Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces (complete set in 51 volumes) by [various authors]

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Octavo, 51 volumes. Each volume bound in full decorative leather, with decorative endpapers, all edges either in gilt or silver, and silk ribbons. Volumes generally very good to near fine. Many volumes have the spines somewhat cocked, and nearly all have some old dust-soiling to the top edge, There is thus some attendant foxing to the top edges, but the books are uniformly lovely internally, with no markings or bookplates. A few volumes have the page blocks pulling just slightly from the spines. A vibrant set, with immense shelf presence, and an absolute must-have for any lover of detective fiction, crime fiction, and mysteries. Depending on the circumstances, postage may be extra. A full list of titles follows:. 39 Steps by John Buchan

Anatomy of Murder by Robert Traver

Ashenden (or British agent) by W. S. Maugham

Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake

Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine

Blood Sport by Dick Francis

Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich

Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Compulsion by Meyer Levin

Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace

D.A. Calls it Murder by Erle Stanley Gardner

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Door by Mary Rinehart

Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout

Ghostly Tales by Henry James

Great American Mysteries

Great British Mysteries

Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers

Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

Ipcress File by Len Deighton

Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

Laura by Vera Caspary

Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin

Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Man from the Sea by Michael Innes

Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy

Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie

Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers

Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh

Patience of Maigret by George Simenon

Payment Deferred by C. S. Forrester

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser

Raffles by E. W. Hornung

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne

Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

Thank you Mr. Moto and Mr. Moto is So Sorry by John P. Marquand

Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre

Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley.