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Todd Marilyn
VIRGIN TERRITORY
London United Kingdom: Macmillan 1996. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Set in 13 B.C. Author's 2nd Claudia book; set in Rome & Sicily. When Eugenius Collatinus asks Claudia Serfius to act as chaperone for his daughter Sabina who is leaving home from Sicily after thirty years as a Vestal Virgin she jumps at the chance to escape Rome. Unfortunately rather too later it becomes clear that she is escorting an imposter. Back in Rome investigator Marcus Cornelius fears that Claudia is in very great danger. And there's only one thing he can do: go to Sicily and save that delicious neck of hers.Then in the grounds of the Collatinus house a woman's brutilized body is discovered. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006167 ISBN : 0333652975 9780333652978
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Brown, Molly
INVITATION TO A FUNERAL : A Tale of Restoration Intrigue
London: UK: Victor Gollancz LTD 1995. 1st edition. A fine copy looks unread not price clipped in protective mylar cover. in dust jacket. 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. London 1676: Spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn is having more than her share of troubles. Her last play was a flop and her financial situation is getting desperate: she's in debt to a moneylender who could have her arrested for nonpayment at any time. When she casts the Earl of Rochester's mistress Elizabeth Decker as the lead in her new comedy she deeply regrets it. Lord Rochester has bet the Duke of Buckingham that he can turn the theatrically challenged Elizabeth into the best actress on the London stage and he's offered to cut Aphra in on his winnings. But there are other more dangerous matters afoot and when Aphra offers to organize the funeral of a murdered man it seems her troubles are only just beginning. The deaths of two brothers turn out to be linked to the discovery of a secret document which could - unless Aphra moves quickly - plunge England into another civil war. --Publisher. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Victor Gollancz, LTD
Bookseller reference : 012328 ISBN : 0575061324 9780575061323
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Flood, John
Bag Men : A Novel
New York NY U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company Incorporated 1997. 1st ed. 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. Fine/Fine. Book. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013443 ISBN : 0393039986 9780393039986
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Atwood, Margaret
THE BLIND ASSASSIN HAMMETT PRIZE AWARD WINNER
New York NY U.S.A.: Doubleday 2000. First edition so stated September 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Shallow loss at spine ends else near fine in fine dust jacket price clipped in protective mylar cover. WINNER OF THE 2000 BOOKER PRIZE as well as a HAMMETT PRIZE WINNER. "Family secrets sibling rivalry political chicanery and social unrest promises and betrayals "loss and regret and memory and yearning" are the themes of Atwood's brilliant new novel whose subtitle might read: The Fall of the House of Chase. Justly praised for her ability to suggest the complexity of individual lives against the backdrop of Canadian history Atwood here plays out a spellbinding family saga intimately affected by WWI the Depression and Communist witch-hunts but the final tragedy is equally the result of human frailty greed and passion. Octogenarian narrator Iris Chase Griffen is moribund from a heart ailment as she reflects on the events following the suicide in 1945 of her fey unworldly 25-year-old sister Laura and of the posthumous publication of Laura's novel called "The Blind Assassin." Iris's voice -- acerbic irreverent witty and cynical -- is mesmerizingly immediate. When her narration gives way to conversations between two people collaborating on a science fiction novel we assume that we are reading the genesis of Laura's tale. The voices are those of an unidentified young woman from a wealthy family and her lover a hack writer and socialist agitator on the run from the law; the lurid fantasy they concoct between bouts of lovemaking constitutes a novel-within-a-novel. Issues of sexual obsession political tyranny social justice and class disparity are addressed within the potboiler SF which features gruesome sacrifices mutilated body parts and corrupt barbaric leaders. Despite subtle clues the reader is more than halfway through Atwood's tour de force before it becomes clear that things are not what they seem. Meanwhile flashbacks illuminate the Chase family history. In addition to being psychically burdened at age nine by her mother's deathbed adjuration to take care of her younger sibling naive Iris at age 18 is literally sold into marriage to a ruthless 35-year-old industrialist by her father a woolly-minded idealist who thinks more about saving the family name and protecting the workers in his button factories than his daughter's happiness. Atwood's pungent social commentary rings chords on the ways women are used by men and how the power that wealth confers can be used as a deadly weapon. Her microscopic observation transforms details into arresting metaphors often infused with wry pithy humor. As she adroitly juggles three plot lines Atwood's inventiveness achieves a tensile energy. The alternating stories never slacken the pace; on the contrary one reads each segment breathlessly eager to get back to the other. In sheer storytelling bravado Atwood here surpasses even The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday
Bookseller reference : 011942 ISBN : 0385475721 9780385475723
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SMITH SARAH
THE KNOWLEDGE OF WATER SIGNED COPY
New York NY U.S.A.: Ballantine 1996. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY signature and dated 9/28/96 by the author on the title page. " You don't know what it's like to lose yourself. To have no words anymore no way of saying who you are." So warns the anti-marriage vengeful divorced writer and theater artist Milly Xico speaking to Perdita Halley urging her not to give up her career in order to marry her lover Dr. the Baron Alexander von Reisden. The talented 21-year-old Perdita an aspiring concert pianist so nearsighted as to be almost blind is determined to find out what she can accomplish in music. But her love for the Baron may be more of an impediment than her physical handicap. Set in the Paris of 1910 Smith's ambitious second novel after The Vanished Child opens with the Baron a specialist in "mental disturbances" viewing the corpse of a murdered beggar woman to whom he was in the habit of giving alms. The Baron haunted by the fact that he killed his abusive grandfather at age eight feels empathy for the beggar woman's murderer who begins writing to him not long after the body is found. Told in the alternating viewpoints of Perdita Milly the Baron the murderer and a private detective from Massachusetts sent by Perdita's guardian to encourage the Baron to marry her this is a sprawling baroque tale of budding early feminism murder and art forgery. Saturated with a subtle eroticism low-key humor and luxuriant atmosphere particularly concerning the great flood that ravaged the city of Paris early in the century." -- Publishers Weekly. 469 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Ballantine Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010145 ISBN : 0345391357 9780345391353
