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David Roberts
Dangerous Sea (Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne Murder Mysteries)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 248pp. Crime fiction set on the high seas in 1937.
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Borowitz, Albert
The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small indent to front and very slight creasing to top of spine. 304pp. The sensational crime that scandalized Regency England in 1823.
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John A. Hall
The Ardagh Emeralds (Linford Mystery) (Signed By Author)
Appears unread. Inscribed by John to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 181pp. Eight stories set in England in the 1890s in the world of Victoria and the Empire and of AJ Raffles, gentleman burglar. Very scarce in the UK.
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Taylor, Bob
Crimebuster: Inside the minds of Britain's most evil criminals
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 285pp. An autobiographical account of the work of Bob Taylor, the detective with the 100% conviction record and his achievements including as a junior officer on the Yorkshire Ripper case and as lead detective in the hunt for Michael Sams, the killer of Julie Dart.
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Egginton, Joyce
From Cradle to Grave: Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanned page edges and tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage and faint indenting to front. 379pp. The story of an American serial killer - a mother's nine babies who all died and for which she was tried for murder and convicted.
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Frank Parrish
Caught in the Birdlime
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning to page and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 173pp. The seventh of the author's Dan Mallett books set in England's West Country.
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Hurley, Graham
The Price of Darkness (Di Joe Faraday)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 352pp. The eighth novel in the crime series featuring Joe Faraday and Paul Winter.
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Kennedy, William
Legs
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with small label removal mark to front and general traces of storage. 293pp. A novel of the 1920s based on the life of the legendary gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond. First British edition.
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McGilloway, Brian
Gallows Lane (Inspector Devlin Mysteries)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 321pp. An Inspector Devlin mystery in the Irish borderlands.
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Creasey, John
Murder London-Australia (Superintendent West)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, light tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 171pp. A Superintendent West crime to solve.
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Mike Hamer (Mike Scantlebury)
A Limp Piccolo: The Olympic Bid Mystery
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 312pp. A Manchester Murder Mystery from Mike Hamer. Very scarce first edition.
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Mike Hamer (Mike Scantlebury)
Off the Rails: The First Metrolink Murder: The Sponsored Edition (Manchester Murder Mysteries)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 188pp. A Manchester Murder Mystery from Mike Hamer. First edition.
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Mel Plehov
Harold Shipman : The Doctor of Death
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. An account of the murders carried out by Dr Harold Shipman and the subsequent court action.
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Black, Lionel
Death by Hoax
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, crease to upper corner of one page and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear/crease to spine foot and light creasing to edges. 189pp. Crime fiction from Lionel Black.
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Stoll, Clifford
Silicon Snakeoil
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 247pp. Even in the early days of the internet, the potential problems from spies and data security could be seen - and explained here.
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Sterling, Bruce
The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On the Electronic Frontier
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 328pp. An introduction to computer hacking and data security when the internet was young.
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Camilleri, Andrea
The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano mysteries)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 281pp. An Inspector Montalbano mystery set in Sicily as he tries to find a kidnapped girl whilst on enforced sick leave.
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Camilleri, Andrea
The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano mysteries)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a small rub to spine. 278pp. An Inspector Montalbano mystery where a mysterious yacht arrives to discover a body in the water.
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Camilleri, Andrea
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano mysteries)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 276pp. An Inspector Montalbano mystery where he is presented with the murder of a man, shot in the face with his trousers down.
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Camilleri, Andrea
Angelica's Smile (Inspector Montalbano mysteries)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 279pp. An Inspector Montalbano mystery in Sicily where as usual he falls for a very beautiful woman as he tries to focus on a series of strange anonymous letters claiming respomsibility for thefts.
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Hurley, Graham
Cut To Black (Di Joe Faraday)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 470pp. No 5 in the Joe Faraday crime detective fiction series.
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Richards, Kel
The Case of the Secret Assassin
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 248pp. Crime/detective fiction set in Palestine under Roman rule in AD57 - and Paul of Tarsus is the next target.
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Coogan, Tim Pat
On the Blanket : The H-Block Story
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 271pp. An account from investigative journalism of the H-Block protest in Northern Ireland when hundreds of men lived naked in conditions of horrific squalor, their prison cells daubed with excrement and the murders of eighteen warders.
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Coote, James; Goodbody, John
The Olympics, 1972
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked anthracite coloured cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny tear to upper rear corner and minor rubbing to upper edge. 198pp. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed. This description of the event recalls the tragedy and whether the Games should have continued. It goes on to tell of the athletes who succeeded in winning at the Games including Mark Spitz, Lasse Viren, Shane Gould and Mary Peters as well as the dexterity and charm of the Russian girl gymnasts.
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John Dean (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 63 June 1989
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and minor bumping to upper corner. 153pp. This issue includes Frederick Forsyth, Crime novels of Ellis Peters, London Fairs, Saki, Airmen's memoirs, DH Lawrence, magazine work of GA Henty and Illustrated books of Edward Ardizzone.
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The Editor
Book and Magazine Collector : No 28 July 1986
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale pink. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor crease to lower front corner. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes JB Priestley novels and plays, London Books Fairs, Walter de la Mare poet and author, Ellery Queen crime novels, Algernon Blackwood supernatural tales and EM Forster.
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The Editor
Book and Magazine Collector : No 22 December 1985
A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes Joseph Conrad, Sir Compton Mackenzie, ghosthunter Elliott O'Donnell, 'The Graphic' magazine, Ngaio Marsh crime stories and JM Barrie and 'Peter Pan'.
