Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection Part 9, 112325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 23, 2025 - November 23, 2025
Page Size: 320 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 J. S. Fletcher

The House in Tuesday Market

New York 1929 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
177 Valentine Williams

The Clue of the Rising Moon

1935 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
178

Two Flights Up by Mary Roberts Rinehart

New York 1928 AUD 399.00 - 499.00 AUD 241.30
179

Strange Murders at Greystones Elsie N Wright

Cleveland, OH 1931 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
180 Francis Lynde

Young Blood

NY 1929 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 349.25
181 Mark Lee Luther & Lillian C Ford

The Saranoff Murder

Indianapolis 1930 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
182 Nora and George E. Jorgenson

The Circle of Vengeance

New York 1930 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
183 Percival Wilde

Mystery Week-End

New York 1938 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 635.00
184

Murder In Haste Garnett Weston

1935 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 254.00
185 Charles Givens

THe Rose Petal Murders

New York 1935 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
186 Whitman Chambers

Contraband Coast

London 1928 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
187 Charles Rushton

Furnace For A Foe

1951 AUD 200.00 - 250.00 AUD 190.50
188 Lawrence Lynch

The New Detective Story The Diamond Coterie

Chicago 1884 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
189 Robert Bloch

Night-World

1972 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
190 Robert Harris, editor

John Creasey's Crime Collection

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
191 Francis Beeding

The Five Flamboys

Boston 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
192 Dorothy Bowers

Shadows Before

1940 AUD 300.00 - 500.00 AUD 190.50
193 Edgar Wallace

The Twister

Garden City, New York 1929 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
194 George Bagby

Coffin Corner

New York 1949 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
195 Frank L Packard

Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour: the Gray Seal and the Tocsin again join forces in a thrilling battle against the underworld

New York 1935 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 152.40
196 Ruth Darby

Beauty Sleep

1942 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
197 Guy Compton

1) Too Many Murderers

1962 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 190.50
198 Frank L Packard

The Wire Devils

New York 1918 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 25.40
199 August Derleth

The Seven Who Waited

New York 1943 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 317.50
200 Max Long

The Lava Flow Murders

Philadelphia 1940 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
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