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Maxwell, Thomas [pseudonym of Thomas Gifford]
KISS ME TWICE
New York New York U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 1988. 1st. Edition Uncorrected Proofs. with complete number line beginning with 1. Some soiling to spine and along edges else very good. Maxwell continues to pay homage to the film noir tradition.The year is 1945. Ex-football star Lew Cassidy is now a partner in a detective agency with his Fordham sidekick Terry Leary and Harry Madrid both former cops. His wife Karin supposedly killed in the bombing of Cologne has been found alive by U.S. Army intelligence officer Col. Sam MacMurdo. Several problems prevent the couple's reconciliation however. Suffering amnesia as a result of injuries incurred during the blitz Karin has married SS officer Manfred Moller. MacMurdo recruits Lew to destroy an American escape route for Nazis being run by Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring whose cohort is Karin's husband. Moller has traveled to the U.S. to establish Goring's network and Lew must find him if he and Karin are to have a second chance for happiness. Maxwell's excellent portrayals of both fictional and historical characters and his attention to period detail effectively evoke the wartime era. The gripping brisk-paced plot boasts a stunning conclusion. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Mysterious Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019263 ISBN : 0892961643 9780892961641
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Maxwell, Thomas [pseudonym of Thomas Gifford]
KISS ME TWICE
New York New York U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 1988. 1st. Edition first printing October 1988. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Maxwell continues to pay homage to the film noir tradition.The year is 1945. Ex-football star Lew Cassidy is now a partner in a detective agency with his Fordham sidekick Terry Leary and Harry Madrid both former cops. His wife Karin supposedly killed in the bombing of Cologne has been found alive by U.S. Army intelligence officer Col. Sam MacMurdo. Several problems prevent the couple's reconciliation however. Suffering amnesia as a result of injuries incurred during the blitz Karin has married SS officer Manfred Moller. MacMurdo recruits Lew to destroy an American escape route for Nazis being run by Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring whose cohort is Karin's husband. Moller has traveled to the U.S. to establish Goring's network and Lew must find him if he and Karin are to have a second chance for happiness. Maxwell's excellent portrayals of both fictional and historical characters and his attention to period detail effectively evoke the wartime era. The gripping brisk-paced plot boasts a stunning conclusion. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019262 ISBN : 0892961643 9780892961641
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McEwan, Ian
THE INNOCENT
N.Y.: Doubleday 1990. Book Club edition near fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed at extremeties. "McEwan's name will be on everyone's lips with his startling new novel an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War. Basing his story on an actual but little known incident he tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians' communication system. The protagonist Leonard Marnham is a 25-year-old naive unsophisticated English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation. At the same time that he loses his political innocence Leonard experiences his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds come together events develop into a gruesome nightmare far more macabre than anything McEwan The Child in Time has previously written building to a searing unforgettable scene of surrealist intensity in which Leonard and his lover try to conceal evidence of a murder. Acting to save himself from a prison sentence Leonard desperately performs an act of espionage whose ironic consequences resonate down the years to a twister of an ending. Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits all decorum and civility; the brash impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan's neat tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre." PW. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book Club. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019182 ISBN : 038541370x 9780385413701
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Davis, Lindsey
ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY
NY: Mysterious Press 2000. 1st ed with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Rome. The 11th Falco title. "Marcus Didius Falco is back in another lively first-century historical mystery. The Roman investigator informer and imperial spy's snappy patter romantic leanings strong sense of irony and penchant for getting into interesting situations have won Lindsey Davis a growing number of fans. Flush with his earnings from an African adventure Two for the Lions Falco's just been rewarded for his service to the empire with an unusual bit of political patronage: he's been appointed to the largely ceremonial position of Procurator of the Sacred Poultry meaning he's in charge of the care and feeding of a gaggle of sacred geese. This un-Falco-like upward mobility is an opportunity for Marcus to move his patrician wife Helena Justina and their toddler out of a tenement and into a home of their own. As much as Marcus scoffs at middle-class pretensions he's not above leaving his seedy surroundings and providing his family with some of the finer things if only to show his in-laws that he can. But when Helena's brother falls over a corpse that disappears before it can be identified Falco tosses the geese some food and gets busy finding the connection between the dead man and a 6-year-old girl who's in line to be chosen as the new vestal virgin. That leads him into intrigue danger and a confrontation with a former vestal virgin that almost costs him his life. Well paced with good dialogue excellent plotting and a cast of terrific characters surrounding Falco and Helena including some familiar from earlier stories One Virgin Too Many shows Davis in top form. Falco the family man is better company than ever." --Jane Adams. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019178 ISBN : 0892967161 9780892967162
