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Detective Book Club 3-in-1 Mystery Omnibuses for 1942

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The Detective Book Club's first volume was issued for April 1942.
Cover image for Detective Book Clyb 3-in-1 for The Case Of The Empty Tin; Evil Under The Sun; A Pinch Of Poison       from 1942 Detective Book Club for April 1942. The very first 3-in-1. Reproduced in both a deluxe limited edition and in a regular edition (i.e. no dust jacket, pictorial cover) in 1969.
  • Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case Of The Empty Tin (1941 Morrow)
  • Christie, Agatha. Evil Under The Sun (1941 Dodd, Mead)
  • Lockridge, Frances and Richard. A Pinch Of Poison (1941 Lippincott)
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  Detective Book Club for May 1942.
  • Eberhart, Mignon G. With This Ring (1941 Random House)
  • Gruber, Frank. The Mighty Blockhead (1942 Farrar & Rinehart)
  • Gardner, Erle Stanley. The D.A. Cooks A Goose (1942 Morrow)
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  Detective Book Club for June 1942.
  • Christie, Agatha. The Body in the Library (1942 Dodd, Mead)
  • Fair, A A. Double or Quits (1941 Morrow)
  • Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue (1941 Reynal and Hitchcock)
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  Detective Book Club for July 1942.
  • Freeman, R Austin. The Unconscious Witness (1942 Dodd, Mead)
  • Lockridge, Frances and Richard. Death On The Aisle (1942 Lippincott)
  • Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay. Lady Killer (1942 Duell, Sloan and Pearce)
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  Detective Book Club for August 1942.
  • Stout, Rex. Black Orchids (1942 Farrar & Rinehart)
  • Wilde, Percival. Tinsley's Bones (1942 Random House)
  • Taylor, Phoebe Atwood. The Six Iron Spiders (1942 Norton)
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  Detective Book Club for September 1942.
  • Reilly, Helen. Name Your Poison (1942 Random House)
  • Oursler, Will. Folio On Florence White (1942 Simon & Schuster)
  • Irish, William. Phantom Lady (1942 Lippincott)
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  Detective Book Club for October 1942.
  • Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case Of The Drowning Duck (1942 Morrow)
  • Crofts, Freemont Wills. Fear Comes To Chalfont (1942 Dodd, Mead)
  • Gilbert, Anthony. Mystery In The Woodshed (1942 Smith and Durrell)
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  Detective Book Club for November 1942.
  • Knight, Clifford. The Affair of the Splintered Heart (1942 Dodd, Mead)
  • Campbell, Alice. Ringed With Fire (1942 Random House)
  • Fitzsimmons, Cortland. Death Rings a Bell (1942 Lippincott)
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  Detective Book Club for December 1942.
  • Lockridge, Frances and Richard. Hanged For A Sheep (1942 Lippincott)
  • Fair, A A. Bats Fly At Dusk (1942 Morrow)
  • McCloy, Helen. Cue For Murder (1942 Morrow)
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