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Buckman, Peter
THE ROTHSCHILD CONVERSION
NY: McGraw Hill Book Company 1979. 1st ed. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Paris 1848 fraught with riot revolution and corruption gave rise to one of the greatest thefts of the nineteenth century: the embezzlement of 30 million francs from Baron James de Rothschild by his keen-witted protege Michael Carpentier who subsequently disappeared. Buckman reconstructs the embezzlement and all that follows narrating as though it were Carpentier's own account of the coup. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. McGraw Hill Book Company
Bookseller reference : 013509 ISBN : 0070087954 9780070087958
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Ostrander, Isabel
THE HERITAGE OF CAIN
N.Y.: W.J. Watt 1916. 1st edition covers lightly rubbed rubbed spine lettering faded page edges very lightly soiled else very good. Illustrated by George W. Gage. Scarce. We have a beautiful young wife who's husband loves her and her husband's brother who also loves her and her best friend who loves her but loves her husband more. They have each other and a beautiful home or two and lots of money and dear friends the only problem seems to be that the beautiful young wife has just been found dead in her bedroom with her throat cut. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Gage George W. Book. W.J. Watt Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000921
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Jecks, Michael
The Traitor of St. Giles The Medieval West Country Mysteries Ser.
London United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing Limited 2001. A fine unread copy in wraps. A Medieval West Country Mystery 1321 and the townsfolk of Tiverton are preparing for the feast of St. Giles when rape and murder unsettle the celebration. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Mass Market Paperback. Headline Book Publishing, Limited Paperback
Bookseller reference : 006876 ISBN : 0747263620 9780747263623
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Perry, Anne
THE TWISTED ROOT
NY: Ballantine 1999. 1st ed.with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. A William Monk title. For Miriam Gardiner attending a small party at the London home of her fiance Lucius Stourbridge to celebrate their forthcoming marriage it should hae been one of the happiest days of her life. But after making a sudden exit from the party Miriam disappears without a trace. William Monk is called in to investigate his only lead is that the coachman Treadwell a man of dubious character is also missing along with one of the family's coaches. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Ballantine Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011189 ISBN : 0345433254 9780345433251
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Marston, Edward [Keith Miles]
THE QUEEN'S HEAD
London: Bantam Press 1988. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 1st in Nicholas Bracewell and Elizabethian theatre series. "1588 the year of the Spanish Armada is a time of more terror and triumph not just for queen and court but for the whole of England. The turmoil is reflected in its theatres and under the galleries of inns like Londons The Queens Head where Lord Westfields Men perform. The scene there grows even more tumultuous when one of the actors is murdered by a mysterious stranger during a brawl. Nicholas Bracewell the companys bookholder a role far wider than mere producer faces two immediate repercussions. The first is to secure a replacement acceptable to its temperamental star and chief shareholder Lawrence Firethorn. The second is to keep his promise to the dying Will Fowler and catch his killer. Soon further robberies accidents and misfortunes strike Lord Westfields Men even as their stage successes swell. Bracewell begins to suspect a conspiracy not a single murderous act but where lies the proof Then the players are rewarded with the ultimate accolade -- an appearance at court-- and the canny bookholder senses the end to the drama is at hand." -- Goodreads. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Press
Bookseller reference : 002472 ISBN : 0593016181 9780593016183
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Doherty, PC. P. C.
CORPSE CANDLE: Medieval Mystery Featuring Hugh Corbett Locked Room
NY: Saint Martin's Press 2002. 1st U.S. edition so stated December 2002 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The Brothers of the abbey of St. Martin's in-the-marsh usually pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen. But then Abbot Stephen is murdered in his chamber with the door and windows locked from the inside. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012760 ISBN : 0312300875 9780312300876
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MacLeod, Charlotte
HAD SHE BUT KNOWN; A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart AWARD FINALIST
N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1994. 1st edition April 1994 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. AGATHA AWARD NOMINEE for Best Biographical / Critical work. For half a century she was the best-known best-loved and best paid writer America NOT just mystery writer but writer had ever known. Her novels were bestsellers her plays had successful runs on Brodway as Rinehart became one of the most charismatic and most celebrated women of the century. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006825 ISBN : 0892964448 9780892964444
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Edwards Samuel
THE VIDOCQ DOSSIER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD'S FIRST DETECTIVE
Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin 1977. 1st ed. Uncorrected page proof tape at covers hand corrections to covers. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. Uncorrected Proof. Houghton Mifflin Paperback
Bookseller reference : 005402
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Schorr, Mark
BULLY!
