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	ADAMS, SYLVIA / REF : CHARLEY LUCKEY Charley Luckey in Leeds County - Canada's Murder Mystery of 1892 - This Weather of Hangmen - Toronto: General Pub, 1996. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9" 189618264X Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... feltpen line bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ...268 pages ... This is written as a novel ... It is actually of a spectacular and horrendous True crime ... But was it murder ? ... Did Charley Luckey copy Lizzie Borden ? ... Would investigator Greer - disciple of The Great Detective, John Wilson Murray - solve Canada's famous mystery of 1892 ? ... James Luckey and his whole family ... wife Martha and daughter Mary Ann, are found killed in their farmhouse at Newbliss Ontario ... Son Charles, fresh out of prison is known by the local townspeople to have been on bad terms with his father and step-mother ... Was that him who was seen in the area on the night of the awful murders? ... The author exploits her unique knowledge of historic Leeds County, the internal workings of a Crown Attorney's office and the ways of the legal profession ... Author Sylvia Adams has produced a thoroughly good read and a remarkable portrayal of rural Ontario , outside Toronto, a century ago ... "This Weather of Hangmen " ... by Sylvia Adams ... published by General Publishing, Toronto *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5243 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ADAMS , IAN - SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED S Portrait of a Spy - Rcmp Intelligence , the Inside Story - By Ian Adams - Signed Toronto: Gage Pub, 1977. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-3/4 x 9 " 077159354X Signed by Author Hardcover in DJ imported from Toronto ... Signed / Autographed by author ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... tiny bits edge marks to turquoise jacket & board corner , not as noticeable inside new sleeve ... Unread.... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Signature says : For Barbara - Ian Adams - Oct / 86 , in ink , on the inside title page ... Turquoise cloth over boards with gold gilt impressed title , in matching turquoise jacket ... 176 pages ... all in English only ... Inspector DV of the RCMP - the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - said , at the height of the cold war : " In 25 years the R.C.M.P. has caught only one illegal - real - spy ... Not a hell of a lot to brag about is it ? " ... Was this poor record of 'spy-catching' connected with the mysterious " S " ... the former director of RCMP Security Services ? ... Is it possible that S himself was a double ... or even a triple ... agent ? ... Why was he quietly let go with his pension , after a top-level investigation by the Canadian government ? ... Could S have been the mysterious " Fourth Man " , in the Burgess - MacLean - Philby matter ? ... In pursuit of the truth , author Ian Adams follows the trail of the brilliant mystery person known as " S " ... from Chile ... where an RCMP officer has accidentally disclosed information ... to Australia .. and then to Canada ... It is during this investigation that Adams becomes more and more obsessed with S , as a portrait of the man is given by his exotic mistress ... as well as by his fellow workers , and by government officials ... What also emerges is the intriguing ... and disturbing ... inner secret workings of RCMP intelligence ... Ian Adams was born to Belgian Congo missionary parents in Tanzania , Africa in what became known as Zaire ... Ian Adams emigrated to Canada , all alone , as a teenager , from his native Africa , after being raised in Africa , in Great Britain and in Pakistan ... In the 1960s he wrote for daily newspapers in Toronto, Winnipeg & Montreal, and became a war reporter for Maclean's Magazine , travelling extensively in Vietnam during the height of the war ... as well as in Latin America , and in the Middle East ... In 1977 his first novel S Portrait of a Spy became a huge controversial best seller ... so controversial , that Adams was sued for libel by the former head of the Russian Desk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service ... and he became the only novelist in the free world ever ordered to court to reveal his sources for a novel ... His defence became such a cause celebre amongst writers and artists across Canada and the United States, that the case was eventually setteled out of court ... He has written several thrilling novels ... as well as movie screenplays and numerous scripts for television ... " S - Portrait of a Spy - RCMP Intelligence - The Inside Story " ... by Ian Adams ... published by Gage Publishing, Toronto 1977 ... in English only ... Third Printing Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Autographed / Signed by the author in 1986 *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 40.00** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 5269 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ANSCOMBE, RODERICK Secret Life of Laszlo , Count Dracula , the . . . By Roderick Anscombe . . . First Edition London: Bloomsbury, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0747517797 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ...409 pages ... ' A stunning reinvention of the Dracula myth ; a compelling story of evil, madness, and twisted sexuality ' ... There have never been vampires ... only tortured human beings ... is the theory of a psychiatrist in this novel, who sets out to create the 19th century memoirs of Laszlo, a Vampire ... whose murderous story beings at medical school in Paris ... with a deadly attraction to a patient .... " The Secret Life of Laszlo , Count Dracula " ... by Roderick Anscombe ... published by Bloomsbury , London ... 