Quentin Patrick Hugh Wheeler (41 results)

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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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. Push-Pin Studios (cover design) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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. Walter Brooks (cover) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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. Bill George (cover) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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. George Geygan (cover) (illustrator).…

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. 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. Robert McGiuire (cover) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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. William Teason (cover) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The September 1967 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 50 # 3, whole # 286. Contains stories by Patrick Quentin (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - Mrs B's Black Sheep (Passport to Murder)), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee - Wedding Anniversary), Robert L Fish (Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters), Arthur Porges (Murder of a Priest), James Leasor (The Seventy-Sixth Face), Nedra Tyre (In the Fiction Alcove), Frank Gruber (Eagle in His Mouth), and others, Light wear at the edges. A very good copy.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ellery Queen's Mystery Anthology Fall/Winter 1976 vol 32 . Contains stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Clue of the Runaway Blonde), Q Patrick (Patrick Quentin - Hugh Callingham Wheeler )The "Laughing Man" Murders)), Cornell Woolrich (Only One Grain More), J J Marric (John Creasey (Gideon and the Pigeon)), Nicholas Freeling (Nicolas Davidson (Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons)), Lawrence Treat (Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (R as in Rookie)), Michael Gilbert (Mouse in a Trap), Patricia Highsmith (The Nature of the Thing), Julian Symons (The Sensitive Ears of Mr Small), Ellery Queen (Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay (Payoff)), Clayton Rawson (Miracles - All in a Day's Work), and others. Light wear at the edges. Light soiling to the back cover with small creases to the bottom corner and a small scrape near the spine. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Fredric H. Kirberger (cover) (illustrator).…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Printing. First IPL printing June 1990, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. [Originally published in 1945 by Simon.] Oversize trade paperback. An unread, new copy. Peter Duluth; Reno, NV. Lieutenant Peter Duluth and his actress wife Iris are spending his leave at the Lake Tahoe home of wealthy Lorraine Pleygel. Other guests include Lorraine's brother, and a group of women who are establishing Reno residence in order to obtain divorces. However, Peter, though worldly he may be, is uneasy when their hostess produces the estranged husbands in the whimsical belief that she is pinch-hitting for Cupid. The first lovely lady dies in Peter's arms while dancing. Zann, Nicky (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Fine. 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 with faint rubbing to the bottom right spine hinge. Clean and fresh DJ with good color, or as much color as you get with a B&W with red llettering. The internals are clean and tight. A very good copy.…

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).…

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.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A fast-paced Hollywood mystery. When Norma, a one-time movie star, falls- or is pushed - down a flight of stairs in her Hollywood home, nobody mourned her because she had long since drunk herself out of favor with her audience. Waiting to take her place is Anny - not only Norma's husband but also a fabulous role in a new film. The story is told through the eyes of Nickie, Anny's 19 year old son, but naive and observant. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. 248 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket - usual toning to pages, slight spine slant, sunning to spine of dj, Original price of 2.95 still present.…

