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BLUE ON BLUE

First UK edition paperback.  Larger-sized (142 x 216 mm).  Unread.  Please note the author is Quentin S Crisp (not Quentin Crisp of The Naked Civil Servant fame).

SYNOPSIS:  “In an artificially engineered loop of parallel time called the Alternative States of the American Fifties, Victor Winton, a talented but unfulfilled ca....

EUROPE AT MIDNIGHT (Uncorrected Proof)

This is an uncorrected proof copy  B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.   Unread.  Faint quarter inch crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover and a larger crease across the bottom left-hand corner of the rear cover.

SYNOPSIS:  “In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.  For an intelligence officer like Jim, it’....

THE HAUNTED SEASON

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.  A Max Tudor mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “Usually, the lord and lady of the manor are absent for most of the year, but this year they have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the good old days, when ....

MANNERS & MUTINY

First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  B format paperback (130 x 198 mm).  Read once very carefully.  The 4th book in the Finishing School series.

SYNOPSIS: Espionage lessons aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia’s sweet sootie Soap nearby.  She would rather by using her skills ....

DEATH OF A COSY WRITER

First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  (First published in the USA by Midnight Ink in 2008).  Read once very carefully.  A St Just Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting ....

DEATH AND THE LIT CHICK

First UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  (First published in the USA by Midnight Ink in 2009).  Read once very carefully.  A St Just Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  Wildly successful chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honour at an exclusive writers’ conference at Dalmorton Ca....

THE Z MURDERS

This is a larger sized B format paperback (130 mm x 198 mm). Originally published in 1932 by Collins, this is a new edition and includes an introduction by crime fiction expert Martin Edwards. The book has been read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning.  He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeabl....

TANGLE OF NEED

First UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition.  Unread.  Price still on dust jacket.  A Psy-Changeling novel.

SYNOPSIS:  Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For....

THE DEVIL’S LOOKING GLASS

First UK edition trade (large sized 153mm x 234mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicting a first printing.  Unread.  A Swords of Albion book.  SYNOPSIS: “1593: The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr John Dee is missing… Terror sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dee’s possession is an obsidian mirror, a mysterious object ....

THE SWARM

Mass market paperback in very good condition for its age.  Age tanning to pages making them rather brown, but eminently readable.  Reading creases to spine and slight spine slant.

SYNOPSIS:  “FAMILY ATTACKED BY BEES – TWO KILLED.  A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees.  Mr and Mrs William Peterson died as a result of bee bite....

TEN LITTLE HERRINGS

This is a B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). First printing of the Allison & Busby paperback edition with a 1-10 number sequence. Read once very carefully. The second book in the Elsie and Ethelred series. SYNOPSIS: “Last seen boarding a plane which exploded mid-air, crime writer Ethelred Tressider is discovered, to the bafflement of his dogged literary agent Elsie Thirkettle, to be a....

SERPENT’S SILVER

First UK edition paperback with a 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. Review slip laid in. Some tanning to pages. Unread. SYNOPSIS: “Silver linings. Every cloud has them, so the saying goes, but Kelvin isn’t so sure. He knows he’s stuck with being the Roundear of Prophecy… and he even knows the Prophecy isn’t completed and his adventures aren’....

THE HERRING SELLER’S APPRENTICE

This is a B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). First printing of the Allison & Busby edition with a 1-10 number sequence. Read once very carefully. The first book in the Elsie and Ethelred series. SYNOPSIS: “Ethelred Tressider is a writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, a mid-life crisis is looming and he’s burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Els....

INSPECTOR ABBERLINE AND THE JUST KING (Signed)

A SIGNED first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Unread. SIGNED by Simon Clark on the title page. Price still on dust jacket.

SYNOPSIS: “1890: A killer stalks the Isle of Faxfleet. Faxfleet – a tiny, independent kingdom on the River Humber in Yorkshire. Faxfleet is inhabited by eccentrics, oddballs and Victorian drop-outs and....

MY FRIEND MR CAMPION AND OTHER MYSTERIES

This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback edition. Read once very carefully, however, there is a tiny nick at the edge of the rear cover which also affects the last couple of pages. A book in the Arcturus Crime Classics series which showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s to the 1970s. SYNOPSIS: “The Gentleman detective Mr Albert Campion features in all of the ....

THE SUM OF ALL MEN

A UK B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.  Unread.  Tanning to pages.  Covers showing some slight signs of storage wear to the extremities.

The Runelords Book One.

SYNOPSIS: “It is the even of Hostenfest and effigies of the Earth King fill the streets. In this festive season, the young Runelord, Prince Gaborn Val Orden, has come seeking the alliance of marriage that will sa....