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MacLean Alistair
CARAVAN TO VACCARES
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1970. 1st A. Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped $5.95 price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018886
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Downing David
ONE MAN'S FLAG
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2015. 1st ed. A fine unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition. due out in November 2015. 384 pages . Jack McColl a spy for His Majesty�s Secret Service is stationed in India charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. Belgium he finds is not the only country seeking to expel an invader. In England meanwhile suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother - an IRA sympathizer whose terrorist plot was foiled by Caitlin�s own ex-lover the very same Jack McColl. The war is changing everything and giving fresh impulse to those causes-feminism socialism and Irish independence - which she as a journalist has long supported. The threat of a Rising in Dublin alarms McColl�s bosses as much as it dazzles Caitlin. If another Irish plot brings them back together will it be as enemies or lovers. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Bookseller reference : 018859 ISBN : 1616952709 9781616952709
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Marlowe Derek
A DANDY IN ASPIC
N.Y.: Putnam 1966. 1st ed. ex-library in dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Ex-Library. Putnam
Bookseller reference : 018852
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MacLean Alistair
FLOODGATE
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1984. 1st A. Owner's name on fep else Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped $15.95 price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018786 ISBN : 0385182635 9780385182638
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MacLean Alistair
PARTISANS
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1983. 1st A. Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018792 ISBN : 0385182627 9780385182621
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MacLean Alistair
PUPPET ON A CHAIN
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1969. 1st A. Light shelfwear along edges else near fine in near fine dust jacketlightly rubbed and browning at rear unclipped $5.95 price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018793
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MacLean Alistair
THE WAY TO DUSTY DEARH
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1973. 1st A. Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped $5.95 price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018796
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MacLean Alistair
SAN ANDREAS
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1985. 1st A. Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018795 ISBN : 0385231520 9780385231527
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MacLean Alistair
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE
London: UK: Collins 1968. 1st ed. Previous owners name and date on fep else fine in near fine dust jacket spine sunned. Unclipped 25s net price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Collins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018791
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MacLean Alistair
ATHABASCA
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1980. 1st A. Fine in near fine dust jacket unclipped $11.95 price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018785 ISBN : 0385172044 9780385172042
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MacLean Alistair
BEAR ISLAND
Garden City New York U.S.A.: Doubleday 1971. 1st A. Inside eps show some staininf else near fine in near fine dust jacket price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018783
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MacLean Alistair
RIVER OF DEATH
London: UK: Collins 1981. 1st ed. Slight spine slant light soiling at page edges else near fine in dust jacket. Unclipped 7.50 net price intact. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Collins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018794 ISBN : 0002223481 9780002223485
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Deighton Len
THE IPCRESS FILE
Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library 1988. 1st ed thus. Beautiful front cover by Terry Widener commisioned espicially for this edition. Gilt edges 279pgs. A fine unread copy. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Widener Terry. Book. Franklin Library Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018733
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Gilbert Michael
GAME WITHOUT RULES Queen's Quorum title
NY: Harper & Row 1967. 1st ed. Precedes the British edition. Fine in dust jacket with $4.95 price still intact. A QUEEN'S QUORUM title. Short stories featuring Calder and Behrens. The book was dedicated to Jacques Barzun. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harper & Row Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018720
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Llewellyn Richard
THE END OF THE RUG
Garden City New York: Doubleday 1968. 1st ed. Page edges lighty age-toned else about fine in lighty worn dj price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018669
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Steinhauer Olen
THE NEAREST EXIT
NY NY: St. Martin 2010. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. St. Martin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018555 ISBN : 0312622872 9780312622879
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Borden Lizzie} Kent David in Collaboration with Robert A. Flynn SIGNED BY BOTH
THE LIZZIE BORDEN SOURCEBOOK
Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co. 1992. 1st ed. Fine un-read copy in dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by both Flynn & Kent on laid in plate in shrinkwrap as issued. Until this sourcebook no one has been content to present the chronicling of events as they unfolded and leave the verdict to the reader with the least bias toward Lizzie Borden. Here you will find reproductions of 41 newspapers from Fall River to New Orleans to San Francisco official correspondence and transcripts as well as information on the plays opera and ballet inspired by the legendary crimes. Heavily illustrated. . Signed. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. King Philip Pub. Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006264 ISBN : 0828319502 9780828319508
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Buckley Jr. William F.
