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Berendt, John
THE CITY OF FALLING ANGELS
N.Y.: The Penguin Press 2005. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author who through interviews with such locals as a suicidal poet a surrealist painter and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history. By the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. 414 pages. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. The Penguin Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 019408 ISBN : 1594200580 9781594200588
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Bruen, Ken
The Dramatist Jack Taylor Series
Dingle Co. Kerry Ireland: Brandon 2004. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. couple of small creases at front top corner else fine copy of this Trade Paperback Original. The impossible has happened: Jack Taylor is living clean and dating a mature woman. Rumour suggests he is even attending mass. The accidental deaths of two students appear random tragic events except that in each case a copy of a book by John Millington Synge is found beneath the body. Jack begins to believe that "The Dramatist" a calculating killer is out there enticing him to play. As the case twists and turns Jack's refuge the city of Galway now demands he sacrifice the only love he's maintained and while Iraq burns he seems a step away from the abyss. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book. Brandon Paperback
Référence libraire : 019343 ISBN : 0863223192 9780863223198
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Dibdin, Michael
A LONG FINISH : An Aurelio Zen Mystery AWARD NOMINEE
New York NY U.S.A.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard 2000. 1st Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Edition. February 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges begining to age tone else a fine unread copy of this trade paperback. An Aurelio Zen title. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE. First Trade Paperback. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Book. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Paperback
Référence libraire : 019356 ISBN : 0375704019 9780375704017
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Earl, Alan
The Story of Russia
London: University of London Press Ltd. 1967. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's name to the title page and notes to the half title page. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Maps to endpapers. 128 pages. This readable and fast-moving narrative illustrated with maps and half-tones highlights the main events of Russian history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. University of London Press, Ltd. hardcover
Référence libraire : BIB303975
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Davis, Lindsey
ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY
NY: Mysterious Press 2000. 1st ed with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Rome. The 11th Falco title. "Marcus Didius Falco is back in another lively first-century historical mystery. The Roman investigator informer and imperial spy's snappy patter romantic leanings strong sense of irony and penchant for getting into interesting situations have won Lindsey Davis a growing number of fans. Flush with his earnings from an African adventure Two for the Lions Falco's just been rewarded for his service to the empire with an unusual bit of political patronage: he's been appointed to the largely ceremonial position of Procurator of the Sacred Poultry meaning he's in charge of the care and feeding of a gaggle of sacred geese. This un-Falco-like upward mobility is an opportunity for Marcus to move his patrician wife Helena Justina and their toddler out of a tenement and into a home of their own. As much as Marcus scoffs at middle-class pretensions he's not above leaving his seedy surroundings and providing his family with some of the finer things if only to show his in-laws that he can. But when Helena's brother falls over a corpse that disappears before it can be identified Falco tosses the geese some food and gets busy finding the connection between the dead man and a 6-year-old girl who's in line to be chosen as the new vestal virgin. That leads him into intrigue danger and a confrontation with a former vestal virgin that almost costs him his life. Well paced with good dialogue excellent plotting and a cast of terrific characters surrounding Falco and Helena including some familiar from earlier stories One Virgin Too Many shows Davis in top form. Falco the family man is better company than ever." --Jane Adams. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 019178 ISBN : 0892967161 9780892967162
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Naturerbe Europa
Alte Welt Neue Chancen
Muenchen: PRO FUTURA 1991. Gebunden. PRO FUTURA unknown
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Roslund, Anders & Hellstrom, Borge
THREE SECONDS Award Winner
N.Y.: Silver Oak 2010. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. Three Seconds is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman a top secret operative for the Swedish police is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia he's become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden's prisons. To stop them from succeeding he will have to go deep cover posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail. But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in a murder the investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman's true identity-it may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power. And there are people who will do anything to stop him from discovering the truth. WINNER of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' 2009 AWARD for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Silver Oak Hardcover
Référence libraire : 019115 ISBN : 1402785925 9781402785924
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Vargas, Fred
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery
N.Y.: Penguin 2013. 1st prtg. About fine no markings not ex-library or remindered. A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA s International Dagger Award. As the chief of police in Pariss seventh arrondissement Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet he cannot ignore a widows plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand-year-old legend the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears Adamsberg races to Ordebec where he becomes entranced by the gorgeous Lina--and embroiled in the small Normandy towns ancient feud. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Penguin Paperback
Référence libraire : 019063 ISBN : 0143123122 9780143123125
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Bruen, Ken
The Magdalen Martyrs SIGNED COPY
