| Paul Ableman |
Tornado Pratt A Novel |
Gollancz 1977 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Readers will find that Paul Ableman's recreation of the mind of a tycoon has the impact of experience rather than fiction. We do not so much read the adventures - great, small, frequently erotic - of this fine writer's stormy hero. Rather we share them with Tornado as he probes the key incidents of his past, trying to dicover what all men seek, the truth about their lives." |
| Boris Akunin |
Turkish Gambit |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need... all his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love... " Published 2 months before the US Random House edition. |
| Anonymous |
Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request |
Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and old pricce in biro on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Two "round-robin" mystery thrillers: Crime on the Coast written by John Dickson Carr; Valerie White; Lawrence Meynell; Joan Fleming; Michale Cronin & Elizabeth Ferrars and No Flowers by Request by Dorothy L. Sayers; E. C. Lorac; Gladys Michell; Anthony Gilbert; & Christiana Brand |
| Campbell Armstrong |
Deadline |
Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one light spine crease else Fine copy in laminated boards |
£5.00 |
"At 10.47 one Friday morning successful LA psychiatrist Jerry Lomax answers a phone call that sends his life into freefall... a hard-nosed former LA County district attorney... Emily Ford... is about to get the President's nomination for US Attorney-General... has revealed a secret to Jerry... which... could be devastating... " |
| John Brooks Barry |
The Michaelmas Girls |
Andre Deutsch 1975 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... the six prostitutes murdered by Jack the Ripper... Christopher Keele was a voluntary social worker... at the centre of the neighbourhood... began to pick the brains of journalists and policemen... an appalling hunch: the Ripper was working not alone but in partnership with a woman... " |
| Raymond Benson |
Never Dream of Dying |
Hodder & Stoughton 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine and upper corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"... From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond continues his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic consequence... he experiences at first hand the power of an amazing new weapon before a dramatic confrontation with his main adversary back in Korea where it all started... " |
| Evelyn Berckman |
Be All And End All A Novel |
Hamish Hamilton 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"When an eccentric old lady of ninety-three dies in a chateau near Paris... her two grasping daughters call in the well-known London firm of Palgrave's to value the contents. For Dominic Godfrey, the furniture expert, and for his wife Val, the book expert, the stay... is to have momentous consequences... |
| Lawrence Block |
Everybody Dies |
Morrow 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners a little slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. He's sober, he's married, and the state just gave him a private investigator's licence... Then Scudder signs on to help his closest and most unlikely friend, the larger-than-life Hell's Kitchen hoodlum Mick Ballou. And all hell breaks loose... " |
| Lawrence Block |
Some Days You Get The Bear |
Morrow 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
21 stories - By The Dawn’s Early Light; Cleveland In My Dreams; Some Things A Man Must Do; Answers To Soldier; Good For The Soul; The Ehrengraf Alternative; Someday I’ll Plant More Walnut Trees; The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis; As Good As A Rest; Death Wish; The Merciful Angel Of Death... |
| Simon Brett |
Murder Unprompted |
Gollancz 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dustjacket a little damp-stained on the inside (not show-through) |
£5.00 |
"... the biography of a play, from the cradle to the grave - from author... to producer... to theatre... to director... to cast... to West End transfer... But now, trouble begins. Banks can't learn his lines... then, which is almost worse, he's shot dead on stage on the first night... " |
| Michael Butterworth |
A Virgin on the Rocks Variations on a Theme in a Black Manner |
Collins Crime Club 1985 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"In 1933 Bernard Fosdyke, aspiring novelist... came to meet Harold Hiram Levy, master art forger... a scheme whereby the Louvre's version of one of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces could be exchanged for his hand made copy... with the unwitting assistance of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau... " |
| James M. Cain |
Rainbow's End |
W. H. Allen 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and browned Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Davey Howell is content in his rural Ohio solitude... But then a hijacker plummets into his life, along with a $100,000 cash ransome and a beautiful stewardess as a hostage. Suddenly, Davey's sense of 'the good life' faces its toughest challenge - with the hijacker dead, who would know... " |
| Certain Members of the Detection Club |
The Floating Adnmiral |
Macmillan 1981 |
Bruised at top of spine and corners and page edges browned and a little rubbed and marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Who killed Admiral Penistone, and sent him drifting down the River Whyn... Twelve members of the club constructed the puzzle, each writing a chapter... an appendix giving the fascinatingly different solutions conceived by each author... " Introduction by Sayers, Prologue by Chesterton, chapters by Christie, SayersCrofts, Jepson, Dane, Berkeley and others... |
| Jerome Charyn |
The Isaac Quartet |
Zomba 1984 First Combined Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and spine panel blocking a little tarnished else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded |
£4.00 |
"She was the hot-headed daughter of the First Deputy Police Commissioner. She liked men, but always the wrong ones... He was a blond Jewish cop who preferred ping-pong to anything else... A giant Irishman, thrown out of the police force: he never wore shoes... Isaac has triumphed, but the scar on a whore's cheek sends him on a desperate trip... " One line/book. |
| Peter Cheyney |
Try Anything Twice |
Collins 1948 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in torn and slightly chipped Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... When a woman is beautiful she is certain to cause trouble - somewhere, some time. Denise Ellerdene was certainly lovely to look at, and her strange case was most unusual. She had recently becokme engaged. And then the local newspaper printed in its gossip columna scurrulous libel hinting that the marriage would not take place... " |
| Lee Child |
The Hard Way A Jack Reacher Novel |
Delacorte 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"Jack Reacher was alone... watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransome money... On the trail of a vicious kidnapper... Reacher... knows... he's already in way too deep to stop now." |
| Agatha Christie |
13 For Luck! A Selection of Mystery Stories |
Collins 1966 First Edition Thus First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded. |
£7.50 |
