Gwenyth Conyth (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Irene is mistaken for an escapee from an insane asylum, and with a headless nurse and a corpse that keeps moving, they might lock her up anyway. Reprint, first published in 1946. Spine sunned.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A young woman runs away to become an actress in New York and ends up investigating the murder of two old maids at the boarding house where she stays. Rue Morgue review copy. Reprint, first published in 1941. Fine, as new condition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Gloria escapes a murder attempt, has some plastic surgery, and returns, with a new husband, as Jane. When her first husband's new fiancee is murdered, each thinks the other is guilty. Reprint, first published in 1948. Tiny nick to the upper rear spine fold.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US hardback stated first edition. Good overall with some faint stains to bottom corner area of pastedowns and endpapers. Has the bookplate of writer Paul Tabori to ffep. No jacket.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 160. Red-orange cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine: board edges rubbed, light soiling to the head edge. In the color illustrated dust jacket with Crime Club device, price 7/6 intact on the front flap: spine ends and back corners chipped with magic tape reinforcements verso, short closed tears, light soiling. The twelfth humorous murder mystery from Australian sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little who had a lengthy run as mystery writers mostly in their adopted home of Newton, NJ. Other than their debut novel (1938), "Black" was used in subsequent titles. (Their English publisher employed the pen-name portmanteau "Conyth.") Unlike many mystery novels of Golden Age Detection, their sleuths, whether a ballerina, a nurse, an heiresses, et al., are always female; the male protagonists serve as mere foils. Moreover, wacky, screwball plots prevail, fulfilling the publisher's promise of "homicide and humor." HUBIN, p. 216. Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6.25 x 4.25", pict wraps, 189pp + publ. list, covers rubbed, lightly soiled and creased, pp toned; a good copy of the second mystery novel by the sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little (aka Conyth Little). INSCRIBED "To David, affectionately" AND SIGNED BY GWENYTH LITTLE; ALSO SIGNED BY CONSTANCE LITTLE. Gwenyth first mis-spelled "David" and has crossed it out above her inscription. SCARCE signatures.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. Eugenia Gates arrives at her friend Mary Fredon's apartment for a fortnight's quiet holiday and finds every prospect of rest destroyed - and then the bodies begin to appear. "Conyth Little" is a portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (1899-1980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (1903-85), who produced twenty-one mysteries between them in a screwball-comedy register, all but the first with "black" in the title and a corresponding black clue in the plot. Minor toning/sunning to extremities of cloth; jacket spine sunned with some wear to ends. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Set in an isolation hospital, where the sharp-witted nurse Norma Gale contends with someone - or several someones - inclined to take an axe to the furniture and, in due course, the occupants. "Conyth Little" is the portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (18991980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (190385). Boards slightly softened at head of spine; jacket nearly price-clipped to inside front flap, small closed tear to foot of upper panel. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Marina Hays accepts an invitation to a country house for the weekend and finds herself entangled in two murders, a disappearing swimming pool, and a courtship conducted largely by being handed boards to hold while her suitor saws and hammers, and by being addressed as Maggie and Malvina in preference to her own name. Published in the United States the previous year under the title The Black Rustle. Cloth slightly softened and sunned at head of spine; jacket slightly tanned and worn at spine, price-clipped. Book.…