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Inspector Schmidt
Series · 32
books · 1936-1982

Books in series

#2

Ring Around a Murder

1936

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#3

Murder Half Baked

1937

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#5

Bird Walking Weather

1939

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#6

The Corpse With the Purple Thighs

1939

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#9

Red is for Killing

1954

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#10

Murder Calling “50”

1942

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#11

Dead on Arrival

1954

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection
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#14

In Cold Blood

1948

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
#15

The Starting Gun

1948

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#18

Blood Will Tell

1950

The Basingstoke is the grandest of the grand Park Avenue apartment houses. Like its residents, the building is immaculate, aloof, and oh, so correct. But Inspector Schmidt isn't surprised when he's called there to investigate the murder of one of New York's richest and, by all accounts, dirtiest old man. After all, at The Basingstoke, blood will tell.
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#20

The Corpse With Sticky Fingers

1952

The chic display window at Graham's was white-on-white until a bloody corpse turned up at the feet of the pretty mannequin. Inspector Schmidt was called in, just in time to find a second body, the one with the sticky fingers. From the president to the stockboy the vast department store paniced. A killer was amongst them. Through the babel of buiness routine and the eerie hours when danger seemed to lurk in every sheeted counter of the darkened store, Schmitty plugged on, determined to unearth the killer, crouched and ready to kill.
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#21

Scared to Death

1952

A rainy, nasty night in Manhattan. A taxi lurches to the curb, a door flies open, and a body tumbles into the gutter. The man, badly beaten but alive, tells an oddly unconvincing story of mistaken identity, before clamming up completely. The next day a man of similar build is fished from the East River, and inspector Schmidt is off on a most curious case, in which the corpse makes phone calls and even the killer is scared to death.
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#22

Dead drunk

1954

Ex-cop Al Malone wandered around NYC reeking and reeling in a drunken haze. His mysterious dismissal from the force was shrouded in peculiarities. Inspector Schmidt was a forgiving man, but Malone was another matter, a man whose hand he would not shake, and the man kept turning up all around town—-at a ball game with a notorious gambler, outside the Waldorf with a redhead wrapped in mink, and finally in the alley behind Inspector Schmidt's apartment with a bullet through his head. That got Schmitty interested in Malone, and professionally interested in the people who had made a man a drunk...and a dead drunk at that.
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#23

Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand

1953

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#24

The Body in the Basket

1954

Inspector Schmidt, and his amanuensis, Bagby, off their beat but still on the job in Spain where Bagby witnesses the theft of an oyster knife in a restaurant by Sally White of Georgia and later assists in the getaway of a shoe shine boy. A crazy case, this leads into trouble when the body of a Guardia Civil is delivered to Bagby to his hotel- in a clothes hamper- and ties together as a confidence racket is aired... A safe combination, these two, but not too difficult to break. \[from Kirkus Reviews\]
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#27

Dead Storage

1956

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#31

Evil Genius

1961

A boy wonder.a girl temptress.a fairytale called murder.
#34

Dirty Pool

1966

Gay male erotica espionage adventure.What appears to be a lighthearted interest in pool, billiards, and swapping beds among the male publisher, agent, editors, and authors of the Gleeson publishing house of London slowly turns sinister as it is revealed how deeply book publishing can be embroiled in espionage and international terrorism.Dark, sultry, and studly investigative reporter Ramu is in the process of adding bombshell exposé material to his book on the Al-Qaida-affiliated Indian terrorist organization Laskar-e-Taiba, still flush from its attention-getting seizure of and standoff at Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel. He finds he is in a race for time, however, and embroils the men of the publishing house around him in a deadly duel as the London sect of the Laskar-e-Taiba methodically endeavors to track him down before his book can be completed and published.
#35

Corpse Candle

1967

She is a singer, not a murderess, but the police think otherwise. The corpse was discovered in her living room, and all clues point to her guilt.
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#36

Another Day Another Death

1968

#38

Killer Boy Was Here

1970

#39

My dead body

1976

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#40

Two in the Bush

1976

HBK
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#41

Innocent Bystander

1977

#42

The Tough Get Going

1977

First edition. Bagby, New York City mystery writer, tries to solve the murder of his friend, a newspaperman. Presentation from Stein on free endpaper. x, 178 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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#43

Better Dead

1978

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#44

Guaranteed to Fade

1978

First edition. Another in a series of New York City murder cases in which George Bagby, mystery writer, helps solve. This one involves the death of Tommy Thomas and his six ex-wives. viii, 180 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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#45

I Could Have Died

1979

FIRST BRITISH EDITION, Robert Hale, published 1980. Original first edition published by Crime Club by Doubleday (c) 1979. An Inspector Schmidt mystery. Hardcover with dust jacket, 184 pages, 20 cm.
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#46

Mugger's day

1979

First edition. One of a long series of detective stories taking place in New York City with George Bagby, mystery writer, helping to solve a murder. This time the murderer is a mugger. Presentation from the author on the front free endpaper. viii, 184 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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#47

Country and Fatal

1980

Nice clean hardcover, retired library copy, plastic cover over illustrated dustjacket
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#48

A Question of Quarry

1981

First edition. Published for the Crime Club. Mystery writer G. Bagby hasn't offended anyone as far as he knows, doesn't write about the criminal underworld from first-hand experience, and knows no secrets requiring his voluntary or involuntary silence. None of which, apparently, discourages hitmen. But why? George Bagby is a pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein. Jacket lightly worn around corners. Ex library copy with small stamp at bottom of title page. viii, 181 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. small 8vo..
#50

The Golden Creep

1982

Mystery writer George Bagby has an instinct for trouble. But when he wanders into a nightclub called The Topless Towers - for no better reason than that he's intrigued by the name - Bagby finds himself in the biggest trouble of his life. On his first night at the club, he meets a strange cast of the Topless Towers chorus line, a comedian who calls himself "The Face, " a menacing wrestler, and affluent customer Paul Peters, The Golden Creep. Peters, who richly deserves his nickname, doesn't take very kindly to the writer, and Bagby finds himself waylaid at gunpoint. The incident fizzles out, and Bagby leaves the club - but he doesn't get very far. He wakes up the next morning in the Topless Towers alleyway, with the very dead body of Paul Peters lying next to him. Bagby is the prime suspect in the murder of The Golden Creep, and he needs all the help he can get from his friend Inspector Schmidt of the N.Y.PD. to get him out of it . . .

Authors

Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Author · 48 books

Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays. He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her new husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born businessman. Mr. Capote adopted Truman, legally changing his last name to Capote and enrolling him in private school. After graduating from high school in 1942, Truman Capote began his regular job as a copy boy at The New Yorker. During this time, he also began his career as a writer, publishing many short stories which introduced him into a circle of literary critics. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948, stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and became controversial because of the photograph of Capote used to promote the novel, posing seductively and gazing into the camera. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction. His masterpiece, In Cold Blood, a story about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, was published in 1966 in book form by Random House, became a worldwide success and brought Capote much praise from the literary community. After this success he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59.

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