Mostly reprint stories: The Nemean Lion, The Girdle of Hyppolita, The Market Basing Mystery, The Blue Geranium, The Four Suspects, Freenshaw's Folly, The Face of Helen, The Bird with the Broken Wing, The Unbreakable Albi, The Witness for the Prosecution, Where There's a Will, The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl and Accident. |
| Agatha Christie |
Elephants Can Remember |
Collins Crime Club 1972 First Edition First Printing |
Spine slightly creased, top edge of rear board a little slightly bumped and page edges slightly and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine Copy in Dust Jacket with spine panel background slightly faded and the price removed. |
£7.50 |
"... All that was in his mind was that Mrs Oliver was coming to see him after dinner and that she had a problem of some kind - about which she wanted his advice. Oh well, he didn't expect there would be any difficulty about that. So little do the most intelligent of human beings forsee what is coming towrds them in the immediate future." |
| Agatha Christie |
Miss Marple's 6 Final Cases and 2 Other Stories |
Collins Crime Club 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed |
£7.50 |
Published originally between 1934 and 1959 - Sanctuary; Strange Jest; Tape-Measure Murder; The Case of the Caretaker; The Case of the Perfect Maid; Miss Marple Tells a Story together with The Dressmaker's Doll and In a Glass Darkly. |
| Agatha Christie |
Ordeal By Innocence |
Collins Crime Club 1958 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges page edges slightly foxed and a little browned - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in foxeda nd slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... young Jacko Argyle had died in a prison hospital after serving only six months of a life sentence for the murder of his mother... more than two years afterwards... Could Jacko's alibi be proved after all?... a terrifying situation existed for the handful of people who fulfilled the classic formula: Motive; Means and Opportunity... " |
| Agatha Christie |
Problem At Pollensa Bay and Other Stories |
HarperCollins 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
Includes Problem At Pollensa Bay; The Second Gong; Yellow Iris; The Harlequin Tea Set; The Regatta Mystery; The Love Detecives; Next to a Dog and Magnolia Blossom |
| Agatha Christie |
The Pale Horse |
Collins Crime Club 1961 First Edition First Printing |
Top corners bruised and page edges foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket |
£10.00 |
"... Father Gorman did his best, but on the way home he was killed; on his body was discovered a list of names, mysterious in that the people listed had nothing in common; yet, when Mark Easterbrook came to enquire into the circumstances of the people named, he began to descry a connection between them, and an ominous pattern... " |
| Francis Clifford |
The Naked Runner |
Hodder & Stoughton 1966 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... The story is set mainly in Leipzig, where it starts in a comparatively unobtrusive way when Sam Laker agrees reluctantly to act as a temporary unpaid agent for the West and ends a few days later in a blazing climax with a marksman's rifle and with Laker turned from a successful English businessman into a cold and paranoic killer... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
Cause of Death |
Little, Brown 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... The final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the civil war... A scuba diver... is dead, an investigative reporter... the case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive weapons... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
From Potter's Field |
Little, Brown 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain ina bleak area of New york's Central Park. Her pparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot would to the head, the sections of skin excised fom the body, the displayed corpse... Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
Point of Origin |
Little, Brown 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
""... In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of violent and grisly murder. The fire comes at the same time as another... horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
The Body Farm |
Little, Brown 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... the corpse of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner is found, with a bullet would to the head and several small sections of skin removed from her frail and abused body... disturbing similarities to the recent murder of young Eddie Heath in Virginia... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
The Body Farm |
Little, Brown 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
"... the corpse of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner is found, with a bullet would to the head and several small sections of skin removed from her frail and abused body... disturbing similarities to the recent murder of young Eddie Heath in Virginia... " |
| Patricia Cornwell |
Unnnatural Exposure |
Little, Brown 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Five dismembered, beheaded corpses were found in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in Virginia. But the tenth corpse... is different... Scarpetta, however, is not happy... about the FBI investigator leaking rumours tot he press... exactly how the victim died... the strange messages that start appearing on her computer... " |
| Patricia D. Cornwell |
Cruel And Unusual |
Little, Brown 1991 First Edition First Printing? |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"At 11.05 one December evening... convicted murderer Ronnie Joe waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body... Three hours after thirteen-year-old Eddie Heath goes out to buy a can of soup his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found... Scarpetta becomes aware that someone... is sabotaging her professional affairs... " |
| E. G. Cousins |
Body Behind the Curtain |
John Gifford 1966 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and slight spine lean else Fine copy in worn Dust Jacket. |
£3.50 |
"... A peace-loving fallow with an unfortunate habit of getting into trouble, Dick Barne was cunningly led by the War Office to suppose this was a routine investigation, but soon found it was far from that. There was certainly a body behind the Iron Curtainl but whose was it?... " |
| Marcel d'Agneau |
Eeny Meeny Miny Mole |
Arlington Books 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"The British Secret Service is in chaos. It is rumoured that a new generation of moles has penetrated the higher echelons of the British Government... then the Stationmaster... Head of British Intelligence, disappears... Hugh Grimly, former Stationmaster, now 75 and living quietly in retirement, must be recalled... Grimly is the best molecatcher of them all... " Satire on Le Carre? |
| D. Martin Dakin |
A Sherlock Holmes Commentary |
David & Charles 1972 First Edition |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with some light damp-staining and a short (5mm) tear at the top edge of the rear flap |
£7.50 |
"Martin Dakin has ferreted out more facts and gone a long way to explaining the still unexplained in the Sacred Canon... Who... was the mysterious Joseph in The Naval Treaty? What was the secret of Holmes's visit to the 'worst man in London?... " With full references, a bibliography and an index. |
