Webb Quentin (45 results)

Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.

Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. There are no stickers on book or rips in dust cover.

paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Pearson Digital Learning Pub Date: 1/1/2000 Binding: Paperback Pages: 8 Reprint edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good-. 1st printing, Nov. 1959; #D322. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Creasing; wedge and corner wear; tanning; a little musty; intyernal marks in pencil on three pages; minor top end wet spots.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1940s. BB F778. "Murder weaves a malevolent trap." Edge wear with roughness along the top and fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Push-Pin Studios (cover design) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1950s of a 1st thus of a mystery from the mid 1930s. Dell Book D190. # 4 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear. Moderate browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bill George (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of an mid 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s Peter Duluth mystery. Dell Book 759. GGA cover. "She was starry-eyed innocent, wistful and adoring, moving Peter Duluth, the sophisticated theatrical producer, to a surprising fatherly tenderness - in the absence of his wife" Light edge wear with creasing to the covers. Rubbing to the spine hinges. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Geygan (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A 1st thus of an early 1950s PB edition of a an early 1950s mystery. Dell Book 710. GGA cover. "To lose her was torment, to find her - death!" Light edge wear with faint rubbing to the front cover and a little more so to the spine hinges. Mild spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An early 1960s reprint of a mystery novel from the mid 1930s. BB F741. "A homicidal maniac in a lunatic asylum." Light edge wear with roughness along the fore edge of the front cover (silverfish). Light toning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The second Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-library with stamps to the front end papers. Lightly bumped, rubbed with small stains. Spine cocked, rear hinge loose. Staple holes to the front free end paper, jacket blurb glued to the rear pastedown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Collection Petit Format, Montreal, 1951 222 pp; clean example with general wear to the covers, likely an unread (at least completely) copy as several of the leaves remain uncut. Rare French Canadian paperback edition of this novel. Erle Stanley Gardner is named as the author on the title page. perhaps in an attempt to sell more copies. NOTE: Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 - 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 - December 1966), Martha Mott Kelly (30 April 1906-2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 - 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. (Canadian Vintage Paperback, Erle Stanley Gardner).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of fifth novel in the "Peter Duluth" series. Later published under the title "Love is Deadly". Basis for the movie "Female Fiends". Slight fading to the cover. Several 1/4-inch closed-tears to the edge of the dustjacket. Light rubbing to the dustjacket. In very good / very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Peter Duluth's wife has left him, and it is tied in with the murder of another woman. Ex-library with stamps to the rear end paper. Bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, flaps glued to the pastedowns. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The first Peter Duluth mystery. Ex-rental library with internal stamps and remnants of a stamp pad on the rear end paper. Lightly bumped and rubbed, print on the spine slightly faded. Looks pretty good on the shelf but the boards and text block are creased from a pressure indent. Front hinge cracked, a bit of pocking to the edges of the text block and the remnants of an Inner Sanctum promotional piece glued to the pastedowns. Good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Quentin Blake (illustrator). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1965. 1st edition thus. Soft cover. 234 p; b & w drawings. Very Good: spine creased with light wear and rubbing to back edge and a little to front corners; else a very clean and sound copy. Patrick Campbell's short and witty pieces are beautifully matched by Quentin Blake's drawings; an excellent combination!