N.Y.: St. Martin 1985. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. 1903 & Teddy Roosevelt is President when he becomes ensnared in a trap set by some of the country's most powerful industrialist to discredit his administration he finds himself prevented from going to the authorities so he pursues the murderers himself. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. St. Martin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001574 ISBN : 0312107986 9780312107987
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Tremayne, Peter
SHROUD FOR THE ARCHBISHOP: A Sister Fidelma Mystery
New York NY U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press 1995. First edition so stated September 1995 with complete number line beginning with 1. Small stain at fore edge else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The second Sister Fidelma mystery. Wighard archbishop designate of Canterbury has been discovered garrotted in his chambers in the Lateran Palace in Rome in the autumn of AD 664. The solution to this terrible crime appears simple as the palace guards have arrested Brother Ronan Ragallach as he fled from Wighard's chamber. Although the Irish monk denies responsibility Bishop Gelasius is convinced the crime is political and that Wighard was slain in pique at the triumph of the pro-Roman Anglo-Saxon clergy in their debate with the pro-Columba Irish clergy at Whitby. There is also a matter of missing treasure: the goodwill gifts Wighad had brought with him to Rome and the priceless chalices sent for the Holy Father Vitalian's blessings have all been stolen. Bishop Gelasius realizes that Wighard's murder could lead to war between the Saxon and Irish kingdoms if Ronan is accused without independent evidence. So he invites Sister Fidelma of Kildare and Brother Eadulf to investigate. But more deaths must follow before Fidelma is finally able to put together the strange jigsaw in this tale of evil and vengeance. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013472 ISBN : 0312147341 9780312147341
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St. James, Bernard
APRIL THIRTIETH
N.Y.: Harper 1978. 1st ed. top of page edges soiled else about fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Paris in the time of Napolean with murder in very high society--very high French society. She had been the most beautiful woman in Paris. Suddenly she was lovely no longer her body sprawled like a broken puppet the strangler's cord embedded in her neck. The list of her lovers was long and impressive. She had known financiers and statesmen -- even it was rumored the Emperor Napoleon himself. And when the police began to investigate the men in her life all of Paris waited gleefully for the greatest scandal of the century to break wide open. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Harper Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003174 ISBN : 006013707x 9780060137076
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Beaufort, Simon (pseud of Susanna Gregory)
A HEAD FOR POISONING: A 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled else about fine in dj. The 2nd Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Mystery
N.Y.: St. Martin's Press 1999. 1st ed. page edges lightly soiled else about fine in dj. The 2nd Sir Geoffrey Mappestone title. 1101 England. 373 pages with a Historical Note by the author. "Set shortly after the killing of English King William Rufus in 1100 this absorbing historical mystery features the return of Sir Geoffrey Mappestone the unusual crusader knight and unwilling amateur detective who first appeared in Murder in the Holy City. After 20 years abroad Geoffrey is informed of his father's impending death and he reluctantly wends his way home to his family's estates near the Welsh border. On the way a knight in his retinue who carries messages to the king is killed during an ambush -- not a propitious start to Geoffrey's homecoming. King Henry I orders Geoffrey to uncover the truth behind the suspicious happenings at the crusader's own home Goodrich Castle including the slow poisoning that is killing his father and the sudden death of his favorite sister Enide. At home Geoffrey discovers a hornet's nest of greed and treachery wherein his three brothers and surviving sister wait for their hard-hearted father to die so they can inherit his estates. Geoffrey's father is then found slain by his own dagger and the knight must strive to discern the murderer as more bodies pile up around him. Beaufort's lively prose and diabolical characters as well as Geoffrey's sorely tested indestructibility keep matters moving swiftly. The novel offers finely written descriptions of medieval life and above all the exceptionally engaging character of the bookish highly moral Geoffrey. An exciting finale caps this entertaining period tale from the pseudonymous Beaufort" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005243 ISBN : 031220549X 9780312205492
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Jeffreys, JG. (pseud of Ben J. Healy) J. G.