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McConnell, James
BATTLEFIELD MADDONNA
London: UK: Hamish Hamilton 1985. 1st ed. Page edges browning as usual else near fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped £8.95 price intact protected in myylar covering. 1944 Italian Campaign. Cpt Edmund Brudanell is given a secret commission from a very special source -- King George VI himself. He is being sent to the front to help preserve the art treasures Of Italy. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Hamish Hamilton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019188 ISBN : 0241114977 9780241114971
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Knight, Kathleen Moore
VALSE MACABRE
Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1952. 1st ed. Covers are faded paper is very brittle and browning tape marks at endpapers but has no library markings Previous owners plate on iside cover. Dust jacket has chip out at foot of spine and is lightly worn else very good. Jacket is unclipped $2.50 price is still intact. Her series detective was Penberthy Island selectman Elisha Macomber. Here he applies his native ingenuity to three murders in a ballet group on Penberthy Island. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019104
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Jeffers, H. Paul
Rubout at the Onyx Review Copy
New Haven & NY: Ticknor & Fields 1981. 1st ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Publisher's sheet laid in. Set in NYC just after the repel of Prohibition. Jazz has moved downtown from Harlem and rich people gangsters politicians and musicians all crowd into the club to guzzle booze and enjoy music. the nerve center of the story is the Onyx Club the famous jazz joint on fifty-second street -- the street of Jazz. Jeffers draws several well-known peopple into the story -- among them George Gershwin Mayor La Guardia Art Tatum mobster Owney Madden and Walter Winchell. PI Harry MacNeil has an office upstairs over the Onyx. Publishers promotional slip laid in as well as Review slip. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Review Copy. Ticknor & Fields Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019077 ISBN : 0899190464 9780899190464
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Perkins, Wilder
HOARE AND HEADLESS CAPTAINS: A Maritime Mystery Featuring Bartholomew Hoare
NY: St. Martin's 2000. 1st ed. with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Historical 1805 England. The second Hoare book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019024 ISBN : 031225248x 9780312252489
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Derek Lambert Writing as Richard Falkirk
BEAU BLACKSTONE
N.Y.: Stein and Day 1974. 1st US edition. light foxing at page edges else AF in un-clipped dust jacket $6.95 price intact. England in early 1800's. Edmund Blackstone Bow Street Runner poured ale over his clothes and rubbed his fingernails against the stone wall until they were cracked and jagged. Then he dishevelled his hair rubbing a little grease into it. The whole process offended him but he persevered massaging soil into his hands until they had a dirty polish about them yet still they didnt have the saddle-hard palms which you got wielding a shovel for twelve hours or more every day. For that was what he would have to do to find out who had been stealing the wages of the railway workers and foil the plot to pull the first Great Train Robbery. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Stein and Day Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018981 ISBN : 0812816706 9780812816709
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Lansdale, Joe R.
THE BOTTOMS EDGAR AWARD WINNER
New York NY U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 2000. 1st edition September 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket pages lightly age toned not price clipped in protective mylar cover. First trade edition preceded by the Subterranean Press limited edition. WINNER of the 2001 EDGAR Award for Best Mystery Novel and a Nominee for both the ANTHONY and HORROR GUILD Novel of the Year. The Edgar Award winning thriller is classic American storytelling in its truest darkest and more affecting form -- with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up this time of a white woman there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press
Bookseller reference : 018975 ISBN : 0892967048 9780892967049
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Frazer, Margaret
The Servant's Tale Edgar Award Nominee
New York New York U.S.A.: Jove Books 1993. 1st Edition with complete number line beginnig with 1. Paperback Original. EDGAR NOMINATED TITLE. A troupe of medieval actors at a nunnery are harbringers of merriment --- or murder . 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Paperback Original. Jove Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018961 ISBN : 0515111635 9780515111637
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DeAndrea, William L.