HIGH JINX: A Novel with Blacford Oakes
Garden City New York: Doubleday 1986. 1st. Fine in very lightly worn dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Blackford Oakes. The year is 1954 and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria head of the KGB plots to succeed him another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to overthrow the Soviet-controlled government of Albania but it is doomed to failure from the outset--jinxed by a traitor. In the aftermath of the disaster CIA super spy Blackford Oakes pursues his adversary from a covert camp for training murderers to Buckingham Palace from a KGB hideout in Stockholm to the very doors of the Kremlin. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000888 ISBN : 0385194439 9780385194433
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Le Queux William
WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE
NY: Rand McNally & Company 1898. 1st edition 1898. Covers moderately soiled with wear along edges. Gold lettering worn in a few spots but an overall good copy of scarce book. Top of page edges gilded. Now in homemade clear acetate jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Book. Rand, McNally & Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018464
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Hodge Harry & Hodge James H. eds
FAMOUS TRIALS
NY: Dorset 1986. 3rd printing. Small stain at foreedge else near fine in dust jacket. Selected and introduced by John Mortimer creator of Rumpole. Later Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Dorset
Bookseller reference : 018460 ISBN : 0880290803 9780880290807
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Granger Bill
The British Cross
N.Y.: Random House 1983. 1st ed. Previous owner plate on inside cover gift inscription else near fine in dust jacket. The 4th installment of the November Man series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018165 ISBN : 0517550350 9780517550359
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Langley Bob
Hour of the Argentine
N.Y: Walker & Co 1987. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A chilling novel of the international military shadowland and the organisation of a secret conference of terrorists in the Libyan desert to coordinate the efforts of violent revolutionaries across the world. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Walker & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018157 ISBN : 0802709923 9780802709929
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Kaplan Andrew
Dragon Fire
N.Y.: Warner Books Inc 1987. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. North Vietnamese troops are at the border of Thailand poised to pursue Cambodian rebels across the line. By violating Thailand's sovereignty they will draw the U.S. into another war. And so in this adventure novel the CIA sends Michael Parker on an unusual mission. He will offer the Cambodian resistance arms in exchange for a valuable supply of morphine that the U.S. will keep from the hands of drug dealers. But agent Parker is seized and in his stead a one-eyed golden boy code name Sawyer is sent together with a beautiful Eurasian companion. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Warner Books Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018102 ISBN : 0446513776 9780446513777
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Furst Alan
THE SPIES OF WARSAW
N.Y.: Random House Inc 2008. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. NOW A MINISERIES ON BBC AMERICA STARRING DAVID TENNANT. War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy in Warsaw the new military attach� Colonel Jean-Fran�ois Mercier a decorated hero of the 1914 war is drawn into a world of abduction betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage a lawyer for the League of Nations. Risking his life Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows amid an extraordinary cast of venal characters some known to Mercier as spies some never to be revealed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Random House Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018050 ISBN : 1400066026 9781400066025
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Battles Brett
The Cleaner AWARD NOMINEE
N.Y.: Delacorte 2007. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with small closed tear at rear panel. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Thriller and a SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. Author's first novel featuring freelance operative Jonathan Quinn. Ex-cop Quinn now works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence agency known merely as the Office erasing all traces of violence and mayhem when an operation goes south. During an apparently routine assignment to look into a fatal fire that claimed the life of Robert Taggart a viral biologist in his Colorado home Quinn finds evidence that Taggart was murdered and that discovery is followed by an attempt on Quinn's own life. While Quinn survives he learns that the Office's top operatives have been killed in near-simultaneous attacks. Quinn who makes a compelling protagonist heads to Europe to track down the mastermind behind the scheme. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Delacorte Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018051 ISBN : 044024370X 9780440243700
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Davies Linda
Wilderness of Mirrors
London: UK: Orion 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket very lightly soiled at rear panel. Author's second book. Robie Frazer -- is a Hong Kong businessman of legendary wealth and vast multi-national interests. But he's corrupt and extorts what he needs by violence and blackmail. MI6 wants to trap him. Two women and a diamond mine in Vietnam are the key ingredients in the plan. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Orion Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017996 ISBN : 1857976444 9781857976441
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Ignatius David
A Firing Offense
Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Random House Inc 1997. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. This book is a realistic account of what happens when a spy is suspected of working in the newsroom of a great American newspaper. The author is an acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist whose fiction is cited on the CIA's web page as work that should be read as the truth. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Random House Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017937 ISBN : 0679448608 9780679448600
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Hyde Christopher
A Gathering of Saints: A Novel
New York New York U.S.A.: Pocket Books 1996. Fine in dust jacket. A historical thriller set in London during 1940 featuring Detective Inspector Morris Black of Scotland Yard. A maniacal serial killer known as Queer Jack stalks London during the dark days of the Blitz engaging the pursuit not only of Scotland Yard but of a highly placed German spy known as The Doctor. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Pocket Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017938 ISBN : 0671875809 9780671875800
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Harrison Michael
PAINFUL DETAILS: TWELVE VICTORIAN SCANDALS
London: UK: Max Parrish & Co. 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket small tear along head else near fine. Not only were the Victorians as capable of folly as we are but they were just as capable of reporting it to their newspapers and journals. They hinted at what could not be described by the use of a standard expression which is the title of this book. This selection includes the stories of Lady Twiss Lord Ferrers; Lady Colin Campbell; The Prince of Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill; Lily Langtry; Lady Mordaunt; Sir John Dean Paul; The Earl of Euston; Colonel Valentine Baker; Lord Frankfort and T.C. Druce and the Portland Case. Bibliography and Index. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Max Parrish & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017957
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True Crime Harrison Michael
PAINFUL DETAILS: TWELVE VICTORIAN SCANDALS
London: UK: Max Parrish & Co. 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket small tear along head else near fine. Not only were the Victorians as capable of folly as we are but they were just as capable of reporting it to their newspapers and journals. They hinted at what could not be described by the use of a standard expression which is the title of this book. This selection includes the stories of Lady Twiss Lord Ferrers; Lady Colin Campbell; The Prince of Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill; Lily Langtry; Lady Mordaunt; Sir John Dean Paul; The Earl of Euston; Colonel Valentine Baker; Lord Frankfort and T.C. Druce and the Portland Case. Bibliography and Index. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Max Parrish & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017958
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Hughes Dorothy B.
THE DAVIDIAN REPORT
N.Y.: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1952. 1st ed. so stated. Slight spine slant tape remains at front and rear covers no indication of it being a library copy else very good in dust jacket lightly chipped at head a few nicks along edges. A departure for a Dorothy B. Hughes mystery -- here quiet terror is the lesser ingredient and the suspenseful spine-tingling spy chase offers the major thrill. But perhaps no other mystery writer has Miss Hughes' unique flair for the bizarre and the incongruous; typical is the passage where two Communists try to make contact amidst the confusion of the Hollywood Santa Claus parade. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duell, Sloan and Pearce Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017903
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McGinniss Joe
CRUEL DOUBT Award Nominee
N.Y.: Simon & Schuster 1991. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best True Crime novel of the year. Riveting account of small-town murder a terrifying tale of a seemingly ordinary family whose lives and illusions about each other were shattered one hot summer night in 1988 when a newly-wealthy husband was brutally slain during an attack in which the wife was stabbed beaten and apparently left for dead. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017905 ISBN : 0671679473 9780671679477
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Coles Manning
They Tell No Tales: A Tommy Hambledon Novel Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. Tommy Hambledon's back in England dealing with Nazi saboteurs whisky dazzling femmes fatales hairdressers and a lovestruck young secret agent. Tommy is back in England after a long and rather unusual stay in Nazi Germany. He's still trying to decide if he likes being back in his homeland when he's sent to investigate sabotage involving ships sailing from Portsmouth Harbor. But a key informant is killed at the local pub just before Tommy and junior intelligence officer Jimmy Bellair can talk to him forcing our newly repatriated secret agent to join forces with the local police inspector to find the murderer whom he suspects will lead him to the saboteur. At his side is his comrade-in-arms from Germany Alfred Reck whose view of an England he toohas not known for many years is possibly even more sardonic than Tommy's. Their suspects include a flirtatious young governess who tries to steal Jimmy's heart a handsome hairdresser and the decorative blonde who is stepping out with him an Irish garage keeper an Italian conjuror and the Wax Doll a woman with a secret. Set not long after the 1938 Munich appeasement They Tell No Tales was first published in 1941. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017849 ISBN : 1601870264 9781601870261
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Coles Manning
