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Perkins, Wilder
Hoare & the Matter of Treason: A Commander Bartholomew Hoare
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 2001. 1st edition April 2001 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 1805 England. "Sadly this is last and third installment in a cleverly conceived brilliantly executed series featuring Commander Bartholomew Hoare of His Majesty George III's Royal Navy. With his hoarse-voiced whisper legacy of a musket ball Hoare is an unusual naval officer while his command the Royal Duke is equally unusual and unorthodox. The brig serves as a floating spy center with a crew of men and women whose least skills are seamanship. In fact the Royal Duke's standing orders preclude it from setting to sea at all until extraordinary circumstances contravene them. Called to London Hoare receives orders from Admiral Sir Hugh Abercrombie to locate and retrieve sensitive documents lost or stolen from the Admiralty. Hoare later finds himself confronting an old enemy as well as an unnamed nemesis whom he's thwarted in the past. Deadly treason threatens the government and Hoare personally when his new wife and his ward are kidnapped and he must gamble for their lives. The appearance of historical Jane Austen and legendary Horatio Hornblower characters enhances the pleasure.Perkins completed shortly before his death in 1999 is a solidly entertaining blend of period adventure and mystery.if alerted to the high quality of this book and its predecessors Patrick O'Brian fans should sail into them with relish undaunted by the end of the series." --- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011381 ISBN : 031227291x 9780312272913
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Honig, Donald
THE SWORD OF GENERAL ENGLUND
N.Y.: Scribners 1996. 1st ed. Uncorrected proof fine in decorated wraps. A Murder of a top Civil War commander in the Dakota Territory 1876. The murder of a famous general stuns the U.S. Army in this first-rate puzzler set at a remote Dakota post in 1876. When General Alfred Englund is stabbed to death in his office and an enlisted man is found murdered nearby the army sends Major Thomas Maynard to investigate. Although an irascible scout fled the fort shortly after meeting with the general on the night of the killings Englund's fellow officers are the prime suspects. All respected him but complained about his certainty-buttressed by a fabled incident wherein lightning supposedly struck his sword-that he acted for God. Despite his self-righteousness the general had had an affair with a colonel's young wife and another officer nursed an apparent grudge from the Civil War. Maynard carrying serious emotional baggage of his own must sort out alibis that resemble suggest a frontier army version of Rashomon. With the help of shrewd and observant Sergeant Barrie Maynard tracks a key witness and finds an answer that pleases no one. . First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Scribners Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005412 ISBN : 0684803216 9780684803210
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Trow, MJ. M. J.
LESTRADE AND THE BROTHER OF DEATH SIGNED COPY
London: Macmillan 1988. 1st edition. Page edges midly age darkened lightly soiled else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY. Very brief inscription at title page. "Trow has made a fine art of taking Conan Doyle's much maligned Inspector Sholto Lestrade and making him the protagonist of a witty series. In the spirited albeit corny opening scene to his latest adveture the accident-prone Lestrade survives a fall from the upper deck of the Titanic as it is slipping out to sea. "Was it the weight of his moustache The cut of his bowlerAsomething had caused the crosswinds to catch him and he plummeted over the side." Lestrade spends the remainder of the book battling crime and the wheelchair he's confined in almost equal measure. His recuperation from a broken leg is less painful than it could have been thanks to the tender care of his fiance Fanny Berkeley the daughter of his old friend Chief Constable Tom Berkeley. Upon Lestrade's arrival at the Berkeley estate the first murder of his convalescence practically lands in his lap when the constable's butler is killed in an apparent hunting accident. Lestrade believes someone is out to kill the constable and his uneasiness sharpens when he receives a disturbing anonymous letter. Lestrade's investigation starts a long and complicated chain of events that leads into his past as he tries to get a handle on rapidly unfolding current events which turn out to have everything to do with his own life. He confronts some uncomfortable truths about himself but the darker insights are balanced by slapstick and uninhibited puns and wordplay in a winning well-crafted puzzler that offers sophisticated plotting and a playful look at Edwardian manners." -- Publishers Weekly. Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011761 ISBN : 033345538x 9780333455388
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Barnard Robert as Bernard Bastable
Dead Mr. Mozart
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1995. 1st ed. Front endpaper neatly removed else near fine in dust jacket. Mozart visited England as a child but this story suggests that instead of returning to Austria and an early death he stayed. It is 1820 and Mozart finds himself insulted by the king George IV used by his mistress and involved in both the disposal ofa body and initiating inquiries to find the murderer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012789 ISBN : 031211771X 9780312117719
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Brown, Molly
INVITATION TO A FUNERAL : A Tale of Restoration Intrigue
New York: Saint Martin's Press 1995. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. First mystery by Molly Brown; Set in London of the 1670s she vividly recreates the London of Pepys and Dryden and cunningly interweaves the fact and fiction of playwright Aphra Behn's life and times. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012393 ISBN : 0312185987 9780312185985
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Millett Larry ed.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON
Penguin 1997. 1st ed. A Fine unread copy SIGNED BY MILLETT at title page. Holmes & Watson travel to Minnesota in 1894 to stop a murderous arsonist from destroying the Great Northern Railway. Signed by Author. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback. Penguin Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006530 ISBN : 0140258825 9780140258820
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Doherty, PC. P. C.