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7056] Book number: 2248 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HOCKENBERRY, JOHN River out of Eden, a - Novel of the Columbia River & the Chinook People of the Pacific Northwest - By John Hockenberry New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1-1/4" 0385494254 2001 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 364 pages ... This is a hefty book, over 6 x 9 " size, more than 1" thick, weighing 1-1/2 pounds ... A thrilling novel of the places and people of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest ... with real history of the Columbia River Basin woven in ... from ancient times to the modern era ... the displacement of Pacific Northwest tribes ... salmon hatcheries and federal dams ... nuclear power development along the mighty river that explorers Lewis & Clark and many others had sailed ... and modern white supremacist groups ... who didn't want the natives or anyone else 'of color' , in their territorial ancestrial lands ... A Chinook warrior ... a white supremacist radio shock jock ... the salmon are endangered by the damming of the Columbia River, and the Native people and their traditions are dying out ... Francine Smohalla is a marine biologist in charge of the salmon hatchery at the Bonneville Dam complex. Half-white and half native, from the Chinook Indian, she lives in two worlds ... " A River Out of Eden " ... by John Hockenberry ... published by Doubleday , New York ... 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 3013 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HORNIG, DOUG Deep Dive - the Fourth Mysterious Press Novel in the Loren Swift Series - By Doug Hornig New York: Mysterious Press 1988, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0892962577 1988 Hardcover in DJ First Edition , First Printing ... Very Good Plus ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 264 pages ... " Deep Dive " ... The fourth Mystery Novel in the Loren Swift series ... by Doug Hornig ... published by Mysterious Press , New York ... 1988 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Nice Clean Gift giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 20.00** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1349 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KIMBER, STEPHEN Reparations - a Legal Thriller Novel , of a Poor But Vibrant Black Community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, & the Social Fallout Resulting from Its Destruction Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 9" 0002005646 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen line bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 399 pages ... in English only ... Jacket protected in New, clear mylar sleeve ... Leonard Hill, author of Any Known Blood , says of this book " Canadians have waited too long for an energetic, ambitious, multi-layered novel aout the historic black community of Africville, but they need wait no longer ... Stephen Kimber has delivered, big time ... 'Reparations' is ... bold, outrageous, and dangerous ... Told with insight and wit, it resurrects one of Canada's most important but neglected stories - the life of a poor but vibrant black community in Halifax , and the social fallout resulting from its destruction." ..." Reparations " ... by Stephen Kimber ... published by HarperCollins, Toronto ... 2006 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. NEW/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 5708 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NASH, JAY ROBERT /REF : EARLE LEONARD NELSON Dark Fountain, the - a Novel of Horror , Based on the True Mass Murders By Serial Killer " Reverend " Earle Leonard Nelson , Aka " the Gorilla Killer " New York: AW Pub, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0894791028 1982 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Very Good condition ... Nice & Clean , with Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... light shelf rubbing to dj, not noticeable inside New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 298 pages ... Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission ... The Lamb of God, in fact ... divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin ... But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo ... and ultimately into Canada ... during the 1920s ... assumed grisly proportions ... the brutal strangling & viloation of 22 helpless & unsuspecting women ... Landladies mostly ... but each, in Nelson's deranged mind, an incarnation of the Biblical harlots he both loathed & coveted ... Earle Leonard Nelson , aka " The Gorilla Killer " , actually lived ... and killed .... In this book ... famed crime historian Jay Robert Nash tells how ... & why ... with chilling realism .... " The Dark Fountain " ... A Novel of Horror ... by Jay Robert Nash ... based on the true mass murders of serial killer " Reverend " Earle Leonard Nelson ... published by A&W Books, New York 1982 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Nice clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 15.00** [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1037 