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY: A Tommy Hambledon Novel Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st printing originally pub in 1943. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Two safecrackers lend British agent Tommy Hambledon a hand in sussing out Nazi spies and dealing with the rather odd residents of a mental hospital. After Jim Wamford is found guilty of selling secrets to the enemy and discharged from his regiment he's very much at loose ends-that is until he meets John Marden a professional safe-cracker who is nonetheless a gentleman and a very pleasant one at that despite the fact that he was trying to break into Wamford's own safe when they met. The two become fast friends and unite in a common purpose to find the fellow officer who framed Wamford and to round up the German spies who stole his secrets. In the course oftheir activities they keep nearly crossing paths with Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence who's just back in England after a long sojourn in Germany. As delighted as he is with their little presents to him he's very anxious to meet them in person but they prove to be a most elusive pair. Set in 1938 with war with Germany just around the comer it's the fourth book in the Tommy Hambledon series and one oft he best with an almost perfect blend of straightforward counterespionage and farcical humor. First published in 1943. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017850 ISBN : 1601870272 9781601870278
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Lustgarten Edgar
The Illustrated Story of Crime
N.Y.: Harper & Row 1977. 1st edition. Light soiling to covers else about fine small red mark at bottom of pages. Ever since Cain slew Abel nothing has gripped the human mind more than the explosive drama of crime. And the criminal no matter how repellent remains an irresistible figure. Some such as Billy the Kid and Al Capone have been transformed into folk heroes. In this book a leading authority on crime and the criminal mind describes in fascinating detail some of the world's most notorious and infamous crimes. Here along with over 100 photographs are the facts not the legends about those who have left their irradiacable mark on the history of crime. Includes bibliography. 221 pages. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Harper & Row Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017856 ISBN : 0064650901 9780064650908
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Hall Sam;Hussman Larry;Lewis Felicia
Counter-Terrorist: From the Middle East to Nicaragua
New York New York U.S.A.: Warner Books Inc 1989 Book. Very Good. Mass Market. 1st Edition. A very interesting 336 page true crime story in paperback about an American silver medalist elected to become a real life freedom fighter counter terrorist. Stated a first Warner Books printing April 1989. Full number sequence 10-1 present on copyright page. This is Sam Hall's first person story of the men weapons the missions and the price he paid to fight the war against forces of international terror. He was captured he refused to break. From Zimbabwe to Central America and Africa and across the globe. A few black and white photos thru-out of his youth and on locations of battle. Very good solid condition. Warner Books Inc paperback
Bookseller reference : 015585 ISBN : 0446352667 9780446352666
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Kanon Joseph
The Prodigal Spy
New York New York U.S.A.: Broadway Books 1999. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Walter Kotlar a high-level State Department official is accused of treason by an ambitious congressman. As Nick watches helplessly his family's privileged world is turned upside down in a frenzy of lights and banging gavels from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Then one snowy night the chief witness against his father plunges to her death and his father flees leaving only an endless mystery and the stain of his defection. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Broadway Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017815 ISBN : 0767901428 9780767901420
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Hoch Edward D.
THE OLD SPIES CLUB
Norfolk: VA: Crippen & Landru 2001. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Out-of-print. Two of Hoch's most famous characters are British espionage agent Jeffery Rand and his half-Scottish half-Egyptian wife Leila Gaad. Whether he is writing about sleuths or crooks or spies Hoch always includes a strong puzzle element in his stories. Each challanges the reader to unravel the mystery before the hero does. Fifteen stories. Limited to 275 clothbound copies SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet "Assignment: Enigma" by Hoch. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Carol Heyer. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Crippen & Landru Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017818 ISBN : 1885941595 9781885941596
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Kartun Derek
The Courier
N.Y.: St Martins Press 1985. 1st ed. complete number line. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. St Martins Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017782 ISBN : 0312170440 9780312170448
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Jones Ted
While God Slept: A Novel of World War II
Novato California U.S.A.: Presidio Press 1996. 1st ed. Page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket. 626 pages. Karl Wolfe is new to his assignment as a military attache in Berlin in 1938. wolfe's superiors have a more sinister purpose in mind for the young soldier--determine the intent of Hitler's military leadership and to set up an espionage operation inside the Third Reich. Wolfe inadvertently obtains a mind-boggling package containing film of top-secret documents confirming a conspiracy to trade a portion of Europe--and its Jews-- for "peace in our time." Wolfe becomes mired in a swamp of deadly intrigue and obstructionism within the Allied camp that threatens to undermine Overlord the cross-channel invasion of Europe as well as the race to build the atomic bomb. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Presidio Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017682 ISBN : 0891415165 9780891415169
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Holroyd James Edward
The Gaslight Murders: The Saga of Sidney Street and the Scarlet 'S'
