Detective “Pulps”

UNIVERSAL DETECTIVE – A Daring Publication February 1947 Vol 1 #2

Another Daring publication that I have failed to find on ‘tinterweb published and printed in Toonto in 1947. This copy has closed tears but otherwise vg

£20.00

All complete but not that sure where I have put them. I do like the type casting on the FBI Detective Cover, the clean cut Dick, the innocent Kid and the sly looking kidnapper complete with cig.

Short Stories 1949 June £ James Francis Dwyer – Berton E Cook – Gordon Keyne – H Bedford-Jones – Kerry O’Neil – Donald Barr Chidsey
F B I Detective Stories 0 Richard Deming – Larry Holden – Bruce Cassiday – Tedd Thomey
Detective Tales 1955 April W C Gault – Charles Beckman – Margaret Manners – Frank Scott York – Frank Gruber – Jules Archer – A E Grisman – Walt Sheldon
Black Mask 1947 October D L Champion – RC Dennis – Jack Karney – CM Kornbluth

Black Mask October 1947 British Edition

Contributions from L Champion -R C Dennis – Jack Karney – C M Kornbluth Through the post to UK Address £7.50

£7.50

Detective Tales April 1955 – British Edition

W C Gault – Charles Beckman – Margaret Manners – Frank Scott York – Frank Gruber – Jules Archer – A E Grisman – Walt Sheldon Through the post (UK)

£7.50

FBI Detective Stories 1950 (I think)

Richard Deming – Larry Holden – Bruce Cassiday – Tedd Thomey To UK address

£7.50

Short Stories June 1949

James Francis Dwyer – Berton E Cook – Gordon Keyne – H Bedford-Jones – Kerry O’Neil – Donald Barr Chidsey Through the post £7.50

£7.50

Detective Tales IV 10 – August 1956 (British edition)

Stories by GT Fleming-Roberts – Zeta Rothschild – Walter Kubilius – DL Champion – Charles Beckman – Ray Cummings Through Post (UK) £7.50

£7.50

Black Mask Detective April 1951 (British Edition)

Including complete book length novel by John D MacDonald “Tri-Kill Cutie”. I think a “technical” description of this copy would be complete but tatty. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

Peter James – Dead if you Don’t

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Brighton this time with Roy Grace. Demonstrating all the requirements to fit the “modern” detective genre. A boss who speaks gobbledygook is an idiot and has a name to suit (apologies to anyone named Caspian or Pewe), a set of detectives with confused relationship problems, a set of criminals devising twisted and evil ways to torture and kill and a set of victims that have many faults of their own.

Added together though, with a quick moving engaging plot, all it needs to challenge Nordic Noir is for the hero to go to the toilet now and again. All in all though this is a great series that I would recommend. I can’t say I have copies of every one of them in the shop, and can’t go up to check, but as I have read nearly all of them, I must have a fair number.

Just pondering, would it be OK under current rules to offer free delivery of books purchased on-line (just in the Spen Valley).

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