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PELECANOS, GEORGE P. Soul Circus London: Orion, 2003. First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 " 075285190X 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 352 pages ... There is no such thing as absolute darkness in the ghettos of Washington DC, just a myriad shades of grey ... Thus Derek Strange finds himself trying to prevent a man he despises from paying the ultimate penalty for his crimes ... Granville Oliver - local drug lord and murder one suspect - faces the death penalty ... But Strange deosn't believe in old testament 'justice', or a death for a death - even for a man such as Oliver ... And he finds it tough to distinguish between the slaying of a gangbanger with an illegal 'straw' gun ' and the state-sanctioned execution of his killer ... But, unbeknownst to Strange, he and his partner, Terry Quinn, become the agents of another death ... A client brutally murders a young girl whom they had been paid to find ... They took the money and now they have to take the consequences ... Meanwhile, with Oliver off the streets, a new gang war is brewing fast ... And that's the bitterest irony of all ... However much the establishment would like to execute young gangbusters, they will never be as good at it as the angry young men themselves ... " Soul Circus " ... by George P. Pelecanos.... published by Orion, London 2003 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6087 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WHITE, STUART Til the Fat Lady Sings - a Novel , By Stuart White London: Blake, 1992. 1992 Later Printing. Soft Cover. 4 x 7 " 1857820045 1992 Softcover , later printing. Brand new from publisher. Never opened , Never owned , Never marked . Gift Giving quality. 309 pages. Bianca is darkly beautiful. She has a glittering career, she's famous, she's rich, and she has friends in high places. But Bianca has a deadly secret ... Nick Carter is an international journalist, who is close to the edge. And he knows Bianca's secret ... When Bianca and Nick's lives collide the shock waves whirl from Buckingham Palace to Washington. From the killing fields of Nicaragua, to the green leather front benches of the House of Commons, from the sultry beaches of Hawaii to the silky bedrooms of Paris, the action crackles like gunfire, the sex is as fierce as a blazing forest. And, just when your heart stops racing, the story explodes in your face like a hand-grenade. For in the nerve-tingling excitement you forgot - didn't you? It ain't EVER over ... 'til the fat lady sings. " 'Til the Fat Lady SIngs " published by Blake, London. 1992 Softcover *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5902 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	ADAMS, SYLVIA / REF : CHARLEY LUCKEY Charley Luckey in Leeds County - Canada's Murder Mystery of 1892 - This Weather of Hangmen - Toronto: General Pub, 1996. First. Soft Cover. 6 x 9" 189618264X Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... feltpen line bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ...268 pages ... This is written as a novel ... It is actually of a spectacular and horrendous True crime ... But was it murder ? ... Did Charley Luckey copy Lizzie Borden ? ... Would investigator Greer - disciple of The Great Detective, John Wilson Murray - solve Canada's famous mystery of 1892 ? ... James Luckey and his whole family ... wife Martha and daughter Mary Ann, are found killed in their farmhouse at Newbliss Ontario ... Son Charles, fresh out of prison is known by the local townspeople to have been on bad terms with his father and step-mother ... Was that him who was seen in the area on the night of the awful murders? ... The author exploits her unique knowledge of historic Leeds County, the internal workings of a Crown Attorney's office and the ways of the legal profession ... Author Sylvia Adams has produced a thoroughly good read and a remarkable portrayal of rural Ontario , outside Toronto, a century ago ... "This Weather of Hangmen " ... by Sylvia Adams ... published by General Publishing, Toronto *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5243 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ADAMS , IAN - SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED S Portrait of a Spy - Rcmp Intelligence , the Inside Story - By Ian Adams - Signed Toronto: Gage Pub, 1977. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-3/4 x 9 " 077159354X Signed by Author Hardcover in DJ imported from Toronto ... Signed / Autographed by author ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... tiny bits edge marks to turquoise jacket & board corner , not as noticeable inside new sleeve ... Unread.... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Signature says : For Barbara - Ian Adams - Oct / 86 , in ink , on the inside title page ... Turquoise cloth over boards with gold gilt impressed title , in matching turquoise jacket ... 