Sam wrote:
This was all that popped up on ABEBOOKS.COM
1. SEEDS OF MURDER
Mason, Van Wyck
Bookseller: Barbara Berry's Bookshop
(Stow, NY, U.S.A.) Price: US$ 40.00
Book Description: Crime Club, c1930, First edition, dec. black cloth
hardcover, illustrated red end papers, ex-library with usual
distinctions, covers lightly scuffed, still a solid copy, GOOD.
Bookseller Inventory
This was all that popped up on ABEBOOKS.COM
addall.com came up with one other copy, also an ex-library for $39.95
Crime Club, c1930, First edition, dec. black cloth hardcover,
illustrated red end papers, ex-library with usual distinctions, covers
lightly scuffed, still a solid copy, GOOD.
IF your copy is in very good condition, and is a first, then it looks
like what you paid is within the ballpark...possibly a very good buy,
but all I know about this book is what came up on these two sites.
You might google, yahoo, or altavista.com for more general information
about the author and possibly the book...good luck, Sam
There was a Collins Crime Club. There is apparently a group dedicated
to these publications. They have an extensive website. Apparently these
were not BCE but an agressive promotion of Crime books. There was
aparently a contemporaneous Doubleday Crime Club. They may have shared
promotions. The CCC has an e-mail address. Perhaps they would know
more.
This umbrella group is Clasic Crime Fiction.
Link:
http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/ccc.htm