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London: Century / Mysterious Press, 1990. A Very Good + uninscribed copy with light age fading to page edges and one small bump to one corner tip with Very Good + complete dustjacket. The author is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and this title was first published also in 1990. It is the story of a missing heiress who was presumed abducted, after her car and handbag were found abandoned, now twelve years later Detective Superintendent Marsh returns to the district where he had worked on the case as a young sergeant. The girl's body had never been found and he is determined to re-open the case and when his enquiries leads him to the one person who holds the key, a terrifying chain of events are set in motion and for the girl's family it might have been better if the past had remained buried and the mystery left unsolved. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 2017. A near Fine unmarked copy with near ine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Rory and Molly Harris, thenew vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They struggle to see the road ahead - but then screech to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in their headlights, a body hangs from a lightning-blasted tree at the edge of town. But it's not suicide; Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster of the parish, has been murdered - and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime, and why. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion, delighted to have some excitement back in her life - and two further murders follow, and Agatha begins to fear for her reputation - and her life. That the village has its own coven of witches certainly doesn't make her feel any better. D4E. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Mantle, 2011. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a corner crease to one page) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 341 pages. Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy..Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, his interest is piqued when a client asks him to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch Konstantin Malin. Before long Webster finds himself fixated by Malin and by his front man Richard Lock. But how far is he willing to risk the well-being of his family? And that of Lock himself? Meanwhile Lock finds himself under pressure to explain to the world how he - a simple lawyer - came to be one of Russia's largest investors. And when one of Malin's former proteges is found dead after meeting with Webster, he begins to realise that he too may be at risk. D4A. First. Hard Cover. Near… Leer más

Southend on Sea, Essex: Desert Island, 2006. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with dedication 'To Linda All Good Wishes'. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In Switzerland a British tourist dies violently on the ski slopes. In Russia a top scientist conducts cutting-edge research under the scrutiny of the state secret police. In France a world weary detective hunts Arab terrorists bombing the streets of Paris. In England the Special Intelligence Service secretly monitors an international conference of The World Health Organisation. These four apparently unrelated threads converge, and the fly in the web is Alan Russell, a British Government interpreter, whose car collides with another driven by a Russian journalist, the consequences of that collision penetrate the highest ranks of British Intelligence and transform Russell's life. Overtaken by events beyond his control, plunged into the world of international espionage, he has no choice but to… Leer más

London: Century, 2022. An As New unmrked copy with As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition Fist Printing. Move fast, stay dark. These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She's been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him in to MI6. It should be easy but the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows that if spotted she and her target will be killed. What follows is a perilous chase through London's night-time streets. But in a city full of cameras where can you hide? Ava Glass is the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty. L. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1957. Gold title and black motif on grey boards which are clean and unmarked with a little bumping to lower edge and more to one corner tip. Internally clean and tight with just a few light spots to fore edge. Dustjacket by Paul Galdone is not price clipped, has some wear to edges and back, marks to front and spine, a crease to front and is not price clipped - Good+. The TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING by the American crime writer (NOT THE UK COLLINS CRIME CLUB EDITION). A taut story of a killer on the loose, determined to murder again to hide his first crime, is played out against an exotic background of orange groves and graceful old mansions in the Florida Lake country. Mignon Good Eberhart (1899-1996) was an American author of mystery novels whose work ranged from 1929 to 1988 with many being filmed. In 1971, she was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award and in 1994 received the Agatha Award: Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement..… Leer más

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. The Canadian born author, educated in England and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley presents her FIRST NOVEL. A murder mystery set in ancient Athens in 332 BC, written with wit it is a revealing whodunnit ending in a dramatic trial scene where Aristotle reveals the how and why. **** NOT EX LIB **** 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Orion, 2015. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 392 pages. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet.... Following Harriet's dramatic return home, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it. to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers (one of whom is a convicted murderess) and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, onher first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girlshave been disappearing from Miss Bodycote's with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how… Leer más

London: The Thriller Book Club, 1962. Black title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with some very minor small indentations to edges. Internally there is a strip of age darkening to endpapers and some light foxing to top edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has minimal wear. 15 years after the end of World War II the hunt for Nazi leaders still goes on, most have been accounted for, but suppose one of them - a man who had been very close to Hitler - were to reappear? Might he not become a figurehead for neo-Nazism? What would such a man have become in 15 years of hiding? What could he do when the hunt began to close in on him: a double-hunt, of old enemies and new would-be followers? The story offers a fast-moving and unexpected answer. C3D. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. Lily, the pretty wife he deeply loves, dreams of retirement on the paradise island of Ko Samui but Jack will happily settle for a bungalow in Devon. Until, that is, influential businessman Emslie Warnaby offers him Ko Samui on a plate. Or, rather, first class air tickets plus the deeds of ownership to the Calm Seas Hotel. All Jack has to do in return is to steal an incriminating file from the Fraud Investigation office at police headquarters - which is, he discovers, as secure as Fort Knox. As Warnaby's deadline grows ever nearer - and Lily ever more impatient for her life in paradise - Jack plunges deeper and deeper into crime. And soon there is no going back. S. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to the closed fore edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. In early 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - The Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Ravenmaster, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That… Leer más

