Offering these two volumes of Masterpieces of Mystery - selected by Ellery Queen - from the Nobel and Pulitzer price winning authors, 1976. This is volume two and three. Red leather hardboards with gold gilt ornamentation and letter on all three sides, hubbed spines; fine condition, no spine cracks, fraying, stains or creases. Page edges are tipped in gold gilt on all three sides. Pages are clean and crisp, looks as though these have never been read, pages still crack when fanned. Authors included are: Vincent Starrett, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner, Carter Dickson, George Harmon Coxe, Georges Simenon, Baynard Kendrick, JJ Marric, James Cain, Mignon, Eberhart, John MacDonald, Hugh Pentecost, Ross MacDonald, Eric Ambler, Rudyard Kipling, William Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, John Galsworthy, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, Marc Connelly, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Miller, Edna St Vincent Millay, Louis Bromfield, Stephen Vincent Benet, T S Stribling, John Marquand, Mark Van Doren, James Gould Cozzens, MacKinlay Kantor, and Kenneth Roberts. Beautiful books for display and enjoyment!