New York New York U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press 2005. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED & DATED 3/20/05 by the author at title page. The third Gallway-set novel featuring Jack Taylor. Jack is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's in debt to a Galway tough named Bill Cassell what the locals call a "hard man." Bill did Jack a big favor a while back; the trouble is he never lets a favor go unreturned.Jack is amazed when Cassell simply asks him to track down a woman now either dead or very old who long ago helped his mother escape from the notorious Magdalen laundry where young wayward girls were imprisoned and abused. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018931 ISBN : 0312316453 9780312316457
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Neville, Stuart
RATLINES
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2013. 1st ed a fine copy of the advanced uncopyedited edition due out in January 2013. 368 pages. Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan Directorate of Intelligence is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few days and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey wants the killing to end lest a shameful secret be exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government in the years following World War II. A note from the killers is found on the dead German's corpse addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny Hitler's favorite commando once called the most dangerous man in Europe. The note simply says: "We are coming for you." As Albert Ryan digs deeper into the case he discovers a network of former Nazis and collaborators all presided over by Skorzeny from his country estate outside Dublin. When Ryan closes in on the killers his loyalty is torn between country and conscience. Why must he protect the very people he fought against twenty years before Ryan learns that Skorzeny might be a dangerous ally but he is a deadly enemy. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Référence libraire : 018836 ISBN : 1616952040 9781616952044
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Black, Cara
MURDER BELOW MONTPARNASSE: An Aimee Leduc Investigation
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2013. 1st edition A fine unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited edition. 336 pages. The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s when artists writers and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aimée to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier and the painting is missing. Every time Aimée thinks she's found a new witness the body count rises. What exactly is so special about this painting that so many people are willing to kill--and die--for it . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Référence libraire : 018831 ISBN : 1616952156 9781616952150
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MacLean, Julia
REVEALING ANGEL
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1991. 1st edition June 1991 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Rome setting. "On her first night in Rome Stevie Templeton finds herself in bed with a strange man. But that's only the first of a series of bizarre circumstances the Boston schoolteacher faces in this tale of love and hate vulnerability and self-interest. A stranger reveals herself as Stevie's grandmother; Stevie discovers the mother she believed long dead; and Angel Concelli a recently murdered movie star turns out to be the sister Stevie never knew she had. When Angel's obsessed married politician lover pursues Stevie she becomes even more emotionally confused." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018799 ISBN : 0312059558 9780312059552
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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
Référence libraire : 018720
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Weiss, Jan Merete
A FEW DROPS OF BLOOD
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2014. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition due out April 2014. 304 pages. When the bodies of two men are found shockingly posed in the garden of an elderly countess Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances but also those of the city as a whole. A riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Référence libraire : 018619 ISBN : 1616953535 9781616953539
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Davis, Lindsey
TIME TO DEPART : A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel SIGNED COPY
London United Kingdom: Century 1995. 1st ediion. Pages are age-toned else Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The 7th Marcus Didius Falco mystery. Balbinus Pius the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law however allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Century Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018585 ISBN : 0712659315 9780712659314
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Langton, Jane
THE THIEF OF VENICE: A Homer Kelly Mystery SIGNED COPY
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1999. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Langton is a WINNER OF THE GRAND MASTER AWARD from the Mystery Writers of America. Interior Illustrations by Langton. "The Homer Kelly series is usually set in Massachusetts Homer and wife Mary teach at Harvard but occasionally Langton takes the amiable pair--ever-enthusiastic Homer and more subued but equally perceptive Mary--on the road. This fourteenth entry finds them returning to Italy scene of The Dante Game 1991. The venue here is Venice rather than Florence but the travelogue tone is equally infectious as Homer settles in to study Renaissance manuscripts and Mary sets out guidebook in hand to see the city. She does exactly that tourists would do well to follow her footsteps but along the way she becomes involved with a handsome doctor who turns out to be a particularly vile murderer. The tangled plot jumps between the personal and spiritual problems of the Kellys' host a librarian and the discovery of art treasures hidden by Venetian Jews during World War II. As the water rises during Venice's dreaded acqua alta season Mary and Homer slosh their way across the city tracking a killer and facing a marital crisis. An ideal diversion for those who like to combine travel research with a little murder." -- BOOKLIST. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Crawfors Robert cover. Book. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Référence libraire : 011874 ISBN : 0670882100 9780670882106
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Mankell Henning
One Step Behind
New York NY U.S.A.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2003. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Publisher's sheet laid in. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Paperback
Référence libraire : 012957 ISBN : 1400031516 9781400031511
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Ross, Kate
THE DEVIL IN MUSIC Julian Kestrel Mystery Ser.
