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NY,NY.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1993. 1st. Edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "In her latest Richard Jury novel (after The Old Contemptibles ), Grimes sends her Scotland Yard superintendent to the States to investigate a murder but assigns most of the sleuthing to his pal Melrose Plant. Jury and Inspector Wiggins take a busman's holiday in Baltimore to look into the murder of a young American, the nephew of a friend of Jury's acquaintance Lady Cray, at a cabin in Pennsylvania. Plant has come along to visit his friend Ellen Taylor, a novelist whose student at Johns Hopkins was recently murdered near the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. The intricate plot also involves the murder of a homeless man in a Baltimore alley and unfolds in oblique, unexpected turns, hinging on the partial manuscript, found by the dead student, of what might be a lost Poe short story and on the ambitions of descendants of an old Baltimore family. Jury and Wiggins talk… Leer más

NY,NY.: Little Brown & Co, 1986. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Richard Jury of Scotland Yard mystery'A girl is found garrotted in a street just off Berkeley Square near a pub called 'I am the Only Running Footman'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1993. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A Reverend Theodora Braithwaite mystery. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: William Morrow & Co, 2004. First edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The tenth Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery. A burned out shelter for victims of abuse turns out to have a female body burned beyond regonition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. This is the eighth effort the author's series featuring Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard Inspector, and Sergeant Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist, Simon Allcourt-St. James, and his lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England. An internationally acclaimed author and series. Adapted in both the USA and UK for television.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY. NY: Henry Holt, 1995. 1st. Ed. FINE/ FINE. Charlie Resnick, jazz-loving police detective in Nottingham, England, is featured in seventh book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2009. 1st US Edition (originally pub in 1930 in Great Britian). A fine, unread copy of the trade paperback. An athletics competition to win an inheritance highlights this most eccentric British mystery featuring a most eccentric sleuth. Old Mrs. Puddequet thought it would be great fun to determine which of her five grandnephews would inherit her fortune by devising an athletics competition for them to take part in. To that end she turns the grounds of her estate into an 0 lympics field and sets the cousins to training in various field events, including the discus, the long jump, and the shot put. All prove singularly inept at their events, to the vexation of their trainer, Kost, who has been hired to coach them. Also on hand are the three sisters of the young men, who are simply along for the ride, as well as the old lady's adopted grandson, who has been written out of her will because he aspires to be an actor, and Mrs. Puddequet's paid companion,… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2005. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the eighteenth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Bristol: England: Scorpion Press, 1993. First Edition, LIMITED EDITION of 1 of only 99 NUMBERED DE LUXE copies, this being number "6", SIGNEDby Dexter. "Morse’s Greatest Mystery" is Dexter’s first collection of detection stories. It contains eleven stories, six with Morse and five others with various themes of crime and criminality. The author of the Appreciation is June Thomson, a noted crime writer (DCI Jack Finch series, and the same age (born 1930) as Colin Dexter. She also shares with Colin a love of the classic detective story. She is an authority on Arthur Conan Doyle and has produced some highly successful Sherlock Holmes pastiches. She describes in her Appreciation why Dexter is a satisfying writer and his skill at developing his stories. This volume was published as a signed limited edition of 99 copies and 20 specially bound presentation copies. From the beginning Scorpion Press decided to include four elements: all books were autographed by the author (or… Leer más

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2007. 1st prtg. A fine, unread copy of this new trade paperback. Two murders-150 years apart-disturb the tranquility of a quiet English village. When a heart attack forces Thomas Harding to retire with his wife Dora to a Tudor manor house in Calleshire County, he soon discovers that it comes complete with a priest hole, built by a clever Elizabethan craftsman and containing-quite unfortunately-a skeleton from a much earlier time. The local doctor says it's a clear case of murder but the police, pointing out that by now the murderer was long dead, decline to investigate. Totally bored by his new life but determined to learn more about "his" murder, Thomas begins to question the villagers, who are currently more concerned with the murder of a young wife and the disappearance of her well-liked husband. But in his efforts to solve a centuries-old crime, Thomas inadvertently contributes to the solution of the modem one and begins to take his place in… Leer más

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2006. 1st American Edition. (Originally pub. by Hale, London 1954). A new, unread copy of this trade paperback. Clifford Flush had not murdered anybody for years. When, horrified, he felt the urge to kill his bridge partner—the man’s bidding was really quite unforgivable—he was blackmailed into leaving London. He and his fellow Asterisk Club members, all of whom had been wrongfully acquitted of at least one murder, established themselves as professional homicide consultants in the ugliest manor house in Dorset. After all, if they could commit the perfect murder why not share that knowledge with the world—for a handsome fee? Flush conducts classes on Grips, Knots, Electricity, Court Etiquette and Alibis. Mrs. Barratt teaches Anatomy and Forensic Medicine. Colonel Quincey specializes in Automobiles and Firearms. The Creaker—well, perhaps it’s best not to describe what the Creaker teaches. There was even a scantily clad blonde on… Leer más

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Rue Morgue Press, 2006. 1st printing, June 2006. (Originally published by Hale, London 1958) A fine, unread copy of this trade paperback. Short-tempered Enid Marley has a foolproof system for answering queries from the many fans of her advice column in You magazine, but she has no sense at all when it comes to solving her own problems. When her latest husband strays, she decides to get his attention with a fake suicide attempt, but her plan misfires horribly. While she’s teetering on the window ledge outside her office waiting to be noticed, hands reach out for her, causing her to lose her balance and fall. She survives, thanks to a well-placed awning and an unfortunate passer-by, leaving everyone to debate if it was Suicide, Murder, or Misadventure. In her absence, an unemployed ballet dancer named Rex is hired to fill in for her, making a hopeless hash of her system and sending alarmingly wrong advice to her many readers, who eventually join forces to wreak vengeance on… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2004. First U.S. Edition, August 2004, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the seventeenth book in this series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1993. 1st edition, July 1993, with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges lightly soiled, else about fine in fine lightly soiled dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. This is the sixth effort the author's series featuring Thomas Lynley, a Scotland Yard Inspector, and Sergeant Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist, Simon Allcourt-St. James, and his lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England. An internationally acclaimed author and series. Adapted in both the USA and UK for television. 496 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st US ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. A DCI Sidney Walsh mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY. NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1ST. ED. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ has small tear to back cover. An Inspector " Jacko " Jackson mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY, NY: St Martins Press, 1995. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. A Detective Rogers mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY: St Martins Press, 1996. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ has small nicks to bottom.Mike Yeadings, a police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames Valley, England, are featured in the eleventh book in the series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2005. 1ST. ED. AS NEW/AS NEW . Set in 1900's England, a painter receives a comission to do the portrait of a famous critic who is his nemisis. Written in a monologe style, the suspense builds as both characters are reveled.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Portishead, Bristol: UK: Scorpion Press, 1994. 1st printing. A fine copy. Articles include: "The Rise of the Historical Mystery eith Particular Refernce to the Victorian Period" by Alanna Knight; "Lindsey Davis and the 'Falco' Novels" by Lynne Duncombe; "Reginald Hill's Mixed Double" (Dalziel and Pascoe) by Elizabeth Walter which includes a Checklist, Approximate Value and Collector's Points for Hill; "Michael Hartland: Bridging The Divide" by Michael Johnson; and "Patricia Daniels Cornwell -- a 90s Writer With Broad Appeal Across the Genre." by Les Escott. Includes short articles and items. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. 8 1/2" x 11". Magazine.