‎Europe‎

‎Bentley, Nicolas‎

‎THE EVENTS OF THAT WEEK‎

‎N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1972. First edition. REVIEW COPY. Review slip states it will be published on January 8 1973. Saint Martin's used the British sheet from Macmillan. Brown Cloth with gold lettering at spine. Fine in dust jaclet lightly rubbed with rear panel lightly soiled not price clipped in protective mylar cover. When Brig English writer on holiday in Sicily accidentally met Theresa. a beautiful young American in the bar of their hotel. it was the beginning of a series of accidents - but none as happy as this first. The quiet almost idyllic atmosphere of their time together was destined to be shattered by the events of just one week. Out for a drive one day Brig stops by chance at an isolated garage and becomes the innocent victim of blackmail by the Mafia. Brig is ordered to travel to Malta and from there to Naples. Innocent at the beginning of his holiday virtually has become one of them - the Mafia are using him in their drug-running operations. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press‎

Bookseller reference : 021109

‎Souvestre, Pierre & Marcel Allain (translated by AR. Allinson) A. R.‎

‎THE LONG ARM OF FANTOMAS‎

‎N.Y.: The Macaulay Company 1924. 1st edition. Brown decorated cloth light wear previous owners name written and one stamped at front endpaper else very good now housed in homemade acetate dust jacket. Juve languishes in prison after being arrested as Fantômas but when the Minster of Justice is kidnapped the public is thrown back into fear and confusion doubting whether it is really Fantômas who has been thrown in jail. Following this renewed wave of crime the American detective Tom Bob sends word to the press that he will travel to Paris to investigate these mysteries but will the famous detective be able to catch Fantômas and free Inspector Juve. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book. The Macaulay Company‎

Bookseller reference : 021022

‎Sjowall, Maj & Per Wahloo‎

‎THE LOCKED ROOM: The Story of A Crime‎

‎N.Y.: Pantheon Books 1973. First American edition so stated 2nd printing. Page edges lighty age spotted else about fine in price clipped dust jacket lightly sunned at spine. There are two investigations in this the 8th Martin Beck title. A special squad is looking into a rash of bank robberies. And Martin Beck is working by himself on a classic locked room mystery. A Stockholm bank was robbed by a young woman who shot and killed a bank customer during the holdup and the police force is scrambling to find the bank robber. Detectives we know and love from previous books: most notably Beck's able associates Kollberg and Larsson but also a trigger-happy junior are on the cast. Meanwhile Martin Beck is just back from fifteen months of recuperation from a bullet to the chest. The locked room mystery is a kind of therapeutic welcome-back gift from the homicide squad. It's a puzzle. A pensioner who locked and bolted himself into his room and locked or taped both windows has been shot to death. But no weapon bullet or casing can be found. Adey #. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Pantheon Books‎

Bookseller reference : 020919 ISBN : 0394485335 9780394485331

‎Shannon, John‎

‎BROKEN CODES‎

‎Reading: UK: Pluto Crime 1986. 1st edition. Pages age toned else near fine in dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4 1/2" x 7". Book. Pluto Crime‎

Bookseller reference : 020847 ISBN : 0745300251 9780745300252

‎Rathbone, Julian‎

‎A SPY OF THE OLD SCHOOL‎

‎N.Y.: Pantheon Books 1983. 1st American edition so stated. Top of page edges dusty else about fine in dust jacket lightly sunned at spine. Sir Richard Austen one of England's foremost archaeologists fears that his past as a Russian spy during World War II may be revealed. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Pantheon Books‎

Bookseller reference : 020681 ISBN : 0394517962 9780394517964

‎Hill, John Spencer‎

‎Ghirlandaio's Daughter Award Nominee‎

‎London United Kingdom: Constable Crime 1997. First edition. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in dust jacket. The second and last entry in the great Carlo Arbati series. Italy. An ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEE. "Cops in crime novels should know better than to take vacations. When Florentine poet and police inspector Carlo Arbati Adam Dalgliesh Italian style agrees to accept a literary award in nearby Lucca you know he's walking into trouble. First an American is impaled by the bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior and then another American mysteriously drops dead at the reception following Arbati's award ceremony. Arbati agrees to assist his friend and fellow cop Giorgio Bruni in the investigation which soon uncovers an elaborate art-fraud scheme involving members of the Luccan expatriate community. This second Arbati mystery following The Last Castrato 1995 clearly establishes Hill's series as a contender in the growing European procedural sweepstakes. Arbati combines Dalgliesh's poetic sensibility with a continental joie de vivre that proves irresistible and the supporting cast of idiosyncratic expatriates is an equal delight." -- BOOKLIST. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Pastor Terry. Book. Constable Crime Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 020648 ISBN : 0094764603 9780094764606