New York NY U.S.A.: Viking Penguin 1997. 1ST ED. fine in price clipped dust jacket. AGATHA AWARD WINNER & a DILYS AWARD NOMINEE. The 4th and last in historical mystery series featuring Julian Kestel. This one takes place in Italy in the 1820s. The author died shortly after this book was published. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Référence libraire : 015955 ISBN : 0670863599 9780670863594
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Gilbert, Michael
THE LONG JOURNEY HOME
New York NY U.S.A.: Harper 1985 1985. 1st A. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Italy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Harper 1985 Hardcover
Référence libraire : 000589 ISBN : 0060154306 9780060154301
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Roberts, John Maddox
SPQR IV: THE TEMPLE OF THE MUSES
N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press 1999. 1st St. Martin's Minotaur edition October 1999 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback . Ancirnt Rome. 4th in the highly regarded SPQR series. A near fine copy. When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City-even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued Decius requests and is given permission by the Egyptian Pharaoh to investigate the heinous crime. What he discovers is beyond shocking. And when the corpse of a famous courtesan mysteriously turns up in his bed Decius suddenly finds himself entangled in a web of conspiracy far more widespread and dangerous than he ever imagined-one that threatens to bring about the downfall of the entire Empire. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Pendleton Roy. Book. Saint Martin's Press Paperback
Référence libraire : 005372 ISBN : 0312246986 9780312246983
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Hill, John Spencer
THE LAST CASTRATO AWARD WINNER
New York NY U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press LLC 1995. 1st ed. page edges lightly dusted date at inside cover else near fine in dust jacket. Author's first mystery introduces poet-policeman who must solve a series of murders in Florence Italy . WINNER of the ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD for Best First Novel. "Cordelia Sinclair from Evanston Illinois takes up temporary residence in the Italian city of Florence not only to research early Italian opera for a doctoral thesis but also to start life anew putting her failed marriage behind her. Simultaneous to Cordelia's arrival in this sublime metropolis Umberto Cardinal Cafferelli is found murdered in one of Florence's most famous churches. Detective Inspector Carlo Arbati a poet like P. D. James' Adam Dalgliesh suspects a connection between the cardinal's brutal death and two previous ones with similar characteristics; readers know his hunch is correct early on--in fact we meet the murderer almost right away but what we don't know for a long time is his motive. Cordelia's scholarly research leads her to the body of the next victim and of course from that point on she's involved in Detective Arbati's investigation and her role is pivotal to the solution of the crimes which concerns a group of individuals who years ago wanted to restore Italian opera to its Renaissance roots including the reintroduction of castrati." -- Booklist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Saint Martin's Press, LLC Hardcover
Référence libraire : 011982 ISBN : 0312131070 9780312131074
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Llewellyn, Caroline
MASKS OF ROME
N.Y.: Scribners 1988. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Carnevale in Rome. Author's 1st book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Scribners Hardcover
Référence libraire : 000863 ISBN : 0684189216 9780684189215
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Freeling, Nicholas
THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
NY: Viking Press 1983. First edition fine in dust jacket. The seventh Henri Castang title. Inspector Henri Castang's investigation into a gruesome cannibalistic murder leads him to a lovely young prostitute whose activities conceal sinister crimes and to ruthless political machinations power ploys and intrigue. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Viking Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 006387 ISBN : 0670143987 9780670143986
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Mankell, Henning
FACELESS KILLERS
NY: The New Press 2000. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped with protective mylar cover. This is the first of the series which introduces Police Inspector Kurt Wallander hard-drinker opera-lover and a failure in love. A contemporary Sweden driven by violence and racial prejudice. A unique mixture of American Noir and almost existential European melancholia. Mankell won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature for this book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. The New Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 006261 ISBN : 156584341x 9781565843417
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Newman Sharan
The Witch In The Well: A Catherin LeVendeur Mystery
New York New York U.S.A.: Forge 2004. 1st Ed. Fine in dust jacket. - A Historical Mystery. Catherine LeVendeur is a unique spirit a woman of twelfth-century France with a keen mind and curiosity that often puts her in peril and whose life reflects both the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways in which a strong personality can triumph and succeed in spite of those strictures. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Forge Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018525 ISBN : 0765308819 9780765308818
