Mystery--Suspense--Thriller (paperback) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: Avon nn, Popular Library 70, Dell 747, Dell 851, Berkley G-145 Book. Reading copies (Fair to Good). Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five stories of money, mystery, murder, and a whole bunch of other words that don't start with "m". The Biggers title features Charlie Chan, the Freeman gives us Dr. Thorndyke,… Read more about this item

New York: Warner Paperback 65-894, 1972. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist", William Edward Daniel (Dan) Ross, who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1912, and died there in 1995, just a couple of weeks before his 83rd birthday. He wrote half-a-quadrillion books… Read more about this item

Toronto: Collins White Circle 60, 1943. Book. Near Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Edwy Searles Brooks. A Norman Conquest wartime adventure, this one following his adventures as "he succeeds in getting in and out of a German prison camp and brings back priceless information." 192 pages. Moderately cocked,… Read more about this item

Hammondsworth: Penguin 1105, 1955. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. The 16th Detective Arthur Crook title, telling the story of a murder victim feared and hated by all who knew him, and whose death results in nothing close to sadness or remorse. 219 pages… Read more about this item

Toronto: Harlequin 132, 1951. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. When "a biographer of unusual women" digs into the past of a woman found "dead in a strange automobile accident," he uncovers the years "which marked her vivid transition from adolescent slut and consort of Chicago hoodlums to Hollywood tramp, from wily strip-teaser… Read more about this item

Toronto: Harlequin 64, 1950. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Harlequin edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. First published in hardcover in 1942 under the title "The X-Ray Murders'. Introduces Wood Jaxon, a detective "with an undeniable appetite for food, drink, big fees, action and good looking women" (it's astounding how few detectives are looking for repulsive-looking women, or,… Read more about this item

Zenith nn, Starbooks nn, Red Seal/Gold Medal 14, Paperback Library 53-640, Crest 179 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A 5-item lot of mystery/suspense/thriller titles featuring, in order: a "woman-prone" fellow who is also "a misfit, a man without a future" plunged "into a life which combines sybaritic luxury and hair-trigger… Read more about this item

Toronto: News Stand Library R03, 1948. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Here, boys and girls, in this 2nd printing of the paperback original, set "Against a background of Mexico's hills and deserts and simple villagers," we have "Love, passion, cruelty and ignorance" all mixed up with "a lusty patchwork of passion, murder and… Read more about this item

Chicago: Merit Book 684 / Camerarts Publishing, 1963. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback original. The back cover informs us that "The negligee was artfully fashioned to conceal much of the near-naked flesh beneath, yet with each sinuous movement of her body, it revealed flashing glimpses of the beauty… Read more about this item

New York: Ace Star K-287, 1967. Book. Illus. by Bob Schinella (cover illustration). Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The third Inspector Finch gothic mystery, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1955 (the date on the copyright page, but incorrect for this paperback edition), When her husband dies in an… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Black Lizard Books, 1987. Book. About Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A classic from one of hardboiled mystery fiction's giants. This one tells the story of a guy who has fallen so low that he ends up in the gutter that is River Street, "where the concrete ends and the jungle… Read more about this item

New York: Popular Library 192 / Better Publications of Canada, 1949. Book. Illus. by Rudolph Belarski (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing of a title first published in hardcover in 1941 by Henry Holt. Mike Shayne is ready for a vacation "when a doped-up girl, who had explosive evidence… Read more about this item

Toronto: White Circle CD 448, 1950. Book. Illus. by Murray Durrett (cover illustration). About Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Set in 18th century London, this is the story of "two women so alike, no man, not even a lover, could tell them apart" (probably not, but I suspect that it would be a lot… Read more about this item

London : Star 39613, 1977. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The fifth novel by Burroughs, being a compilation of selections from earlier works ('Naked Lunch,' 'The Soft Machine,' and 'The Ticket That Exploded,') with some previously unpublished material. 223 pages. Internally tight w/saw-cut remainder stripe to top edge,… Read more about this item

New York: Manor 12270, 1975. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The fifth title in De Mille's Detective Sergeant Joe Keller series, this one telling us the story of Keller tracking down a cannibalistic Vietnam veteran who is feasting on a few denizens of New York City. This was republished a few… Read more about this item

Toronto: Harlequin 84, 1950. Book. Fair Reading Copies. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A Rush Henry mystery, this one finding our Chicago detective in a hospital in Des Moines, suffering from amnesia, but still needing to solve the mystery of a fatal car crash that seems to be more than an accident. 160 pages.… Read more about this item

Toronto: White Circle 512, 1951. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A Norman Conquest crime story, this one finding our honesty-challenged adventurer trying to find the real killer of a Spanish millionaire (the "real killer," you say? I wonder if O.J.'s busy these days?). 160 pages. Slightly cocked w/a 3/4" tear to… Read more about this item

New York: Dell 594, Dell First Edition A111, Dell U333, 900, 476 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five vintage titles of suspense and murder, one featuring Jupiter Jones (the Fuller title), and another showcasing Johnny Liddell (the Kane), with the Gordon giving us the best cover blurb of the bunch: "His… Read more about this item

New York: Dell 505/749/D298/850/662 Book. Illus. by Bob Stanley, Carl Bobertz, Victor Kalin, William Rose, James Meese (cover illustrations). Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five titles with a focus on America's favourite past-time: murder. In these titles we have murder in Natchez, murder on the West Coast, murder on Broadway,… Read more about this item

Chatsworth: Canyon Books 107, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Kin Platt. The second title in Carr's Hitman series, this one finding our intrepid hero, Mike Ross, battling killers who are "murdering police officers and leaving a trail of disfigured female bodies behind them [and] doing it systematically,… Read more about this item