‎Paul Elliot‎

‎THE MYSTERIOUS MICKEY FINN; or Murder at the Cafe du Dome‎

‎N.Y.: Modern Age Books 1940. 4th printing September 1940 1st printing was September 1939. Covers and page edges lightly spotted else very good in dust jacket chipped at head and foot of spine small piece out at lower front lightly soiled not price clipped $1.00 price intact at front flap now in protective mylar cover. Very scarce. The first in a series of adventures of Homer Evans.The Mysterious Mickey Finn "has the delicious irresponsibility of a Woodhouse plot. . . It's one of the funniest books we've read in a long time. It contains a great deal of shrewd satire. "The New York Times" . The satiric tone of the novel is entirely intentional for Paul intended to parody the famous Philo Vance stories of S.S. Van Dine. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Modern Age Books‎

Bookseller reference : 020676

‎Carr, John Dickson‎

‎THE CORPSE IN THE WAXWORKS: A Paris Mystery‎

‎Naperville IL U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press 2021. 5th printing. A fine brand new book unread. "Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks alive. Today she was found in the Seine murdered. The museum's proprietor long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark; a lead that Henri Bencolin head of the Paris police and expert of impossible crimes cannot resist. Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks. Waiting within beneath the glass-eyed gaze of a leering waxen satyr is a gruesome discovery and the first clues of a twisted and ingenious mystery. First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age this macabre and atmospheric dive into the murky underground of Parisian society presents a puzzle delivered at a stunning pace." publisher. Reprint. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Illus. by Mary Evans Picture Library. Book. Poisoned Pen Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020620 ISBN : 146421543x 9781464215438

‎Dillon, Ellis‎

‎DEATH AT CRANE'S COURT: An Irish Mystery‎

‎Lyons Colorado U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2009. 1st printing. Paperback. As new unread copy. Death is inevitable or is it.George Arrow a good-looking independently wealthy and single man of 36 has just been diagnosed with a weak heart. A heart so weak his doctor tells him he must go to extraordinary lengths to avoid putting the slightest strain upon it. On his doctor's advice George packs up his life in Dublin and boards a train to the Bay of Galway where he intends to live quietly in a hotel and await the inevitable end. On the train he meets John Burden and as they chat George realizes that his new acquaintance is an odious man. So it is with some alarm that he realizes the very unpleasant John Burden is just like George himself about to start a new chapter of his life at Crane's Court. As that new life progresses George realizes that all of his first impressions of Burden-that he is a selfish nasty man-are entirely correct. And George is not the only person who thinks so. So when Burden is found dead stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife it's not a matter of finding out why he was killed but of narrowing down the field of people who wanted him gone. Inspector Mike Kenny must identify the killer but where to start Told with gentle wit and charm this first detective novel by a renowned Irish writer of children’s and literary fiction was originally published in 1953 and was followed by two others before she gave up crime writing for good. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. New. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Book. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020623 ISBN : 160187040x 9781601870407

‎Sjowall, Maj & Per Wahloo‎

‎THE TERRORISTS: The Last Martin Beck Mystery‎

‎N.Y.: Pantheon Books 1976. 1st American edition so stated November 1976. Marroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine very bright. Very tiny stain at front endpaper else near fine in dust jacket darkened along edges small damp stain at bottom lightly soiled not price clipped $7.95 price intact in protective mylar cover. Dust jacket artwork by James Barkley. The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However in the midst of the fervor created by the diplomatic visit a young peace-loving woman is accused of robbing a bank. Beck is determined to prove her innocence but gets trapped in the maze of police bureaucracy. To complicate matters a millionaire pornographer has been bludgeoned to death in his own bathtub. Filled with the twists and turns and the pulse pounding excitement that are the hallmarks of the Martin Beck novels. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Pantheon Books‎

