1. Creasey, John.

Inspector West at Bay. Unabridged.

3rd Printing. London, Pan Books Ltd., 1962. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 185 pages. Original Softcover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages tanned. Previous owner’s name in ink pen to half title page.

2. De La Torre, Lillian.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, Detector – Narrated as From the Pen of James Boswell. Including: the Unmasking of the Flying Highwayman; the singular Episode of the Monboddo Ape Boy; the Recovery of Prince Charlie’s vanisht Ruby, the stolen Christmas Box, and the pilfer’d Great Seal of England; also, the Detection of the mysterious Visitant in Mincing Lane, and the macabre Affair of the Wax-Work Cadaver.

London, MacMillan London Limited, 1985. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. X, 259 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor discolouing and foxing to endpapers and pastedowns.

3. Doyle, Arthur Conan.

The Last Galley – Impressions and Tales. With Illustrations.

First Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Octavo. Frontispice (in colour), VI, 298, (6) pages. With both illustrations present. Hardcover / Original, illustrated publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration to front board. Poor but firm condition with endpapers to front and rear perfectly attached. Some some minor staining to some pages. Wonderful collection of short stories by Doyle.