick donovan (j. e. preston muddock)

176 p. : light brown cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front. Illustration shows a man pointing a handgun at a man and a woman. Publisher's summary of plot, also cut from dust jacket, pasted inside front cover.fictionMystery/crime fiction.fiction, mystery, crime fiction

287 Pp. : blue cover, illustration of man standing (gazing in contemplation?) with hands clasped behind his back. fictionMystery stories.dick donovan (j. e. preston muddock), fiction, mystery, crime fiction

224 p. : green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, has title and author's name in orange and white letters on black background, and image showing profile of man's head, with cigarette drooping from mouth. Front endpaper is a plan of the fictional Pendleholme Military Hospital.fictionWhen Private Jones finds a body in the grounds of Pendleholme Military Hospital it is thought to be that of an air-raid victim until some enthusiastic medical officers smuggle it into the X-ray department. Inspector Dingle of the local police is called upon to solve the mystery.fiction, crime fiction, mystery, hugh mcevoy

239 p. : dark green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, with illustration of a woman in a low-cut red dress wearing a fur wrap. Publisher's summary, also from dust jacket, pasted inside front cover.fictionA Perry Mason detective story. Plot is "a convoluted scheme of impersonation". Women with specific physical characteristics are hired to impersonate another woman. The man who hires them is found murdered, and two of the women, Cora Felton and Adelle Winters, are charged with his murder.fiction, crime fiction, mystery, perry mason, erle stanley gardner

256 p. : red cover, title and author's name embossed in black on front cover and spinefictionCrime fiction set in a more contemporary American West.fiction, christopher culley, crime fiction, westerns

Hardcover book, 396 pages. Book has a yellow dust jacket which depicts a green wreath .fictionCrime novel about a miner.francis brett young, crime, mining, fiction

This is a book given as a prize to Allan Scarfe in 1942 when he was in Form One at Warrnambool High School. Allan Scarfe, spelled ‘Alan’ in the book inscription, died in 2016. He was a teacher at Warrnambool High School/College for a great number of years and was an author of note. He wrote several works of non-fiction in conjunction with his wife, Wendy, and several novels, mostly crime fiction.This book is of interest because it belonged to Allan Scarfe, a resident of Warrnambool for many years, well-known as a teacher and a writer. It is also of interest as an example of the type of reading material favoured by young boys in the 1940s. This is a hard cover book of 224 pages. The cover is blue with black print on the front cover and spine and a sketch of a sailor on the spine. The dust cover is multi-coloured with sketches of scouts on the front cover and on the spine. The dust cover is ragged at the edges and torn at the bottom part of the spine. The dust cover also has lists of books published by Blackie’s Books. The book has several black and white plates scattered throughout the pages. The inscription on the first page is hand written in black ink. ‘Form 1, Warrnambool High School, 1942, Prize awarded to Alan Scarfe for 7th in Form, gift of Mr G.W. Clarke, R.W.Andrews, B.Sc., B.Ed. Headmaster.’ allan scarfe, warrnambool high school