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[004864] Allingham, Margery; Flowerdew, Herbert; Tyrer, Walter; Holt, Henry; Roche, Arthur Somers; Evans, Gwyn. Broadsheet Novels – The Black Dudley Murder; The Room of Mirrors; The Hangman’s Daughter; The Midnight Mail; The Case Against Mrs. Ames; Hercules Esq. London: The Amalgamated Press, First Thus. Folio. Unbound. Broadsheet. Good. Six ‘broadsheet novels’, n.d. but probably late 1930’s. Newspaper format, stapled as issued, each with the original belly-band

Lightly browned, most of the staples rusted, with creases from folding, a few small nicks and tears, but generally clean

Probably all issued, as no further titles are mentioned on the back pages, all are probably abridged

The Allingham was first released in the UK in book form as The Crime At Black Dudley in 1929; the Flowerdew in 1912; Tyrer in 1936; Holt in 1931; Roche in 1934; and Evans in 1930

The originals all appear in Hubin’s crime fiction bibliography