THE SLAYERS OF SETH: A Story of Intrigue and Murder Set in Ancient Egypt
London: Headline 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Pages lightly age toned. The fourth in the Ancient Egyptian series in which Pharao's Chief judge Lord Amerotke investigates the murder of one of Egypt's great heroes. This series regularly goes out of print on publication. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011485 ISBN : 0747271623 9780747271628
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Symons, Julian) Walsdorf, John & Bonnie Allen
JULIAN SYMONS - A BIBLIOGRAPHY: With Commentaries & A Personal Memoir by Julian Symons & A Preface by H.R.F. Keating Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers
New Castle Delaware: USA: Oak Knoll Press 1996. 1st edition. Fine unread copy w/o dj as issued still in shrinkwrap. A bibliography of the work of Julian Symons: fiction poetry non-fiction and numerous contributions to other publications. Includes commentaries and a personal memoir by Symons and a preface by H.R.F. Keating. At published price. 296 pages. First Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket. Book. Oak Knoll Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004578 ISBN : 1884718221 9781884718229
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Davis Lindsey
THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
London United Kingdom: Century 1997. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The 9th book in Falco sries of Ancient Rome. "Secret-agent/sleuth Marcus Didius Falco A Dying Light in Cordoba etc. returns with gusto for another case of mystery and intrigue - this time involving a serial killer in ancient Rome. As the novel opens Falco has just come back from a perilous mission to Baetican Spain and is ready to tackle his new role as father to his first-born daughter. But his commitment to paternal responsibilities begins to lag when he and his old friend Petronius Longus make a gory discovery of a severed human hand in one of Rome's many fountains. As the inquisitive buddies do some reconnaissance work encountering similar body parts in the Roman water supply they learn that there is in fact a tradition of corpses circulating in the waterworks. Furthermore these dead bodies often appear after public festivals. The threat of contaminated aqueducts coupled with the imminent Roman Games brings Falco and Petro to confront the authorities on the matter. Official desire to keep the problem under wraps forces the pair to determine the killer's identity on their own with the help of Helena Falco's wife Anacrites a spy and boarder in Falco's mother's home and other toga-wearing tipsters. Once again Davis weaves an intricate irreverent plot filled with wittily imagined characters." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012336 ISBN : 0712677917 9780712677912
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Hammett} Nolan, William F.
HAMMETT: A LIFE AT THE EDGE
N.Y.: Congdon & Weed 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket very lightly discolored at spine Fourteen years ago William Nolan wrote the first book about Dashiell Hammett. Now after years of delving he offers a full biography. HAMMETT: A LIFE AT THE EDGE goes considerably beyond Lillian Hellmans well-known accounts of her time with Hammett. From fresh sources it tells of his colorful early years before Hellman including his sleuthing days as a Pinkerton man assigned to famous cases such as the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Congdon & Weed Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000677 ISBN : 0312922817 9780312922818
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Davis, Lindsey
ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY SIGNED COPY
London: Century 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. This copy is SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. Rome. The 11th Falco title. The innovative series puts hard-boiled detective Marcus Didius Falco "the Sam Spade of ancient Rome" Publishers Weekly on the mean streets of the Eternal City. Now Davis returns to AD 74 with a riveting investigation into a missing child. Men are fools for love. And that includes Marcus Didius Falco. To please his beloved the tough shamus has become Procurer of the Sacred Poultry i.e. babysitter of the temple geese. It's steady work and good pay but Falco is soon restless. So when a beautiful child chosen to enter the secret order of Vestal Virgins disappears he grabs the case. He quickly discovers that greed and religious fervor are only a thread away from madness. And a little girl's life may be cut short not by Clotho Lachesis and Atropos but by a sinister human hand - unless Falco finds her in time. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005850 ISBN : 071267702x 9780712677028
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Begiebing, Robert J.
