Head Matthew John Edwin Canaday (7 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used Good. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dell Book 158, 1st paperback printing, no month, 1947. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. 190 pages. Reprints the Simon & Schuster hardcover edition from 1945. This copy in Near fine condition. 95% of laminate intact on wraps, pages are off-white. Inked check mark to FFEP, else clean.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition of the second Dr. Mary Finney novel. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1950. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Simon & Schuster in 1949. The spine is faded with has some reading creasing, edge rubbing and a small chip at the bottom where there is a piece of tape around it. There is slight surface creasing around the bottom corners of the front cover. The back cover has small chip out of the top left corner. Light browning to the page edges and the pages are a little browned with a light trace of a price in pencil on the first page but are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. First Edition. Perennial Library P542. Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1955. Tiny crease to back cover else a fine copy. ; Small octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 246 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with black lettering to spine over green boards with "Inner Sanctum" black pictorials to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Murder at the Flea Club is the seventh Matthew Head mystery novel in fourteen years. In this he has chosen the perfect background: Paris. More specifically, he has perpetrated his violence in a night club. Here comes the most sophisticated citizens of the world, and also the most innocent. Here may be found the headhearted chanteuse, stinging of romance but single-mindedly devoted to business; the American millionairess in search of an exciting fifth husband; the gigolo ruthlessly sell his wares; and the gaping tourists who love it all and understand very little of what goes on beneath the glittering surface. When murder happens at the Flea Club, a most unsuitable element is added in the person of Dr Mary Finney, the rough-textured medical missionary and amateur detective. Her normal sphere is Africa, but she happens to be in Paris receiving medals for her medical work and she is much admired by the Sûreté for earlier cases. She wades into the Flea Club with characteristic energy and intelligence. The result is a murder novel that charms and diverts. Condition: Corners bumped, spine heal with small split. Jacket price clipped, corners and spine ends chipped, fold over edges and hinges rubbed, back stained and lightly damaged else a very good copy in a good to very good jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition. 207pp. Boards. A mystery featuring Dr Mary Finney. A near fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with toning and light wear. In Hubin, 2003, p. 709.; Octavo.

Hardcover. First Edition. 217pp. Cloth. A mystery set in Kansas City and Paris. Toning to endpapers. A bright near fine copy in very good dustjacket with a few chips and creases, and light fading to spine. Dustjacket art by H. Lawrence Hoffman. ; Octavo.