HALL, Michael (editor). The London Mystery Magazine. London: Hulton Press and Norman Kark, 1949-1981. 125 vols. 8vo (187 x 129mm to 176 x 100mm.) Numerous illustrations by various artists, including Austin Spare, Mervyn Peake and Ronald Searle. (Toning, occasional spotting, browning.) Original card covers (some volumes with wear to spine ends, browning, some spotting). Note: a near complete run of the magazine, lacking numbers 2,3,7,11,15,28 and the last one, number 132. The Magazine changed its name to 'The London Mystery Selection' from volume 36 onwards. For the first 15 issues the address of the magazine was the famous 221b Baker Street. The Abbey Building Society - who were working from that address at the time- allowed Michael Hall to use it as the address for his new magazine on the basis that he answered all the mail that arrived for Sherlock Holmes, something that a Building Society employee, the worthy Samuel W.G. Morton, had been doing until that time (125).