A CONSPIRACY OF POISONS: A Bow Street Runners Mystery
N.Y.: Walker 1977. 1st US edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped $6.95 intact in protective mylar cover. 1st ed. Fine in very lightly used dj. 1804 England. This is the 3rd adventure ofJeremy Sturrock of the Bow Street runners. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Walker Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004369 ISBN : 0802753590 9780802753595
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Quentin, Patrick
A PUZZLE FOR FOOLS: Number 4 of The Dell Great Mystery Library
NY: Dell Publishing Company Inc. 1957. 1st Dell printing March 1957 so stated. Dell #D-192 .35 cover price. Vintage Paperback. Spine edges lightly rubbed reading crease covers lightly creased edges lightly sunned. Number 4 of the Dell Great Mystery Library. The panel choosing the books for Dell consisted of Anthony Boucher Humphrey Bogart and Louis Untermeyer. Peter Duluth title. Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wifes death; now two years later and desperate to dry out he enters a sanitarium hoping to break his dependence on drinkbut the institution doesnt quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange malevolent occurrences plague the hospital; and among other inexplicable events Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: "There will be murder." It soon becomes clear that a homicidal maniac is on the loose and with a staff every bit as erratic as its idiosyncratic patients it seems everyone is a suspecteven Duluths new romantic interest Iris Pattison. Charged by the baffled head of the ward with solving the crimes its up to Peter to clear her name before the killer strikes again. A Puzzle for Fools is the atmospheric and complex mystery that first introduced Peter Duluth; the character and his love interest Iris went on to star in eight more novels two of which were adapted for film. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback. Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 006962
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Potter, Jeremy
DEATH IN THE FOREST
London: UK: Constable 1977. 1st ed. Some light wear at edges else very good in lighty rubbed dj chipping at corners several short tears. Stamped "Supplied for the Public. Service" stamped at bottom of pages along with stamp of a crown. Stamped "H.M. Yacht Britannia Library No. 867" on front end paper. Historical setting in England in the years following the Norman Conquest. To make his New Forest a hunting preserve William the Conqueror destroyed churches and villages and it was believed that in revenge the forest would prove fatal to his sons. This is the story of their deaths-and of what lay behind them. The story's heroine is Edith a princess of Scotland and descendant of the Saxon kings of England. She lives in a nunnery at Romsey between the forest and Winchester the ancient capital of Wessex. Yearning to rescue England from the Normans she is far from reconciled to spending her life immured as a nun. But although sent to Romsey to be secluded from the world Edith is not sheltered from intrigue and violent death-or even from the opportunity of becoming queen. On her very first day four lords come to view her beauty and one of them is murdered. Who is the murderer And what will be the effect on the succession to England and Normandy Edith is determined to find out. The famous figures of the eleventh century are portrayed here. Edith known to history as the Rose of Romsey meets all the Conqueror's quarrelsome sons his diminutive but formidable queen and even the awesome Conqueror himself. She visits Edward the Confessor's widow and is herself visited by Archbishop Anselm companion of popes and scourge of kings. The abbess who is her aunt and Father Edmund her confessor form part of the intrigue which Edith seeks to unravel. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Constable Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004857 ISBN : 0094618607 9780094618602
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Parker, Robert B.
GUNMAN'S RHAPSODY
NY: Putnam 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. 1879 Wyatt Earp and Dodge City has lost its snap so Wyatt takes his wife and two brothers and heads to Tombstone Arizona. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Putnam Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012904 ISBN : 0399147624 9780399147623
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Kuhlken, Ken
THE VENUS DEAL SIGNED COPY
N.Y.: St. Martin 1993. 1st edition April 1993 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped in an acid-free archival acetate cover. Dust jacket illustraton by John Dawson. SIGNED COPY and dated 6-4-93 by the author at title page. "Set a few months before the events in Kuhlken's previous novel The Loud Adios this book finds Tom Hickey still a civilian still if somewhat precariously married and part owner of a nightclub in wartime San Diego. The war is World War II and Hickey is making money due to the phenomenal appeal of the club's very young female singer Cynthia Moon. Hickey's partner Paul Castillo has his mysterious sources for such rare wartime luxuries as creamery butter and Maine lobster but it is Cynthia who draws the crowds. Except now Cynthia Moon has disappeared. Business drops precipitously and sometime private detective Hickey sets off on a search for her. She is elusive but Hickey encounters her bizarre and tragic family. Her father a pathetic adventurer destroyed by his wife is dying in a nursing home. Venus Cynthia's mother has joined an ostensible Indian guru Master Pravinshandra to lead an ominous cult whose benign surface covers suspicion of rape and murder. While Hickey finds loses and once more finds Cynthia his own life is falling apart. His partner is probably cheating him his wife is slipping away from him his beloved teenage daughter is being pulled along with her. Kuhlken magically evokes the times the half-mad atmosphere of Venus's cult and the hard reality of a business where it's not possible to stay clear of the mob. And over all is The War - the war that is transforming all their lives." --Publisher. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dawson John. Book. St. Martin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003660 ISBN : 031208918x 9780312089184
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Honig, Donald
LAST MAN OUT
New York NY U.S.A.: N A L 1993. 1st ed. near fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. It's 1946 and the Dodgers rookie sensation Harvey Tippen has confessed to murdering young society heiress Gloria Manley. or has he sports reporter Joe Tinker is about to send the game into extra innings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. N A L Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011830 ISBN : 0525936637 9780525936633
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Doherty, Paul
THE HORUS KILLINGS: A Story of Intrigue and Murder Set in Ancient Egypt SIGNED COPY
London: Headline 1999. 1st ed. Complete number line begining with one. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY signed by Doherty at title page. Historical. 2nd title in the Ancient Egypt series. Reader is taken alongside Lord Amerotke Pharaoh's Chief Judge in all of his investigations of murdered victims. 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. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline
Bookseller reference : 011824 ISBN : 074722241x 9780747222415
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Copsey, Jane
Get Out or Die