The Lunatic Fringe: A Novel Wherein Theodore Roosevelt Meets the Pink Angel
N.Y.: M. Evans and Company 1980. 1st ed. with complete number line starting with 1 in mylar cover. Price clipped. In Old New York Teddy Roosevelt seeks answers to a cartoonists killing a missing woman and an impending bomb plot. As a newspaper war flares between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst noted cartoonist Evan Crandall is murdered in his apartment. When police officer Dennis Muldoon finds the body he also discovers a naked sultry beauty blindfolded and tied to the bed. She pleads with him to free her but after he unties this mysterious "Pink Angel" she steals his gun and escapes. Meanwhile anarchists are planning to blow up the Croton Reservoir during a millionaires nearby wedding reception. Enter the police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt. With the help of Officer Muldoon Roosevelt is on a mission to set the city in order and that will mean putting a stop to escalating crime and locating the mysterious Pink Angel. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. M. Evans and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018944 ISBN : 0871313251 9780871313256
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Wright, Edward
CLEA'S MOON AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: Putnam 2003. 1st ed near fine in dust jacket. Remainder mark along bottom of pages. Debut novel. 1940's Los Angeles. DEBUT DAGGER AWARD WINNER from CWA. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Remainder. Putnam Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018951 ISBN : 0399150471 9780399150470
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DeAndrea William L.
FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING
N.Y.: St. Martin's 1982. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. In 1953 America McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated Americas favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a home run Simmons is shot dead in his seat. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018952 ISBN : 0312294980 9780312294984
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''Mrs. Hope''
Franciscan Martyrs in England
Burns & Oates 1878. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Full cloth covers. Gilt borders on front board. Gilt lettering on front board and backstrip. Boards scuffed. Top page edges dusty. Page foredges frayed. Pages 39-41 231-234 & 245-248 detached but present. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item300grams ISBN: Burns & Oates hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6462199
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Pym, H N (ed)
Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick Cornwall from 1835 to 1871
Smith Elder 1883. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Full cloth covers. Gilt borders on front board. Gilt stamped front board. Backstrip torn. Inscription on title page dated 1895. Pages slightly frayed. Internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN: Smith, Elder hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5447104
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Saint Alphonsus Maria di Liguori
The Life of S. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori Volume 1
Thomas Richardson 1848. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Clothbound blind stamped borders and emblem front and back covers spine reinforced with leather/tape. Cover scuffed foxing some staining on first few pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN: Thomas Richardson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5880781
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Thomas, Frank
Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword
NY: Pinnacle 1985. 4th prtg. Paperback Original very light reading crease and usual age toned paper light cover crease previous store stamp at inside cover else a very good copy. Later Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Paperback Original. Pinnacle Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018896 ISBN : 0523425112 9780523425115
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Grant, Richard E
By Design
Picador 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. signed. Signed by Authorsthe jacket has small edge tears and shelf rubbed. Signed by author. minor marks. internally clean and tightly bound. P.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Picador hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20hd ISBN : 0330368281 9780330368285
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Coetzee, J. M
Boyhood
Secker & Warburg 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. jacket is a bit shelf rubbed damp and scarred. boards are also partly damp marked. slight pierce marks on both book and jacket. light tanning and marks. ownership inscription. well bound. fairly good copy.S.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Secker & Warburg hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23hb ISBN : 0436204509 9780436204500
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Fulmer David
JASS
Orlando Florida U.S.A.: Harcourt 2005. 1st edition so stated with complete letter line beginning with A. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. In 1909 in the rowdy red-light district of Storyville four players of the new music called "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyt begins to investigate he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band and the only left alive has gone into hiding. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harcourt Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018768 ISBN : 0151010250 9780151010257
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Melville Davisson Post) Norton, Charles A.