New York: Warner, 2003. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further murder mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, crime reporter and sleuth, who whilst at an elegant spa, discovers a corpse wrapped mummy style in a treatment room and suddenly her time-out is transformed into a full-tilt murder investigation, and now she's dealing with a list of suspects dirtier than a mud bath; a spurned lover, a shady husband and a group of employees who seem to be hiding something. Desperate to help her mother's friend, the owner of the spa, Bailey finds herself chasing clues across state lines just as another death sweeps her into the sights of a vicious killer, and this time, the body in the mud could be her own. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Century, 2017. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine Dustjcket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 204 pages. When the bones of a young woman, Kitty Sinn, who went missing without trace in Thailand, are discovered in the grounds of a school just outside London, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist. Kitty's boyfriend at the time, and the man who reported her missing, comes forward and tells DI Ry Mason of the Met's Homicide Command that he knows what happened to Kitty and who killed her. But soon he is shot dead. Now, the only link to Kitty lies 500 miles away in the Bordeaux countryside where a middle-aged teacher, Charlotte Curtis, lives alone. But Charlotte is in terrible danger because she possesses a single piece of information that will blow Kitty's case wide open. Only two people know how to find her. One is private detective Tina Boyd, and the other is a man who wants her dead as quickly as possible...... D4C. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.… Leer más

London: Harper Collins, 1995. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The English born Canadian author's crime novel featuring ex-cop Mel Pickett, Charlie Salter's old colleague, who finds his peace shattered by the discovery of a body in the woods near his home. Another witty novel from the author that will keep you guessing right to the end. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Headline, 2002. First UK Edition, First Printing. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further novel in the Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit series. Columnist James Qwilleran is enjoying a brief holiday at the Nutcracker Inn, but his two Siamese, Koko, with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery and Yum Yum, who prefer the comfort of home, beg to differ. The blissful tranquility is interrupted by the discovery of a body floating down the creek, a guest at the hotel, with gold nuggets in his possession. B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 2018. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 340 pages. It began back in 1986, at the fair, on the day of the accident. That was when twelve-year-old Eddie met Mr Halloran - the Chalk Man. He gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages for his friends and it was fun, until the chalk men led them to a body. Thirty years later, Ed believes the past is far behind him, until an envelope slips through the letterbox. It contains a stick of chalk, and a drawing of a figure. Is history going to repeat itself? Was it ever really over? Will this game only end in the same way?. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Pavilion, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy apart from a small ink stamp to front endpaper with dustjacket which is not price clipped. Thirteen stories for the Christie Centenary from the Crime Writers' Association with contributions from Margaret Yorke, David Williams, Julian Symons, Susan Moody, Peter Lovesey, H.R.F. Keating, Tim Heald, Paula Gosling, Celia Dale, Liza Cody, Simon Brett, Robert Barnard, Catherine Aird. D4F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1979. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Detective Sergeant Alfred Stanley Rosher had been demoted by the Force and deserted by his wife - the result was frustration in a desk job, chaos at home and a classified ad for domestic help in the local paper. Oddly enough, on that same July day Mad Frankie Daly, who was setting up a job, also inserted a classified ad in the paper, designed to summon those selected for the enterprise and to warn others to stay clear. The result of this curious coincidence was three deaths and a deal of anguish, for when Mad Frankie saw Rosher's ad, his Irish whimsy was tickled, and he decided to provide his old enemy with a housekeeper with two children and use them to finish off Rosher. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Allison and Busby, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 187 pages. With his wife, the acclaimed actress Stella Pinero, away on a movie shoot in Scotland, Chief Commander John Coffin is at a bit of a loose end with just the cat and dog for company. But one morning, as he checks through the mail for his wife, he gets a rather unpleasant surprise: horrific pictures of badly abused children sent anonymously to Stella. Rather than worry his wife, he vows to track down the culprit and calls in a trusted colleague, DCI Phoebe Astley, to assist him in his inquiries. As they investigate Stella's stalker, another serious problem faces the detectives of the Second City of London. Several young girls have been murdered in Spinnergate with distinct and brutal similarities between the cases. Is there a serial killer on the loose? What is the connection to Stella Pinero, or is it all coincidence? As the investigations get closer to each other in focus,… Leer más

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. Gold title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked apart from some light spots of foxing to closed edges. Dustjacket has some wear to top. The fifteenth volume in the naval thriller series in which the commander and his female assistant fight a right wing group who place nuclear waste bearing vessels around Britain. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.