| Lindsey Davis |
The Iron Hand of Mars |
Hutchinson 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine, spine slightly creased, pages browned and pages 47/8 water-crinkled else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top edge of the rear panel. |
£30.00 |
"With Titus Caesar in persuit of his patrician girlfriend Helena, Marcus didius falco, the louche Roman sleuth, is sent out of the way on an undercover mission to Roman Germany. There the natives are decidedly restless... " Scarce. |
| Thomas B. Dewey |
Deadline A new case for "Mac" |
Boardman 1967 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket |
£4.00 |
"Peter davidan, barely out of his teens, sits in the state prison, awaiting execution for the mutillation murder of a small-town girl... Mac, the Chicago private eye, is hired by a group of do-gooders in a last desperate attempt to save the boy... He has only four days... " |
| Colin Dexter |
Morse's Greatest Mystery and other stories |
Macmillan 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Published together for the first time are ten dazzling short stories... including two new mysteries... The collection features five ingenious cases for Inspector Morse and five other stories which take us from a cell in Oxford Prison to Sherlock Holmes' drawing room at 221B Baker Street... " |
| Colin Dexter |
The Daughters of Cain |
Macmillan 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... too little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse... killed by a single stab wound to the stomach... within days... Chief Inspector Morse... startling new information... Then another body is discovered and suddenly Morse finds himself with rather too many suspects... " |
| Colin Dexter |
The Jewel That Was Ours |
Macmillan 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"It was almost immediately after twenty-seven American tourists arrived in Oxford that one of their number... was found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Hotel. Vanished from the room is a handbag containing a jewel-encrusted antique... An open-and-shut case, it would appear: a heart-attack brought on by the shock... " |
| Colin Dexter |
The Wench Is Dead |
Macmillan 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine crease and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"In 1859 the body of a young woman was found in a stretch of the Oxford Canal known as Duke's Cut. In 1989, while recovering from a perforated ulcer in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Chief inspector Morse comes across an account of the murder investigation and trial. He becomes convinced that the two men who were hanged... were innocent... " |
| Michael Dibdin |
The Dying of the Light |
Pantheon 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the lounge of Eventide Lodge, a typical English country hotel... Rosemary and Dorothy imagine they need only follow clues and make correct deductions to solve their mystery and unmask a murderer... Yet, as the novel unfolds, in scene after startling, horrifically funny, scene, we see... that at Eventide Lodge things are not all what they seem... " |
| Peter Dickinson |
Perfect Gallows |
Bodley Head 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and and a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Wartime. A cold, huge house... The heir... is dead... a young man... the new heir?... Forty years later the same man... comes back to the dispersal sale at the house... is forced to reconsider and face the truth of the events of that distant time... the to-and-fro of intrigue over the inheritance, and the betrayal and death... " |
| Terrance Dicks |
The Criminal Computer |
Blackie 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised and slightly rubbed at base of spine, page edges a little browned and old pencil price on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top of the front fold. |
£7.50 |
"Something odd is going on in town. All set for a night at the flicks, the Baker Street Irregulars... turn up at the local cinema only to discover that a computer error has sent the management the wrong film. The the traffic lights... go berserk and Liz finds a story in the local newspaper about a computer muddle over council pay packets... " |
| Terrance Dicks |
The Missing Masterpiece |
Blackie 1986 First Edition First Printing Thus? |
Slightly bumped at base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"... A priceless painting... has been stolen... Dan and his friends, who call themselves the Baker Street Irregulars... decide to track down the masterpiece... Unwittingly they become involved in a highly dangerous adventure and with criminals who will stop at nothing..." |
| Adam Diment |
The Dolly Dolly Spy |
Michael Joseph 1967 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, corner of front free end paper creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in stained and slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Philip McAlpine, industrial spy of this parish... is infiltrated... into an airline who's private motto is... anything anywhere. Including heroin, bullion and secret agents.. " |
| P. C. Doherty (also as Paul Doherty, Paul C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C. L. Grace & Paul Harding) |
Satan in St. Mary's |
Hale 1986 First Edition First Printing (Library Binding Variant - Blue Leatherette boards and yellow top-page-edges) |
Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket |
£500.00 |
"... In 1284 the King's interest was roused by the murder in the City of Ralph Crepyn by Lawrence Duket, who then apparently committed suicide... The King, deeply suspicious about the murder, ordered an investigation into the events... A clerk, Hugh Corbett is chosen to conduct this investigation, and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous underworld of medieval London... " |
| P. C. Doherty (also as Paul Doherty, Paul C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C. L. Grace & Paul Harding) |
The Fate of Princes |
Hale 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a 60mm tear down the front flap (not affecting text) |
£50.00 |
"The mystery of the Princes in the Tower... Did they die? Were they killed?... Or did they escape? This novel offers and dramatic and intriguing solution and an original interpretation of documentary and archaeological evidence... " |
| P. C. Doherty (also as Paul Doherty, Paul C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C. L. Grace & Paul Harding) |
The Rose Demon |
Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£20.00 |
"Matthias Fitzosbert is the illegitimate son of the parish priest of the village of Sutton Courteny... Despite the recent spate of murders near the village, each day he braves the dark woods that lead to the ruins of Tenebral to visit his friend, a mysterious hermit who shows him many strange and beautiful things and who tells him about Rosifer, the fallen angel who was God's gardener... " |
| Paul Doherty (also as P. C. Doherty, Paul C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C. L. Grace & Paul Harding) |
The Hangman's Hymn |
Headline 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Stumbling upon a roadside execution, Chaucer's pilgrims witness a hanging that leaves the carpenter in a dead faint. That evening, as the travellers rest in a priory, he narrates a Gloucester hangman's terrifying tale of supernatural murder... " |