Melville Davisson Post : Man of Many Mysteries
Bowling Green: Ohio: Popular Press 1973. 1st prtg. Purple covers show some light rubbing else a near fine copy of this oversize trade paperback. An appreciation of the pioneering American detective-mystery writer of the turn of the century. Author of the "Uncle Abner" mystery stories. Biography followed by critiques and reviews of his works. Contains a nice bibliography and an Index of Titles. 261 pages. 1st Prtg. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Popular Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018788 ISBN : 0879720603 9780879720605
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Norton, Charles A.
Melville Davisson Post : Man of Many Mysteries
Bowling Green: Ohio: Popular Press 1973. 1st prtg. Purple covers show some light rubbing else a near fine copy of this oversize trade paperback. An appreciation of the pioneering American detective-mystery writer of the turn of the century. Author of the "Uncle Abner" mystery stories. Biography followed by critiques and reviews of his works. Contains a nice bibliography and an Index of Titles. 261 pages. 1st Prtg. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Popular Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018789 ISBN : 0879720603 9780879720605
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Jecks Michael
THE BOY-BISHOP'S GLOVEMAKER
London: Headline 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. A Medieval West Country Mystery. "A welcome addition to Jecks's successful medieval mysteries this 10th in the series takes place at Christmastime 1321 in the city of Exeter whose citizens are preparing for the holy day and for the election of the "boy-bishop" who for 24 hours beginning on December 27 will serve as bishop while all the cathedral clergy canons and choristers enjoy a day free from the rigid routines of the church. The day ends with a mass and the awarding of gem-studded gloves to the honored boy and outstanding citizens who include Sir Baldwin de Furnshill Keeper of the King's Peace of Credition in Devon and Simon Puttock Bailiff to the Warden of the Stannaries. Baldwin his wife Lady Jeanne and Simon arrive for the festivities only to find a hanging victim swinging by the gate and to hear news that Ralph Glover the well-respected and benevolent craftsman commissioned to make the gloves for the ceremony has been murdered and his apprentice accused of the crime. After the poisoning of a cathedral cleric Baldwin and Simon investigate. Their inquiries reveal long-hidden secrets of some of Exeter's most prominent citizens and lead to an unlikely murderer. Vivid descriptions of the agonizing death by poison and the muck in the streets combined with the more pleasing majesty of the cathedral and candle-studded hall decorated with holly and ivy re-create Exeter as it was. Realistic characters from the disfigured beggar to the angst-ridden adolescents only add to this well-conceived well-written story." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018711 ISBN : 0747272476 9780747272472
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Airth, Rennie
RIVER OF DARKNESS Award Nominee
NY: Viking 1999. Airth takes what at first seems to be a twenties drawing-room murder mystery and transforms it into an edge-of-the-seat serial-killer thriller set against a skillfully evoked backdrop of war-wounded England. SIGNED COPY. the 1st Inspector John Madden title. NOMINATED for BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR by five different major mystery Awards including the EDGAR'S. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Award Nominee. Viking Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018717 ISBN : 0670885959 9780670885954
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Pearce, Michael
A COLD TOUCH OF ICE SIGNED COPY
London: Collins 2000. 1st edition fine in dust jacket. The new Mamur Zapt novel. Cairo 1912 and things are starting to get ever so slightly out of hand. An Italian is found murdered and his warehouse is discovered to be stocked with guns and there's the little matter of T.E. Lawrence making a nuisance of himself. SIGNED COPY. An ELLIS PETERS DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Historical Novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Collins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018718 ISBN : 0002326973 9780002326971
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Westerson, Jeri
SERPENT IN THE THORNS / A Medieval Noir
N.Y.: St. Martin's 2009. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket NOT a remaindered copy as many are. The second novel featuing Crispin Guest and set in fourteenth-century London. Convicted of treason Crispin Guest was stripped of his title his land his money and his friends. Now with only his considerable wits to sustain him Guest works the mean streets of 14th century London building a small reputation for his skill. In 1383 a simple-minded tavern girl comes to his door--a body was found where she works and she's the only person who could have killed him. Except for the fact that the man was killed in place by a precisely aimed crossbow bolt. Making matters worse the murdered man was one of three couriers from the French king transporting a relic intended to smooth the troubled relations between France and England. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018698 ISBN : 0312534981 9780312534981
