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Tigerlily's Orchids (signed)
by Ruth Rendell
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9780091936860
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€20.32
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London: Hutchinson, 2010. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building and, after some deliberation, even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. They are a disparate group of people, each with their individual Rendellian psychoses and potential for… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (bound from original parts)
by Chares Dickens
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- Used - Near fine
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- First, bound from the original parts
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- 1870
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- Hardcover
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€254.60
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First, bound from the original parts. Hardcover. Near fine. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by the English author Charles Dickens. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First American edition
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780151327652
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€11.06
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San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanvich, Publishers, 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A superb cerebral entertainment about three editors who cook up a hoax-involving the Templar Knights, Stonehenge, the Cabala, and Brazilian voodoo, among other things-that suddenly becomes all too real. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
This copy is fine in black cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dallas Justice, The Real Story of Jack Ruby and His Trial
by Melvin M. Belli, with Maurice C. Carroll
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- Used - Very Good++
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- Very Good
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- First
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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€18.47
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New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1964. First. Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good. Melvin Belli is a San Francisco trial lawyer who took on the case of Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This book describes his assessments of Ruby's motives, and includes appendices offering conclusions about the entire murder case, including lab reports, hospital records,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gollancz Detective Omnibus, 3 Full-lengh novels
by Dorothy L. Sayers, Michael Innes, Edmund Crispin
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First
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- 1951
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- Hardcover
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€27.77
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This omnibus volume collects full mystery novels from three popular authors of the time:
1. The Moving Toyshop, by Edmund Crispin
2. Appleby's End, by Michael Innes
3. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
This copy in very good in red cloth with gilt titles on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Death Under Sail
by C.P. Snow
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Fine (Facsimile)
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1932
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- Hardcover
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€148.13
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London: Heinemann, 1932. First. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine (Facsimile). Death Under Sail, a murder mystery, was C.P. Snow's first novel. Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lullaby of Murder (Signed)
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1984
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- Hardcover
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- 9780575034952
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€32.40
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1984. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis' third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer.
Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to… Read more about this item Item Price
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To Study A Long Silence
by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1972
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780575013520
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- 1
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€41.66
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1972. First. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good Condition. From the publisher:
"Dr. Davie investigates the murder of an actor who is killed during the middle of a performance, but discovers that no one seems to have had the opportunity to commit the crime"
A scarce British murder mystery. This copy is very good… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mantrap Garden
by John Sherwood
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1986
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780575037847
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- 1
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€13.84
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"Although the coroner found Mary Lindsay innocent of the murder of her elderly mother, someone is playing cruel tricks to get her to confess, and horticulturalist-sleuth Celia Grant must track down the real killer"
This copy is fine in red cloth with gilt titles on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Man with the Silver Saab (Signed)
by Alexander McCall Smith
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 2021
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780593316108
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- 1
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case.
Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Binding Room (Signed)
by Nadine Matheson
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First US edition
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- 2022
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- Hardcover
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- 9781335426925
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New York: Hanover Square Press, 2022. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"Matheson's voice is exciting, urgent... and, now more than ever, vital."-A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller about race, power and the corrupt institutions… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Colors of All the Cattle (Signed)
by Alexander McCall Smith
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First American Edition
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- 2018
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- Hardcover
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- 9781524747800
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2018. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe finds herself running for office much to her dismay.
When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the Gaborone City Council, Mma… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Jigsaw Man (Signed)
by Nadine Matheson
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
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- First American edition
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- 2021
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- Hardcover
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- 9781335146564
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New York: Hanover Square Press, 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"A heart-pounding roller coaster ride."-Tami Hoag, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy
*A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2021*
A serial killer and his copycat are locked in a violent game of cat and mouse. Can DI Anjelica Henley… Read more about this item Item Price
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Three Stations (Signed)
by Martin Cruz Smith
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First printing
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- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9780743276740
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"Martin Cruz Smith's masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop… Read more about this item Item Price
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Big Sky (Signed)
by Kate Atkinson
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 2019
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780316523097
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New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. From the publisher:
"Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia.… Read more about this item Item Price
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(2 vols) Devices and Desires, and A Certain Justice -Both Signed
by P.D. James
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Both UK Firsts
- Published
- 1997
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- Hardcovers
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London: Faber and Faber, 1997. Both UK Firsts. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (1920 - 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.
These… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Grinning Pig (Original UK title: Murder's A Swine)
by Nap Lombard" (Pseudonym of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Gordon Neil Stewart)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd US printing
- Published
- 1943
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- Hardcover
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€115.72
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. 2nd US printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A quite scarce murder mystery novel written and set during the WWII London blitz. The name, Nap Lombard, was a pseudonym for the married authors, Pamela Hansford Johnson, a British novelist and Gordon Neil Stewart, and Australian journalist. Being published during the war, it is now… Read more about this item Item Price
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Behind the Phantom's Mask, A Serial
by Roger Ebert
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- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1993
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- Softcover
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- 9780836280210
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€32.40
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Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993. First. Softcover. Very Good +. Victor Juhasz. From the publisher:
"Modeled on the work of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, this serial cliffhanger follows Mason Devereaux, a once-great, hard-drinking British actor, who becomes involved in the case of an on-stage murder."
Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013) was an American film critic, film… Read more about this item Item Price
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3X Daily Mail issues from 2006 with John Mortimer - Rumpole short story serialized
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- Used - Very Good +
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- First
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- Newspaper
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London: Daily Mail. First. Newspaper. Very Good +. Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The popularity of the TV series led to the stories… Read more about this item Item Price
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Her Last Tomorrow (Special Limited, Signed Anniversary Edition)
by Adam Croft
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First thus
- Published
- 2020
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781912599509
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€37.03
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Privately Published, 2020. First thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adam Croft is an English writer of crime fiction. He is a self-published author and is an advocate of independent publishing.
He has written more than twenty books, including the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He appeared on the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston… Read more about this item Item Price
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