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The Editor
Book and Magazine Collector : No 17 July 1985
A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing to rear cover. A very clean very tight copy, uper corner of four adjacent pages cut/torn - no loss of text and no bumping to corners. 135pp. This issue includes Dashiell Hammett crime stories, WW Jacobs, E Nesbit's children's books, prisoner-of-war books, Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly and JRR Tolkien.
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Camilleri, Andrea; Lucarelli, Carlo; De Cataldo, Giancarlo
A Voice in the Night (Inspector Montalbano mysteries)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick to top of front cover. 278pp. An Inspector Montalbano mystery.
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Sahlberg, Gardar
Murder at the Masked Ball : the assassination of Gustaf III of Sweden
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with one cm tear to upper rear edge and traces of storage. 242pp. A meticulous historical reconstruction, written as a novel, of the murder of the despised King Gustaf of Sweden in 1792, the unmasking of the murderer and his execution.
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 183 June 1999
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Beatrix Potter, cricket novels & stories, Elizabeth Bowen, Lindsey Davis crime novels, legendary gunfighters, London Book Fair, Anne Bronte and index, letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 181 April 1999
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes hidden gems from Elinor Brent-Dyer, C Daly King crime stories, Wilbur Smith, collecting war novels, books about Oliver Cromwell, Popeye 70th birthday tribute, Sir Alec Guinness bibliography and index, letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 179 February 1999
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147p. This issue includes Rudyard Kipling novels and stories, CS Forester's Hornblower, Basil Copper crime and horror stories, EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady, Michael Sadleir novels and biographies, Florence Upton's Golliwogg books, the golden age of Broadway Musicals, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 172 July 1998
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Upper front corner with damp effect and some upper page corners were stuck together, now released. 163p. This issue includes John Betjeman, JH Dowd illustrator, crime books of Lawrence Sanders, Gothic novels of William Beckford, The Beano at 60, Vera Brittain, collecting World Cup books, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 168 March 1998
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Arthur Conan Doyle and the paranormal, Aubrey Beardsley and 'The Savoy', Humbert Wolfe, Gladys Mitchell crime writer, Pony books, Thomas Love Peacock, R Chetwynd-Hayes and the macabre, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 154 January 1997
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147p. This issue includes Stephen King, Giants of the Victorian stage, John Piper's early books, RF and QD Levis, Guy Cullingford crime books, Fred Archer chronicler of village life, Dodie Smith, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 152 November 1996
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights', the 'lost stories' of WW Jacobs, war poet Edmund Blunden, JR Ackerley, Hilary Saunders/Francis Beeding/others - historian/crime, 'The Broons' and 'Oor Wullie', Hammer films, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 150 September 1996
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Ernest H Shepard illustrator, Victor Hugo, Arnold Bax/Dermot O'Byrne composer/author, Miss Read, manned spaceflight books, F Scott Fitzgerald tribute, Michael Dibdin crime books, index and letters and classified..
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Broady, Duncan & Sawkill, Carol
Law and Order in Manchester (Images of England)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Over 200 well-captioned photographs from the archives of the Greater Manchester Police Museum show the history of policing in Manchester and the social history of the city.
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 166 January 1998
No marks or inscriptions . Creasing to upper rear corner of last few pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 147p. This issue includes Novels and short stories of Richmal Crompton. Henry Fielding, Liza Cody crime novels, Alison Uttley, books about Suffolk, Fantasy auction report, letters and classified..
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West, Philip
Watergate
Red ink side lines to a few paragraphs on first eight pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, slight foxing adjacent to front spine edge and to page edges and no bumping to corners. 90pp. The story of Richard Nixon and the Watergate conspiracy, starting with Nixon's political activities from 1946.
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The Editor
Women - You Don't Have to Put Up with Being Battered : How to Get an Injunction
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to upper edge and no bumping to corners. 38pp. How to get your own injunction under the Domestic Violence Act 1976 - put together by Manchester Law Centre and the National Women's Aid Federation. Very scarce.
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Adams, Guy; Thompson, Lee
'Life on Mars' : The Official Companion
Book and jacket in as new condition. 168pp. The story about and each episode from Series One of BBC production 'Life on Mars'. Very well illustrated.
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Cornwell, Patricia
Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil)
Faint trace of label removal inside front board. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small crease to one upper page corner and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper edge and spine foot. 375pp. An Andy Brazil story.
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Klein, Naomi
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 558pp. An expose of global profiteering - how a few people/companies are raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.
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Aaltonen, Gaynor
Spooks : Behind the Scenes
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage 192pp. Covering all 36 episodes of the BBC thriller series Spooks, showing each perfectly filmed episode and character breakdowns, original interviews with the show's actors, writers, directors and production team.
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McCrumb, Sharyn
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper and lower edges. 352pp. Fictional account based on two true murders cases in the Appalachian mountains of North Carrolina where the author wonders whether justice has been done.
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Kato, Wycliffe
Escape from Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 172pp. An account of the depraved regime of Idi Amin in Uganda in the late 1970s where murder, torture, imprisonment and mutilation were standard methods used on anyone he wanted to by Amin who had been humiliated by the Israeli's Entebbe Raid. The story is told by Wycliffe Kato who had been Assistant Director General of Civil Aviation at the time of his arrest and imprisonment. He tells of his time in custody and how he managed to escape to Nairobi. Very scarce.
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 146 May 1996
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes PG Wodehouse in America, Edward Seago, Ernest Rhys, Everyman's Library, S.P.B Mais, John Creasey crime writer, G.E Farrow, the FA Cup books & programmes, index and letters and classified..
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Crispin Jackson (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 145 April 1996
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Elsie J Oxenham Abbey books, Randolph Caldecott illustrator, French Foreign Legion, Matthew Lewis and The Monk, Avon books, Gulliver's Travels, Reginald Hill and the Dalziel & Pascoe crime novels, index and letters and classified..
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