Conan Doyle, Capote works do well at auction.

At Bloomsbury's English literature auction on January 22nd, a signed first edition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood went for £380 (approximately $518). The following Conan Doyle items also fared well:

• Author's edition of The Works (13 vols.), from a limited edition of 1,000 copies, signed by Conan Doyle: £1400 (approximately $1,910)

• First edition, The Valley of Fear (1914), sold with first edition, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, ed. Ellery Queen (1944): £400 (approximately $546)
  

• The Great Boer War (1900): £180 (approximately $246)
  

Among the mystifying unsold items:

• first English edition, Robert Bloch's Psycho
• first edition, Sue Grafton's first novel, Keziah Dane
• first English edition, David Goodis's Nightfall