Bookseller reference : 020512 ISBN : 0394485327 9780394485324

‎Simenon, Georges‎

‎THE FAMILY LIE‎

‎N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc 1978. 1st American Edition so stated. Stanislaw Zagorski illustrator. Top of pages dusty else Fine in near fine dust jacket lightly soiled not price clipped in protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Zagorski Stainislaw. Book. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc‎

Bookseller reference : 020470 ISBN : 0151562474 9780151562473

‎De Angeles, Augusto Translated By Jill Foulston‎

‎THE MYSTERY OF THE THREE ORCHIDS: An Inspector De Vincenzi Mysyery‎

‎London: UK: Pushkin Vertigo 2016. 1st pbk printing originally published in Italy in 1942. Trade size paperbak. Fine. The notorious Inspector Di Vincenzi returns in this cryptic murder mystery teeming with blackmail deceit and revenge. Death is in the air at one of Milan’s great fashion houses. As a new collection is unveiled and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous owner Cristiana O’Brian escapes upstairs to discover the strangled body of her servant slumped on her bed—a single orchid by his side. When Inspector Di Vincenzi is called in to investigate the brilliant detective is puzzled. Why is Cristiana behaving so suspiciously And what is her estranged ex-husband doing there As two additional corpses appear each accompanied by an orchid Di Vincenzi must see through dirty tricks and slippery clues in order to uncover the real killer. De Angelis was an Italian novelist and journalist most famous for his series of detective novels featuring Commissario Carlo De Vincenzi. His cultured protagonist was enormously popular in Italy but the Fascist government of the time considered him an enemy and during the Second World War he was imprisoned by the authorities. Shortly after his release he was beaten up by a Fascist activist and died from his injuries. Today De Angelis is regarder by many as the Father of Italian Crime Fiction. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Pushkin Vertigo Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020400 ISBN : 1782271724 9781782271727

‎Dibdin Michael‎

‎MEDUSA: An Aurelio Zen Mystery‎

‎London: UK: Faber & Faber 2003. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges beginning to age tone else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. When Austrian cavers exploring some abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains everyone assumes the death was accidental until the unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and there is a news blackout. Aurelio Zen is charged with finding out the truth. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Book. Faber & Faber‎

Bookseller reference : 020333 ISBN : 0571216587 9780571216581

‎Leonard, Charles L. pseudonym of M. V. Heberden,‎

‎SEARCH FOR A SCIENTIST‎

‎Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1947. 1st edition so stated. Surrealistic dust jacket by Ray Gordon. Pages age toned covers very lightly rubbed white lettering to spine is still very bright a near fine copy in dust jacket rubbed along spine edges and lightly rubbed at front panel small chip out along top small nick at spine foot rear panel lightly soiled not price clipped $2.00 price intact in protective mylar cover. This copy although not marked as such comes from the Otto Penzler collection. "Paul Killgerrin' mission to Marseilles seemed to be a fairly cut -and-dried job -- finding a missing German physicist" Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991 by Ellen Nehr; Offspring Press 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Gordon Ray. Book. Crime Club Doubleday‎

Bookseller reference : 020324

‎Subcommittee on Europe Eurasia and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of R‎

‎Turkey's Democratic Decline‎

‎CREATESPACE 01-10-2016. paperback. New. 8.50x0.14x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CREATESPACE paperback‎

Bookseller reference : DADAX1539168891 ISBN : 1539168891 9781539168898

‎Nabb, Magdalen‎

‎THE INNOCENT: A Marshall Guarnaccia Investigation‎

‎N.Y.: Soho Crime 2005. 1st printing with complete number line beginning with 1. Trade paperback Advance Reader's Edition. "Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia is an unusual protagonist for a crime novel: he's neither a Bond-like sophisticate nor a recovering loser; a Sicilian living in Florence he's neither on his own turf nor in a strange land. A modest family man a quiet and calm observer--but no macho silence mind you--he makes his way in a town he's come to know. In lovely measured language the author unfolds the story of a woman's body found in a pond in the Boboli Gardens. The victim is unrecognizable so it's some time before Guarnaccia calling on an intriguing assortment of artisans and others in his neighborhood discovers that she's Akiko a young Japanese apprentice to the shoemaker Peruzzi. Guarnaccia digs for answers but when he finally identifies Akiko's mysterious lover the chief suspect in her death the marshal for once regrets knowing the truth. While this the 13th Marshal Guarnaccia investigation may be short on action. it offers such pleasures as great local atmosphere and rich characterizations." -- PW. First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Advanced Reading Copy ARC. Soho Crime Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020262 ISBN : 1569474141 9781569474143