| Paul Doherty (also as P. C. Doherty, Paul C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Ann Dukthas, C. L. Grace & Paul Harding) |
The Soul Slayer |
Headline 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£25.00 |
"... if a magician can take out the heart of his vicim before death, and the victim does not die in a state of grace, the warlock can call upon that soul to do his bidding... In 1582... Eighteen-year-old Rebecca is neglected and feared by the other villagers, who regard her as cursed, by both her hare lip and her gift of second sight... " |
| Ernest Dudley |
Alibi and Dr. Morelle |
Hale 1959 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges and front end papers marked and page edges slightly foxed, three page edges affected by cigarette (?) burn and rear end papers incorporate paper join - Good copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"At the time that ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest housebreaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment... The success of Ted Patrick's coup... is marred by the killing of a village policeman... In a last desperate effort to keep himself in the clear, he deliberately becomes involved in Dr. morelle's strange scheme... " |
| W. Murdoch Duncan |
Death Comes to Lady's Steps |
Melrose 1952 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine page edges slightly foxed and marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with 8mm tear on back panel adjacent to the head of the spine |
£10.00 |
"When Inspector Beaton went down to Hampshire, to investigate the murder of one Gunn, he quickly discovered two things: first that Gunn was wanted by the police for bank robbery, and, second, that 'ghosts' could be both real and murderous... Beaton is led a grim chase through violence, mysterious murder and some very peculiar happenings... " |
| Dorothy Dunnett (Also as Dorothy Halliday) |
Moroccan Traffic Johnson Johnson: File No. 7 |
Chatto & Windus 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Wendy Helmann, upwardly mobile Executive Secretary is in Marrakesh... finds herself at the centre of kidnappings, explosions, industrial espionage, murders and vintage car chases... " |
| Jack Osborne Easton |
Defence of the Realm |
Macdonald 1985 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges browned and a small mark on the rear fixed end paper else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... For Dennis Markham, Lobour MP and anti-nuclear campaigner, it is the end of a career. To Nick Mullen, ace reporter for the popular press, it's just another story... when Vernon Bayliss... dies in unexplained circumstances... The trail leads from a borstal break out... to the well-upholstered confines of a London club. There is a cover-up... " |
| M. G. Eberhart |
The Bayou Road |
Collins Crime Club 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel orange background slightly faded |
£5.00 |
"New Orleans in 1863 was a conquered city... Marcy Chastain, beautiful half American half Creole daughetr of a New Orleans family, fought... against a sense of menacing surveilance... Rescue seemed to be provided by the Unionist major billeted on the Chastains... Now she found she was expected to prise Yankee secrets out of him, while murder crept steadily closer... " |
| Loren D. Estleman |
Never Street |
Mysterious Press 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a fingernail puncture in front panel adjacent to spine |
£5.00 |
"Amos Walker is one of the great names in contemporary American detective fiction. Now Loren D. Estleman reprises the Motor Coty's most famous private eye ina novel that pitches a city of gleaming fenders and fading dreams into the stark black-and-white landscape of a 1940's noir classic... " |
| Janet Evanovich |
Visions of Sugar Plums |
St. Martin's Press 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... it's four days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for fugitive aprehension agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents... There's not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment. And there's a strange man in her kitchen... " |
| Jules Feiffer |
Ackroyd A Novel |
Hutchinson 1978 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
""... a young man whi sets himself up as a private detective under the name 'Roger Ackroyd' and finds himself involved in the tangled affairs of Annabelle Plante... married to... Oscar... who is about to become America's best selling 'serious' novellist... mysteriously plagued by an episode in his faraway past that only Ackroyd can untangle... " |
| Dick Francis |
Odds Against |
Michael Joseph 1965 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£300.00 |
"Sid Halley, ex-champion steeple-chase jockey... has just been shot in the stomach in the course of his duties as a private enquiry agent... Convalescing with indecent and painful haste, Sid finds the pace growing hotter and hotter as he investigates the cunningl;y contrived decline of a race-course, and comes to close and spine-chilling grips with the men responsible... " |
| Dick Francis |
Smoke Screen |
Michael Joseph 1972 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges foxed and slightly and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£25.00 |
"As a child Edward lincoln had had the run of a racing stable, and as a young man he had earned his living riding horses in films. So when a sick friend asked him to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he knew more or less what to look for. But there were difficulties... " |
| Antonia Fraser |
Oxford Blood |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... The dramatic story, culminating in the last garish all-night scene at the Oxford Commem Ball is told with that special blend of wit and menace which the many admirers of Jemima Shore... have come to associate with her investigations... " |
| Brian Freemantle |
The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow |
Cape 1975 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with red spine panel lettering faded to orange |
£15.00 |
"Four boxes hidden by the Nazis... the fourth box allegedly holds complete files on all high-ranking... members who escaped the Nurenberg Trials, with detailed documentary evidence of the roles they played in the Fuhrer's highest echelons... An auction for the contents of the fourth box is conducted... " |
| Celia Fremlin (Celia Margaret Goller) |
With No Crying A novel |
Gollancz 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in a price-clipped Dust Jacket with a new price sticker on front flap |
£7.50 |
"...A day-dreaming fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, from a very 'good' home, becomes pregnant. She has encouraged a boy to seduce her, glories in her pregnant state, and is bitterly resentful when her parents talk her into having an abortion. to try to recapture her lost bliss, she pads herself up to appear pregnant, runs away from home... " |
| Nicci French (Sean French and Nicci Gerrard) |
The Memory Game |
Heinemann 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"On an autumn morning, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl is found buried in the garden of a country house in Shropshire... Natalie Martello... has been missing for a quarter of a century... Who would have killed he brilliant and beautiful teenage girl? How could an apparently impossible crime have been committed?... " |
