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London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy. The book tells the story of writers who created the Golden Age of the 1920's and 1930's, accompanied by dozens of special features packed with information to surprise even the most avid fan. Complete with a list of current world crime novels, full lists of Edgars, Daggers and other prizes, a detailed chronology - an unrivalled guide to crime and mystery writing. 195 illustrations, 31 in colour. 3. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: HarperCollins, 2018. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 373 pages. Lisa tells lies. Most of them are small white lies intended to make the life of her daughter, Ava, easier. But her biggest lie of all is about to be exposed. Because Lisa is lying to everyone. Lisa isn’t who she says she is. Lisa isn’t even called Lisa at all. Her real name is Charlotte Nevill and as a child she was convicted of the brutal murder of her half-brother, Daniel. Someone out there knows the truth and they’re determined to make Lisa pay. And they won’t stop until everything she loves is destroyed. D4B. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 309 pages. Before she was a detective, before she was a reluctant wife and distracted mother, before she was even a debutante, Dandy Gilver spent one perfect summer with the Lipscotts of Pereford. The golden memories of it have sustained her through many a cold snap in Perthshire. So when two of the Lipscott sisters beg her to help the third, she can hardly refuse. Sweet, pretty Fleur Lipscott: where is she now? The astonishing answer to this is that Fleur - still Miss Lipscott, indeed more Miss Lipscott than ever - is buried alive in the tiny seaside village of Portpatrick, working as a schoolmistress at St Columba's College for Young Ladies. But she is one of the few remaining, for St Columba's has been shedding mistresses as a snake its skins and the exodus is far from over. With mistresses vanishing and corpses mounting up, can Mrs Gilver, detective, pass… Leer más

London: Collins Crime Club, 1963. Red boards have part of dustjacket spine stuck to spine else unmarked with no wear. Internally there are remnants of the dustjacket to pastedowns and a cut down of the dustjacket front stuck to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. 256 pages.. A Superintendent Duffy of the Irish Civic Guards mystery. Irish actor and crime writer Nigel Fitzgerald (1906-1981) was highly regarded in the genre. B2B. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1992. A Very clean, tight and unmarked copy in laminated boards which has a small tear to spine tail (half an inch). 'Where do the strange dreams come from that transport Gary to Jackson's garage every night? And what can they mean? The locals think the garage is haunted, but that could just be superstition, and certainly Gary and his family, newcomers to the Isle of Wight, are not finding the islanders easy to understand. Then Gary meets Ted - Ted who's friendly but oddly secretive - what share does he have in Gary's powerful, relentless dream which, night by night, draws him closer to the visitor he knows now stands at the door? **** NOT EX LIB **** A1B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: New English Library, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's second novel is of a minister's murdered daughter whose body has been mutilated and Detective Blanche Hampton knows she must find the psychopath before he strikes again. All the evidence points to the dead woman's former lover and Blanche quickly arrests him. On the other side of London David Parker is a successful lawyer but a social failure, disturbed by the death of his mother, estranged from his fiancee, he strangles a woman and cuts the flesh from her body - he is the psychopath. *** NOT EX LIB *** D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Orion, 2014. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 315 pages. The presumed death of Harriet de Luce in a mysterious mountaineering accident in Tibet while Flavia was only a baby cast a sombre shadow over the family, leaving Colonel de Luce a broken man and Flavia herself with no memories of her mother. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects. For Flavia, a gruesome new crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations of Harriet's past and in doing so discovers an extraordinary tale of espionage and betrayal that also seems to be the key to her own destiny. L. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo -… Leer más

London: Severn House, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further novel featuring the private detective John Samson, who is handing over the agency to his younger partner Shandy, when on the night before the handover, Shandy's daughter is raped and she catches sight of a black man with one of his fingers missing. However he is a witness but is too scared to come forward at a time of racial hatred in inner city London. **** NOT EX LIB **** 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 2006. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 247 pages. In 1902, Queen's Inn is the youngest and most fashionable of London's Inns of Court. On 28th February, at a Queen's feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon afterwards, his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to resolve the matter of the murdered barristers. The investigation takes him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the dead reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to the heart of a troubled marriage where the lack of children imperils everything. And it takes him to Calne, a mysterious house in the country where the past is boarded up and the treasures of generations lie hidden beneath dustsheets. Powerscourt, with a list of suspects that includes a jelous wife, a mistress fearful of being jilted, a work colleague beaten to the senior role in the Inn and a… Leer más

