ROBINSON, PETER

All the Colours of Darkness

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 034083692X. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Pictorial endpapers; Inspector Alan Banks #18; 163 X 36 X 240 millimeters; 407 pages; "The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. But further investigation into the sad demise of Mark Hardcastle leads to another corpse, brutally bludgeoned to death. Suddenly the case demands the attention of Chief Inspector Alan Banks, called back from his vacation even though nothing suggests this wasn't a crime of passion followed by remorse and self-destruction. Shocking revelations broaden the inquiry to unexpected places and seats of power. And a stubborn policeman who will not be frightened away could lose everything in one terrifying, explosive instant.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Sonstige Stichworte: 034083692X Alan Banks Fiction::Mystery

ROBINSON, PETER

Children of the Revolution

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771076304. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Inspector Alan Banks; 9.06 X 5.98 X 1.42 inches; 387 pages; "A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into higher gear.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0771076304 alan banks eastvale Fiction::Mystery

ROBINSON, PETER

Cold Is the Grave

Toronto, ON: Viking Penguin Inc, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670893013. Remainder mark bottom page edges is the only flaw ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Inspector Banks Mystery; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 451 pages; "Banks is sent to the capital in search of a missing runaway - with tragic results. DCI Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle asks for his help - for it is well known that Riddle detests Banks but Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and he wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to bring her home without fuss. Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living in luxury with a south London gangster, and at first she refuses to return with him. But when the young girl turns up at Banks' hotel that night, beaten and scared, he is pulled even deeper into events. Especially when three months later - supposedly back safely in the bosom of her family - Emily suffers a gruesome and decidediy suspicious death.". Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Fiction::Mystery::Series

Sonstige Stichworte: 0670893013 Mystery Robinson, Peter Alan Banks Mystery & Thrillers Fiction::Mystery

ROBINSON, PETER

Friend of the Devil

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. First Canadian Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 077107610X. Light edge wear to head & tail of spine; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; Inspector Alan Banks; 9 X 5.90 X 1.30 inches; 376 pages; In Robinson's stunning 17th suspense novel to feature DCI Alan Banks, Banks and his on-again-off-again partner and lover, Det. Insp. Annie Cabbot, race to piece together a string of brutal murders. While on loan to a sister precinct, Cabbot investigates the gruesome death of a paraplegic woman found on a desolate cliff with her throat slit. Back in Eastvale, North Yorkshire, Banks and his team discover the body of a young woman who has been raped and strangled in a shady area of town known as the Maze. At first, there are no obvious connections between the two attacks, but when Cabbot uncovers the chilling identity of the woman on the cliff, she and Banks must once again confront sadistic serial killers Terry and Lucy Payne, last seen in Aftermath (2001).. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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ROBINSON, PETER

Piece of My Heart

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771076096. Only slight wear; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; An Inspector Banks Mystery; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 378 pages; This, the 16th Inspector Banks mystery, a 1969 murder at a rock festival ties in with Alan Banks present day case, the murder of a music journalist who was working on a story about the same band who played at the 1969 festival.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0771076096 Music Rock MYSTERY Fiction::Mystery

ROBINSON, PETER

The Price of Love and Other Stories

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771075448. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.10 inches; 313 pages; "A dozen of the very best mystery stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, including one brand new Inspector Banks story.Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories.Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Sonstige Stichworte: 0771075448 Inspector banks MYSTERY Fiction::Mystery Fiction::Short Stories

ROBINSON, PETER

Watching the Dark

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771076479. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book.; An Inspector Banks Mystery #20; 9.10 X 6.20 X 1.30 inches; 404 pages; DCI Alan Banks is back – and this time he’s investigating the murder of one of his own. A respected officer convalescing at the St. Peter’s Police Treatment Centre, DI Bill Quinn, is killed by a crossbow while on the facility’s tranquil grounds, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos in his room. Soon after, Professional Standards Inspector Joanna Passero arrives in Eastvale and insists on working the case alongside a reluctant Banks, who’s convinced a police officer shouldn’t be deemed guilty without proper evidence.But the more they learn, the more likely it seems that Quinn wasn’t all he was reputed to be, that his murder is linked to another vicious crime in Yorkshire and to a cold case – the disappearance of a nineteen-year-old English girl, Rachel Hewitt, in Estonia six years earlier.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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ROBINSON, PETER