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Who/Europe, Regional Office
Allergic Hypersensitivities Induced by Chemicals: Recommendations for Prevention
CRC Press 27-01-1996. 1. hardcover. New. 9.21x6.14x0.81. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CRC Press hardcover
Référence libraire : DADAX0849392268 ISBN : 0849392268 9780849392269
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Michta George C. Marshall Europe, Andrew A
The Limits of Alliance: The United States NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe New International Relations of Europe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 13-04-2006. hardcover. New. 6.31x0.74x9.05. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
Référence libraire : DADAX0742538648 ISBN : 0742538648 9780742538641
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Le Queux William
WHOSO FINDETH A WIFE
NY: Rand McNally & Company 1898. 1st American edition 1898. Covers moderately soiled with wear along edges. Gold lettering worn in a few spots but an overall good copy of scarce book. Interesting in that rear cover also has a design. Top of page edges gilded. Now in homemade clear acetate jacket. "Have those urgent dispatches come in from Berlin Deedes" "Captain Hammerton has not yet arrived" I answered. "Eleven oclock! Tut tut! Every moments delay means greater risk" and the Earl of Warnham Her Majestys Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs strode up and down his private room with his hat still on impatiently snapping his bony fingers in agitation quite unusual to him. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Book. Rand, McNally & Company Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018464
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Neville, Stuart
RATLINES
N.Y.: Soho Crime 2013. 1st ed Advance Uncopyedited edition due in January 2013. Set in 1963 dublin on the eve of JFK's historic visit to Ireland. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soho Crime Paperback
Référence libraire : 018453 ISBN : 1616952040 9781616952044
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Europe
Drawn and Engraved from the best MapsCharts
1773. unknown
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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
Référence libraire : 018326 ISBN : 1601870094 9781601870094
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Europa
USA & Canada 1998 USA AND CANADA
Routledge. Used - Good. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre.' Ex-library but has been well cared for. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Routledge unknown
Référence libraire : Z1-J-011-00167 ISBN : 1857430441 9781857430448
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Naturerbe Europa
Alte Welt Neue Chancen
Muenchen: PRO FUTURA 1991. Gebunden. PRO FUTURA unknown
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Freeling, Nicholas
WOLFNIGHT 3 Dust jackets
NY: Pantheon 1983. 1st American edition so stated. Fine in 3 fine dust jackets not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Henri Castang title Replete with the volatile tensions of a political thriller Freeling introduces the reader to the nebulous frightening world of conspiracy. Henri Castang renowned police inspector is called in to investigate a car accident involving a French politician and his mistress. When Castang uncovers a top-level plot linking industrial and political leaders he takes the law into his own hands with what turns out to be incredible consequences. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Pantheon Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018231 ISBN : 0394522664 9780394522661
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Janes, J. Robert
MADRIGAL SIGNED COPY
London United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz UK 1999. 1st ed. A fine unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Bold full signature at title page. A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery. Set in France during WWII. St-Cyr and Kohler are shipped hastily from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des Papes. The victim is the scion of a long fallen aristocratic family and a scholar of medieval history. She is also a singer who is desperate to join the Madrigal group for whom she already designs and makes costumes. Big on local colour noir atmospherics and historical detail the plot is a complex mix of politics sex drugs and professional jealousy. But after much self doubt fear and another death St-Cyr is finally able to discover the truth - but only with the help of a complex coded journal left behind by the victim. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Victor Gollancz (UK) Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018160 ISBN : 0575067845 9780575067844
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Freeling Nicolas
The Night Lords
New York New York U.S.A.: Pantheon Books 1978. 1st ed. Light soiling to cloth covers else near fine in fine dust jacket. When a high court judge holidaying in France with his family finds a naked corpse in their Rolls Royce Henri Castang is called to investigate. What transpires is mocking mayhem as Castang weaves his way through deception and mystery and Freeling's wonderfully biting humour to unravel the secrets behind a thoroughly gruesome crime. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Pantheon Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018186 ISBN : 0394502817 9780394502816
