Mystery from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1994. PB. good, wraps (softcover) signed by the author. ISBN 0865342237 125pp.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Pub, 1981. HC. fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W and color ill.. ISBN 0810916096 A treasure-house of long-hidden or -forgotten Sherlockiana. Reprinted here are countless examples of fabled but long-unseen American Sherlockian art: story illustrations, comic strips and cartoons, motion picture advertisements, and business advertisements incorporating the Holmes image. 240pp.

New York: Workman Publishing, 1979. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0894801082 MURDERESS INK grills almost every woman who ever wrote a mystery (and even some of the men). It snoops on their snoops: Miss Marple. Nora Charles. Hitchcock's heroines. OO7's playmates. And every dame in the Chandler books. 304pp.

Hanover, NH: Univ. Press of New England, 2006. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 1584655852 Two page corners were turned down at some point in time. 289pp.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2002. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 1585672335 279pp.

Olney, MD: Dames of Dectection, 2017. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 9781947915015 368pp.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1995. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) Long OWNER INSCRIPTION. ISBN 0892965584 Long Owner's Inscription on Front Free Endpaper. 353pp.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1999. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0892966823 "The man lies dead in the middle of the railroad tracks, head and hands amputated by an onrushing freight train. Dressed in tatered clothes, he looks like a vagrant. Yet Gunther is suspicious." 339pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2005. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0892968168 "Called to the scene to investigate, Joe Gunther instantly recognizes arson. But by Whom? And for what possible reason? SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ON THE TITLE PAGE. 310pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0671659146 192pp.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 039449573X WITH A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF OVER 100 WOMEN DETECTIVES, 1861-1974. Women detectives were solving mysteries more than a quarter-century before Sherlock Holmes, yet in the suspense genre, they have often been as well hidden as the vital clue. This anthology presents fifteen female sleuths… Read more about this item

Adams Basin, NY: The Wild Rose Press, Inc, 2016. PB. fine, wraps (softcover) signed and inscribed by the author. ISBN 9781509208081 166pp.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0060176601 244pp.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0060175265 229pp.

New York: Scribner, 1995. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0684800039 351pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) owner's bookplate. Owner's bookplate on front-free endpaper. 184pp.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) EX-LIB with usual markings. EX-LIB with some markings. Tight copy, chipping to original dustjacket, and colors on spine of dustjacket faded a tad. 315pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) - EX-LIB - SEE NOTE. An EX-LIB copy with usual markings, slight cant to book block, old library repairs to inside of dustjacket. Wear on dustjacket - not pretty, but nice to have the dustjacket. 234pp.

Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc, 1981. HC. very good++, pictorial boards (hardcover). B&W and color illustrations. 128pp.

New York: Facts On File, 1990. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0816020981 A guide to the novels, novelists and characters of this gripping literary genre--from the fictional melodrama of the mid-1800s to John le Carre's RUSSIA HOUSE and beyond. 346pp.