London: Doubleday, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from usual age toning to page edges) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 351 pages. When young academic Terry Williams goes to a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, she's simply intending to edit the letters of Catherine McCulloch, tortured and burnt as a witch in the 17th century. Then the body of a young woman is found on a local farm, dumped in the death pit amidst a pile of rotting pigs. She is Donna Fairhead, one of a nearby community of Wiccans - modern day witches. As forensic excavation of the death pit throws up yet more horrors, Terry's work on the letters reveals that there may have been more to Catherine's death than anyone had ever imagined. And as the present-day death toll mounts, Terry realises that the identity of the killer may also be part of a three-centuries-old mystery, a mystery whose next victim might well be herself. D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over… Leer más

London: Peter Garnett, 1948. Red title on sand coloured cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is foxing to closed top edge else a clean and unmarked copy. First edition November, 1948. A murder thriller set around a successful Harley Street doctor who marries into an impoverished noble family. George Sava (1903-1996) was a British surgeon and prolific writer of Russian origin, described as a 'Russian exile', born George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane on October 15, 1903. He wrote approximately 120 books under the pseudonyms George Sava, George Bankoff, George Borodin, George Braddon, Peter Conway, Alec Redwood, and others. 11. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Century, 2003. First UK edition, First Printing. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The Chinese American author's novel set in China is a tale of the discovery of an American archaeologist's body and who is just one of many casualties at sites along the Yangzi river. The perpetrators are seeking a key to ultimate power - the Dragon Bones. D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First Printing. The Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger winning author's murder mystery, featuring Harriet Martens of the Greater Birchester Police, who is tasked with finding the murderer of a charismatic youth, known as the Boy Preacher, a crime of thirty years ago. Using the latest DNA techniques she finds that laboratory tests fail to meet the expectations of her Chief Constable and must see what past investigators have missed. However some suspects have died and she has to ferret out their motives and the lies they have left behind them and also those of the suspects still alive, including the city's distinguished ex-undersherrif, a dragon of a head teacher and a wily car dealer. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1998. First UK Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Dr Victoria McClellan, English Fellow at All Saint's College, Cambridge, is writing a biography of the talented but tortured poet Lydia Brooke, five years after Brooke's tragic suicide. Victoria does not believe it was suicide, so, for the first time in eleven years, she calls her ex-husband, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to ask for help in proving Lydia was murdered. A beautifully crafted narrative that weaves between the present day, the era of the Edwardian Neo-Pagans and the scandalous sixties. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1974. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked with light foxing to closed edges. Dustjacket has some repaired tears and wear to edges and is not price clipped. A thriller of a war correspondent who has to go to Brussels to find an American General and soon finds himself embroiled in a international military scandal. SCARCE 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: HQ, 2019. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 453 pages. WHEN THE DOORS CLOSE, HE’S GOT YOU....It begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in Manhattan. Each presses the button for their floor, but the elevator climbs, non-stop, to the top where it pauses for a few seconds, before dropping. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. But then, on Tuesday, it happens again. And when Wednesday brings yet another catastrophe, New York, one of the most vertical cities in the world is plunged into chaos. Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it’s working. But what do these deadly acts of sabotage have to do with the fingerless body found on the High Line? It will be a race against time for detectives Jerry Borque and Lois Delgado to find the answers before a deadly Friday night showdown. . Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over… Leer más

London: HarperCollins, 2021. An As New unmarked copy with an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 440 pages. You thought no one saw you. You were wrong. Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people but one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, devastated by violence. Years later, Leigh has pushed that night from her mind and become a successful lawyer but when she is forced to take on a new client against her will, her world begins to spiral out of control. Because the client knows the truth about what happened twenty-three years ago. He knows what Leigh and Callie did. And unless they stop him, he's going to tear their lives apart. Just because you didn't see the witness doesn't mean he wasn't there.. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1974. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 223 pages. The technical manager of an engineering works loses his job in a take-over reorganisation. He is 50, married, with a large house to maintain. What is he to do? His answer to that question is startling: he turns to burglary. And very successfully, for he brings to his new profession all his old skill, intelligence and resourcefulness. Of course there are complications. To deceive his wife at first, and later his neighbours, he has to invent a cover story; and as he is drawn more deeply into a life of crime, the cover story grows more complex. And a further complication is his relationship with a crippled 17 year old girl, who involves him in his most ambitious crime, a factory wages robbery. 20. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is winner of the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award and has been nominated three time for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awwards. This is her eighth novel and marks the return of Det. Chief Inspector Maybridge. **** NOT EX LIB **** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macdonald, 1945. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with fading to spine. Internally there is foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked with no inscriptions. A novel set in West Cumbria of murder and suspense. C3D. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.