‎Gilbert, Michael‎

‎THE DANGER WITHIN. A murder mystery set in an Italian POW camp during World War ll. A Rue Morgue Classic British Mystery‎

‎Boulder CO U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press 2007. 1st printing. A fine unread copy of this trade paperback. A six page introduction by Tom and Enid Schantz. When a man is found suffocated to death in an escape tunnel under impossible conditions British POWS turn detective. Based in part on Gilbert's own experiences as a prisoner-of-war during World War II The Danger Within Death in Captivity in Britain is often considered one of the author's best books. British prisoners in Campo 127 . are concerned when they learn that the Allies are about to invade Italy since this means that it's only a matter of time before the Germans seize control of their camp and so escape plans are escalated. But it appears that there may be a spy in the camp and when a man turns up dead under extremely odd circumstances in an escape tunnel the prisoners have even more to be concerned about. It was filmed in 1959 with Richard Attenborough Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. "A superb though harrowing story of murder in a prisoner-of-war camp . the skill with which suspense is kept up during a series of trivial incidents related to oppression and plans of escape is equaled only by the management of a large number of characters Italian and English. "-Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor A Catalogue of Crime. Gilbert is one of the most highly honored mystery writers of the second half of the twentieth century -- A MWA Grandmaster a CWA Diamond Dagger Winner and a Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement honoree. 160 pages. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. As New/No Jacket. Illus. by Pudim Rob. Trade Paperback. Rue Morgue Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020082 ISBN : 1601870094 9781601870094

‎Leon, Donna‎

‎Death in a Strange Country‎

‎N.Y.: HarperCollins 1995. 1st printing July 1995. Reading creases spine slant ex-lib copy with just stamp at bottom of page edges. The 2nd Commissario Guido Brunetti. Aggressively investigating an American's murder in tranquil Venice despite his superior's order to keep things clean and quiet Commissario Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic waste cover-up with political ties. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Book. HarperCollins Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 020007 ISBN : 0061094064 9780061094064

‎Coles, Manning‎

‎A TOAST TO TOMORROW: A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone Title‎

‎Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1941. 1st American edition. Slight spine slant black boards lighly rubbed and soiled else a vefry good-near fine copy in homemade acetate dust jacket. English title: Pray Silence 1940. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE SELECTION. Goebbels doesn't trust the Chief of the German Police. Hitler loves him. The British are just plain confused. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their assets. But longtime Nazi party member Klaus Lehman the Chief of the German Police. is too much of a prig to let him get away with it. And given that Lehman was one of Hitler 's earliest supporters he's virtually untouchable. In the meantime British Intelligence is going around in circles. Someone in Germany is sending them messages in a code that hasn't been used since World War I. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S. A Toast to Tomorrow along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft the dean of mystery historians called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue novels told with a "mood of subtle understatement." A current critic mystery bookseller Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen called it her "favorite espionage novel of all time." This darkly humorous novel was the work of two Hampshire neighbors Adelaide Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles and based in part on the Coles' adventures in the British Intelligence. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday‎

Bookseller reference : 019975

‎Hardwick, Michael‎

‎PRISONER OF THE DEVIL: Sherlock Holmes & the Dreyfus Case‎

‎NY: Proteus 1980. 1st edition 2nd Printing September 1980. light edgewear page edges lightly spotted else near fine in rubbed dust jacket light wear at head and foot not price clipped $9.95 in protective mylar cover. 1895 France. "The case is one of the most notorious in European history -that of the French Jew Alfred Dreyfus.In 1895 Dreyfus a mild and somewhat unprepossessing man was carving out a modestly successful career in the French military and was employed on the General Staff when he was accused of trying to sell military secrets to the Germans .He was tried "in camera" and found guilty on the flimsiest of evidence being sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island near the coast of South Americathe widespread view of his supporters and other interested parties being that his social isolation and religionhe was Jewishmade him an ideal scapegoat for the misdeeds of other better placed people . Holmes is approached by Dreyfus' brother Matthieu but he refuses to become involved until he is asked to do so by none other than Queen Victoria who is worried that the case may be exploited by those anxious to drive a wedge between Britain and Germany.Under cover as a journalist he travels to the area sneaks onto the Island and meets Dreyfus and is persuaded of his innocence .Holmes uncovers the truth -that Dreyfus is indeed a victim of wider European power struggles .His brother Mycroft warns Holmes off the case claiming his involvement threatens the stability of Europe and throws a number of obstacles in the path of a wholly satisfactory resolution to the case". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Proteus Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 019825 ISBN : 0906071119 9780906071113

