Hugh Callingham Wheeler (48 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. 1st printing, Nov. 1959; #D322. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Creasing; wedge and corner wear; tanning; a little musty; intyernal marks in pencil on three pages; minor top end wet spots.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 27 # 3, whole # 148 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. Contains a Sir Henry Merrivale locked room novelette by Carter Dickson - John Dickson Carr (The Man Who Explained Miracles), Barry Perowne (Jack of Diamonds), Melville Davisson Post (Of More Value Than Sparrows), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (On the Day of the Rose Show), Clayton Rawson (Solution to the Sound Effects Murder), and others. Light wear at the edges and spine hinges. Small loss at the bottom of the spine. Browning to the edges of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good or better copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 27 # 3 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1956. All text cover variant.Contains a Sir Henry Merrivale locked room novelette by Carter Dickson - John Dickson Carr (The Man Who Explained Miracles), Barry Perowne (Jack of Diamonds), Melville Davisson Post (Of More Value Than Sparrows), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (On the Day of the Rose Show), Clayton Rawson (Solution to the Sound Effects Murder), and others. Roughness at the edges with moderate browning. Small specs on the front cover and spine. A good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1940s. BB F778. "Murder weaves a malevolent trap." Edge wear with roughness along the top and fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Sid Rosenbaum (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 19 # 100 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1952. Contains stories by Abraham Lincoln (The Trailor Murder Mystery), Rex Stout (The Cop Killer later published in the Triple Jeopardy), Pulitzer Prize winner Oliver La Farge (A Fool for Her), Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Richter (The Head of His House), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (The Looks Like Murder) and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Light damp stain to the bottom edge of the pages. Light browning to the page edges. A good to very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dick Shelton (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 28 # 4, whole # 155 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1956. Contains stories by Michael Gilbert (One-Tenth Man), Victor Canning (The Napoleonic Club), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (Going . Going . Gone!), Frederick Nebel (You Can Take So Much), and others. Light wear at the edges and spine hinges. Browning to the top edge and bottom corner of the rear cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Push-Pin Studios (cover design) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a 1st thus of a mystery from the mid 1930s. Dell Book D190. # 4 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear. Moderate browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Walter Brooks (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of a PB edition of a a mid 1950s mystery. Dell Book 890. "All he had was the son he loved, a man the world called killer!" Light edge wear with rubbing to the covers and spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bill George (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of an mid 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s Peter Duluth mystery. Dell Book 759. GGA cover. "She was starry-eyed innocent, wistful and adoring, moving Peter Duluth, the sophisticated theatrical producer, to a surprising fatherly tenderness - in the absence of his wife" Light edge wear with creasing to the covers. Rubbing to the spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Geygan (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of an early 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s mystery. Dell Book 710. GGA cover. "To lose her was torment, to find her - death!" Light edge wear with faint rubbing to the front cover and a little more so to the spine hinges. Mild spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1930s. BB F741. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear with roughness along the fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Robert McGiuire (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print of a Dell PB edition of a mid 1950s mystery. Dell D394. "Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system - star by star". Light edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. Three small flakes to the fore edge of the back cover. Reading crease and another light one in the center of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good or slightly better copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William Teason (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print of a Dell PB edition of a mid 1950s mystery. Dell D394. "Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system - star by star". Light edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. Light creases to the back cover. Book store stamp (PCL Book Store .) on the verso of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 17 # 87 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1951. Contains a novelette by Irvin S Cobb (The Darkest Closet), and stories by Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White - Crime Must Have a Stop), Stuart Palmer (Where Angels Feared to Tread), F Tennyson Jesse (Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood - Lord of the Moment), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler - Who Killed the Mermaid), Thomas Narcejac (Pierre Ayraud - The Police Are on the Stairs, Cyril Hare (Margin of Safety), and others. Light wear at the edges. Small loss at the top of the spine. Small rubs at the top of the back cover. Light browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Sid Rosenbaum (cover photo) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 19 # 100 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1952. Contains stories by Abraham Lincoln (The Trailor Murder Mystery), Rex Stout (The Cop Killer later published in Triple Jeopardy), Pulitzer Prize winner Oliver La Farge (A Fool for Her), Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Richter (The Head of His House), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (The Looks Like Murder) and others. . Light edge wear with browning to the covers & pages. Rubbing at the edges of the spine. Small chip at the top of the rear cover. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robert McGinnis (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1960s of the 2nd Dell edition of a collection of mystery stories from the late 1930s through the early 1950s selected by Mike Shayne. Dell 1651. Reprints Dell 77. GGA cover. Contents include Gloria in Hang That Husband High by Bruno Fischer, Stella - The Statement of Jerry Malloy by Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), Mona in Women are Poison by Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser), Beverly in Witness for the Prosecution by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Lynn in Rhapsody in Blood by Harold Q Masur and others. Light edge wear. The lightly browned pages are clean and crisp. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The second Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-library with stamps to the front end papers. Lightly bumped, rubbed with small stains. Spine cocked, rear hinge loose. Staple holes to the front free end paper, jacket blurb glued to the rear pastedown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Collection Petit Format, Montreal, 1951 222 pp; clean example with general wear to the covers, likely an unread (at least completely) copy as several of the leaves remain uncut. Rare French Canadian paperback edition of this novel. Erle Stanley Gardner is named as the author on the title page. perhaps in an attempt to sell more copies. NOTE: Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 - 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 - December 1966), Martha Mott Kelly (30 April 1906-2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 - 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. (Canadian Vintage Paperback, Erle Stanley Gardner).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. D322, first Dell printing. A happily married man can not resist the wild allure of his first wife, and is drawn into her sordid world, and murder. Robert McGinnis cover. Gently rubbed, spine creased with a smalll nick to the upper rear spine fold. Short newspaper review laid in.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 20 # 104 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1952. Contains stories by John W Vandercook (The Challenge), Arthur Train (Monsieur Donaque), Erle Stanley Gardner (In Round Figures), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), (The Pigeon Woman), John Steinbeck (The Poor Pirate), Selwyn Jepson (Letter of the Law), J S Fletcher (Mr Mann of London), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing to the spine hinges. Very small loss at the bottom of the spine. Script "c" written in black at the top left of the front cover. Vertical crease toward the left of the rear cover. Browning to the pages. A good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 17 # 86 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1951. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb) (Another Man's Poison), and stories by Clarence Budington Kelland (The Inconspicuous Man), Georges Simenon (The Stranger Vessel), John Collier (Back for Christmas), Maurice Level (The Confession), Frederick Irving Anderson (Man from the Death House), T S Stribling (Mystery of the Choir Boy), and others. Light wear at the edges. Script "e" written in black at the top center of the front cover. A couple of dog-eared pages that I've straightened out. Browning to the pages and the edges of the covers. A good to very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 15 # 79 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1950. Contains a stories by Cornell Woolrich (The Night I Died), Rex Stout (Bullet for One, later published in Curtains for Three), Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (A Boy's Will), C S Forester - Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (Between Eight and Eight), Pulitzer prize-winner James Gould Cousins (Clerical Error), and others. Also has the index to volume 15. Light wear at the edges with browning to the spine and back cover. Light browning to the pages and the edges of the rear cover. A good to very good or better copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 12 # 56 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1948. Contains stories by Q Patrick - Hugh Callingham Wheeler (Mother, May I Go Out to Swim), Rex Stout (Murder on Tuesday - Instead of Evidence later published in Trouble in Triplicate), George Harmon Coxe (Death Certificate), and others. Light wear at the edges with rubbing along the spine and bottom left of the front cover. diagonal crease on the front cover. Light browning to the back cover and pages. Light browning to the covers and the pages. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-Very Good. Book Club Edition. A BCE of an early 1950s Peter Duluth and Lt. Timothy Trant mystery - an Inner Sanctum Mystery. Light edge wear to the DJ. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Peter Duluth's wife has left him, and it is tied in with the murder of another woman. Ex-library with stamps to the rear end paper. Bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, flaps glued to the pastedowns. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The first Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-rental library with internal stamps and remnants of a stamp pad on the rear end paper. Lightly bumped and rubbed, print on the spine slightly faded. Looks pretty good on the shelf but the boards and text block are creased from a pressure indent. Front hinge cracked, a bit of pocking to the edges of the text block and the remnants of an Inner Sanctum promotional piece glued to the pastedowns. Good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of fifth novel in the "Peter Duluth" series. Later published under the title "Love is Deadly". Basis for the movie "Female Fiends". Slight fading to the cover. Several 1/4-inch closed-tears to the edge of the dustjacket. Light rubbing to the dustjacket. In very good / very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A man becomes suspect in a murder, one in which he suspects his wife's daughter may be involved. Lieutenant Timothy Trant investigates. First British edition. Gently bumped with foxing to the edges of the text block. Jacket rubbed and darkened with small chips and tears, sticker scuff to the lower rear panel, in Brodart.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 18 # 94 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1951. Contains stories by Cornell Woolrich (Charlie Won't be Home Tonight), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler) (All the Way to the Moon), W R Burnett (Traveling Light), Nigel Moreland (Flowers for an Angel), Evelyn Waugh (Mr Loveday's Little Outing), and others. GGA bondage cover. Light wear at the edges. Corner crease at bottom of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.