| Nicci French (Sean French and Nicci Gerrard) |
The Safe House |
Heinemann 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"There has been a savage, murderous attack in a quiet prosperous suburb of a provincial English town. It has left two dead, and a teenage girl with her throat cut - but alive... In search of a haven for their one witness, the police turn to Dr Samanmtha Laschen, who seems ideally qualified to be a protector... " |
| Thomas Gifford |
The Wind Chill Factor |
Hamish Hamilton 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and spine slightly creased and leant, and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly browned Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... When John Cooper set off from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to find out what his brother wanted, he certainly did not expect an attempt to murder him. But this paled in copmparison to the havoc which seemed to surround him in snow-bound Wisconsin:: murder, explosions, destruction of public buildings... " |
| R. L. Goldman |
Death Plays Solitaire |
Boardman 1960s First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and lower corners and page edges browned else Fine copy in worn and slightly torn and creased Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"The story opens with Rufus Reed's assignment to witness the electrocution of... a bank robber and murderer of a policeman. It closes with Reed's return to the death house... a circuitous trail beset with excitement and adventure, peopled with plausible, lifelike characters... " |
| Ron Goulart |
Even The Butler was Poor |
Lythway 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket |
Laminated Boards slightly rubbed |
£2.50 |
LARGE PRINT EDITION "H. J. Mavity, painter of paperback romance covers, has a perplexing riddle to solve when her ex-boyfriend, Rick Dell, collapses at her feet after thelling her that the words 'ninety nine clop clop' hold the clue to a lot of money. Although Dell has clearly been murdered, H. J.'s avarice gets the better of her... " |
| Anthony Graham |
The Deadly Lovers |
Boardman 1966 First Edition First Printing American Bloodhound Mystery No 533 |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little marked and initials on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in worn and slightly torn and rubbed, price-clipped Dust Jacket. |
£2.50 |
"Ex-Cop Private-Eye Frank Richmond was only small-time; a strictly one man business that barely kept him in smokes; but he had a ravishingly beautiful rich wife, and that's a combination that always makes for throuble... from the moment Frenchy Rhisiart's mob hit town the action never faltered... " |
| Anthony Graham |
The Death Business |
Boardman 1967 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in torn and slightly browned and chipped Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"Ex-Cop Private-Eye Frank Richmond was only small-time; a strictly one man business that barely kept him in smokes; but he had a ravishingly beautiful rich wife, and that's a combination that always makes for throuble... from the moment Frenchy Rhisiart's mob hit town the action never faltered... " |
| William Haggard |
The Bitter Harvest |
Cassell 1971 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a 25mm closeable tear at the top of the front panel and where the background brown on spine panel has faded |
£5.00 |
"For Colonel Charles Russell, former head of the Security Executive and now its eminence grise, watching the Middle east cauldron has always been anbother man's problem. Now it was coming to the boil... |
| William Haggard |
The Hardliners |
Cassell 1970 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a couple of creases in the front flap |
£5.00 |
"Colonel Charles Russell had retired from the Security Executive but not froma very active life. and when he dined with Sir Fenton Omerod he knew that he had to take a hand. For Sir Fenton was planning to make use of information that would put a certain European country at the mercy of its tremendous masters... " |
| William Haggard |
Visit to Limbo |
Cassell 1978 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Colonel Charles Russell... now pleasantly retired, is vaguely thinking of a holiday. Rifai, Palestinian visionary of charm and intelligence, is thinking much more seriously of resolvijng two Middle Eastern problems at once - land for his countrymen and oil for Israel... " |
| Peter Haining (Also as Rik Alexander, William Pattrick, Richard Peyton & Sean Richards) |
Mystery! An Illustrated History of Crime and Detective Fiction |
Souvenir Press 1977 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... the first history of the Detective story to be told in pictures, drawing on contemporary illustrations from over a century and a quarter of periodicals, magazines and books... from the blood-thirsty Newgate Calendars... to the famous 'Golden Era' in the early part of this century and the notorious 'Hardboiled Dicks' of the 'Twenties and 'Thirties... " |
| Dashiell Hammett |
Woman In The Dark A Novel of Dangerous Romance |
Headline 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Luise Fischer looked like trouble from the moment she limped through the door. But she was the kind of woman men go to a lot of trouble for... "Introduced by Robert B. Parker; Bibliography; Publication History & Biographical Note |
| John Harvey |
Cutting Edge |
Viking 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and along lower edge of front board and Agency Stamp on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... a series of seemingly motiveless assaults on staff at the city's largest teaching hospital. Is there a common thread? Where will the attacker strike next? Who will die before it ends?... Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick and his team struggle to put together the jigsaw of scattered clues... " |
| John Harvey |
Rough Treatment |
Viking 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slight spine lean, page edges slightly marked and Agency Stamp on front free end paper - Very Good copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the base of the front panel adjacent to the spine |
£7.50 |
"When two small-time crooks break into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion of a house, they don’t expect to find a kilo of refined cocaine in his safe. When Harold's frustrated wife Maria discovers the intruders in her living-room, she desn't expect to fall in love. Detective Inpector Resnick... " |
| Tim Heald |
Blue Blood Will Out |
Hutchinson 1974 First Edition First Printing |
Slight spine crease and page edges marked else Fine copy in slightl;y worn Dust Jacket |
£5.00 |
"The state visit of the Umdaka of Mongolo, who has expressed a wish to visit the Abney House Museum, means that Simon bognor, the eager-to-please, accident-prone, rather idle agent of a secret department of the Board of Trade is on the spot where murder is committed... " |
| Jeremiah Healy |
Swan Dive A Novel of Suspense |
Harper & Row 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and top rear corner and small tape mark on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£5.00 |
"No one mourns the passing of Roy Marsh... not J. J. Braxley, a sadistic, smooth-talking Caribbean drug dealer who sold Roy $250,000 worth of cocaine on credit; not Roy's wife, Hannah, who had just launched a divorse suit against him; and not private eye John Francis Cuddy... fervently mourning the theft of his gun... found in the same room from which Roy took his fatal swan dive... " |