The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin
Chapel Hill NC U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1991. 2nd ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. Remainder stripe at page bottom. Set in the late 1640's in the Piscataqua settlement on the New England coast. A young woman has been found murdered and a young Englishman is asked to take up the case. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place near what is now Exeter New Hampshire. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012805 ISBN : 0945575564 9780945575566
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Dams, Jeanne M.
GREEN GROW THE VICTIMS
N.Y.: Walker 2001. 1st edition. Uncorrected page proofs. the third book in the Hilda Johansson series."The third Hilda Johansson mystery after the excellent Death in Lacquer Red 1999 and Red White and Blue Murder 2000 is--no surprise here--a real treat for fans of historical mysteries. Set in early-1900s South Bend Indiana this outstanding series offers rich detailed thoroughly captivating mysteries that make readers feel like they've been plucked out of their own time and set down nearly a century ago. This time around Hilda a servant in the fabulously wealthy Studebaker household who seems to have a knack for solving crimes looks into the murder of a local politician and the disappearance of the prime suspect. As usual though the mystery here is only half the fun. Dams who also writes the popular Dorothy Martin novels clearly knows a lot about Indiana at the turn of the last century and--unlike many writers of historical mysteries--she's able to incorporate factual elements into her stories so seamlessly that we can't tell and don't care what's real and what's made up." --- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Book. Walker Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011533 ISBN : 0802733557 9780802733559
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Flood, John
Bag Men : A Novel
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated 1997. 1st ed. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket. This is the first novel written under a psuedonym of Mark Costello recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". New Year's Day 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts consecrated by Pope Paul VI meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year to soothe their disquiet over these epochal changes in the liturgy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013460 ISBN : 0393039986 9780393039986
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Collier, Iris
Day of Wrath
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 2002. 1st US ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Author's first mystery. King Henry VIII is about to pay a visit to Nicholas Peverell's manor house in Sussex when Nichols becomes aware of a plot on the King's life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012449 ISBN : 0312290209 9780312290207
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Kurland, Michael
THE GIRLS IN HIGH HEELED SHOES Alexander Brass Mysteries Ser.
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1998. 1st ed. fine in dj. 1935 New York. Alexander Brass newspaper columnist and radio personality is the voice of Manhattan nitelife. People rely on him for the latest gossip about the stars and the beautiful people as well as the gangsters and the lowlifes. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011497 ISBN : 0312181043 9780312181048
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Maher, Mary
THE DEVIL'S CARD
N.Y.: St. Martins 1992. 1st ed. with number line beginning with 1. Fine in dj lw at edges. A novel of murder in 19th century Irish Chicago. "In this unusually accomplished debut novel first published in Ireland Maher marvelously evokes the atmosphere of late-19th-century Chicago particularly that of its Irish community. She uses a true crime--the 1889 murder of prominent Irish physician P. H. Cronin--to reveal the tensions dormant in the city. Tom Martin is an ex-seminarian who has lost his Catholic faith; the American-born son of Irish immigrants he has never given much thought or concern either to his roots or to the deep involvement of many Irish expatriates in the rising tide of revolution against the hated British. As a reporter covering Cronin's violent death for the Chicago Tribune Tom begins to learn the secrets of the Clan na Gaelsp ok an undercover society that will stop at nothing to further the cause of Irish independence. The novel begins and ends 20 years after the Cronin murder with the funeral of Andy Foy the first person to have befriended 21-year-old Tom upon his arrival in Chicago and the first to reveal to Tom the tragic truth about the crime. Intriguing and well told." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. St. Martins Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000609 ISBN : 0312077157 9780312077150
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Davis, Lindsey
THE COURSE OF HONOUR SIGNED COPY
London: UK: Century Books 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Imperial Rome. SIGNED COPY signature only by the author on the title page. With three maps. In ancient Rome ambitious citizens who aspired to political power to become one of the ruling elitea senator had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly seductive games of lust and conquest the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throneno one that is except a slave girl who with the future Emperor begins a daring course of honor of her own. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Hadley Colin. Book. Century Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004345 ISBN : 0712677240 9780712677240
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Robb, Candace
THE LADY CHAPEL: An Owen Archer Mystery
N.Y.: St. Martin's 1994. 1st ed. fine in dj. 2nd Owen Archer title set in 1365 York England. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. St. Martin's Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005110 ISBN : 0312114095 9780312114091
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Buckley, Fiona
QUEEN'S RANSOM
NY: Scribner 2000. Uncorrected Page Proofs fine in decorated wraps. The 3rd installment in this historical series featuring Lady-in-Waiting Ursula Blanchard set in 1560's in the court of the 28 yr old Queen Elizabeth I. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Scribner Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005170
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Burns, Ron
ROMAN SHADOWS
