James Corbett A collection of 23 titles, 21 first editions, 3 with dust jackets, including: The White Angel, the author’s first novel, title and first gathering coming loose, child’s ink marks opposite title and to cloth, Herbert Jenkins, 1931; Murder at Red Grange, lacking front free endpaper, ownership inscription to pastedown, 1931; Death comes to Fanshawe, 1933; Red Dagger, ink signature and lending library label to front endpaper, 1934; Red Farm Mystery, lacking front free endpaper, 1935; Murder while you wait, lacking front free endpaper, tape residue to pastedowns and half-title, 1937; Rendezvous with Death, ink signature to front free endpaper, 1937; Who was the Killer?, some splitting to joint internally, lacking free endpapers, 1939; The Lion's Mouth, some splitting to joint internally, ink dates to front free endpaper, 1941; When Death Walks, ownership inscription relating to Bletchley to front free endpaper: ‘Fl. Sgt. H. R. Mahler (?) Bletchley, England September 14, 1943’, 1941; Murder minus Motive, 1943; The Hound of Death, c.1944; Agent No. 5, 1945; Death by Appointment, 1945; Death is my Shadow, dust jacket, 1947; Gallows Wait, dust jacket, some loss at foot of spine, 1947; Rendezvous with Danger, 1948; At Dawn I Die, 1949; The Somerville Case, 1949; Death makes a Date, 1950; Murder begets Murder, second imp., ink inscriptions and lending library label to front endpaper, 1951; The Merrivale Mystery, popular edition, n.d.; The Carteret Hotel Mystery, first American edition, ink signature to front free endpaper, dust jacket, some loss at head of spine, price-clipped, Roy publishers, New York, c.1948; some spotting and staining, 8vo (23) ***James Corbett (1887 - 1958) served during World War One and later became a thriller writer. Corbett is noted for his eccentric prose style: “He sat up like a full-blown geranium.”