MULTIPLYING VILLAINIES: Selected Mystery Criticism, 1942-1968
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First edition of this collection of selected reviews and critical writing by Boucher, including his essays "Baker Street Immortal" and "Opera and Murder."
First printing of the Armchair Detective Library edition of this thrilling Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a clean, beautiful copy.
First edition in book form of these popular comedic stories, featuring a simple midwestern man who learns detective work via a correspondence school course advertising: "We can make you the equal of Sherlock Holmes in twelve lessons."
First printing of these collected adventures of Derleth's Sherlockian pastiches starring detective Solar Pons, with an introduction by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.
First printing of the fourth volume of Derleth's Sherlock Holmes pastiches, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher and chronology by Robert Pattrick.
First printing of these three collected adventures of the sub-Sherlockian detective Solar Pons.
First edition of this fourth collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
First edition of this collection of Derleth's pastiche homages to Doyle, starring detective Solar Pons and his Watsonian chronicler, Dr. Lyndon Parker.
First printing of the author's first novel, an account of Holmes's drug-dreamy investigation into the Ripper murders.
The first appearance of the Gothic-tinged Sherlock Holmes novel as it original appeared in nine individual issues of the STRAND.
First printing of this eminent scion publication, the fourth in a series begun in 1949 that includes many classics of Sherlockian scholarship.
First printing of this thriller, in which Holmes heeds a plea from the Queen to find the killer that eludes Scotland Yard in the notorious Jekyll-Hyde case.
First paperback edition of this genre-crossing double pastiche, originally published in 1978 and reprinted as part of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.
First printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
Signed first printing of this unrecorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke, by the pastiche artist's pastiche artist, Philip José Farmer.
Uncorrected bound galleys of Frost's novel, an occult murder mystery starring Arthur Conan Doyle and Madame Blavatsky, with epilogue still concealed under the sealed back cover flap.
Review copy of the third novel in Gardner's trilogy, which began with the counter-intuitively titled RETURN OF MORIARTY, continued with REVENGE OF MORIARTY, and here concludes with, simply — MORIARTY.
First US edition of the second novel in Gardner's Sherlockian pastiche series, following THE RETURN OF MORIARTY.
Early printing of the only novel by actor and playwright Gillette, early and influential portrayer of Sherlock Holmes on stage and screen.
Inscribed first printing of this turn-of-the-century anthology of Sherlockian short fiction by Anne Perry, Edward D. Hoch, Stuart M. Kaminsky, and others.
First printing of this anthology of new Sherlock Holmes stories by Stephen King, Stuart Kaminsky, Lillian de la Torre, and others, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the detective's first appearance in print.
First US edition of these collected early American detective stories by Richard Harding Davis, Frederick Irving Anderson, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and others.
First US edition of Greene's third anthology of detective stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Arthur Morrison, Jacques Futrelle, and other contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle.
First printing of this suspenseful pastiche set early in Holmes's career about the investigation of the suspicious death of a mining mogul in a snowbound, isolated mansion.
First printing of this suspenseful Holmes and Watson pastiche about a missing jewel of royal Scotland.