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1992. First edition so stated September 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 43 B.C. Rome. 2nd in the Roman series. Set during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. While investigating a series of brutal and scandalous murders Livinius gets a close-up look at Rome's descent from republican chaos into autocratic butchery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004580 ISBN : 0312085141 9780312085148
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Sherlockiana) Hardwick, Michael
PRISONER OF THE DEVIL: Sherlock Holmes & the Dreyfus Case
NY: Proteus 1980. 1st ed. light edgewear page edges lightly spotted else near fine in rubbed dust jacket light wear at head and foot. 1895 France. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Proteus Hardcover
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Marston, Edward [Keith Miles]
THE HAWKS OF DELAMERE
London: UK: Headline 1998. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges brginning to brown as usual else Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Volume VII of the Doomesday Books set in 11th century England. "Marston has turned his attention to an earlier era: the 11th century when England was still cautiously--and bloodily--attempting to negotiate the legacy of the Norman invasion. Ralph Delchard a Norman aristocrat and Gervase Bret a quiet Saxon clerk are in dangerous territory: they have arrived at the Welsh border to settle territorial and taxation disputes on behalf of King William. The Welsh appetite for rebellion festers uneasily beneath the placid countryside and Hugh d'Avranches the royal delegation's host seems destined to be the main course at that bloody feast. A man of imposing girth and even more imposing temper he has been the target of a Welsh assassin's arrow. Only Ralph and Gervase suspect that the arrow might have been of Norman origin and their investigation leads them to the heart of Hugh's court." -- Goodreads. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004724 ISBN : 074721980x 9780747219804
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Holman, Sheri
A STOLEN TONGUE Authors Debut Novel
N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press 1997. 1st edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Based on the historical "Wamderings of Friar Felix Fabri" . Set in 1483 and compared to Eco's" Name of the Rose". "Widely varied notions of faith and mission from the conventional to the bizarre color this intriguing historical thriller about a 15th-century pilgrimage from Germany to Mt. Sinai. The narrative takes the form of a journal kept by Dominican Father Felix Fabri beginning at sea in 1483. Felix seeks to visit the relics of his spiritual wife St. Katherine of Alexandria on whom he has developed a fixation that might strike contemporary readers as not being entirely in keeping with his vowsthough such eroticized spirituality was not uncommon at the time. As pieces of Katherine's body disappear from churches along his party's route Felix faces a troubling mystery made more strange by the appearance of a young woman named Arsinoe whose possibly mad communications with the saint have earned her the sobriquet Tongue of St. Katherine. The pilgrims' voyage is arduous enough but with the added intrigue of the disappearing relics and conflicts that try Felix's faith and corrupt his judgment they will be pushed to the brink of despair. First-novelist Holman pulls her readers along with odd riddles and careful suspense. As absorbing as is her portrayal of the premodern world is her feel for timeless ironies is also sure: Felix decries the strange unholy ways of the "Saracens" while he searches for his dead "wife" whose dried-out tongue he keeps in a pouch around his neck" -- Publishers Weekly. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006514 ISBN : 0871136694 9780871136695
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March, Hannah (pseudonym of Tim Wilson)
THE COMPLAINT OF THE DOVE
London: UK: Headline 1999. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Pages showing some light tanning else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. First book in the Robert Fairfax Georgian mystery series set in the vibrant age of 1760's London - Tom Jones and Moll Flanders. Hannah March is a pseudonym for crime writer Tim Wilson. "He once had a bright future ahead of him but when his father committed suicide his estate and fortune was forfeited to the crown. Now Robert Fairfax after a period of dissipation has finally got his life together and is working as a tutor for Matthew Hemsley a young man who comes from a powerful and rich family. To give the student some polish he is taking him to London to introduce him to the people who will one day be a part of his future. Matthew finds himself more interested in the social whirl of London and finds himself in love with the toast of the London Theatre Miss Lucy Dove. When she sends him a letter asking him to meet her at her home he sneaks away from Robert to meet her. When Robert tracks him down he finds Lucy dead and Matthew unable to remember what transpired. Matthew is bound over for trial and sent to Newgate while Robert who believes his charge could never commit homicide does everything in his power to track down the real killer." --Amazon . . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004932 ISBN : 0747222002 9780747222002
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Paige, Robin (Susan & Bill Albert)
DEATH AT WHITECHAPEL PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
NY: Berkeley Prime Crime 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1 page edges show very light tage toning else a fine unread copy. Pbk Original. Featuring Kathryn Ardleigh an American living abroad in Victoria's England and penning pseudonymous. "Shilling Shockers" for an eager sensation-hungry populace and Sir Charles Sheridan. Kathryn has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill. but there is a serious scandal threatenting Jennie---and the political future of her son Winston. She is being blackmailed by someone who claims to have proof that Winston's father was none other than Jack the ripper . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Paperback Original. Berkeley Prime Crime Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006653 ISBN : 0425173410 9780425173411
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Penman, Sharon
THE QUEEN'S MAN: A Medieval Mystery AWARD FINALIST
N.Y.: Ballantine 1998. 1st prtg.Near fine. Trade paperback. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. England in 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing presumed dead--and the court whispers that her younger son John is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile on the snowy highroad from Winchester a destitute young man falls heir to a blood-stained letter pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin de Quincy's passport into the queen's confidence--and into the heart of danger as he pursues a cunning murderer and jousts with secret traitors in Eleanor's court of intrigue and mystery. . . . 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Ballantine Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005975 ISBN : 0345417186 9780345417183