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Hughes, Declan
The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Betrayal AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: William Morrow & Co 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel and a CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. A superbly woven tale of suspense from award winning playright Declan Hughes and introducing PI Ed Loy . Loy returns to Ireland from California to bury his mother and lands himself in a knotty thicket of iniquity as the Irish real-estate boom unearths old corpses and creates a few new ones. Retained by a profligate lady friend to find her missing husband Loy wades into the labyrinthine dealings of two conspicuous families the land--developing Dawsons and the drug-dealing Halligans who may have more in common than either would like to admit. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018117 ISBN : 0060825464 9780060825461
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Black Benjamin Banville John
CHRISTINE FALLS EDGAR AWRD FINALIST
NY NY: Henry Holt 2007. First edition so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Very light soiling at page edges else near fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. An EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. "In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night after a few drinks at an office party Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law Malachy altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there but the next morning when the haze has lifted it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law the esteemed doctor was in fact tampering with a corpse--and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death he comes up against some insidious--and very well-guarded--secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling atmospheric crime story." -- Publisher. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book. Henry Holt
Référence libraire : 018056 ISBN : 0805081526 9780805081527
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Kenyon, Michael
The Shooting of Dan McGrew: An Inspector O'Malley Mystery
N.Y.: McKay-Washburn 1975. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with just a slight trace of soiling. A wonderful Irish comedy of murder mayhem and misadventure. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. McKay-Washburn Hardcover
Référence libraire : 018076 ISBN : 0679505539 9780679505532
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Vargas Fred
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: Penguin 2007. 1st ed. A near fine copy of the trade paperback. no US hardcover edition WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DUNCAN LAWRIE INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD. Three wounds in a perfectly straight line was the bloody signature that marked victims from every corner of France who had been murdered over the course of thirty years. Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg the chief of police in Paris's 7th Arrondissement is deeply and personally familiar with the case and though others were always framed and convicted for these crimes including his own brother the Commissaire knows the true identity of the killerand knows that the murderer died in 1987. All the more disturbing then is Adamsberg's discovery one morning of a fresh murder with exactly the same profile. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Book. Penguin Paperback
Référence libraire : 018048 ISBN : 0143112163 9780143112167
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Harrison Michael
PAINFUL DETAILS: TWELVE VICTORIAN SCANDALS
London: UK: Max Parrish & Co. 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket not price clipped small tear along head light wear along edges 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. Book. Max Parrish & Co. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 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 not price clipped small tear along head light wear along edges 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. Book. Max Parrish & Co. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017958
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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
Référence libraire : 017850 ISBN : 1601870272 9781601870278
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Mannuzzu, Salvatore
PROCEDURA AWARD WINNER
N.Y.: Villard Books 1993. First American Edition so stated. AWARD WINNER of Italys prestigious Viareggo Prize for fiction. Very light wear else about fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. "The first U.S. publication of Italian writer Mannuzzu is a signal event. Judge Valerio Garau of Sardinia dies after swallowing a cyanide-laced liver pill while his mistress herself a magistrate looks on. The nameless narrator of Mannuzzu's elegant labyrinthine procedural winner of Italy's Viareggio Prize in 1989 is a brooding investigative judge who sifts metaphors as well as clues in his hunt for Garau's killer. Stranger in style than in substance this meditative novel circles around the dead man's dark secrets: his hoarding of stolen archeological artifacts; the suicide of his alcoholic sister; his homosexual trysts with his typist and with a photographer implicated in a gay juvenile prostitution ring. Garau's neurotic ex-wife his mistress and her jealous husband are all suspects. The atmospheric narrative felicitously translated by Shepley unfolds in 1978-1979 its action framed by the Red Brigades' kidnapping of Italian politician Aldo Moro which accentuates the theme of modern Italy's social malaise. Mannuzzu a poet former judge and member of Italy's parliament works at the Center for Government Reform in Rome." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Villard Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017896 ISBN : 0679400826 9780679400820
