Thursday, March 4, 2010

Author of the Week: Kathleen Moore Knight

KATHLEEN MOORE KNIGHT

A popular and prolific American writer and a staple of Doubleday’s Crime Club, Kathleen Moore Knight (1890-1984) wrote detective stories and suspense fiction, both under her own name and as Alan Amos. Although mainly associated with New England, fully half of her novels were set in Latin America, where her unattached heroines faced danger. The tone is mildly humorous, much like the work of Phoebe Atwood Taylor. All of the following titles are first editions published in N.Y. by the Doubleday Crime Club.

The Tainted Token, 1938. Very good ex-library copy. $17.50

Bells for the Dead, 1942. About fine in dust jacket with light chipping at spine ends and corners. $100.00

Trademark for a Traitor, 1943. Very good. $15.00

Design in Diamonds, 1944. Reprint. Cover stains, else good-very good in dust jacket. $10.00

Stream Sinister, 1945. Fine in dust jacket with minor wear at spine ends. $40.00

Stream Sinister, 1945. Near fine in dust jacket, which has a closed tear on front panel and light wear at edges. $20.00

Port of Seven Strangers, 1945. Very good in dust jacket with pencil scribbling on front flap and a 2" chip at base of spine. $17.50

Port of Seven Strangers, 1945. Very good. $15.00

The Trouble at Turkey Hill, 1946. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slightly darkened spine. $35.00

The Trouble at Turkey Hill, 1946. Good reading copy. $10.00

The Bass Derby Murder, 1949. Fine in dust jacket with trivial wear at top of spine and at bottom of rear panel. $60.00

The Bass Derby Murder, 1949. Previous owner’s inscription, else near fine in dust jacket, which has light wear at spine, corners and edges. $35.00

Dying Echo, 1949. Very good. $15.00

They’re Going to Kill Me, 1955. A fine, fresh copy in dust jacket with light wear at base of spine. $35.00

They’re Going to Kill Me, 1955. About fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear at spine ends and corners. $20.00

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