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Jennings, Maureen
Under the Dragon's Tail
New York NY U.S.A.: St. Martins 1998. First edition October 1998 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. The second in this talented Canadian author's William Murdoch series set in 1890's Toronto. Desperate women rich and poor come to her in need of help - and discretion. Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto but although she keeps quiet about her clients' condition her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry. So it comes as no surprise when this malicious woman is murdered. What is a shock though is that a week later a young boy is found dead in Dolly's squalid kitchen. Now Detective Murdoch isn't sure if he's hunting one murderer - or two.The second in this talented Canadian author's William Murdoch series set in 1890's Toronto. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martins Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011086 ISBN : 0312193483 9780312193485
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Hawkes, Ellen & Peter Manso
THE SHADOW OF THE MOTH; A NOVEL OF ESPIONAGE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
N.Y.: St. Martin's 1983 1983. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. London 1917 Virginia Wolfe. While investigating the so-called suicide of a Belgian woman noted writer Virginia Woolf uncovers a plot involving espionage and murder that could determine the outcome of World War I. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's 1983 Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011872 ISBN : 0312714149 9780312714147
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Doherty, PC. as Ann Dukthas P. C.
A TIME FOR THE DEATH OF A KING
N.Y.: St. Martins 1994. 1st edition December 1994 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The 1st Nicholas Segalla Time Travel mystery concerning Mary Queen of Scots This series is not being published in England. In 2000 Doherty won The Herodotus Award for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing. "Mary Stuart: the name itself conjures up images of beauty passion - and murder. Ever since her cruel death on the scaffold at Fotheringhay Castle historians have hotly debated whether or not Mary conspired in the murder of her handsome dissolute husband Lord Darnley in the explosion at Kirk O'Field in 1567. Now more than four hundred years later a mysterious scholar named Nicholas Segalla who may - or may not - have lived centuries before as a Jesuit priest solves one of history's most tantalizing puzzles. Branded a harlot by her fellow monarchs Mary threw caution to the wind after the murder and married the man accused of being Darnley's killer the womanizing Lord Bothwell. Overthrown by her subjects the tragic queen fled to what would ultimately prove her doom at the hands of her cousin Elizabeth I of England. Segalla whose own origins are surrounded in mystery helps uncover clues about questions no one has ever been able to answer: Darnley's body was found unmarked and strangled in the garden; was he warned and by whom Why were a chair a rope and a dagger found lying next to his body Did the killers know Mary would not be spending the night with her consort Who wrote the Casket Letters those scandalous love missives that so incriminated Mary" --publisher. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martins Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006227 ISBN : 0312114397 9780312114398
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Grayson, Richard
THE MONTERANT AFFAIR
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1980. 1st Am. Near fine in lightly used dj. The 2nd Ins. Gautier. Paris in the early 1900's. The victim is Sophie Monterant: a young actress who is already challenging the divine Sarah Bernhardt for the finest roles. Inspector Gautier visits the theatre to see Sophie at the first night of Dame aux Camélias but the first night is also to be her last: after the curtain fall Sophie eats a poisoned chocolate and dies. Gautier is immediately on the case and his investigation takes him to the upper echelons of Parisian society including the blue-blooded Comte de Limousin and the Minister for the Beax-arts who is likely to become the next president of France. Gautier's impertinence enrages Courtrand the director of the Sûreté but what is Courtrand himself concealing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006564 ISBN : 0312546653 9780312546656
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Peters, Ellis
A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES: A Medieval Novel of Suspense The First Brother Cadfael title
N.Y.: Morrow 1978. 1st US edition. Black cloth on brown boards with bright gold lettering at spine. Very light wear to boards with a couple of small stains page edges lightly stained else near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks at head. Dust jacket still has the price of $8.95 intact. Complete number line starting with 1 and states First Edition as well. The 1st Cadfael novel and a rather important cornerstone in mystery fiction as it is the real beginning of the current "Historical Mystery" publishing phenomenon. A scarce title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Morrow Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004630 ISBN : 0708906591 9780708906590
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Doherty, Paul
THE HOUSE OF DEATH: A Mystery of Alexander the Great
London United Kingdom: Constable 2001. 1st edition. Unread copy Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. 334BC. Features Alexander the Great. A magnificent new murder-mystery featuring Alexander the Great. It is 334 Bc and the young Alexander waits with his troops by the hellespont poised to attack the empire of the great Persian king Darius III. To win the approval of the gods for his enterprise he makes many offerings yet the smoke does not rise the sacrifices are tainted. Worse his guides are being brutally murdered Persian spies are in the camp and Alexander's generals have their own secrets. Into this turmoil comes Telamon a physician and boyhood friend of Alexander. As the climax builds and Alexander throws off his nervous fears winning a brilliant and bloody triumph over the Persians Telamon at last suceeds in uncovering their enemies. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Constable
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011500 ISBN : 184119302x 9781841193021
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Nolan, William F.
