Gwenyth Conyth (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Irene is mistaken for an escapee from an insane asylum, and with a headless nurse and a corpse that keeps moving, they might lock her up anyway. Reprint, first published in 1946. Spine sunned.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A young woman runs away to become an actress in New York and ends up investigating the murder of two old maids at the boarding house where she stays. Rue Morgue review copy. Reprint, first published in 1941. Fine, as new condition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Gloria escapes a murder attempt, has some plastic surgery, and returns, with a new husband, as Jane. When her first husband's new fiancee is murdered, each thinks the other is guilty. Reprint, first published in 1948. Tiny nick to the upper rear spine fold.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 160. Red-orange cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine: board edges rubbed, light soiling to the head edge. In the color illustrated dust jacket with Crime Club device, price 7/6 intact on the front flap: spine ends and back corners chipped with magic tape reinforcements verso, short closed tears, light soiling. The twelfth humorous murder mystery from Australian sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little who had a lengthy run as mystery writers mostly in their adopted home of Newton, NJ. Other than their debut novel (1938), "Black" was used in subsequent titles. (Their English publisher employed the pen-name portmanteau "Conyth.") Unlike many mystery novels of Golden Age Detection, their sleuths, whether a ballerina, a nurse, an heiresses, et al., are always female; the male protagonists serve as mere foils. Moreover, wacky, screwball plots prevail, fulfilling the publisher's promise of "homicide and humor." HUBIN, p. 216. Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US hardback stated first edition. Good overall with some faint stains to bottom corner area of pastedowns and endpapers. Has the bookplate of writer Paul Tabori to ffep. No jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6.25 x 4.25", pict wraps, 189pp + publ. list, covers rubbed, lightly soiled and creased, pp toned; a good copy of the second mystery novel by the sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little (aka Conyth Little). INSCRIBED "To David, affectionately" AND SIGNED BY GWENYTH LITTLE; ALSO SIGNED BY CONSTANCE LITTLE. Gwenyth first mis-spelled "David" and has crossed it out above her inscription. SCARCE signatures!