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

188p. ; crimson cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted on to front cover, featuring a skelton riding a horse ; blurb from dust jacket pasted inside front coverfictionAgainst the stirring background of the wild and untamed Northwest, Mr. Joscelyn has written a thrilling story of violence and romance, of retribution long delayed and of a mystery whose secret drove men to kill. When Chinook reached the remote settlement of Landmark, he thought it was the end of the dangerous trail he had ridden to avenge the death of his sweetheart. But scarcely had Chinook reached Landmark before he was hustled into jail.fiction, mystery, western, archie joscelyn

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

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

232p. ; green cover with front of original dust jacket cut and pasted to front cover, featuring sketch of a young woman and a boyfictionWhen the body of the music-hall artist, Belle Le Fanu is found in Braxham Woods, the murderer thinks that the little yellow-haired woman will scarcely be remembered by the inhabitants of Braxham Parva. But during her short visit the previous summer Belle Le Fanu had shared briefly in many lives, and now, after her death, her influence continues to make itself felt.fiction, mystery, charity blackstock

190p. ; dark blue cover with title, author and publisher embossed on spine with gold letteringfictionSally and Johnny Heldar are called in to investigate a poison-pen at the National Press Archives in Fleet Street, but before they can get to grips with the case, events take a sinister turn.fiction, mystery, henrietta hamilton

191p. ; brown cloth cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover featuring drawing of distressed man fictionWhen Clarice Devlin's fiancé was killed under the wheels of a London bus, it seemed a very ordinary accident. But Miss Devlin was not altogether satisfied. She hired Glenn Bowman to visit England and ask a few questions. With his highly developed instinct for the phony and the crooked, Bowman soon finds himself on a trail that leads right into trouble - a quarter of a million pounds' worth of trouble.fiction, mystery, hartley howard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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