Scottsdale AZ U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2003. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. Roman Britian in 91 AD is a troublesome part of the might Empire ruled by domitian Caesar. Many native tribes still hate their conquerors and seize any chance to harass the Roman settlers. A string of murders disrupts Aurelia Marcella's peaceful life. A young innkeeper from Italy she and her Roman friends find themselves under attack from a secret native war-band. Can they find and destriy the Shadow of Death before his campaign of terror turns into open rebellion so that all Romans must get out or die. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 013535 ISBN : 1590580753 9781590580752
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Sedley, Kate
THE WEAVER'S INHERITANCE
N.Y.: St. Martin's 2001. First edition October 2001 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. The 3RD Roger the Chapman title set on New Year's of 1474. The year is 1476 and after a hard winter hawking his wares through the ice and rain Roger the Chapman is looking forward to spending Christmas in Bristol enjoying the warm hearth and good food of his mother-in-law Margaret-even if it means the young widower will have to endure her constant matchmaking. However Margaret has barely introduced him to her cousin Adela when Roger's attentions are demanded elsewhere. The long-lost son of a wealthy Bristol weaver presumed murdered on a visit to London six years before has miraculously reappeared to the delight of the old man and to the indignation of Alison Burnett who refuses to believe that the bedraggled stranger is her brother Clement-the rightful heir to half her father's fortune. When Alison's violent objections provoke Alderman Weaver into disinheriting her altogether she appeals to Roger's reputation as a solver of mysteries to prove her growing suspicions right. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Church Caroline. St. Martin's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012935 ISBN : 0312276842 9780312276843
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Selwyn, Francis
SERGEANT VERITY AND THE SWELL MOB
Briarcliff Manor NY: Stein & Day 1981. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket un-clipped. Victorian England. Sergeant William Clarence Verity of the Private-Clothes Detail is back in England. He must leave his relaxed summer tour of duty in Brighton to find a cursed Mogul clasp The Shah Jehan Clasp and the mob who stole it. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Stein & Day Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001763 ISBN : 0812827279 9780812827279
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Adamson, Mary Jo
THE BLAZING TREE Michael Merrick Mysteries Ser. AWARD FINALIST
New York NY U.S.A.: N A L 2000. 1st ed. near fine unread copy of this Paperback Original and SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE. A structural fire--the latest and most frightening in a series of unexplained blazes in the Shaker community of Hancock Village Massachusetts--has resulted in the death of an elderly man. Boston newspaperman Michael Merrick on orders from his publisher is propelled into impromptu undercover detective work at the village in the hope of unmasking the arsonist. Merrick's assignment quickly becomes a race against a clever murderer who will not hesitate to kill again. With richly textured prose and striking characterizations Ms. Adamson takes the reader into the midst of everyday life in an 1840s Shaker village weaving a compelling and suspenseful tale. . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback Original. N A L Paperback
Bookseller reference : 006874 ISBN : 0451200349 9780451200341
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Willeford) Herron, Don
WILLEFORD
Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan 1997. First Edition November 1997. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. The definative work on Willeford Small print run of about 2000 copies. The gold foil-stamp on the endpapers of the book were made from Charles Willeford's bookplate. From Dennis McMillan the Publisher --" WILLEFORD" is the first extensive critical appreciation of the life and writing of Charles Willeford 1919-1988 author of MIAMI BLUES THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY and COCKFIGHTER. From his early Depression-era experiences as a teen-age hobo through his twenty-year enlistment in the Army and Air Force including his role as a tank commander with Patton s Third Army fighting in the Battle of the Bulge his years of struggle in the paperback original jungle to a final triumph with his series of crime novels about Miami homicide inspector Hoke Moseley this book tells his story. Don Herron provides the fascinating background to all of Willeford s books from PROLETARIAN LAUGHTER 1948 through the fifth Hoke Moseley novel left unfinished at the time of his death. The stories behind HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA PICK-UP WILD WIVES LUST IS A WOMAN THE HOMBRE FROM SONORA and OFF THE WALL are detailed here for the first time. Herron includes much previously unknown information on lost books such as THE WHIP HAND and on the unpublished novels which Willeford turned to for the substance of the Hoke Moseley series. Lesser-known literary facts of Willeford s forty-year career are also chronicled; from his assistant-editorship of ALFRED HITCHCOCK S MYSTERY MAGAZINE to a twenty-year stint as mystery reviewer for the Miami Herald. Willeford s other artistic endeavors are treated in depth including his acting career starting with stage plays in the 1940s and culminating with a major part in his movie COCKFIGHTER directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton. Herron also relates Willeford s long-term avocation as a prankster recording many of his hilarious routines to which he himself fell victim more than once! WILLEFORD also features the most complete bibliography of Willeford s ever assembled both primary and secondary as well as his longest interview - over one hundred pages of never-before-published conversations with the author of MIAMI BLUES. 480pgs. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Dennis McMillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 005063 ISBN : 0939767260 9780939767267
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Green, Anna Katherine
THE FILIGREE BALL: BEING A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE SOLUTION OFTHE MYSTERY CONCERNING THE JEFFREY-MOORE AFFAIR
Inianapolis:IN USA: Bobbs Merrill 1903. 1st edition. Spine head & foot worn edges worn small water stain at lower page edges. Dark green cloth with gold titles on spine stamped in red and gold on front cover. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. In homemade acetate dust protector. Illustrated by C.M. Relyea. 418 pages with 22 page list of Important Fiction of Bobbs Merrill . " Variously regarded as the 'mother grandmother and godmother of the detective story" -- Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. For two weeks Washington has been abuzz with talk about what happened at the Moore house. The historic old building dating back to colonial times has long been a subject of unease as the site of multiple deaths. But pretty young Veronica Moore decides to defy superstition and hold her lavish wedding at the ancestral propertyan event that turns tragic when a guests lifeless body is discovered. Now a man has reported to the police that he spotted a light coming from within the supposedly empty house on an all but deserted block and a detective must enter the mansion to unravel the secrets within . 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good-Near Fine. Illus. by Relyea C.M. Book. Bobbs Merrill Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004674
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Kaminsky, Stuart M.