| Reginald Hill (Also as Dick Morland, PatrickRuell & Charles Underhill) |
Pictures of Perfection A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel in five volumes |
HarperCollins/The Crime Club 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£12.50 |
"...when a policeman goes missing, leaving only a handful of bizarre clues, DCI Peter Pascoe gets worried. Andy Dalziel thinks he's just overreacting... Over two eventful days a new pattern emerges, of lust and lying, of family feuds and ancient injuries, of frustrated desires and unbalanced minds... " |
| Reginald Hill (Also as Dick Morland, PatrickRuell & Charles Underhill) |
The Spy's Wife |
Collins 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed |
£40.00 |
"Molly Keatley's safe, happy life disintegrated one fine autumn morning when her husband left with ambiguous haste, and the next she heard of him was that he was accused of being a Russian agent... " |
| Reginald Hill (Also as Dick Morland, PatrickRuell & Charles Underhill) |
Under World A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel |
Collins Crime Club 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small surface chip (3 x 7mm) missing from top edge of rear panel |
£10.00 |
"... It was his father's death that brought Colin Farr back home. And it is the dark whispers about its cause that keep him working down the hated pit. A university extra-mural course brings relief one day a week and its there that Ellie Pascoe meets him... Andy Dalziel ruminates on the sidelines till a murder in the mine... " |
| Reginald Hill (Also as Dick Morland, PatrickRuell & Charles Underhill) |
Who Guards A Prince? |
Collins 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and spine slightly creased and leant, and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... The Prince is near enough to the throne for his choice to be important. Unfortunately fo him, he has fallen in love with the daughter of a politically powerful Irish-American family who loathe everything connected with the Brits... " |
| Chester Himes |
The End of A Primitive |
Allison & Busby 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Thus |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded |
£10.00 |
"Jesse Robinson wakes from his nightmares and fantasies to dirty, fitful real life in a noisy Harlem slum... Kriss wakes up alone, divorced, disillusioned, in her plush Manhattan apartment, to reume her high-salary, low excitement existence on Madison Avenue... one amazing, passionate weekend in Chicago, seven years ago, an a sudden, overwhelming urge to meet again... " |
| Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart) |
Carson's Conspiracy |
Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised across lower front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Carl Carson is a precariously prosperous businessman, with... a dotty wife... One of her delusions is that she and Carson have a son, Robin... Carl now summons Robin into useful existence... and stages a fictitious kidnapping... the grieving father should then proceed to liquidate his assets to provide the cash ransom... " |
| Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart) |
The Mysterious Commission |
Gollancz 1974 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and lower corners and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... a fashionable portrait painter... Charles Honeybath...is offered twice his standard fee if he will agree to pend a fortnight in the country, at a place unspecified, painting the portrait of a client who must remain unidentified... Whereupon he is drawn into an extremely bizarre, and for some people fatal, adventure... " |
| P. D. James |
P. D. James Omnibus |
Faber 1982 |
Page edges browned else Fine Copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket |
£15.00 |
Theree of her greatest novels... |
| P. D. James |
The Skull Beneath The Skin |
Faber 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and production fault to surface material of front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... the reality is terrifying. It is soon clear that Clarissa Lisle's secret enemy is with her on the island and Cordelia finds herself embroiled in a cse as dangerous as it is mysterious... " |
| H. R. F. Keating |
Dead On Time |
Hutchinson 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Page edges a little marked else Fione copy in like price-clipped Dust Jacket |
£5.00 |
"... With the murder ina Bombay watchmaker's shop of the heir to an influential landlord from deep in the timeless Indian countryside, Ghote finds himself enmeshed in problem after problem arising from different attitudes to the clock... even confronting with happy shrewdness that clue, familiar from a thousand detective stories, the watch with the smashed hands... " |
| Harry Kemelman |
Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home |
Hutchinson 1969 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the bottom edge of the front panel |
£7.50 |
"... The action takes place during the Passover holiday, when the rabbi finds himself deeply involved in the problems of the younger generation: the new freedom, race relations, drugs - and, unexpectedly, murder." |
| Harry Kemelman |
Thursday The Rabbi Walked Out |
Hutchinson 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Rabbi Small does not shun the controversial issues of the day. This time he is faced with the demand bu women to participate in the same way as men in religious ceremonies and services... Rabbi Small must also solve the most interesting murder... The victim is a multi-millionaire and an unrepentant anti-semite, despite his love for a Jewish woman... " |
| Laurie R. King |
A Grave Talent |
HarperCollins 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Casey Martinelli, a... homicide detective with a secret to conceal, and Alonzo Hawkin, a world-weary cop... thrown together to solve a particularly ugly crime - the murders of three young girls... " Her first book. |
| Laurie R. King |
A Grave Talent |
St. Martin's Press 1993 First Edition First Printing (First State with Hebrew dedication upside-down) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a few short (4 mm) tears and the price removed. |
£60.00 |
"... Katarina Cecilia Martinelli... newly of the San Francisco homicide division, and Alonzo Hawkin, in charge of the investigation, are charged with finsding the truth: murderess or victim?... " Her first book. |
| Linda J. LaRosa |
The Random Factor |
Gollancz 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"The New York police are baffled by a series of seemingly random killings... All the killings have the same 'identification', but what - if anything - can the victims have in common, and who's killing them and why?... " |
| Emma Lathen |
Murder Without Icing |
Gollancz 1973 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... ice-hockey in New York... the Huskies are way down in the charts... then a brilliant new player puts them on the winning road... first one then another murder complicate the situation... the second victim is actually struck down in the middle of a crucial game... " |
| Ted Lewis |
The Rabbit |
Michael Joseph 1975 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price crossed out in biro |