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). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. First published in the UK in 1955, this is a reprint edition of 1975. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 223pp. They called his wife a murderess. And his guilty passion was her only alibi. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover, pages toning,in a good dustjacket with loss to the top and bottom to the spine , wear to the extremities, and is price clipped. The 5th novel in the Peter Duluth mystery series, a Broadway director, WWII veteran, and recovering alcoholic, along with his wife Iris, amateur sleuths, working in New York City NY USA. This novel is the basis for the 1958 U.K. film "A Strange Awakening" (U.S. title "Female Fiends") starring Lex Barker. Also published as "Love Is A Deadly Weapon".…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Firstedition. first impression. Ex library with usual library mess and defects. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (10/6), no personal inscriptions, 2nd ffep torn away, some browning and spotting to page block, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 223pp. Jonathan Duluth, a chief partner in a publishing firm funded by millionaire Ronald Sheldon. Jonathan is still dealing with his fractious relationship with his son Bill, the pair of them both still suffering from the inexplicable suicide of their wife and mother three years previously. Added into the mix is the return of Ronald, after a six month stay in Europe, bringing unexpectedly a new bride and his in laws, all of whom are to live handsomely at the expense of Ronald. Jonathan is far from easy about this new arrangement, are the Lacey family on the make, with gold digging plans in mind? Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book, even as ex library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex Sam Remo Hotel, Torquay Library but with only a couple of discreet stamps and bookplate to ffep. Some edge wear, chipping and closed tears to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, scratch to bottom spine, some overall dust and time staining, not price clipped (12/6), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 222pp. John Hamilton left his lucrative job with a New York advertising agency to move to the country and try his hand at painting. His first show is not a success and he is under some pressure from his wife Linda, to return to the city to make some money. Linda is having increasing difficulty coping with the dullness of life in the country and has succumbed to alcoholism, although she is able to keep this completely secret from everybody except John. So when John returns from a business trip to find his paintings slashed and Linda missing, later to be found dead, he cannot prove how unstable and violent she had become and the suspicions of the locals put him firmly in the frame for her murder. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Puzzles of Peter Duluth was written by Patrick Quentin (Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler) and has an Introduction by Curtis Evans, a Postscript by Mauro Boncompagni and an Afterword by Joanna Gondris. The book was published by Crippen and Landru Publishers in 2016 and is a stated First Edition as such. (All of the short stories within were previously published, but this is the first time they've been collected in this format.) It's a hard cover book in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics Series, is beautifully done (as ALL Crippen & Landru books are), and would make a simply great gift, to yourself, or any classic mystery lover. If you've not "discovered" Crippen & Landru Publishers (Doug Green), or The Lost Classics Series . . . treat yourself, or someone you'd like to impress! Both the book and the dust jacket are in near fine condition and the book you'll be getting is still in its shrink wrap. Thank you.…

Octavo, two-part boards. First edition. Collects a novelette and eleven short stories. The title story won the 1962 Edgar Award. In 1964, "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow" was filmed for television as an episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR. Queen's Quorum 119. Top edge foxed, a very good copy in good to very good dust jacket with rubbing and light wear at edges. (#134904).…

First edition. Octavo, boards. Collects twelve stories. "Anthony Boucher, in the New York Times, said, "Patrick Quentin is one of the truly great plotters in the field of suspense." Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 864-65. [Reference: Hubin pp. 661-662. Queen's Quorum 119]. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges, front and spine panels. (22453). …

Hardcover. First Edition. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. 308pp. Cloth. A mystery featuring Peter Duluth. Toning to pages and endpapers, small glue residue and number on front free endpaper, numbers on rear endpaper. A good+ copy in good+ dustjacket with some wear and mild fading to spine. The dustjacket was at some point pasted on thick brown paper. In Hubin, 2003, p. 1238.; Octavo.…

First Edition. Peter Duluth mystery. Pages a little tanned otherwise VG in Good jacket which has portion missing to top of spine and is repaired internally with tape.

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.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good +. First Canadian Edition. 222 pp; general wear & soiling to the covers (including a crease to the front cover), small tear to half-title page, previous owner's name & initials on inside. Rare French Canadian paperback edition of this novel. Curiously, Erle Stanley Gardner is identified as the author on the title page! [97].…

First Edition. Peter Duluth mystery. VG in jacket which is foxed and worn to edges an, corners and tips.

First Edition. Near fine bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some mottling to the rear panel and some small chips, tears, and creases. Patrick Quentin is the author of ÔGarden Clubs and Spades,Õ ÔA Puzzle for Fools,Õ ÔPuzzle for Pilgrims,Õ ÔThe Ordeal of Mrs. Snow and Other StoriesÕ (a Queen's Quorum title), etc. Patrick Quentin was one of the pseudonyms of author Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912 - 1987), a Tony Award-winning English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. Wheeler won both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for ÔA Little Night MusicÕ and ÔCandideÕ (operetta), and won both again for his book for ÔSweeney Todd.Õ.…