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol 13 # 63 of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1949. Contains a novelette by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler & Richard Wilson Webb - The Jack of Diamonds) and stories by Philip Macdonald (Two Exploits of Harry the Hat), Quentin Reynolds (Never Trust a Murderer), Eric Ambler (Case of the Landlady's Brother), , Jacques Futrelle (The Leak), Thomas Walsh (The Good Prospect), Raoul Whitfield, (The Rainbow Murders Begin), A E Coppard (A Broadsheet Ballad), Barry Perowne (Up the Garden Path), Joseph Harrington (Painted Faces) and others. Light wear at the edges. Ink scribble at the top center of the front cover and "A1-18" written in black grease pencil at the top center of the back cover. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. First published in the UK in 1955, this is a reprint edition of 1975. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 223pp. They called his wife a murderess. And his guilty passion was her only alibi. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good +. First Canadian Edition. 222 pp; general wear & soiling to the covers (including a crease to the front cover), small tear to half-title page, previous owner's name & initials on inside. Rare French Canadian paperback edition of this novel. Curiously, Erle Stanley Gardner is identified as the author on the title page! [97].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex Sam Remo Hotel, Torquay Library but with only a couple of discreet stamps and bookplate to ffep. Some edge wear, chipping and closed tears to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, scratch to bottom spine, some overall dust and time staining, not price clipped (12/6), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 222pp. John Hamilton left his lucrative job with a New York advertising agency to move to the country and try his hand at painting. His first show is not a success and he is under some pressure from his wife Linda, to return to the city to make some money. Linda is having increasing difficulty coping with the dullness of life in the country and has succumbed to alcoholism, although she is able to keep this completely secret from everybody except John. So when John returns from a business trip to find his paintings slashed and Linda missing, later to be found dead, he cannot prove how unstable and violent she had become and the suspicions of the locals put him firmly in the frame for her murder. Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Firstedition. first impression. Ex library with usual library mess and defects. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (10/6), no personal inscriptions, 2nd ffep torn away, some browning and spotting to page block, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 223pp. Jonathan Duluth, a chief partner in a publishing firm funded by millionaire Ronald Sheldon. Jonathan is still dealing with his fractious relationship with his son Bill, the pair of them both still suffering from the inexplicable suicide of their wife and mother three years previously. Added into the mix is the return of Ronald, after a six month stay in Europe, bringing unexpectedly a new bride and his in laws, all of whom are to live handsomely at the expense of Ronald. Jonathan is far from easy about this new arrangement, are the Lacey family on the make, with gold digging plans in mind? Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87), Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66), Martha Mott Kelley (1906-2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902-84), collaborated to write detective fiction. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. A scarce book, even as ex library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover, pages toning,in a good dustjacket with loss to the top and bottom to the spine , wear to the extremities, and is price clipped. The 5th novel in the Peter Duluth mystery series, a Broadway director, WWII veteran, and recovering alcoholic, along with his wife Iris, amateur sleuths, working in New York City NY USA. This novel is the basis for the 1958 U.K. film "A Strange Awakening" (U.S. title "Female Fiends") starring Lex Barker. Also published as "Love Is A Deadly Weapon".

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Puzzles of Peter Duluth was written by Patrick Quentin (Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler) and has an Introduction by Curtis Evans, a Postscript by Mauro Boncompagni and an Afterword by Joanna Gondris. The book was published by Crippen and Landru Publishers in 2016 and is a stated First Edition as such. (All of the short stories within were previously published, but this is the first time they've been collected in this format.) It's a hard cover book in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics Series, is beautifully done (as ALL Crippen & Landru books are), and would make a simply great gift, to yourself, or any classic mystery lover. If you've not "discovered" Crippen & Landru Publishers (Doug Green), or The Lost Classics Series . . . treat yourself, or someone you'd like to impress! Both the book and the dust jacket are in near fine condition and the book you'll be getting is still in its shrink wrap. Thank you!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone, Raymond Briggs and Quentin Blake (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stories by Joan Aitken, Roald Dahl and Russell Hoban amongst others. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, Raymond Briggs, Pauline Baynes, John Ryan, Quentin Blake amongst Original glazed boards as issued. A very good plus copy of a very attractive period item. All books outside the UK are sent airmail and those over £30 are tracked; those inside the UK are signed for. Paypal accepted.

Octavo, two-part boards. First edition. Collects a novelette and eleven short stories. The title story won the 1962 Edgar Award. In 1964, "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow" was filmed for television as an episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR. Queen's Quorum 119. Top edge foxed, a very good copy in good to very good dust jacket with rubbing and light wear at edges. (#134904).

First edition. Octavo, boards. Collects twelve stories. "Anthony Boucher, in the New York Times, said, "Patrick Quentin is one of the truly great plotters in the field of suspense." Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 864-65. [Reference: Hubin pp. 661-662. Queen's Quorum 119]. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges, front and spine panels. (22453).