£5.00 |
"... Victor, a sixteen-year-old art student, returns home to take his first vacation job... The Rabbit builds gradually andsubtly into an analysis f sexual self-doubt and jealousy, climaxing with some of the powerfully graphic scenes of sexual confrontation... a disturbing, truthful account of the dark side of adolescence... " |
| Nancy Livingstone |
Mayhem in Parva |
St. Martin's Press 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Retired tax inspector G. D. H. Pringle... return to his roots in the ancient village of Wuffinge Parva in East Anglia... there's a festival being planned... Pringle stumbles on the body of one of the... organisers... the body has disappeared. Shocking revelations, misplaced corpses, sexual misconduct, and another murder... " |
| Frances Lockridge |
Murder Comes First |
Lippincott 1951 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine, boards a little marked and page edges marked and browned around Very Good copy in creased and slightly worn Dust Jacket with a 10mm burn hole on rear fold |
£10.00 |
"... featuring the inimitable Pam and Jerry North. While Pam's aunts... are primly at tea with their old friend Grace logan, Grace takes a vitamin tablet and dies fast. On discovery that cyanide is in the capsule... " |
| Peter Lovesey |
Bertie and the Tinman From the Detective Memoirs fo King Edward VII |
Bodley Head 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... It is 1886 and the greatest of all jockeys, Fred Archer, popularly known as the Tinman, has put his gun to his head and shot himself. An inquest is arranged with indecent haste. His mind was unhinged... The Prince is suspicious... " |
| Peter Lovesey |
On The Edge |
Mysterious Press/Century 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Rose and Antonia had a good war. As WAAF plotters, they had all the excitement and independence of a difficult and dangerous job, and all the fun of being two women on an RAF base... Peacetime is a disappointment... Rosie's war-hero husband has turned brutal lout: Antinia... bored with her rich manufacturer... they could get away with murder... " |
| Peter Lovesey |
Rough Cider |
Bodley Head 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Theo Sinclair, a university lecturer, is approached one day in 1964 by... Alice... She wants to be told about her Daddy... hanged for murder in 1945... he and another GI had helped with the apple harvest... The discovery of a huuman skull in a cider barrel led... to Duke's arrest and conviction... " |
| Gavin Lyall |
The Conduct of Major Maxim |
Hodder & Stoughton 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and top page edges slightly foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"When Corporal Blagg shot down a German registrar of births and deaths, the Secret Service chose ot forget that he had been working for them at the time... Blagg's only hope lay with another man who was faster with a pistol than with a memo... Major Harry Maxim... " |
| John D. MacDonald |
The Lonely Silver Rain |
Knopf 1985 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, spine creased and pages marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The disappearance of a lavishly appointed custom-built-yacht... the brutal murder of a Peruvian debutante... the sloppy 'accidental death' of a Florida real estate Tycoon... These are the pieces of the puzzle Travis McGee must fit together to save his own life... " |
| Marion Mainwaring |
Murder in Pastiche or, Nine Detectives All At Sea |
Gollancz 1974 |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Murder aboard the transatlantic luxury liner Florabunda!... Yet one must pity the poor murderer under the circumstances, for on the passenger list... are nine world-renowned detectives... Atlas Poireau, Sir John Nappleby; Jerry Pason; Broderick Tourneur; Trajan Beare; Miss Fan Silver; Spike Bludgeon; Mallory King and Lord Simon Quinsey... |
| Ngaio Marsh |
Light Thickens |
Collins Crime Club 1982 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£4.00 |
"Ngaio Marsh's last novel... Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre... is putting on a production of Macbeth. Personal tensions between the actors are heightened by the superstitions surrounding the play, and by a series of grisly practical jokes... When an additional, unscripted murder takes place... " |
| Ed McBain |
Cinderella |
Hamish Hamilton 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, previous owner's name on front free end paper and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket a little damp-marked on the inside (no show-through) |
£4.00 |
A crime novel of the 87th Precinct. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket. |
| James Melville |
A Haiku For Hanae |
Scribners 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn and marked Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Otani reflects ona murder case more than twenty years old... a young American missionary had been killed, stabbed to death in a Shinto shrine, holding a small ceramic fox in his hands... " |
| Hugh Miller |
Alistair Maclean's UNACO Borrowed Time |
HarperCollins 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine, front end paper slightly marked and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed |
£7.50 |
"The Vale of Kashmir in India... is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth ... and one of the most deadly... the peace of the valley is being threatened by militant regigious extremists and the suspicion of a highly organised drug-trafficking ring... " |
| Nicholas Monsarrat |
A Fair Day's Work |
Cassell 1964 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, top front corner and top board edges, top few mm of board edges faded, page edges browned and a little marked and old biro price on front free end paper around Very Good copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a proud, immaculate ship held in the grey desolation of Liverpool Dock by bonds far stronger than the hawsers fore and aft. Below her decks seethe agitation and unrest, bred from envy and fomented in spite, tightening their grip as the tide floods and the hour for sailing approaches." |
| Nicholas Monsarrat |
Smith and Jones |
Cassell 1963 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges bumped, browned and marked around Very Good copy in torn worn and creased Dust Jacket with the spine panel orange a little faded |
£4.00 |
"He had files on both Smith and Jones... Not at all the sort of men to be sent across the Iron Curtain, to be trusted with their country's secrets. But they had friends in high places... When they defected he became the scape-goat... BY nightfall he ws on his way." |
| Nicholas Monsarrat |
Something to Hide |
Cassell 1965 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges foxed and slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"With the sun behind him, Carter could see the girl from a long way off - a forlorn figure, alone, limping, signaling hopelessly. From pity he stopped - and gave her a lift. This simple act opened the door to a world of nightmare, all the more fantastic because each step followed so logically... " |
| Nicholas Monsarrat Th Master Mariner, Book2: Darken Ship, the Unfinished Novel, With a Biographical Introduction By Ann Monsarrat) |
The Master Mariner Book2 Darken Ship the Unfinished Novel With a Biographical Introduction By Ann Monsarrat |
