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Underground - J. Jefferson Farjeon

1928 - Lincoln Mac Veagh, New York - First Edition
A superb example of the first edition in bright sharp dust jacket.

By one of Dorothy Sayer’s favourite authors who called him ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
 
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Thirteen Guests - Inscribed - J. Jefferson Farjeon

1936 - Collins, London - First Edition
Rare first edition, even more so in the original dust jacket and inscribed. The inscription is to his friend, the book collector ‘Eileen Cond. with very best wishes J. Jefferson Farjeon’ ‘January 1937’.

What to expect when thirteen guests are invited for a weekend party at Lord Aveling’s country-house. The guests include an attractive widow, an actress, an authoress, a journalist, a society artist, a county cricketer, an M.P. and a retired “sausage king”...

By one of Dorothy Sayer’s favourite authors who called him ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
 
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Seven Dead - J. Jefferson Farjeon

1939 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A rare example of what many consider to be Farjeon’s best work (the other being ‘Mystery in White’), in the fine bright sharp dust jacket. Featuring Detective Inspector Kendall.

Assumed first American edition, published the same year as the Collins edition of London, in a number of cases the Bobbs-Merrill edition was published earlier, and without further investigation we cannot prioritise which came first in this case. Both editions are rarely encountered in their dust jackets.

‘Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.

Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay and investigate’ –
British Library Crime Classics. 
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Murder By Nail. Being an Episode in the Career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street, with particulars of His Highly Original Methods in the Wrybook Case, set down by Ed. Brandonleigh, Gent. - Jeffery Farnol

1942 - Sampson, London - First Edition
A fine example of one of Farnol’s swashbuckling historic murder mysteries. 
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The Singing Bone - R. Austin Freeman

1912 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A lauded and listed collection of five stories, beginning with The Case of Oscar Brodski, by the ‘true and undoubted ‘parent’ of the scientific detective story in the highest meaning of the phrase.’ (Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure.) First edition, with misprinted quotation mark on the title-page.

Symons in
Murder for Pleasure stresses the originality of this collection of short stories, in which we see a crime committed, and then watch Dr. John Thorndyke discover and follow clues that lead to the criminal, a concept known as the ‘inverted tale’. Symons also admired Freeman’s accuracy in detail, a result of Freeman’s medical training and perhaps his work as a medical advisor at Holloway Prison, and Haycraft points out that no other literary criminologist has been paid tribute of having his fictional methods put into use by the real police.

These ‘Freeman 'inverted' tales were a monumental contribution to the development of the detective story, and from them have stemmed some of the great modern masterpieces of crime writing.’ – Ellery Queen,
Queen’s Quorum. 
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For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke - R. Austin Freeman

1934 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Superb example in bright sharp dust jacket 
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Dr. Thorndyke s Discovery - R. Austin Freeman

1932 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
A superior example of this Dr. Thorndyke mystery, published the same year in London as ‘When Rogues Fall Out’. 
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes - R. Austin Freeman

1933 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
A fine copy in nice example of this rather delicate dust jacket. 
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