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Peters, Ellis
THE LEPER OF ST. GILES
London United Kingdom: Macmillan London 1989 1981. First edition. The fifth Brother Cadfael mystery. Bright purple covers are fine page edges are age-toned and darkened else fine in dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Macmillan London 1989 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018675
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Bentley, Montague
Wide Boy: The True-ish Story of a Jo'Burg Spiv
30 Degrees South Publishers 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. the wraps are shelf rubbed and bit edge worn. internally clean and tightly bound. P.N. RF.$7. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. 30 Degrees South Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 23fj ISBN : 0958489076 9780958489072
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Sherlockiana) Worcester, Wayne
THE MONSTER OF ST. MARYLEBONE
New York NY U.S.A.: Signet 1999. 1st ed. First book in the series; a few page edges yellowing Slight spine slant reading crease else a near fine copy of this paperback original. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original. Signet Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018658 ISBN : 0451198719 9780451198716
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Rosenthal Richard
Mission Improbable: A Piece of the South African Story
David Philip Publishers 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. the wraps are edge worn and shelf rubbed. creased. a bit marked. the front end page is missing. internally clean and tightly bound. P.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. David Philip Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 23el ISBN : 086486390X 9780864863904
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Hartman, Rodney
Ali : The Life of Ali Bacher
Viking 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. signed. Signed by Authorsthe wraps are edge worn and shelf rubbed. creasing. Inscribed by Ali Bacher and signed by the author. a bit marked. internally clean and tightly bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.INF15 P.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Viking paperback
Bookseller reference : 23ds ISBN : 0670047961 9780670047963
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Bentley, Montague
Wide Boy
30 South 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. The wraps are slightly rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound.RF7. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. 30 South paperback
Bookseller reference : 14dy ISBN : 0958489076 9780958489072
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Ackerman, Raymond;Prichard, Denise
Hearing Grasshoppers Jump: The Story of Raymond Ackerman
David Philip Publishers 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. signed. Signed by Authorsthe jacket is shelf rubbed and a bit knocked. a little marked. signed by the author. internally clean and tightly bound. P.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. David Philip Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15dn ISBN : 0864863829 9780864863829
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O'Dowd Cathy;Woodall Ian
Everest Free to Decide: The Story of the First South Africans Ro Reach the Highest Point on Earth
Zebra Press 1997. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps are shelf rubbed.Internally clean.Excellent binding.R.N. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Zebra Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 1cw ISBN : 1868721019 9781868721016
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Worsnip, Michael
Michael Lapsley Ptiest and Partisan
Ocean 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. The wraps are slightly rubbed. Minor foxing. Tightly bound. Inscribed by Lapsley. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Ocean paperback
Bookseller reference : 20dj ISBN : 1875284966 9781875284962
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Allen, Benedict
Book of Exploration : An Anthology of Worlds Revealed by Explorers Through the Ages
London United Kingdom: Faber & Faber Limited 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket is shelf rubbed.1 library stamp.Well bound.Very good copy.This volume ranges across various terrain-hot and cold desertsmountains and plainsjungles and high seas.R.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber, Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 17df ISBN : 0571206964 9780571206964
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Doherty, P. C.