SHARKS NEVER SLEEP: A Novel Featuring the Black Mask Boys : Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner
NY: Saint Martin's Press 1998. 1st edition November 1998 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Nolan best known for Logan's Run 1976 as well as his two Edgar Allan Poe Special Awards from the Mystery Writers of America is also making a mark with his Black Mask novels. This third effort in his new series is narrated by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner and features those other detective-fiction icons Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Setting his novel in Hollywood in the late 1930s Nolan has also thrown in Mae West Gloria Swanson and auto-racing legend Barney Oldfield as Gardner attempts to prove his innocence in the murders of a former sweetheart and her singing-star husband. An experienced trial lawyer before devoting himself full time to writing Gardner serves as his own defense counsel with Hammett and Chandler helping with the gumshoe work. A clever mix of fact and fiction veteran who-why-and-how-dunit fans will have as much fun reading this one as Nolan does when writing about the Black Mask boys" -- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012080 ISBN : 0312193319 9780312193317
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Zencey, Eric
PANAMA
N.Y.: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Author's 1st book. Paris in 1892.Paris 1892. American historian Henry Adams grandson of one president and great-grandson of another is looking for Miriam Talbott a young American student. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being but when he goes looking for her she disappears. When another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers Adams becomes embroiled in the police's attempt to identify the body and in the Panama Canal scandal that threatens to engulf France. Adams' search leads him into the darker reaches of Paris into a political world as impenetrable and threatening as the jungles of Panama. The dead body Miriam Talbott and the information he uncovers are the keys to the mystery -- but before the truth is discovered more than one person is killed and Adams not only endangers his life but potential U.S. interests in the canal. Eric Zencey's suspenseful brilliant novel offers an exquisite balance of intrigue and history -- and a provocative view of a world teetering on the brink of modernity. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004207 ISBN : 0374229422 9780374229429
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Kanon, Joseph
LOS ALAMOS EDGAR AWARD WINNER
Broadway Books 1997. 1st ed. fine in dj very light wear else fine. 1945 in New Mexico and a Manhattan Project security guard is found murdered. Author's First Book. An EDGAR AWARD WINNER. "Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico Karl Bruner a Manhattan Project security officer is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter as the local police believe or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself This is the mainspring of Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos a supremely original and romantic new thriller that re-creates the most compelling real-life drama of this century. Michael Connolly the intelligence officer brought in to crack Bruner's case--and then make it disappear--soon discovers that investigating a murder in Los Alamos is anything but routine. In a town so secret it does not officially exist he must thread his way through a makeshift community of displaced ÚmigrÚs soldiers and idealistic scientists for whom murder is at best an unwelcome intrusion as they race to end a brutal war. Only when Connolly falls in love and begins an affair with Emma the enigmatic wife of one of the scientists does he truly begin to unravel the past associations tangled sex lives and conflicting morality at the dark heart of the Project. Interweaving fact and fiction Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of those involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer its charismatic scientific director; General Groves its blunt Army commander; and the brilliant team of scientists whose work would change the world forever. Like the invention at its core Los Alamos is about fusion--of loyalty and betrayal idealism and guilt--and its deadly aftermath. Elegantly written and deftly constructed Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new storytelling talent." -- Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Broadway Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005458 ISBN : 0553062247 9780553062243
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Hall, John
SPECIAL COMMISSION
London: Breese Books 1999. 1st ed. Paperback Original. No US Edition. First in a series it introduces Martin Byrd and his earthy servant Clement. It is set in the middle of the 15th century as the old feudal system was giving way and there were stirrings of that unrest which would lead to the War of the Roses and the accesion of the Tudors. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Book. Breese Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005151 ISBN : 0947533931 9780947533939
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Malashenko, Alexei
LAST RED AUGUST: A Russian Mystery
