Patrick Q Richard Wilson Webb (15 results)

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: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The January 1950 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 15 # 74 . GGA cover. Contains a stories by Stanley Ellin (Death on Christmas Eve), Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - Murder on New Year's Eve (Exit Before Midnight)), Kelley Roos (Two Over Par), Margery Allingham (The Same to Us), Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist and biographer Robert E Sherwood ("Extra, Extra!"), A E W Mason (The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel), Lawrence G Blochman (A Life for a Life), Thomas Burke (The Hands of Mr Ottermole), and others. Light wear at the edges. Bright read color to the cover. . A very good or better copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator).…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, May 1954. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Vintage paperback, Gold Medal #397 [.25 cover price]. Cover Illustration by Barye Phillips. Spine edge rubbed, a few cover creases, a few nicks at rear, paper is uniformally age toned, else very good. A gripping legal thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Puzzle Mysteries as Patrick Quentin, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Eighth in the Series of Classic Murder Trials. There was nothing apparently remarkable about Percy Thompson and his wife, Edith. But when Percy is savagely stabbed to death, the proper appearance of their marriage collapses, revealing a dark side that will become the scandal of the nation. For behind their bland suburban veneer was a relationship already fractured by petty jealousy and a wife's desire for more out of life. A desire that was satisfied by young Frederick Bywaters, who found himself under Edith's spell almost immediately and would follow his devotion to the end of a rope --all the while proclaiming Edith's innocence. Written as both a compelling thriller and an observation of the law, morality, and the crushing weight of public opinion, The Girl on the Gallows is a classic chronicle of blinding love, cold-blooded murder, and inevitable justice. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.". Phillips, Barye (illustrator). Vintage Paperback.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Library 206. A maniacal killer stalks the valley. Gently rubbed with a faint drip mark to the upper edge of the text block. There must have been a change of paper during publication, the first 95 pages are bright, the rest tanned.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Library 23. Murder on a cruise ship. Lightly rubbed, spine slightly cocked and sunned, pages tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition. Soft cover ribbon bound printed wrappers as published. Published NY: William Morrow & Company, 1937. 4to., 8" x 10", unpaginated, bound facsimiles of letters, memos, notes, telegrams and evidence as they would appear in a police file. Some foxing to edges, packet of fabric samples and lipstick lacking, else complete. Very good minus.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good, Reading Copy. TURN OF THE TABLE (aka Funeral for Five) (1950 Popular Library #267; A Dr. Hugh Cavendish Westlake Mystery #4); VAMPIRE or WEREWOLF? (1950; Popular Library / Better Publications of Canada; 192 pages; 1st Canadian Paperback Ed, 1st Printing; Was The Killer A Vampire? VAMPIRE or WEREWOLF? A Dr. Hugh Westlake Mystery; The several threads of family dynamics and struggles, psychic adventure and even supernatural creatures all weave together well and lead to an exciting finale which includes a drowning, creature attacks, insanity, adultery, and a raging fire. It's a great puzzle that all comes together nicely and even throws a few twists into the last few pages; GGA / Good Girl Art painted cover; RARE Title; Complete and Unabridged; Weight = 100 Grams;>> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; staining to backcover. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 1st Canadian Paperback Ed, 1st Printing. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. TURN OF THE TABLE (aka Funeral for Five) (1950 Popular Library #267; A Dr. Hugh Cavendish Westlake Mystery #4); VAMPIRE or WEREWOLF? (1950; Popular Library / Better Publications of Canada; 192 pages; 1st Canadian Paperback Ed, 1st Printing; Was The Killer A Vampire? VAMPIRE or WEREWOLF? A Dr. Hugh Westlake Mystery; The several threads of family dynamics and struggles, psychic adventure and even supernatural creatures all weave together well and lead to an exciting finale which includes a drowning, creature attacks, insanity, adultery, and a raging fire. It's a great puzzle that all comes together nicely and even throws a few twists into the last few pages; GGA / Good Girl Art painted cover; RARE Title; Complete and Unabridged; Weight = 100 Grams;>> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; stamp to front end page; 1" x 2 1/2" piece missing from page 3/4 (3 words effected) Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 1st Canadian Paperback Ed, 1st Printing. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. First Edition. Popular Library 23. First paperback publication. A very good copy. Cover art by Hoffman.; Small octavo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The first Q. Patrick mystery, involving a number of poisonings in a small English village. Bumped with wear at the edges and a 2" drip mark to the rear board. Spine cocked and sunned, hinges a bit loose. Residue on the pastedowns where the jacket flaps had been glued, previous owner's name on the front end paper, dated Jan. 1933.…

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-279 [280-282: blank], original brown and black patterned cloth. The author's first mystery novel and the first using this pseudonym. ".a well crafted novel about a series of poisonings in a small English village." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, p. 864. [Reference: Hubin, p. 629]. A touch of wear to spine ends and corner tips, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and splits to the front flap fold, minor loss at corner tips, chipped and loss along head of spine panel affecting the authors name, wear with shallow loss at base of spine panel. Uncommon, especially in jacket. (24990).…

Condition: Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1937. 1st edition. Sm 4to. 176 leaves. Illus. Good book. Covers edgeworn. Lower binding corner of front cover chipped off, but present. Pages toned. (murder, evidence, investigation) Inquire if you need further information.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Small 4to, soft cover, 10 x 7 7/8 in (255 x 198 mm), 196 leaves, including several telegrams, handwritten letters and notes, sample evidence including fabric samples and a small lipstick mounted in a cardboard holder. Bound in yellow paper wrappers with original brown ribbon. Pages and covers toned and a few page corners curled but overall in very good condition for a loose-page publication. The William Morrow series "Crimefile" reproduced dossiers of crimes, daring the buyer to solve the crime using the evidence, as a police detective would. As stated on the cover "This file contains the complete dossier of a crime, with every clue and item of evidence preserved in its, original, physical form, exactly as it might have been received at Police Headquarters. The crime was a murder. The police solved it. Can you?" Crimefile #3 is based on the baffling deaths of Dr. Ferdinand A. Fenton and his attractive young secretary Pauline Farr at the Greenlands Academy for Boys, at Greenland's, N. J.…

Jean Bernard PARIS, Librairie des Champs-Élysées [23, rue Marbeuf /// IFE, Imprimerie Française de l'Édition, 12, rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée] - Copyright 1936 - C.18,5x12x1,9 cm - Cartonnage éditeur jaune titré et orné du masque à la plume emblématique de la collection en marron; jaquette au premier plat illustré en couleurs par Jean Bernard et titré en blanc et jaune, dos blanc titré, numéroté et orné en bleu et noir, 4e de jaquette blanc à la publicité illustrée pour 'Les Châteaux de la Loire' en noir; catalogue intérieur in-fine des 204 titres parus (1 à 204); 245 et (9) pages. (Collection Le Masque - Collection de Romans d'Aventures - N° 205 [306.000.216], dirigée par Albert Pigasse - 6 fr). Jaquette avec petits manques de papier. Bon état par ailleurs. LA PHOTO AUGMENTE LES DÉFAUTS DE LA JAQUETTE, surtout les rousseurs. BIEN COMPLET DE SA JAQUETTE illustrée. Première édition dans la collection. 'G. Patrick' en jaquette, 'Q. Patrick' au titre. Français Livres.…