London United Kingdom: George Allen & Unwin 1960. 1st ed. Fine in near fine dust jacket price-clipped light wear at spine. Study of two of the most bizarre and baffling London murder mysteries of the century. With photo illustrations. Black cloth covers. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Book. George Allen & Unwin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017567
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Coles Manning
DRINK TO YESTERDAY A Rue Morgue Vintage Mystery
Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2008. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. The first of two books in what famed critic Anthony Boucher called "a single long and magnificent novel of drama intrigue and humor." When Drink to Yesterday first appeared in Britain in 1940 and in the U.S. in 1941 it was immediately heralded as a departure from the fanciful spy-and- intrigue novels that preceded it. Gone were complicated passwords deadly dames in black velvet and dashing aristocratic secret agents. Here instead was what Howard Haycraft the genre's first historian termed "a mood of subtle understatement" calling Drink to Yesterday and its immediate sequel A Toast to Tomorrow "superior" examples of this revamped genre. Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators Cyril Henry Coles who left school lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred to intelligence when his remarkable aptitude for conversational German was noticed and he became the youngest member of Britain's Foreign Intelligence Office later MI6. Like Bill Saunders of the book Coles spent much of the rest of war working behind enemy lines. Coles and his collaborator a Hampshire neighbor Adelaide Oke Manning chose to cast his story in the form of the novel so as not to run afoul of the Official Secrets Act. Grimmer than later books in the series it's also an ingenious circular story of murder enlived by the sardonic humor of Bill 's mentor and fellow agent Tommy Hambledon. . 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 017501 ISBN : 1601870140 9781601870148
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Hynd Noel
Truman's Spy
N.Y.: Kensington Pub Corp 1990. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Kensington Pub Corp Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017419 ISBN : 0821730029 9780821730027
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Forsyth Frederick
Odessa File The
London United Kingdom: Hutchinson 1972. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. End pages lightly soiled else fine. DJ shows only minimal wear else fine. author's second novel. This tale traces the activities of an organisation of former Nazi SS men and events from the assassination of JFK to clandestine arms deals. Made in to a major motion picture. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Hutchinson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017163 ISBN : 0091130204 9780091130206
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Silva Daniel
The Secret Servant
NY NY: Putnam 2007. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Gabriel Allon an art restorer and Israeli secret agent is featured in the seventh title in this international series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Putnam Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017167
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Household Geoffrey
RED ANGER
Boston MA U.S.A.: Atlantic / Little Brown 1975. First American edition. page edges lightly soiled else near fine in dust jacket with four small chips out at rear panel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Atlantic / Little Brown Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017228 ISBN : 0316374350 9780316374354
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Earley Pete
Lethal Secrets
New York New York U.S.A.: Forge 2005. 1st Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ show minimal wear. After the Cold War the C.I.A. things the KGB has planted an atomic device deep within the heart of Washington D.C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. Forge Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 017262 ISBN : 0765307847 9780765307842
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True Crime Lewis Roy Harley
EDWARDIAN MURDERS
London: UK: David & Charles 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Includes selected Bibliography. The Edwardian age was a period of considerable change a fascinating transition between 19th and 20th century and many of its murders reflect the age and for example its scientific advances. This fascinating study of exceptional British French and American killers and their victims adds a new dimension to what are generally remembered as the "pleasant" years before World War I. Dr. Crippen Brides in the Bath. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. David & Charles Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016869 ISBN : 0715391577 9780715391570
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Lewis Roy Harley
EDWARDIAN MURDERS
London: UK: David & Charles 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Includes selected Bibliography. The Edwardian age was a period of considerable change a fascinating transition between 19th and 20th century and many of its murders reflect the age and for example its scientific advances. This fascinating study of exceptional British French and American killers and their victims adds a new dimension to what are generally remembered as the "pleasant" years before World War I. Dr. Crippen Brides in the Bath. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. David & Charles Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016868 ISBN : 0715391577 9780715391570
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Kanon Joseph
The Good German: A Novel
New York New York U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE.FINE. Joseph Kanon has chosen postwar Berlin from 1945 to 1955 as the background for the love story of CBS war correspondant Jake Geismar at the same time murder mystery spy thriller and historical novel. Basis for the Oecar nominated film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Henry Holt & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016951 ISBN : 0805064222 9780805064223
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