N.Y.: Scribners 1993. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Set in Russia at the time of the attempted coup of 1991. "This fast-paced highly engaging political thriller begins on the eve of the attempted coup against President Gorbachev in August 1991. Written by a policy analyst and briskly translated by the author of the Russian detective Ivan Duvakin series this thinly disguised roman a clef probes into the backgrounds of those responsible for the abortive coup and the frantic events that led to their downfall. A secretary who discovers a discarded planned announcement of the impending military takeover is found out by the KGB and winds up dead. Andrei Alekseevich a young "half-wild intellectual" and Yeltsin supporter also inadvertently learns about the planned coup from his father Georgi a hardliner and high-ranking military officer. Andrei is eventually kidnapped and confined to a plush dacha to sit out the coup--but not before he can pass on what he knows to an American journalist and to a former classmate who works for a Moscow paper. Malashenko does a smart job depicting the psychological strain between Georgi Alekseevich and his son and in showing the greater tensions between the coup plotters--aging generals more interested in their limousines perks and speciality stores than in planning a decisive military action--and the "new" Russia--the idealistic yet unformed generations which rally to protect Boris Yeltsin at the Russian White House." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 000760 ISBN : 0684195712 9780684195711
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Little, Constance; Little, Gwenyth
THE BLACK SHROUDS A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2002. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. A volatile father a maddening beau and a diabolical murderer mean trouble for a runaway heiress in this 1941 screwball comedy mystery. NYC. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013149 ISBN : 0915230526 9780915230525
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Newman, Sharan
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
N.Y.: Forge 1994. First edition May 1994 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Includes map. "Countess Alys of Tonnerre victim of a brutal beating is barely alive when her husband Raynald brings her to the Abbess Heloise at the convent of the Paraclete in medieval France. Young Catherine LeVendeur who helps care for Alys is disturbed by scars that attest to the woman's prior mistreatment. Upon the Countess's death the Paraclete inherits a small piece of unimpressive land which sets off a furor: Raynald claims the convent stole the property and the prior of a nearby monastery makes a handsome offer for it. Catherine maintains her intense curiosity about Alys's unhappy end even through the arrival of her betrothed Edgar of Wedderlie with Peter Abelard; after Catherine and Edgar's wedding the pair travel to Troyes and at Heloise's request search for information on the mysterious bequest. Catherine soons stumbles on another mystery: the discovery of a headless corpse that may ignite the anti-Semitism that is running high during this Easter season of A.D. 1140. With this meticulously prepared work Newman Death Comes as Epiph any adroitly crafts a puzzle in which the intriguing medieval material providing much more than mere background informs the entire novel with a vivid sense of past and guides the responses of the engaging lively cast." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Forge Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005795 ISBN : 031285420x 9780312854201
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Rohmer, Sax
THE DEVIL DOCTOR: A Fu-Manchu Thriller
London: Tom Stacey 1973. Reissue. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket small tear at lower corner a few pages roughly opened Page edges slightly browned previous owners name at fep. A reprint of one of the classic mysteries in the Fu Manchu series first published in 1917. . Fu-Manchu returns to London. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Tom Stacey Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 011686
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Zochert, Donald
MURDER IN THE HELLFIRE CLUB LOCKED ROOM
N.Y.: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1978. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. One tiny tear at bottom edge else fine in dust jacket lightly soiled at rear not price clipped in protective mylar dust jacket cover. Ben Franklin in 1757 London solves a Locked-Room mystery. When Ben Franklin arrives in London in 1757 he is intent upon little more than renewing old friendships refurbishing his wardrobe and conducting a bit of business with the Penn family on behalf of the Pennsylvania colony. Instead he is drawn into the bizarre doings of London's notorious Hellfire Club. It all begins when the porter at the Vulture Tavern is found dead in a room bolted from within his body unmarked by any signs of violence. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001336 ISBN : 0030224411 9780030224416
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Clare, Alys
FORTUNE LIKE THE MOON: A Hawkenlye Mystery AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK
N.Y.: St. Martin's 2000. First US edition May 2000 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped lightly rubbed in an acid-free archival acetate cover. . Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Set in 1157 Kent and introducing a new pair of detectives Josse d'Acquin a brave and loyal ex-soldier and Abbess Helewise of Hawkenlye. Together they solve the gruesome murder of a nun who was found with her throat slit. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Parker Ed. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006532 ISBN : 0312261624 9780312261627
