*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 between Dibner & Duperrault. Martin Dibner’s Showcase tag-line is ‘bedroom and boardroom scenes alternate in this outspoken novel of department store life.’ There are two classic mysteries from Carter Dickson (a pseudonym of John Dickson Carr) featuring Sir Henry Merrivale: A Graveyard To Let and She Died A Lady. Something For Nothing by H Vernor Dixon is about a ruthless gambler. Stick or Bust by Ricky Drayton is one of those classic British gangster pulps of the 1950s with a typical good girl cover by Roger Davis. Finally, two sleazy volumes in one edition: Backwoods Shack and Spotlight On Sin, with heroines who would ‘stop at nothing’.
PICTURED:
MARTIN DIBNER: SHOWCASE Pan 1961 1st UK PB VG £4
CARTER DICKSON: A GRAVEYARD TO LET Berkley Medallion 1968 US PB GD/VG £5 (new in) SOLD
CARTER DICKSON: SHE DIED A LADY Penguin 1959 3rd UK PB VG £6 SOLD
H VERNOR DIXON: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING Hamish Hamilton 1953 1st UK PB GD £4
RICKY DRAYTON: STICK OR BUST Scion 1953 1st UK PB GD/VG £40
DOUG DUPERRAULT – SPOTLIGHT ON SIN / HARRY WHITTINGTON – BACKWOODS SHACK Lancer 2 for 1 1950s US PB VG/FN £20