Cassell 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the red spine lettering slightly faded. |
£5.00 |
"... a proud, immaculate ship held in the grey desolation of Liverpool Dock by bonds far stronger than the hawsers fore and aft. Below her decks seethe agitation and unrest, bred from envy and fomented in spite, tightening their grip as the tide floods and the hour for sailing approaches." |
| Robert Nye |
The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais |
Hamish Hamilton 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slight spine crease and and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with th price removed. |
£10.00 |
"I, Dom Eustache Blanchet... spent three years of my own life in the devil's service... Gilles de Rais, Baron de Laval... who was brought to trial in the thirty-sixth year of his age, charged with witchcraft and heresy, sacrilege and sorcery, the evocation of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against may children of both sexes... " |
| Sara Paretsky |
Indemnity Only |
Gollancz 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket where previous owner has made biro notes on inside of D. J. and damp has transferred red from boards onto inside of D. J. at top edge of rear panel causing faint show-through. |
£25.00 |
"Sara Paretsky takes the familiar private-eye formula, and has a lot of fun with it... she outrages propriety by giving us a female private-eye; and one with the unlikely name of Warshowski - who is, like her author, of Polish extraction... " |
| Barbara Paul |
Kill Fee |
Collins Crime Club 1985 First Edition First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine creasing, rear end apper oddly translucent at one point and page edges browned else Fine copy in torn creased and worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"If your worst enemy was shot dead while you, quite innocent, were miles away with an unimpeachable alibi, you would hardly be human if you did not feel relief. But what if you then received a note signed Pluto demanding a substantial 'kill fee'? A number of New Yorkers found theselves in that predicament, and most were willing to pay up... " |
| Barbara Paul |
The Renewable Virgin |
Collins Crime Club 1984 First Edition First Printing? |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges and page edges a little browned and a little marked else Fine copy in torn, creasd and badly worn Dust Jacket. |
£3.00 |
"Kelly Ingram is a rising star who has everything going for her - great looks, a live-wire personality, enough talent ot get by on, a new TV series and a new lover. She also has an agent and a producer who hate each other... But then a friend is murdered, a harmless scriptwriter... " |
| Elizabeth Peters |
Naked Once More |
Piatkus 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Jacqueline Kirby has been selected to write the sequel to the biggest blockbuster of all time. Naked in the Ice... whose author Kathleen Darcy is missing presumed dead... while researching... Jacqueline becomes the victim of some decidedly nasty 'accidents'... " |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
Brother Cadfael's Pennance The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower corners bruised, scrape on lower edge of front board, lower front corner shelf-worn and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel background slightly faded |
£7.50 |
"... Cadfael feels bound to put aside his duty to his vows for that of fatherhood; Olivier is his son... the prospect of peace is by no means universally welcome. There are powerful interests ready and willing to wreck it... passions can all too easily spill over into violence, and murder..." |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
The Confession of Brother Haluin The Fifteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Brother Haluin... slips form the roof and crashes to the ground, sustaining terrible injuries... enough for him to want to make his deathbed confession... And a wicked story it is... but Haluin does not die. And on his recovery, he determines to make a journey of expiation, with Cadfael... that leads to shocking discoveries... of bitter revenge... and of murder... " |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
The Heretic's Apprentice The Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... The mystery that unfolds is not just gripping and baffling in its own right, but is embellished by the further puzzle of the contents of a marvellous treasure box... " |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
The Holy Thief The Nineteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"..heavy rains bring the threat of floods... the holy relics must be moved to a place of safelty. And when the waters - and the confusion - subside, a robbery is revealed... And before it is solved, to the crime of theft is added a murder... " |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
The Potter's Field The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in price-clipped Dust Jacket with the spine panel background a little faded |
£7.50 |
"... a local landlord had made a present of the potter's Field to an Augustian Priory close to Shrewsbury... The plough turns up the long, raven tresses of a young woman, dead a year or more... someone has murdered her... " |
| Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) |
The Summer of the Danes The Eighteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael |
Headline 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket worn at the top and base of spine and fold corners. |
£5.00 |
"... a Danish mercenary fleet has been sighted.. and as if that were not enough, a young girl goes missing and a corpse is discovered... " |
| Dennis Potter |
Blackeyes |
Faber 1987 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed |
£5.00 |
"The writer, Maurice James Kingsley, is seventy-seven. It is twenty years since he has produced a novel, but when he does... Blackeyes is the surprise hit of the season... when Blackeyes' naked body is found drowned... an unputdownable detective story that is also a work of great literary distinction." |
| Anthony Price |
A Prospect of Vengeance A Novel |
Gollancz 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and a small biro line on top page edges else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... When Philip Masson's distinguished career was tragically cut short in a South Coast sailing accident... there were nasty rumours, in spite of the careful inquest verdict. For Masson was in line for a security promotion which didn't at all suit Dr David Audley. But there was nothing then to connect Masson's drowning with Audley... " |
| Anthony Price |
Sion Crossing |
Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine, slight spine lean and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Oliver is small and fat and unpopular and shy and very good at his job, which is nevertheless properly behind a desk... he is an economist by training and a skilled Kremlin-watcher and spy-catching organiser... the trap closes around him... among new treacheries, and on the exact site of the Sion Crossing skirmish... of the American Civil War... " |
| Cyril Ray |
Best Murder Stories |
Faber 1965 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine, faded spot on front board and page edges bruised else Fine copy in slightly and page edges a little marked , price-clipped and overprinted, Dust Jacket with a couple of shor |