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Herman, George
THE TEARS OF THE MADONNA
New York New York U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub 1996. 1st edition so stated. . Fine unread copy in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover with publishers letter and starred review from Kirkus laid in. Historical mystery set in Renaissance Italy in 1499 and featuring Leonardo DaVinci and his friend and assistant Niccolo a dwarf with a photographic memory. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book. Carroll & Graf Pub Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017823 ISBN : 0786702435 9780786702435
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Dibdin, Michael
AND THEN YOU DIE: An Aurelio Zen Mystery British Edition
London: UK: Faber & Faber 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Aurelio Zen title Italy. A SPOTTED OWL AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel. Aurelio Zen of Romes elite Criminalpol is backbut nobodys supposed to know it. After months in the hospital healing from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his car in Sicily he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. In the meantime he has nothing to do but enjoy the orderly and undemanding world of a classic Italian beach holiday: spending his days in his assigned chair on a well-managed strip of pale sand eating splendid seafood and engaging in a mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting under the next umbrella. Until he notices that an inordinate number of peopleeach of whom might have been mistaken for Zen himselfhave been dropping dead around him. Now it seems to be just a matter of time before the Mafia manage to finish the job they bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road. But though Zen has been out of commission for months he hasnt lost any of his highly developed legendary abilities to navigate treacherous waters. When he finds himself suddenly back in action he begins to feel more alive than he has since the moments before he was almost dead which might help keep him from being almost dead--or worse--yet again. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Faber & Faber Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017817 ISBN : 0375421882 9780375421884
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Kartun, Derek
THE COURIER
N.Y.: St Martins Press 1985. 1st U.S. edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. "In the midst of the fall of France Bill Quinton is informed he may leave the country if he allows the Bank of France to conceal a fortune in bullion within his 1937 Bentley. The treasure is to finance French resistance abroad and Quinton must evade not only the Germans but French officials who intend to collaborate with their conquerors. The result is an ingenious obstacle course of violent intrigue as Quinton wends his way across France to Lisbon. Then in a Portugal balanced precariously between the belligerents Quinton attains his final victory and suffers a devastating loss. A meticulously crafted novel that holds fact and might-have-been in close embrace this is almost cinematic in its pacing." -- Library Journal . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book. St Martins Press Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017782 ISBN : 0312170440 9780312170448
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Delacorta
NANA
New York New York U.S.A.: Summit Books 1984. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket one small tear at head of spine. A prequel to Diva Nana retraces the circumstances that led to hero characters Alba & Gorodish become a team. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Summit Books Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017654 ISBN : 0671492101 9780671492106
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Mankell, Henning
SIDETRACKED: A Kurt Wallander Mystery AWARD WINNER
New York New York U.S.A.: New Press 1999. 1st printing. A fine copy of the trade paperback. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. The second Kurt Wallander adventure from this talented writer to be translated into English. CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.; Also Won BEST CRIME NOVEL Of The Year Award in Sweden and France's Prix Mystere de la Critque. Sweden. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback. New Press Paperback
Référence libraire : 017637 ISBN : 1565846117 9781565846111
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Janes, J. Robert
BEEKEEPER
London United Kingdom: Orion 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Set in wartime France Hermann Koehler of the German Gestapo and Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Paris Surete again join forces. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Orion Hardcover
Référence libraire : 017598 ISBN : 0575071281 9780575071285
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