OK so I admit I am lazy and don’t list all the authors in the Mystery Mags. The books shown here are but a small sample of my Charteris stock.

Paperback

Please state title post free in UK

£2.50

Most of my books can be posted, post free, to addresses in the UK. But you can always visit my shop if you can make it during my restricted opening times. Or you could even arrange for a special opening.

Julian Symons – The Progress of a Crime Fomtana £5.00

Simenon – Inspector Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife – Dell 1st 1957 £5.00 The Brothers Rico – £2.50

Educated Evans – Edgar Wallace – Tallis 1966 1st £4.00

John Creasey – Inspector West Cries Wolf  £2.50

Agatha Christie – Ten Little Niggers £2.50

Unfortunately Boardmen seem to have decided to contest with Penguin for the most boring cover art title, that was before they discovered Denis. Typical the boring covers are in great condition and the only good cover looks to have been used by someone to clean their boots, even worse in that it is a very rare book.

The 3rd Twin by Clay Henry. Like most Boardman Hard Backs this has served a sentence as a Library Book. The cover and boards though are in near vg condition, the same can not be said of the book, it looks like someone has taken a bite out of some pages, the text is 99.9% complete, but not complete. £2.50 (worth it for the jacket)

The Woman under the Mountain by Roman McDougald. I am presuming it is a Denis McLaughlin cover, his style but not signed. A very rare book in very poor condition.

Tied for Murder – Cortland Fitzsimmons – £5.00 (the label is on the bag not the book)

Murder at Belle Camille – Monte Barrett – £5.00 (Same Comment about Label)

No Face to Murder – Edith Howie – £10.00

The Yellow Overcoat – Stephen Acre –  £5.00

Dead Dogs Bite – E M Curtis – £5.00 (Not illustrated but plain Orange, penguin orange, cover)

These titles are all from 1929 and though complete have dodgy staples and have been read. I can’t find any of these titles for sale so have priced them at £20.00 each.

I don’t know what is worse the “House names” in later editions or the practice in these of listing no authors, though they do list other books written by the author they don’t name.

I now have 6930 titles in my pre ’72 paperback stock list… getting there.

Sleep No More – Sam S Taylor £2.50

Sabotage – Cleve F Adams – £2.50

Murder of a Nymph – Margot Neville – 1951 Pocket Book 1st £4.50

My Dead Wife – William Worley – 1951 Pocket Book 1st £4.00

Clash of Shadows – Howard Rigsby – £4.00

Mickey Spillane – Day of the Guns – £2.50

Rex Stout – The Red Box – a Nero Wolfe story – £2.50

Don’t need to say much about these authors all are well known to fans of the genre.

Poodle Springs – Raymond Chandler and Robert B Parker £2.50

Bad for the Baron – John Creasey £1.00

Help from The Baron – John Creasey £2.50

Mickey Spillane – My Gun is Quick £2.50

2 Guns for Hire – Neil MacNeil £3.50

I discovered Leslie Charteris and the Saint before TV added him to the list of characters ruined by either the wrong actors, poor script writers or the sanitisation squad. Not that I have anything against Roger Moore, that series was ruined by the script writers and TV Policy. As happened to Lovejoy and one of the worse crimes of all Pascoe and Dalziel (I did think Hale and Pace did it better). Wrong actors ruined the early Rebus and for me one of the worse, Banks. The later Rebus was better and Rowan Atkinson as Margret was a touch of genius, not that at the time I had anything against Rupert Davies or Michael Gambon. Branagh isn’t a patch on Henrickson, but I suppose that is a fault of the script writers, we should leave Nordic Noir alone and just show the sub-titled versions.

The featured today are available are all available at £2.50 except the best cover the Avon “follow the SAINT” at £5.00Title. I have other Leslie Charteris titles in stock by a variety of publishes and a variety of ages.

These include; Alias the Saint, Call for the Saint, Enter the Saint, Featuring the Saint, Follow the Saint, Return of the Saint, Saint Errant, Saint Overboard, Senor Saint, Thanks to the Saint, The Ace of Knaves, The avenging Saint, The Brighter Buccaneer, The Happy Highwayman, The Saint Ace of Knaves, The Saint and Mr Teal, The Saint Around the World, The Saint Bids Diamonds, The Saint Closes the Case, The Saint Goes On, The Saint Goes West, The saint in Europe, The Saint in London, The Saint in Miami, The Saint in New York, The Saint in the Sun, The Saint Intervenes, The Saint Meets His Match, The Saint on Guard, The Saint on the Spanish Main, The Saint on TV, The Saint Plays with Fire, The Saint Sees it Through, The Saint Steps In, The Saint to the Rescue, The Saint V Scotland Yard, The Saints Getaway, Trust The Saint and Vendetta for the Saint.