THE DEVIL MET A LADY: AToby Peters Mystery
New York NY U.S.A.: Mysterious Press 1993. 1st edition October 1993 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Kaminsky has garnered both The GRAND MASTER AWARD from Mystery Writers of America 2006 and THE EYE LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD 2007. "The client this time 1943 is Bette Davis's husband Arthur Farnsworth whose aeronautical research on a modified bombsight has brought him to the attention of a gang that wants to swap the plans for an old sound-recording that Toby would rather forget--a record of how Davis's first husband Ham Nelson blackmailed Howard Hughes over a little performance coaching she gave him--and threatens to kidnap the star if Farnsworth won't play ball. " --KIrkus. # 17 in series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010724 ISBN : 0892964367 9780892964369
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Penman, Sharon
THE QUEEN'S MAN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST
London: Michael Joseph 1996. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 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 .Author's debut novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Michael Joseph Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004464 ISBN : 071813981x 9780718139810
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Marston, Edward
THE NINE GIANTS
London: UK: Bantam Press 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped. "Marston's fourth novel set in the world of Elizabethan theater will have its audience calling for encores. Brimming with life colorful dialogue and of course drama the story follows the tribulations of Nicholas Bracewell stage manager of the acting troupe Lord Westerfield's Men. As he oversees rehearsals and performances Bracewell must also salve the fragile egos of actor and ladies' man Lawrence Firethorn; lovelorn and talented playwright and actor Edmund Hoode; and even aspiring poet Abel Strudwick a humble waterman who ferries passengers across the river Thames. On Strudwick's boat Bracewell and the waterman discover a corpse in the river that may be linked to misfortunes assailing the company and to a crime that is close to home for Bracewell. Young hatter apprentice Hans Kippel who works for Bracewell's landlady and lover Anne Hendrik returns from an errand traumatized and with alarming loss of memory. Has he witnessed something terrible Meanwhile the landlord of the inn that is home to the players plans to sell his premises. At another inn known as The Nine Giants the actors try out a new venue and the drama comes to a stirring conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Bantam Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003421 ISBN : 0312064268 9780312064266
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Jecks, Michael
A MOORLAND HANGING: A Knights Templar Mystery
London: Headline 1996. 7th prtg. A fine unread copy of this paperback. A Medieval West Country Mystery Devonshire. In fourteenth-century Devon runaway villeins were brutally punished if apprehended by their masters. But when Peter Bruther flees the home of Sir William Beauscyr he puts himself in the protection of the king by setting up as a tin miner on the moors. And the bailiff of Lydford Simon Puttock has to inform an irate Sir William that he has no legal claim on his wayward servant. When Bruther's body is found hanging from a tree Simon assisted by the former Knight Templar Sir Baldwin Furnshill finds himself investigating cold-blooded murder. And there's no shortage of suspects from Sir William himself to his feuding sons to Thomas Smyth a wealthy tinner who runs a ruthlessly enforced protection racket funded by landowners. The pressure is on Simon and Baldwin to unravel the truth before further violence ensues. Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Mass Market Paperback. Headline Paperback
Bookseller reference : 006467 ISBN : 0747250715 9780747250715
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Doherty, PC. P. C.
MURDER WEARS A COWL SIGNED COPY
London: UK: Headline 1992. 1st ed. complete number line beginning with 1 Fine in protective mylar dust jacket cover. Pages showing light age-toning. Historical. Hugh Corbett title. SIGNED COPY. the sixth mystery featuring Hugh Corbett a spy for Edward I concerns a violent serial killer lurking in London slitting the throats of prostitutes. When Lady Somerville one of the Sisters of St. Martha is murdered in the same barbaric fashion followed by the suspicious death of Father Benedict Edward I again calls on his trusted clerk Hugh Corbett to track the killer. 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 Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006802 ISBN : 0747205507 9780747205500
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Doherty, PC. P. C.
