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First UK edition. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Price still on dustjacket. One of the Criminal REcords series of specially commissioned novellas. Series editor: Otto Penzler. “A driving lesson goes terribly wrong. A random accident – or something more sinister? Tragedy strikes when sixteen-year-old Rebecca Patton fatally injures a woman while having a driving lesson. ....
First UK edition with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. Author’s first novel. “A headless male torso is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night. The victim is believed to be a prostitute, murdered in a moment of passion. But Carson Ryder, a detective famous for solving a series of brutal murders the previous year, see....
First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Tanning to pages. Price still on dustjacket. Comes complete with the publisher’s press release. Author’s first novel. “Ex-used car salesman and author of ‘How to Buy a Cream Puff’, Harold Dodge is familiar with all the tics and tricks of car dealers. He’s now settled in a ....
First paperback edition which is in very good+ condition for its age. Age tanning to pages. Previous owner’s name and date written on first page. Fifteen stories of female sleuths from the Victorian age to the forties. “Michele Slung tracks, by way of fifteen stories and a useful introduction, the progress of the Lady Detective over fifty years. Nora Van Snoop stamps a foot and....
First UK edition with a full 1-9 number sequence indicating a first printing in near fine condition. Very minor bumps to ope corners of both boards damaged in transit from the publishers. Two small indentations to front board. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. Annals of Lindormyn: 2. “Things are not so easy-going for Bolldhe the wanderer these days – no....
American Book Club Edition. Rough cut leading edges, common in American books. The book is undated but is circa 1956. It is in very good condition for its age. Heavy age tanning to pages. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. The dustjacket is complete but there are some chips along the edges. The inside of the dustjacket is also tanned, especially down the spine. “In the twenty-fir....
First UK edition which is in very good condition for its age. Unpriced dustjacket. Tanning to pages. Interior of dustjacket slightly discoloured. Edited by Hilary Watson. In the tradition of the Winter’s Crimes series, all the stories in this volume are new and have been specially written for the collection. Authors are: Simon Brett; David Fletcher; Palma Harcourt; Timothy Holme; A....
This book club edition is in very good condition for its age. Age tanning to pages and the top edge of the dustjacket, both internally and externally is discoloured. A Detective Chief Inspector Finch novel. “It was an unsuitable setting for death, DCI Finch though. Lovers should have occupied it, not a corpose. The sunken garden was humming with heat and fragrance, the one striking b....
Stated This first world edition published 1997. Price still on dustjacket. “The twisting lanes of the Chiltern Hills are lonely at night. When Sophie Stone realises the car behind is deliberately following her, she is angry, then afraid – the ordinary drunken yob doesn’t carry a machete.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
First UK edition. The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. The dustjacket is grubby and the spine is discoloured. Price still on dustjacket. John Luckless is also known as Clifford Irving and Herbert Burkholz. “Take two top spies – one American, Eddie Mancuso of the CIA; one Russian, Vasily Borgneff of the KGB – leading experts....
First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. Some slight marks to front and rear boards. “Micky Bellsong has a history of making wrong choices, not least in men. Her life has no meaning or direction; she wants to change but can’t find her way. She has moved in temporarily with her aunt, who lives in a dusty trailer ....
Third edition (revised). The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine, which is also somehwat discoloured. Rubbing to edges of boards and some fading at the bottom edge of the front board. The book is very clean internally. It lacks a dustjacket. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
First UK edition. The book is in very good condition for its age. Light tanning to pages. Bumped at base of book spine. Some chips to dustjacket edges and some minor damage to the top edge. Price still on dustjacket. “Dr Paul Konig, New York’s hard-driving senior pathologist, has given forty years of his life to the intimate study of death. One day Konig is called to Manhattan&#....
Book club edition. The book is undated but is circa 1969. The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine and some rubbing to board extremities. Chips to dustjacket mainly at head and tail of spine. The dustjacket is somewhat grubby. “Only three people realised it at the time but the takeover battle for Mascot Motors which was to oust labour disp....
First US edition. The book is in good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. The dustjacket is grubby. Some anning to pages. Rough cut leading endges to pages, common in American publications, which are also tanned. The author also writes under the name of Elizabeth Ferrars. A Crime Club Selection. “Martha Crayle’s latest errand of mercy did seem to be h....
UK edition – reprint. “Twenty years after her father’s plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. She recognised the dangers, but her search for the truth about that fateful flight was the only thing that mattered. Without knowing who to trust, Willy turns to ex-army officer turned mercenary Guy Barbard. He know....