*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze category for authors from Clarke to Della. Donald Henderson Clarke features with a very vintage paperback from 1940, a rare edition of Impatient Virgin, which would have bene very risque in its day; great good girl cover art on this by Merlin. There are three Solar Pons collections by Basil Copper, the second author to tackle this excellent Sherlock Holmes homage after August Derleth. Just one Gervase Fen Mystery from Edmund Crispin, but a good one: The Case Of The Gilded Fly; Fen is a great eccentric and one of the greatest creations of 20th Century British detective fiction (wish we had more!). Finally, Lew Della contributes an American edition of a British gangster pulp: Ladies Sleep Alone. 
PICTURED:
IMPATIENT VIRGIN by DONALD HENDERSON CLARKE John Long 1940 1st UK PB VG £30
SOLAR PONS #9: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS by BASIL COPPER Pinnacle 1979 1st US PB FN/VF £11
SOLAR PONS #10: THE SECRET FILES OF SOLAR PONS by BASIL COPPER Pinnacle 1979 1st US PB FN/VF £11 SOLD
SOLAR PONS #11: THE UNCOLLECTED CASES OF SOLAR PONS by BASIL COPPER Pinnacle 1980 1st US PB VG £8
THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY by EDMUND CRISPIN Penguin UK PB VG £3 SOLD
LADIES SLEEP ALONE by LEW DELLA Archer 1951 1st US PB VG/FN £20