Hardcover book, 312 pages. Title page missing.fictionMurder mysteryagatha christie, mystery, fiction

204 p. : blue cover, beige spine. Section of original dust jacket pasted to front cover, image of two cocker spaniels jumping up on a young girl as a man looks on.fictionNovel set in Burma which blends elements of romance and mystery. fiction, mystery, crime fiction, margaret ferguson

317 p. : embossed red cover, title and author's name in black on spinefictionA Pennsylvania detective of Dutch origin solves a murder at the Castle Rock Estate. fiction, mystery, crime fiction

204p. ; dark green coverfictionA man was hanged for murder. Many years later his son, a medical man of some distinction, finding his father had been innocent, takes the law into his own hands and deals out vengeance to the real murderer who, by his lying evidence, had brought his father to the scaffold. There began a thrilling and deadly game of move and counter-move, with the avenger just one step ahead of Detective Gilbert Larose.fiction, mystery, crime, arthur gask

314p. ; brown coverfictionElmcroft is a quiet Hampstead house, dignified, respectable, and, to all outward seeming, very peaceful. Yet within it lay the dead bodies of a man and a woman whose faces had been horribly branded, one with the word MURDERER, the other with the word BLACKMAILER.fiction, mystery, crime, gret lane

254p. : crimson coverfictionA narrative of intriguefiction, mystery, sydney horler

307p. : addendum "From Geoffrey Bles's List" giving book recommendations ; crimson cover woth original dust jacket pasted onto front cover featuring sketch of woman beside man olying on the ground with a card of the black ace beside himfictionThis book features a plot involving an American millionaire, a confidence man, a pickpocket, and characters from the London underworld, marking a notable entry in his thriller repertoire.fiction, mystery, crime, george dilnot

192p. ; black cover with original dust jacket pasted to both coversfictionFind the motive for the crime and you have gone a long way towards solving the mystery. But here is a case in which the murderer began without a motive. He had conceived what he believed to be a prefect alibi. So strange are the workings of the human mind in given circumstances, that he felt impelled to test his alibi. The mystery might have remained a mystery if the motive had not crept in. "Spinnet" worked swiftly, and the end came with a crash!fiction, mystery, crime, andrew soutar

190p. ; green and cream cover with outline of man with gunfictionWhat appeared to be a routine murder investigation brought the doyen of Scotland Yard detectives to the scene - but strange things had been happening at the dead man's house so Flagg and his erudite colleague, Inspector 'Know All' Newall, found themselves faced with a problem that taxed all their ingenuity.fiction, mystery, john cassells

302p. ; dark blue coverfictionOne Summer night in 1914, Marjorie Beeston is startled by a masked intruder in her bedroom. She is even more startled when she discovers that the intruder is none other than Ronnie Randwall, a friend of her brother's. Ronnie is the proud inventor of a new kind of aeroplane, housed in a secret hangar on the nearby Bareacre Common - an installation so clandestine that the locals have taken to referring to its presence as the 'Mystery of the Common'. But the government base is not the only mystery to found in the locality of Bareacre Common. As the Great War looms on the horizon, what secret work took Ronnie to Marjorie's bedroom at Decoy Manor? And what has it to do with Marjorie and her family?fiction, mystery, james blyth

222p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front, with sketch of man and woman hiding in bushesfictionBishop, caught between his curiosity and the murderous riddle that aroused it, survives heart failure to find the answer, following the chain of strange events that lead from death to death. fiction, mystery, simon rattray, a hugo bishop story

240p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover, featuring drawings of young man lying on the grass and young woman floating in the waterfictionIt was unfortunate that Detective-Inspector Meredith decided to spend a well-earned holiday in the little Sussex village of Haddington. For no sooner had he settled in when he found himself roped into a full size case of murder.fiction, mystery, john bude

262p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover, featuring drawing of French Gendarme and stylised drawing of lamp post with postersfictionDr Mary Finney, medical missionary and amateur detective, wades into the maze of intrigue at the the Flea Club in Paris with typical energy and acumen. The result is a mystery that delights, diverts and disturbs.fiction, mystery, matthew head

424p. dark grey cover with title and author embossed in gold on spinefictionfiction, mystery, lynch

248p. fictionThis book, set in New York, features one of the characters from his series: the beautiful Madame Rosika Storey, a private detective. Here she tangles with a psychoanalyst-blackmailer and criminal mastermind. The story has a lot of action and a neat twist in the final paragraph.fiction, mystery, hulbert footner

312p. ; black cover with author and title embossed in gold on spinefictionGeoffrey Branston has disinherited his son, Hector, in favour of his nephew, Leslie, on condition that he marries his ward, Joan Eddis. Leslie becomes engaged to Joan, while at the same time he is secretly married to Nadine. When his uncle discovers the fact, he threatens to change his will, but just as he is about to carry out this threat, he is stabbed by Nadine and dies. Leslie causes suspicion for the murder to fall on Joan, and Joan flies to America to re-appear later as the famous movie star Joan Maryland. She determines to bring her guardian's murderers to justice and to secure the fortune to Hector, his son.fiction, mystery, crime, sefton kyle

300p. olive green cover with title and author embossed in silver on the front cover; decorative pattern embossed on front cover; title page and first 4 pages missingfictionWhen Bertrand Newhall shoots himself, journalist John Ashley is determined to make the most of the scandal. But when the suicide is revealed to be a case of murder, and when Ashley falls in love with the sister of prime suspect Walter Thorpe, his position becomes a difficult one as he struggles to clear the man's name. With a rival journalist determined to convict Thorpe of the murder, Ashley faces a race against time as he searches for a key witness. Yet, if Thorpe wasn't guilty, who was? And if it wasn't suicide, who fired the shots? And why...?fiction, mystery, crime, rufus gillmore

287p. ; crimson cover with title and authors printed on spine in blackfictionThe story centres around a serious robbery at the Van Ness Avenue Savings Bank, where a significant sum of nearly a million dollars has vanished following the suspicious disappearance of one of the bank's tellers, Edward Clayte. The narrative primarily follows the characters of detective Jerry Boyne, who is tasked with solving the case, and Worth Gilbert, the son of the bank's benefactor, who takes an active interest in recovering the missing money.fiction, mystery, alice macgowan, perry newberry

191p.; dark blue cover with author and title embossed in gold on spine; green sticker on front cover 'The Melbourne Athenaeum Library and Reading Room'fictionThe story follows a private investigator who gets pulled into a web of violence and murder while attempting to uncover the killer of his colleague.fiction, mystery, crime, a museum street thriller, robert p. hansen

251p. : blue cover with author and title embossed in gold on spinefictionIt was in a sordid Apache cafe that Geoffrey first saw her - the Lady of Despair - beautiful ward of the Paul Daburon, the famous advocate. Madelon Marly, the mysterious society beauty whose charm had attracted a number of suitors, each of whom had met a sudden death when their love was about to be returned. fiction, mystery, crime, francis d. grierson

326p. ; crimson cover with author and title embossed in gold on front cover and spinefictionThe story of a modern beloved vagabond who surrendered both name and fortune to win a woman's heart.fiction, mystery, romance, william j locke

171p. green cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted on to front cover featuring drawing of a school girl and handsfictionBill snatches a six-year-old girl from her schoolyard and pastes together a letter demanding ransom. After a few days of citywide panic, Myra will lead the police to the girl and the money, and all of London will know her name. When a criminal can see the future, what could possibly go wrong?fiction, mystery, crime, mark mcshane