176 pages ... all in English only ... Inspector DV of the RCMP - the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - said , at the height of the cold war : " In 25 years the R.C.M.P. has caught only one illegal - real - spy ... Not a hell of a lot to brag about is it ? " ... Was this poor record of 'spy-catching' connected with the mysterious " S " ... the former director of RCMP Security Services ? ... Is it possible that S himself was a double ... or even a triple ... agent ? ... Why was he quietly let go with his pension , after a top-level investigation by the Canadian government ? ... Could S have been the mysterious " Fourth Man " , in the Burgess - MacLean - Philby matter ? ... In pursuit of the truth , author Ian Adams follows the trail of the brilliant mystery person known as " S " ... from Chile ... where an RCMP officer has accidentally disclosed information ... to Australia .. and then to Canada ... It is during this investigation that Adams becomes more and more obsessed with S , as a portrait of the man is given by his exotic mistress ... as well as by his fellow workers , and by government officials ... What also emerges is the intriguing ... and disturbing ... inner secret workings of RCMP intelligence ... Ian Adams was born to Belgian Congo missionary parents in Tanzania , Africa in what became known as Zaire ... Ian Adams emigrated to Canada , all alone , as a teenager , from his native Africa , after being raised in Africa , in Great Britain and in Pakistan ... In the 1960s he wrote for daily newspapers in Toronto, Winnipeg & Montreal, and became a war reporter for Maclean's Magazine , travelling extensively in Vietnam during the height of the war ... as well as in Latin America , and in the Middle East ... In 1977 his first novel S Portrait of a Spy became a huge controversial best seller ... so controversial , that Adams was sued for libel by the former head of the Russian Desk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service ... and he became the only novelist in the free world ever ordered to court to reveal his sources for a novel ... His defence became such a cause celebre amongst writers and artists across Canada and the United States, that the case was eventually setteled out of court ... He has written several thrilling novels ... as well as movie screenplays and numerous scripts for television ... " S - Portrait of a Spy - RCMP Intelligence - The Inside Story " ... by Ian Adams ... published by Gage Publishing, Toronto 1977 ... in English only ... Third Printing Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Autographed / Signed by the author in 1986 *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 40.00** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 5269 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	ANSCOMBE, RODERICK Secret Life of Laszlo , Count Dracula , the . . . By Roderick Anscombe . . . First Edition London: Bloomsbury, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0747517797 1994 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ...409 pages ... ' A stunning reinvention of the Dracula myth ; a compelling story of evil, madness, and twisted sexuality ' ... There have never been vampires ... only tortured human beings ... is the theory of a psychiatrist in this novel, who sets out to create the 19th century memoirs of Laszlo, a Vampire ... whose murderous story beings at medical school in Paris ... with a deadly attraction to a patient .... " The Secret Life of Laszlo , Count Dracula " ... by Roderick Anscombe ... published by Bloomsbury , London ... 1994 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7056] Book number: 2248 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HOCKENBERRY, JOHN River out of Eden, a - Novel of the Columbia River & the Chinook People of the Pacific Northwest - By John Hockenberry New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 x 1-1/4" 0385494254 2001 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 364 pages ... This is a hefty book, over 6 x 9 " size, more than 1" thick, weighing 1-1/2 pounds ... A thrilling novel of the places and people of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest ... with real history of the Columbia River Basin woven in ... from ancient times to the modern era ... the displacement of Pacific Northwest tribes ... salmon hatcheries and federal dams ... nuclear power development along the mighty river that explorers Lewis & Clark and many others had sailed ... and modern white supremacist groups ... who didn't want the natives or anyone else 'of color' , in their territorial ancestrial lands ... A Chinook warrior ... a white supremacist radio shock jock ... the salmon are endangered by the damming of the Columbia River, and the Native people and their traditions are dying out ... Francine Smohalla is a marine biologist in charge of the salmon hatchery at the Bonneville Dam complex. Half-white and half native, from the Chinook Indian, she lives in two worlds ... " A River Out of Eden " ... by John Hockenberry ... published by Doubleday , New York ... 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. New/New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 3013 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HORNIG, DOUG Deep Dive - the Fourth Mysterious Press Novel in the Loren Swift Series - By Doug Hornig New York: Mysterious Press 1988, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0892962577 1988 Hardcover in DJ First Edition , First Printing ... Very Good Plus ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 264 pages ... " Deep Dive " ... The fourth Mystery Novel in the Loren Swift series ... by Doug Hornig ... published by Mysterious Press , New York ... 