Shadow Guilt by Quentin Patrick (21 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Random House, New York. 1959. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. A Random House Mystery. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the front pastdown dated Oct '59. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Very Good; light suntoning to spine and top edge of DJ. Tan buckram boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 190 pp 8vo. George Hadley just wanted to be happy. Caught up in a world where money, propriety, and, above all, appearances hold sway, he's more than willing to leave his wealthy socialite wife and run off with his secretary if it means being free. That's when he meets the young, handsome Don Saxon. A lothario with a shadowy past, he soon worms his way into George's inner circle, enchanting his wife, seducing his niece?and threatening to reveal George's affair. So when his niece finds Don in his apartment shot dead, George should be relieved. But then, the intrepid Lieutenant Trant starts taking a closer look at George's life and his growing list of lies. Unless George can figure out who really killed Don, he's never going to be happy?or free?again . . . A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Book Club edition. Owner's name on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. (mystery).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint Edition. Shadow of Guilt by Patrick Quentin (File Copy) A tight unread copy. "Archive Copy" stamp to title page. A sharp bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. Publisher's File Copy. Reissue. (First published 1959). BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket with Mylar. Book Club.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 208p 20cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories, American. Crime Fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 Texts. English literature; 20th century. English literature. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with rather tatty dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Jacket design by Jerome Kuhl (illustrator). A handsome Random House Mystery Book Club Edition of Shadow of Guilt, originally published in 1959 under the Patrick Quentin pseudonym. The novel exemplifies the psychologically driven crime fiction that made Quentin one of the most respected names in mid-century American suspense, blending domestic tension, moral ambiguity, and tightly controlled narrative pacing. The Random House Mystery imprint places this firmly within the golden-era tradition of quality hardcover crime publishing. This copy is particularly attractive. The book itself is Near Fine, with clean, bright pages and no underlining or annotations. The binding is tight and square, and the lightly textured boards remain crisp and unfaded. A small owner name label is present on the front flyleaf, accompanied by a discreet penciled date '8-1-76;' otherwise the interior is exceptionally clean and well preserved. The dust jacket is Very Good, showing light edge wear and age toning consistent with careful handling, but no major chips or losses. The bold, graphic jacket design - credited to Jerome Kuhl - is a strong example of late-1950s American mystery aesthetics and displays well in a protective sleeve. Notably, the jacket identifies this as a Book Club Edition, as expected for this issue. Overall, a sharp and highly presentable example of a classic Patrick Quentin title - ideal for collectors of American crime fiction, Random House Mystery editions, or mid-century dust-jacketed mysteries who value condition and visual appeal over strict first-edition status. Patrick Quentin was the shared pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler (1912-1987) and Richard Webb (1903-1965), whose collaborations produced some of the most psychologically sophisticated American crime novels of the 1940s-50s. Their work is frequently compared to Cornell Woolrich and Francis Iles for its emotional depth and narrative daring, and several Quentin novels were adapted for film and television, cementing their place in classic American mystery literature.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Offsetting to endpapers, else a very good hardback in a slightly darkened and rubbed jacket that has some very light chipping to the bottom of the front panel.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 208p 20cm. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories, American. Crime Fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 Texts. English literature; 20th century. English literature. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. paperback, pages browned, text otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, cover edges rubbed, Good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. A near fine copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition of the novel first published in the UK by Gollancz in 1959. Heavy four inch crease to the top left corner of the rear cover. Fading and reading creasing to the spine. The page edges are browned. The pages are browned but otherwise generally unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

First Edition. Class mark to title page and some uneven fading to boards. A good copy of this late Quentin crime story.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. The dust jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn. It is chipped at various places and also show some age related marks. It can still look acceptable with cellophane though. The boards are in a good condition. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front end page. The blocks too has some age related marks. Internally clean, except for some minor marks. Tightly bound and complete with 208 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1st ed. 1st edition, 1959. Dust jacket slightly worn at edges, with lightly browned spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO90043210: 1975. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 155 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine.

First Edition. First UK Paperback Edition 1962. A VG++ copy with no reading crease to the spine (appears to be unread). Pages toned due to the poor quality of paper used. From the front cover: 5 GUILTY PEOPLE 1 SMILING CORPSE ingredients for 'the one book nobody in their senses should miss' (NEW STATESMAN.). Great period cover art. A lovely copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.