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  • MURDER AND THE MAITRE D’

  • Author: Alex COOMBS
  • Publisher: No Exit Press
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Read once very carefully.

    An Old Forge Cafe Mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  “The Chilterns are at their best in May and the Cafe is flourishing, which makes Charlie think about furniture that lives up to the standards of her menu.

    So it’s that – plu....

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  • WOMAN IN THE DARK

  • Author: Dashiell HAMMETT
  • Publisher: Headline
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition with an introduction by Robert B Parker.

    Tanning to pages.  Bumped at head of book spine.  The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Two faint diagonal indentations which can be seen when the jacket is held in the light.  Some very minor creasing to edges.

    SYNOPSIS:  “A novel of da....

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  • LORD HORNBLOWER

  • Author: C S FORESTER
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Comments:

    This is a UK paperback edition.  12th printing from 2006 of the Penguin edition published in 1964.  Features an introduction by Bernard Cornwell, creator of Sharpe.

    Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Faint reading creases to spine.  What looks like a tiny piece of laminate is missing from the bottom left-hand corner of the rear cover and 2 small nicks a....

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  • THE TROUBLE WITH MRS MONTGOMERY HURST

  • Author: Katie LUMSDEN
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a 001 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:  “The trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst is NOT Mrs Montgomery Hurst – as young Miss Amelia Ashpoint well knows.

    The real trouble is in the polite society of Wickenshire, with its inescapable gossip ab....

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  • A SCROOGE MYSTERY

  • Author: Andreina CORDANI
  • Publisher: Zafre
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Last Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three festive spirits, and the bleak vision of his future has haunted him ever since.  But changing your ways for a day is easy.  Changing your ways for ever is a little trick....

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  • BLOOD CRAZY: ATEN UNBOUND **SIGNED**

  • Author: Simon CLARK
  • Publisher: Darkness Visible
  • Comments:

    This is a first UK trade (larger sized) paperback edition.  Unread.  Contains bonus material.

    SIGNED by Simon Clark on the title page.

    Blood Crazy Series Book 4.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Nick Aten and his crew set out for New Blood City, which is run by the rational-minded Creosote-Plus Types, and has electricity, hospitals and all the attributes of civilisation… so they&....

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  • BLOOD CRAZY: ATEN UNBOUND **SIGNED**

  • Author: Simon CLARK
  • Publisher: Darkness Visible
  • Comments:

    This is a first UK trade (larger sized) paperback edition.  Unread.  Contains bonus material.

    SIGNED by Simon Clark on the title page.

    Blood Crazy Series Book 4.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Nick Aten and his crew set out for New Blood City, which is run by the rational-minded Creosote-Plus Types, and has electricity, hospitals and all the attributes of civilisation… so they&....

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  • THE MIDMORNING MURDERS

  • Author: Julian CLARY
  • Publisher: Orion
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Jayne enjoys her new job as a researcher on popular daytime TV programme Morning All!, but the usual fare of cookery and fashion items are a bit bland and ratings are plummeting.

    So when Jayne comes up with the id....

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  • THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES **PC COPY**

  • Author: Grady HENDRIX
  • Publisher: SST Publications
  • Comments:

    This is a Publisher’s Copy (PC) of the signed numbered limited edition hardback produced by SST with a stated first edition June 2023 and a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. UNREAD.

    The title was previously published by Quirk Books in 2020. Includes extra bonus material.

    A PC copy is a book that is identical to the Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition in....

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  • THE PROSPERO MACHINE and Other Stories (Limited Edition)

  • Author: Mark VALENTINE
  • Publisher: Tartarus Press
  • Comments:

    A first UK limited edition hardback, limited to 350 copies only.  Beautiful boards.  UNREAD.

    SYNOPSIS:  “A collection of seven long narratives about legends and mysterious landscape in Britain. The title story depicts the strange incidents surrounding a fortune-telling machine at a seaside resort out of season, while other tales reveal sorcery and sanctity in the Malvern Hills, ....

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  • THE PROSPERO MACHINE and Other Stories (Limited Edition)

  • Author: Mark VALENTINE
  • Publisher: Tartarus Press
  • Comments:

    A first UK limited edition hardback, limited to 350 copies only.  Beautiful boards.  UNREAD.

    SYNOPSIS:  “A collection of seven long narratives about legends and mysterious landscape in Britain. The title story depicts the strange incidents surrounding a fortune-telling machine at a seaside resort out of season, while other tales reveal sorcery and sanctity in the Malvern Hills, ....

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  • MORE TERROR IN THE MODERN VEIN

  • Author: Donald A WOLLHEIM (Editor)
  • Publisher: Digit
  • Comments:

    A first UK paperback edition with a stated First UK publication.

    Tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  The covers have had a harder life and are generally grubby.  There is a stain on the rear cover which is more visible internally than externally (see photos).  The covers are worn at the edges and there are creases at the top edge of the front cover....

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