CORPSE CANDLE SIGNED COPY Locked Room
London: Headline 2001. 1st ed. complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Doherty at title page. Medieval mystery featuring Hugh Corbett. The Brothers of the abbey of St. Martin's in-the-marsh usually pay little heed to the tales of robber baron Sir Geoffrey Mandeville's ghost galloping through the Lincolnshire fens with a retinue of ghastly horsemen. But then Abbot Stephen is murdered in his chamber with the door and windows locked from the inside. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Headline Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011185 ISBN : 0747271658 9780747271659
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Morson Ian
FALCONER'S CRUSADE FIRST BOOK
London: Gollancz 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st book. . If 13th century Oxford had an Inspector Morse he would be Regent Master William Falconer--daringly progressive teacher Aristotelian philospher amateur sleuth. "This sparkling medieval mystery debut introduces an appealing sleuth Regent Master William Falconer of Aristotle College Oxford University who calls himself a "deductionist." When not tutoring young clods Falconer who keeps a live owl in his rooms experiments wth flying devices. The year is 1264 but Falconer a disciple of Friar Bacon is ahead of his time notably with his heretical belief drawn from his observations that the earth's surface must be curved. The stabbing murder of Margaret Gebetz Master John Fyssh's French servant girl is followed by the murders of three students. What connection if any do the slayings have to the visit to Oxford of Prince Edward weak King Henry III's son who is being wooed by rebellious barons What is the nature of the small book that illiterate Margaret possessed and which she believed would protect her Thirteenth-century Oxford with its political entanglements its town vs. gown clashes and suspicion of Jews comes vividly to life in Englishman Morson's tight absorbing tale first in a projected series." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Baker Martin. Book. Gollancz Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004725 ISBN : 0575057505 9780575057500
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Knight Alanna
ENTER SECOND MURDERER 1ST IN SERIES
NY: St. Martin's 1989. 1st US edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Review slip laid in. . Her 1 st mystery this is the 1st of a series of Ins. Faro books set in Victorian Edinburgh. "Re-creating her native Edinburgh of the Victorian age Knight starts a series on widower Inspector Faro and his stepson Dr. Vincent Laurie. After Patrick Hymes is hanged for two crimes--the murder of his errant wife and of wanton Lily Gordie--Faro devotes himself to clearing Hymes of the second murder. After questioning the nuns who had employed both women Faro and Laurie confirm their belief in Hymes's innocence and stick to the search for Lily's innumerable spurned suitors. It is an exhausting effort prompting Laurie to insist they take time off at a performance of Othello where they are electrified by a lovely actress whom Faro courts with a fervor equal to that of his hunt for the copycat killer. The atmosphere as well as the portrayals of Faro and his boyish stepson will appeal to fans of period detective stories." --. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001261 ISBN : 0312030215 9780312030216
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Garrett, Randall
LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES
NY: Ace 1981. 1st Ace printing September 1981. Paperback Original. Wraparound cover art. Impossible crime. The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines. 229 pages. The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart in which King John never reigned and most of Western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in place of the science of our own world. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. Book. Ace Paperback
Bookseller reference : 011811 ISBN : 0441491413 9780441491414
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Bugliosi, Vincent T. With William Stadiem
LULLABY AND GOODNIGHT
NY: NAL 1987. First edition so stated November 1987 with complete number line beginning with 1. Pages lightly uniformally age toned else Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. New York high society in the roaring 20's. A beautiful haunted woman in a glittering and corrupt era takes center stage in this sizzling novel based on a true sex scandal that rocked New York City in the Roaring Twenties. Brought to life are the 1920sthis centurys wildest decade when New York was the capital of pleasure and anything went for a price. To this city of bright lights and dark corners comes the lovely innocent Emily Stanton hoping for fame on the stage. What she finds is marriage to Warren Matthews who has hooked his wagon to the gravy train of Tammany Halls political corruption and is riding it to the social heights. When the marriage turns into a nightmare of brutality Emily flees with her young daughter Jessica only to find herself the victim of a vicious frameup masterminded by her husband to gain custody of Jessica. Robbed of her child her reputation and her career a desperate Emily begins her single-minded odyssey through Manhattans illicit and dazzling high life to get evidence against those who framed her so she can win her precious daughter back. Still beautiful and magnetic she becomes a singing hostess at Texas Guinans notorious speakeasy. There she makes connections with the powerful likes of famed madam Polly Adler Judge Joseph Crater gambler Arnold Rothstein and dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker. Finally Emilys battle to get back her child threatens to destroy the people who savaged her and the infamous system that spawned them. And as the decades frenzy mounts to its explosive climax Emilys very life reaches its moment of decision in a sensational murder trial that rips the last shred of secrecy from a revelation so shocking it will shake even this blase city to its core. -- Publisher. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. NAL
Bookseller reference : 013514 ISBN : 0453005705 9780453005708
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Falkirk, Richard pseudonym of Derek Lambert
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 : 000796 ISBN : 0812816706 9780812816709
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Alexander, Lawrence
SPEAK SOFTLY
N.Y.: Doubleday & Company Inc 1987. First edition so stated. Very light wear near fine in lightly rubbed dj. 2nd in the Theodore Roosevelt series-1890's NYC. Teddy's cousin Franklin is in trouble when he receives a warning from the sinister "Black Hand" killers. Teddy Roosevelt Police Commissioner of New York City investigates a series of murders that seemed to be connected to narcotics smuggling and two organized crime families. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday & Company, Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001562 ISBN : 0385235984 9780385235983
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Pearce, Michael
The Camel of Destruction : A Mamur Zapt Mystery
Scottsdale AZ U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2002. 1st US edition so stated. A fine unread copy in dust jacket. Cairo 1910. Captain Owen The Mamur Zapt is the head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British Rule. He is ultimately responsible for law and order in the Khedive's Cairo. When the rules whether obvious or hidden are flouted he steps into action - although it sometimes looks like he's merely stepped sideways out of the way. Now it is the end of the boom leaving banks beleaguered and borrowers in trouble whether the poorest land-working fellahin or the richest land-owning Pashas. Then a civil servant suspiciously dies at his desk. The whiff of corruption is in the air. Even Owen who is supposed to be investigating the affair appears to be living beyond his means. As he turns to such unlikely allies as the Grand Mufti the local barber and the Widow Shawquat he penetrates to the heart of such sinister organizations as the Khedive's Agricultural Society. The rich are tricky and money speaks louder than words challenging Owen to use all his skills to stop the Camel of Destruction. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012312 ISBN : 1590580249 9781590580240
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Doherty, P. C.
