Historical Mystery
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Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackery
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.
The Robe
by Lloyd C Douglas
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, and four weeks later rose to No. 1. It held the position for nearly a year. The Robe remained on the list for another two years, returning several other times over the next several years including when the movie version was released in 1953.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1815. The story follows the life of Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and beautiful young woman who lives in the English countryside. Emma fancies herself as a matchmaker and sets out to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith. However, her attempts to play cupid lead to several misadventures, including a love triangle involving her own romantic interests. As the story unfolds, Emma learns important lessons about humility, love, and the consequences of...
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St.
Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
Historical Mystery Books & Ephemera
North Star Conspiracy
by Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Miriam Grace Monfredo, a former librarian and a historian, lives in Rochester, New York. This is the seventh Seneca Falls Mystery. A previous Seneca Falls Mystery, The Stalking-Horse, was chosen by the Voice of Youth Advocacy as one of 1998’s best adult mysteries for young adults and received a “best” review in Library Journal’s young adult section.
Silver Pigs
by Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James
Bantam, New York. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early...
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€2.73
Sharpe's Triumph
by Cornwell, Bernard
Harper Collins, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6-STBX-006 Sharpe, Book 2 - Very Good: may show signs of shelf wear, may show signs of reading, including light spine stress, may show signs of normal shelf aging. EX-LIBRARY BOOK - Library Stamps and aging.
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€7.55
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
Harvest/Harcourt, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good edge wear and corner bumps, bottom edge has small tears, spine crease and nicks.It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.Born a...
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€3.43
Accusers, The
by Davis, Lindsey
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, Warner Books, 2004. 368 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€35.92
The Mosaic Crimes
by Leoni, Giulio
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2007. . Book Club Edition.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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€16.53
SATAN'S FIRE
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Press,, 1996. Slight flaw to top of ffep and fold on half title page. In a Brodart mylar protective cover. 250 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€8.93
THE MASK OF RA
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Griffin,, 1999. 244 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€12.05
THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE
by Marston, Edward
United Kingdom: Alison & Busby Limited. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0749082852 . A near fine new 1st edition hardcover (full number line ending in "1") slightly tanned to the text-block edges in a new dustwrapper a touch creased to upper edge supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Christopher Redmayne Myster; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 pages .
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€11.76
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy
by Greenwood, L. B
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster,, 1986. . First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€18.76
THE ASSASSIN IN THE GREENWOOD
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Press,, 1994. Very minor rubbing and chipping to corners and 1/4 inch closed tear front bottom. In a Brodart mylar protective cover. 217 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Near Fine in Mylar Cover.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€8.27
The Silver Oar
by Howard Breslin
Perma Books, Montreal, 1956. 2nd printing. Condition: Good plus, slight corner creasing and edge nicks, spine has wear and nicks, back cover has bookstore stamps. 2nd printing.He fought for her virtue so he could have her for himself. Pirates and buccaneers oh my.
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€1.38
Achilles: A Novel
by Elizabeth Cook
Picador, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge nicks and creasing at spine.From the publisher: Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared...
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€3.43
Eugenie Grandet
by Honore de Balzac
Penguin Classics, New York, 1985. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, faint crease along front cover, underlining, highlighting, and notes in ink on several pages."Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked...
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€1.73
THE LAST PLEASURE GARDEN
by Jackson, Lee
United Kingdom: William Heinemann Ltd. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0434012491 . A near fine new 2nd printing hardcover slightly tanned to the text-block edges in a near fine slightly shelf-worn dustwrapper supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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€8.22
THE ROSE RENT
by Peters, Ellis
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1987. A Brother Cadfael Mystery. 190 pages.. First Edition Second Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€11.34
SHADOWS IN BRONZE
by Davis, Lindsey
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991. A Marcus Didius Falco mystery. 343 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine - New/Fine/ New in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€13.23
The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
Penguin, Toronto, 2014. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, faint creases at spine.In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he...
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€4.81
The Fate of Princes
by Doherty, P. C
New York: Saint Martin's Press, LLC,, 1991. 192 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€39.70
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Penguin, New York. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine has creases and small tear at bottom edge, price sticker on rear cover.In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters...
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€1.73
Captain Cut-Throat
by Carr, John Dickson
Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: BBC Audiobooks America,, 1996. Slight bump to bottom front near spine and several tiny indentations in bottom front. . Re-issue.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€11.34
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Condition: Good minus, red leather binding, gold title on spine, corner bump and spine edge wear, slight ungluing of spine but book still holds together, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, writing and underlining on interior pages.An interesting edition from Woolworth's Library circa 1913 based on the previous owner's inscription.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in...
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€3.43
THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER
by Rubenfeld, Jed
New York: Henry Holt and Company,, 2006. 371 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€9.31
Downfall of the Gods
by K. J. Parker
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 766 of 1000 copies.A goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.And in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker's sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Achias on an epic quest to save his soul...and get her own way.
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€41.53
Godless Man, The
by Doherty, Paul
London: Robinson (an imprint of Constable & Robinson),, 2002. 303 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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€15.55
THE DEMON ARCHER
by Doherty, Paul
United Kingdom: Headline. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0747222398 . A Very Good First Edition hardcover (full number line ends in '1') in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket. The book is in clean red boards, with bumping to spine ends, and sharp corners. Internally, no writing or stamps, unmarked pages, a little tanned to the text-block edges. The bright dustjacket is lightly bumped to the edges - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully...
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€14.13