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Sherlockiana) Millett, Larry, ed.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON
N.Y.: Viking NY 1996 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Holmes & Watson travel to Minnesota in 1894 to stop a murderous arsonist from destroying the Great Northern Railway. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Viking NY 1996 Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004268 ISBN : 0670870390 9780670870394
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Kurland, Michael
TOO SOON DEAD
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jaclet. 1935 Manhattan. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 006749 ISBN : 0312152280 9780312152284
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Allen, Charlotte Vale
MOOD INDIGO
Toronto Ontario: Canada: Island Nation Press LLC 1997. 1st edition September 1997 so stated. Some age toning to edges of pages else fine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. An advance copy in cloth with a sticker on the front flyleaf noting it is an advance reading copy Laid in is a SIGNED LETTER from Allen regarding the book and a second sheet with biographical information. Colin Dexter has given the book a favorable quote at the front of the dust jacket. "It's New York it's winter and it's 1934. Honoria Barlow raised from infancy in a Catholic orphanage is a dedicated and prosperous "movie script doctor" currently living with her lover Mick a mysterious Russian she met while traveling in Europe. Maybelle a proud and determined young woman from Harlem is Honoria's fiercely loyal secretary of five years. At the urging of guileless Chip Stevenson the son of Honoria's deceased best friend the women try to uncover the secrets behind the murder/suicide of wolf-in-sheep's-clothing Dee Dee Carlson Chip's fortune-seeking girlfriend. Curiously the mystery-solving endeavors of Honoria and Maybelle take a backseat to the interaction between Honoria's comrades and housemates and Allen's vivid portrait of Depression-era America. However the arrangement works quite nicely allowing the character's devotion to Honoria and their personal and collective histories to shine through. Mood Indigo is a truly delightful tale complete with an unpretentious mystery and a refreshingly warm tribute to friendship thrown in for good measure." -- Booklist. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Advanced Reading Copy ARC. Island Nation Press, LLC Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 012945 ISBN : 0965743713 9780965743716
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Harrison, Ray
SEASON FOR DEATH
NY NY: Saint Martin's Press 1987. 1st USedition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Victorian England/ Bragg &Morton. "It is London in 1893 and the Dean of St. Paul's dies under mysterious circumstances caught up in one of the cathedral bell ropes. When Detective Sgt. Joseph Bragg and his gentleman assistant Constable James Morton investigate they find that the dean committed suicide having been pauperized by a blackmailer who knew that the dean had frequented a homosexual brothel. The next person to hear from the blackmailer is Arabella Godfrey a somewhat indiscreet young woman who receives extortion threats on the eve of her marriage. Meanwhile scandal threatens the apex of society. The Prince of Wales has sent a love letter to another man's wife and it has fallen into the wrong hands: a letter demands 10000. The prince impressed by Bragg and Morton in a previous investigation Counterfeit of Murder calls on them to save his name. The three sets of blackmail are tied together and the case is solved with the invaluable aid of Morton's love reporter Catherine Marsden who is herself the object of attempted extortion. Harrison's sixth book featuring Bragg and Morton is a gem with a solid mystery and a firm grasp of the period. The London season along with Catherine's ambivalent participation is nicely evoked and the relationship between Morton and the shrewd lower-middle-class Bragg is delightfully nuanced."-- Publishers Weekly. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 001606 ISBN : 0312018150 9780312018153
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Morrison, Arthur; Bleiler, Everett F. (editor)
BEST MARTIN HEWITT DETECTIVE STORIES
NY: Dover Publications Incorporated 1976. 1st prtg. Reading crease else a near fine copy of this oversize trade paperback. Selected with an Introdction by E.F. Bleiler Nine stories. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Dover Publications, Incorporated Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 013381 ISBN : 0486233243 9780486233246
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Millett, Larry, ed.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON
N.Y.: Viking Penguin 1996. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cove. Holmes & Watson travel to Minnesota in 1894 to stop a murderous arsonist from destroying the Great Northern Railway. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 005680 ISBN : 0670870390 9780670870394
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Eyre, Elizabeth
DIRGE FOR A DOGE: An Italia Whodunitn Renaissance
London United Kingdom: Headline 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Italian Renaissance mystery featuring Sigismondo. Historical. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 004276 ISBN : 0747217823 9780747217824
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