1988 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Nice Clean Gift giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 20.00** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1349 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KIMBER, STEPHEN Reparations - a Legal Thriller Novel , of a Poor But Vibrant Black Community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, & the Social Fallout Resulting from Its Destruction Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6 x 9" 0002005646 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen line bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 399 pages ... in English only ... Jacket protected in New, clear mylar sleeve ... Leonard Hill, author of Any Known Blood , says of this book " Canadians have waited too long for an energetic, ambitious, multi-layered novel aout the historic black community of Africville, but they need wait no longer ... Stephen Kimber has delivered, big time ... 'Reparations' is ... bold, outrageous, and dangerous ... Told with insight and wit, it resurrects one of Canada's most important but neglected stories - the life of a poor but vibrant black community in Halifax , and the social fallout resulting from its destruction." ..." Reparations " ... by Stephen Kimber ... published by HarperCollins, Toronto ... 2006 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... *. NEW/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 5708 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NASH, JAY ROBERT /REF : EARLE LEONARD NELSON Dark Fountain, the - a Novel of Horror , Based on the True Mass Murders By Serial Killer " Reverend " Earle Leonard Nelson , Aka " the Gorilla Killer " New York: AW Pub, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0894791028 1982 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Very Good condition ... Nice & Clean , with Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... light shelf rubbing to dj, not noticeable inside New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 298 pages ... Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission ... The Lamb of God, in fact ... divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin ... But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo ... and ultimately into Canada ... during the 1920s ... assumed grisly proportions ... the brutal strangling & viloation of 22 helpless & unsuspecting women ... Landladies mostly ... but each, in Nelson's deranged mind, an incarnation of the Biblical harlots he both loathed & coveted ... Earle Leonard Nelson , aka " The Gorilla Killer " , actually lived ... and killed .... In this book ... famed crime historian Jay Robert Nash tells how ... & why ... with chilling realism .... " The Dark Fountain " ... A Novel of Horror ... by Jay Robert Nash ... based on the true mass murders of serial killer " Reverend " Earle Leonard Nelson ... published by A&W Books, New York 1982 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Nice clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 15.00** [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 1037 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PELECANOS, GEORGE P. Soul Circus London: Orion, 2003. First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 " 075285190X 2003 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 352 pages ... There is no such thing as absolute darkness in the ghettos of Washington DC, just a myriad shades of grey ... Thus Derek Strange finds himself trying to prevent a man he despises from paying the ultimate penalty for his crimes ... Granville Oliver - local drug lord and murder one suspect - faces the death penalty ... But Strange deosn't believe in old testament 'justice', or a death for a death - even for a man such as Oliver ... And he finds it tough to distinguish between the slaying of a gangbanger with an illegal 'straw' gun ' and the state-sanctioned execution of his killer ... But, unbeknownst to Strange, he and his partner, Terry Quinn, become the agents of another death ... A client brutally murders a young girl whom they had been paid to find ... They took the money and now they have to take the consequences ... Meanwhile, with Oliver off the streets, a new gang war is brewing fast ... And that's the bitterest irony of all ... However much the establishment would like to execute young gangbusters, they will never be as good at it as the angry young men themselves ... " Soul Circus " ... by George P. Pelecanos.... published by Orion, London 2003 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. New/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6087 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WHITE, STUART Til the Fat Lady Sings - a Novel , By Stuart White London: Blake, 1992. 1992 Later Printing. Soft Cover. 4 x 7 " 1857820045 1992 Softcover , later printing. Brand new from publisher. Never opened , Never owned , Never marked . Gift Giving quality. 309 pages. Bianca is darkly beautiful. She has a glittering career, she's famous, she's rich, and she has friends in high places. But Bianca has a deadly secret ... Nick Carter is an international journalist, who is close to the edge. And he knows Bianca's secret ... When Bianca and Nick's lives collide the shock waves whirl from Buckingham Palace to Washington. From the killing fields of Nicaragua, to the green leather front benches of the House of Commons, from the sultry beaches of Hawaii to the silky bedrooms of Paris, the action crackles like gunfire, the sex is as fierce as a blazing forest. And, just when your heart stops racing, the story explodes in your face like a hand-grenade. For in the nerve-tingling excitement you forgot - didn't you? It ain't EVER over ... 'til the fat lady sings. " 'Til the Fat Lady SIngs " published by Blake, London. 1992 Softcover *. New . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5902 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.