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Tanning to pges. Creasing to covers. “The oil-rich Sultan of a feudal realm… a lady hijacker with a Roedean accent… a tribe of unspeakably primitive marshmen… systematic witchcraft – and a double murder whose only witness is a chimpanzee. These are the bizarre ingredients of this classic story of detection by Peter Dickinson at his most imaginative best.” ....
Originally published in 1991, this is a later printing. Creasing to spine – production fault rather than reading creases. An Aurelio Zen mystery. Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo’s top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life....
Tanning to pages. Minor creasing to covers. “The Boxer Rebellion reaches a once peaceful mission settlement in remote China. Theodore escapes and after enduring great danger is drawn to a destiny beyond his imagining in the mysterious gold-domed monastery of Dong Pe high in the Tibetan mountains.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
A first UK edition (First Printing) paperback. Light tanning to pages. Book Three of The Eye of Time. “These are the strangely troubled days of rumour and omen, of failing light and dark winter. Now is the time for the elders of the kingdom of Rhye to perform their ancient rite on the barrow-grave of kings…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
A first thus edition with a 1 to 10 number sequence. An Aurelio Zen mystery. “When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred ad fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St Peter’s, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn’t easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silence....
Originally published in 1989, this is a later printing. Faint reading creases to spine. An Aurelio Zen mystery. “Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen had crossed swords with the establishment before – and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy’s most power....
First UK edition hardback which is in very nice condition for its age. Price-clipped dustjacket. Some tanning to pages. Gilt titles to spine remain clean and bright. “Did Winston Churchill betray the SOE network codenamed ‘Scorpio’ in order to appease Joseph Stalin? MI6 Officer Harry chapman, ordered to provide an acceptable explanation, begins his investigation…” ....
A first US edition (First Printing) paperback with a stated “First Printing July 1991” and “A Baen Box Original”. The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition for its age. Some browning to inside of front and rear covers and tanning to pages. Very small closed tear to bottom of rear cover. Reading creases to spine. A collection of 11 short stories. The stories are:Rescue Mi....
First UK edition with a 1 to 10 number sequece. Price still on dustjacket. Unread. “An intensely private man, Warren Beatty has always guarded his privacy zealously, giving few interviews. But now acclaimed biographer Suzanne Finstad has been able to obtain unprecedented and candid interviews with his friends, whilst gaining access to rare photographs, letters and diaries. The result....
First UK paperback edition with a full 1 to 9 numbre sequence indicating a first printing. Unread but the book is described as very good only because there is a production fault affecting pages 401 to 404 which has resulted in a slight tear at the top of these pages which does not affect the text. The book is showing signs of shelf storage (some discolouration to one third of the bottom and....
A B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a 2-10 number sequence indicating a second printing. Read once very carefully. Some tanning to pages.
Josephine Tey Book One.
SYNOPSIS “It is 1934 and celebrated Scottish crime writer Josephine Tey is on her way to London to see her own hit West End play – but her trip is interrupted by the grisly murder of a young train p....
This is a UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback edition. Unread. Tanning to pages. ~There is a small triangular piece of laminate which has lifted at the bottom edge of the front cover.
SYNOPSIS: “One dark night on the Island of Great Saltree, fourteen-year-old Conor is framed for a terrible crime he didn’t commit. Thrown into prison by the dastardly Hugo Bonvilain, ....