The Inspector Guy Northeast Mysteries [2 volumes: They Rang Up the Police; Death at The Dog]

Boulder CO: The Rue Morgue Press. 1999. Reprint. Softcover. Near Fine. [nice copies, both essentially as-new with no significant wear, but each with a previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the inside rear cover]. Trade PB A pair of English-village mystery yarns, both featuring Inspector Guy Northeast, described in the books' introductions as "a big, raw-boned man whose youth, slowness of speech and lack of formal education belie his very real gift for police work," and who is "a complicated character, filled with longings and regrets and saddled with unvoiced ambitions." These books, originally published in England in 1939 and 1941 respectively, were the only two Inspector Guy Northeast mysteries ever written; "Death" was published in the U.S. in 1941, but this paperback edition was the first American edition of "They Rang." The author wrote a number of other novels (both mystery and non-mystery) as well as some books for children. .