DRAKULYA: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF DRAKULYA PRINCE OF WALLACHIA AND THE BLOODY DEEDS THAT SHAPED THE LEGEND SIGNED
Sussex: England: Post Mortem Books 1997. 1st ed. Fine unread copy w/o dust jacket as issued however it was covered with a home-made clear acetate jacket. Goldenrod cloth with titles in red on top board and spine kept clean and bright. The binding colour and lettering is as faithfully represented as possible in this present volume as the design of the first edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" Constable London 1897. Comprising the two volumes first published in 1986 as "The Prince Drakulya" and "The Lord Count Drakulya" now issued in one volume as originally written and proposed by the author. LIMITED to a print of 350 copies and each is SIGNED by the author. This is copy #182 and is further SIGNED by Ralph Spurrier the Publisher. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Post Mortem Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018606 ISBN : 0953144607 9780953144600
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van Riel, Fransje ; Yekani, Nomfusi Vinah
The Crowing of the Roosters
David Philip Publishers 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. The wraps are lightly shelf rubbed.internally clean.well bound.near fine copy.S.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. David Philip Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 12cq ISBN : 0864866542 9780864866547
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Davis, Lindsey
TIME TO DEPART : A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel SIGNED COPY
London United Kingdom: Century 1995. 1st ediion. Pages are age-toned else Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The 7th Marcus Didius Falco mystery. Balbinus Pius the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law however allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018585 ISBN : 0712659315 9780712659314
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Cleverly, Barbara
A SPIDER IN THE CUP: A Joe Sandilands Investigation
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2013. 1st ed. fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition due out August 2013. At dawn one morning in 1933 an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands' turf but he's been given another assignment--and a very high-profile one. London is hosting a historic global economic conference to try to solve the global Depression and political tensions are running very high as very influential participants are starting to take positions allied with or staunchly against the rapidly militarizing Germany. Sandilands' job is to protect and keep an eye on the visiting American senator Cornelius Kingstone right-hand man to President Roosevelt throughout the conference. When a strange set of coincidences link the river bank body to the senator Joe realizes his assignment is much bigger than he'd thought and that Senator Kingstone is caught up in a very dangerous game--one that might cost not just one but thousands of lives. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018563 ISBN : 1616952881 9781616952884
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Lovisi, Gary
HELLBENT ON HOMICIDE Limited Edition / Signed
Ravenna: Ohio: Scarlett Fever Press 1995. 1st ed. PBO trade size. LIMITED EDITION 1 of 200 numbered copies this being #40 SIGNED by Lovisi on special plate. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Scarlett Fever Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 004094
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Futrelle, Jacques
THE HIGH HAND
Indianapolis IN: USA: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1911. First Edition. Covers very lightly rubbed else VG- near fine tight copy. Red cloth with decorative black stamping to spine and cover frontispiece and Illustrations throughout by Will Grefe. Beautiful copy. Now housed in home-made clear acetate dust wrapper. 296 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Grefe Will. Book. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc
Bookseller reference : 000812
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Roosevelt, Elliot
NEW DEAL FOR DEATH: A "Blackjack" Endicott Novel
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1993. First edition so stated July 1993 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket price clipped very light wear at spine head in protective mylar cover. The 2nd Jack "Blackjack" Endicott title. "The second in this posthumously published series featuring Boston banker-playboy Jack Endicott The President's Man 1991 is set in 1932 just after FDR's nomination for President. Roosevelt has lots of enemies besides Republicans; a powerful group of Hollywood movie men is among them--and his ideas on labor laws might considerably lessen their profits. Enlisting local gangsters a plot is hatched to disgrace the nominee's California-based son Elliott. It misfires thanks in large part to Jack who has come to California with mistress Charlotte Wendell to protect his friend Roosevelt's interests. But a more menacing scheme soon develops- -this time no less than a plan for Roosevelt's assassination as he rides in an open car down the main avenue of L.A.--the hired gun an eccentric loner who's also a crack shot. How Jack foils this plan lends some badly needed excitement to a story slow to build and heavy with names dropped--from Douglas MacArthur to Rudy Vallee along with a veritable catalogue of gangsters of the era Meyer Lansky Bugsy Siegel etc. etc." -- Kirkus Review. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003173 ISBN : 0312092679 9780312092672
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Perry, Anne
CAIN HIS BROTHER: A William Monk Title
N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine 1995. First edition October 1995 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Victoria's London was the queen of the universe a dazzling metropolis from whose magnificent mansions and discreetly luxurious clubs flowed the strategies that built the greatest empire ever known. Meanwhile the city's poor suffered and died in hopeless obscurity. Inspector William Monk knows his city's best and its worst--or so he believes until the day when charming Genevieve Stonefield comes to plead with him to find her missing husband. In his family life Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother Caleb a virtual saint. Now he is missing and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. And so Monk puts himself into the missing man's shoes searching in Stonefield's comfortable home his prospering business his favorite haunts and finally the city's dangerous fever-ridden slums for clues to Angus's fate and his vicious brother's whereabouts. Slowly Monk inches toward the truth--and also unwittingly toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Fawcett Columbine Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011191 ISBN : 044990847x 9780449908471
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Doherty, P. C.