MURDER WEARS A COWL: A Medieval Mystery Featuring Hugh Corbett
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1994. First U.S. edition January 1994 with complete number line beginning with 1. Very minor soiling at page edges else fine in in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. the sixth mystery featuring Hugh Corbett a spy for Edward I concerns a violent serial killer lurking in London slitting the throats of prostitutes. When Lady Somerville one of the Sisters of St. Martha is murdered in the same barbaric fashion followed by the suspicious death of Father Benedict Edward I again calls on his trusted clerk Hugh Corbett to track the killer. In 2000 Doherty won The HERODOTUS AWARD for Lifetime Achievment presented by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society for best historical writing . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 012272 ISBN : 0312105061 9780312105068
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Jackson, Jon A.
GO BY GO Signed Copy
Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dj. SIGNED COPY. It is the story of a young Pinkerton agent from "back east" who is thrust upon the violent streets. of Butte Montana in 1917. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Dennis McMillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004831 ISBN : 0939767317 9780939767311
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Sherlockiania) Mitchelson, Austin, and Nicholas Utechin
HELLBIRDS
NY: Belmont Tower Books 1976. 1st ed. Reading crease light wear at spine edge and along edges else near fine tight copy in pictorial wraps. Paperback Original no hardcover edition. Holmes must save England from the evil German spy Von Bork . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Belmont Tower Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 012614
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O'Hagan Joan
ROMAN DEATH
London: UK: Macmillan 1988. 1st ed. paper showing signs of age toning else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 45 B.C.Julius Caesar is at the height of his power. The trial of Helvia accused of murder & incest defended by Cicero results in political shenanigans which result in Caesat's assassination. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Macmillan
Bookseller reference : 001781 ISBN : 0333475968 9780333475966
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Jeffreys, J. G. (Ben J. Healey)
CAPTAIN BOLTON'S CORPSE
N.Y.: Walker and Company 1982. 1st US edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. About fine in lightly soiled dj 1" tape repaired tear a couple of tiny nicks along edge not price clipped in protective mylar cover. 1800's England. Historical mystery featuring Jeremy Sturrock of The Bow Street Runners. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Walker and Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002662 ISBN : 0802754708 9780802754707
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Tourney, Leonard
WITNESS OF BONES: Joan and Matthew Stock in The Queen's Service
N.Y.: St. Martins 1992. First edition October 1992 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "Occasional well-placed nods to the present day and a determined avoidance of period whimsy make Tourney's tales of Elizabethan detection Knaves Templar etc. far superior to the usual intrigue-behind-court-walls saga. Chelmsford clothier and local constable Matthew Stock is summmoned to London with his wife Joan by their friend Robert Cecil a trusted adviser to the ailing Queen Elizabeth. He wants them to investigate the case of a Catholic martyr who has seemingly risen from the grave prompting some to claim a miracle; Cecil sees a papist plot with political insurrection as its goal. Before the Stocks can trace the conspiracy Matthew is accused of murdering a minister who has been preaching against the miracle and Joan must sleuth on her own in a society reluctant to allow a plucky forthright woman any independence. Tourney neither belabors nor neglects his setting and although his puzzle's solution isn't very gripping the Stocks make wonderful guides to a world quite different from our own yet sometimes shockingly familiar." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004190 ISBN : 0312083394 9780312083397
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Perry, Anne
WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE
N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine 1996. First edition October 1996 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. With a stroke of her pen Perry restores the lost splendor of Victorian England to such three-dimensional brilliance that it becomes as real as the world we live in. Now in Weighed in the Balance she takes us into the exotic lives of royal exiles in London Venice and a picture- book German principality. When Countess Zorah Rostova sweeps into the office of London barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone and asks him to defend her against a serious charge of slander he is astonished to find himself accepting. For from what he learns of the case a defense of the countess can only earn him notoriety. Twenty years earlier Countess Zorah'scountryman Prince Friedrich had abdicated his throne to marry a woman who was unacceptable as queen. Since then the prince and his beloved Princess Gisela have lived in romantic exile as the world's most famous lovers. Now the prince is dead and Countess Zorah claims that Princess Gisela has murdered him. Unfortunately she can produce not a shred of evidence to support her shocking assertion. Nor can that formidable private investigator William Monk. However Monk and his friend nurse Hester Latterly do establish that the prince was murdered. And as events unfold the likeliest suspect seems to be Countess Zorah herself. In this suspenseful and darkly rich novel Anne Perry draws us into a drama that reaches its mesmerizing climax in the Old Bailey where two remarkable women--one boldly confident the other wrapped in grief--await the chill exposure of naked truth the inexorable unfolding of their destinies. -- dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Fawcett Columbine Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 011188 ISBN : 0449910784 9780449910788
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