‎Leon, Donna‎

‎THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery‎

‎N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press 2008. 1st American edition so stated and with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Venetian map endpapers. When a friend of Commissario Guido Brunetti’s brother a priest recently returned from years of missionary work in Africa calls on him with a request Brunetti suspects the man has hidden motives. An American-style Christian group has begun meeting in private homes in the city and it’s possible the priest is merely wary of the competition. Nevertheless Brunetti and his wife Paola decide to go undercover. But when a girl’s body is found floating in a canal Brunetti must put everything aside to investigate But inconceivably no one has reported a missing child nor the theft of the gold jewelry that she carries. So Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity her family and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty. The investigation takes Brunetti from the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland through quicksands of connections and relationships both known and concealed as he struggles with both institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. Atlantic Monthly Press‎

Bookseller reference : 019835 ISBN : 0871139804 9780871139801

‎Holroyd, James Edward‎

‎THE GASLIGHT MURDERS: The Saga of Sidney Street and the Scarlet 'S'‎

‎London United Kingdom: George Allen & Unwin 1960. 1st edition so stated. Fine in near fine dust jacket not price-clipped 21s net price intact lightly rubbed and soiled at rear and 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 : 019783

‎Nesser, Hakan‎

‎MUNSTER'S CASE; An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery‎

‎N.Y.: Pantheon 2012. 1st American Edition 2012 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Intendent Münster Inspector Van Veeteren’s right-hand man and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Håkan Nesser’s internationally bestselling series. The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn’s life begins auspiciously: With three friends he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends after a celebratory dinner with him belligerent drunk and stumbling home to his bed where he is brutally stabbed to death with a carving knife. The case seems to be going nowhere until the reserved weary widow confesses to the killing. When the Leverkuhns’ formidable neighbor goes missing and then turns up gruesomely murdered Münster and his team find a few wispy clues that suggest her death is connected to Leverkuhn’s--clues that lead to a dark and terrible secret. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Pantheon Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 019597 ISBN : 0307906868 9780307906861

‎McDermid, Val‎

‎CLEAN BREAK: A Kate Brannigan Mystery Uncorrected Proof‎

‎N.Y.: Scribner 1995. 1st Edition October 1995. A near fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof in wrappers. "The fourth Kate Brannigan mystery finds the British equivalent of Kinsey Millhone trying to crack a case in which a ring of smash-and-grabbers is stealing artwork from country estates. Kate is involved because her security firm was responsible for one of the burgled homes. The owners of the estates are reluctant to bring in the police because so much of their income is generated by tourist excursions through their homes and they fear the publicity. In one of the homes the intruders' activity is recorded and Kate recognizes one of them--it's Dennis Kate's close pal and her connection to the criminal underworld. She has some hard choices to make but is willing to put them off if she can recover the stolen property. Dennis points her in the right direction but soon the case takes a far more sinister turn with people connected to the thefts turning up dead all over the countryside. When a trip to Italy reveals Mob involvement Kate realizes the stakes are much higher than a few pieces of stolen art and that her life means nothing to those involved in the crimes. Brannigan is tough funny and sometimes profane. " -- Booklist. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Book. Scribner Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 019576 ISBN : 0684804611 9780684804613

‎Brophy, Grace‎

‎THE LAST ENEMY: Commissario Cenni Investigation‎

‎N.Y.: Soho Crime 2007. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Very lightly soiled at page edges else fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. One crease at inside flap of dust jacket Rita Minelli grew up in Brooklyn the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother’s death Rita quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives the Count and Countess Casati in Assisi. It is a while before they realize to their chagrin that Rita has come to stay. But when the family assembles to watch the penitents procession in the town square during Easter Week Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is later found in the family mausoleum. Alessandro Cenni a commissario in the State Police of Umbria must unearth the secrets of the Casati family and their circle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by their powerful right-wing connections and by a superior who would rather arrest a scapegoat than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in his quest for justice he still must acknowledge that no one can defeat the last enemy death itself. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Soho Crime Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 019481 ISBN : 1569474591 9781569474594