THE HANGMAN'S HYMN: The Carpenter's Tale of Mystery and Murder as he Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury SIGNED COPY
London United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing Limited 2001. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Pages lightly age toned else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. Historical set in Medievil England. In this tale one of Chaucer's pilgrims the carpenter tells of the evil that overcame one Simon Cotter a man so poor he was forced to become a hangman. The nightmares induced by his job spill over into his days as he walks the streets of Gloucester. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Book Publishing, Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011635 ISBN : 0747220816 9780747220817
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Van Ash, Cay
FIRES OF FU MANCHU
N.Y.: Harper & Row 1987. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Nayland Smith Dr. Petrie and Fu Manchu return. Egypt 1917. "A scientist has disappeared and the knowledge and information he has can end the war in Europe or end the WORLD. It depends on who ends up getting the suitcase he had with him. Not only do the English want it back but they wish to keep it out of the hands of both the Germans AND Dr. Fu Manchu. So of course the military get Nayland Smith on the case. With his friend Dr. Petrie he must find the scientist Professor Brooker stop the Si Fan from getting the secret of the Midnight Sun and even deal with a Zeppelin. Who will end up with the secret A secret that could destroy a city over night with all the millions inside!" -- Michael Valdivielso on Amazon. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harper & Row Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002357 ISBN : 0060158190 9780060158194
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Collins, Max Allan
KISSES OF DEATH: A Nathan Heller Casebook
Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru 2001. 1st ed. Fine unread copy of the trade paperback in shrinkwrap. Limited edition of one thousand copies Low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket and trade softcover." The private eye is as American as mom apple pie -- and gangsters and bootlegging. A child of the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties he is a genuine American hero with his poetic slang and his attempt to make things right as he goes down Mean Streets. Max Allan Collins has recreated the great era of the P.I. in Nathan Heller. "I wanted to do the traditional P.I." Collins writes in his introduction to Kisses of Death "the tender tough guy in the trenchcoat and fedora with a bottle of wry in his bottom desk drawer. I didn't want to update him and I didn't want to plop him down in contemporary times like a drunk who fell off a time machine." In novels and short stories Collins has traced Heller's changes and America's changes from the early thirties to the sixties and in doing so has received a record nine Private Eye Writers of America "Shamus" nominations for his series winning twice. Each story investigates a genuine unsolved crime of the past. "Kisses of Death " contains the previous unpublished title novella in which Heller becomes associated with Marilyn Monroe and solves the famous Bodenheim murders. In other stories he finds a solution to the death of actress Thelma Todd becomes associated with Eliot Ness and discovers who killed the midget that Bill Veeck had come to bat in a major league baseball game. The book includes a new introduction and afterword by the author and Includes a Max Allan Collins checklist. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Trade Paperback. Crippen & Landru Paperback
Bookseller reference : 011393 ISBN : 1885941560 9781885941565
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Ross, Kate
THE DEVIL IN MUSIC Julian Kestrel Mystery Ser.
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1997. 1ST ED. fine in price clipped dust jacket. AGATHA AWARD WINNER & a DILYS AWARD NOMINEE. The 4th and last in historical mystery series featuring Julian Kestel. This one takes place in Italy in the 1820s. The author died shortly after this book was published. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 015955 ISBN : 0670863599 9780670863594
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Bresler, Fenton
THE MYSTERY OF GEORGES SIMENON: A Biography
N.Y: Beaufort Books 1983. 1st ed. About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Beaufort Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018432 ISBN : 0825301459 9780825301452
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