Watching the Dark

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771076479. Light edge wear to dustjacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Inspector Alan Banks #20; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 416 pages; "DCI Alan Banks is back – and this time he’s investigating the murder of one of his own. A respected officer convalescing at the St. Peter’s Police Treatment Centre, DI Bill Quinn, is killed by a crossbow while on the facility’s tranquil grounds, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos in his room. Soon after, Professional Standards Inspector Joanna Passero arrives in Eastvale and insists on working the case alongside a reluctant Banks, who’s convinced a police officer shouldn’t be deemed guilty without proper evidence.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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ROBINSON, PETER

When the Music's over

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2016. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771072678. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Inspector Alan Banks; 9.13 X 6.22 X 1.73 inches; 482 pages; "When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused, and thrown from a moving van -- before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted DSI Alan Banks must do the same -- but the crime Banks is investigating is the coldest of cases. Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused, at the centre of a historical abuse investigation, and it's Banks's first task as superintendent to find the truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence. With his investigation uncovering things from the past that would rather stay hidden, he will be led down a path even darker than the one he set out to investigate .". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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ROYCE, KENNETH

The Miniatures Frame

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0671213504. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, creasing. Previous owner's name sticker inside front board under dj flap. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Inner Sanctum Mystery featuring Spider Scott #3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 19609

Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

Sonstige Stichworte: 0671213504 MYSTERY spider scott Inner Sanctum Mystery

SILVER, MITCH

The Bookworm a Novel

New York: Pegasus Books, 2018. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1681776413. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 292 pages; "Europe, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into a Belgian monastery just before Nazi art thieves plan to whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery’s library and then escapes. London, 2017: A construction worker discovers a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist, all that remains of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket attack. The woman who will put these two disparate events together—and understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to prevent—is Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, “Lara the Bookworm,” to her friends. She’s also experiencing some woeful marital troubles. Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Coward—secretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchill—and understand precisely why that leather Bible played such a pivotal role in turning Hitler's guns to the East. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpart—maverick and dealmaker—and the evil it portends.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

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STONE, HAMPTON

The Needle That Wouldn't Hold Still

New York: Simon & Schuster/Inner Sanctum, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ scuffed with light chipping, small ink spot back panel, small spot lower spine, one inch closed tear top back edge of spine ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Jeremiah X. Gibson mystery; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 208 pages; A Brooklyn-Manhattan mystery, a noir mystery dealing with corruption among city officals and cops their the dealings with the Mob. Eric Marc Stein is the real name of Hampton Stone, another pseudonym is George Bagby. Between all 3 names he managed to write 110 books.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 11344

Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

Sonstige Stichworte: brooklyn Mafia mob noir corruption manhattan Fiction::Mystery

STOUT, REX

Even in the Best Families

London: Collins/Crime Club, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002442132. Light wear to DJ, sticker damage front DJ panel, scuffing. ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; A Nero Wolfe Mystery; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 192 pages; In this novel, the mastermind Zeck is the reason for Nero Wolfe's rare disappearance from his Manhattan town house.. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

Sonstige Stichworte: 0002442132 nero wolfe MYSTERY Fiction::Mystery

WALTERS, MINETTE

Innocent Victims Two Novellas

New York: Mysterious Press, 2012. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 080212612X. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on half-title page. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 7.2 X 5.3 X 1.2 inches; 225 pages; "Innocent Victims contains two chilling novellas about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable. CHICKENFEED is a crackling tale based on the true story of the ‘chicken farm murder’ in East Sussex in 1924. Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his girlfriend, he was tried and hanged for the crime. Told from the points of view of Elsie and Norman, Walters creates a suspenseful tale of fiction based on fact. THE TINDER BOX is the story of Patrick O’Riordan, a man arrested for the brutal murder of two women. As shock turns to fury, the village residents unite against the O’Riordan family. But neighbor Siobhan Lavenham remains convinced that Patrick is innocent. Jeopardizing her own position within the community, she stands firmly in defense of the O’Riordan name.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

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WATSON, GEOFFREY

Black Jack

London: Peter Davies, 1979. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0432191585. DJ shows edge wear, light creasing, corners lightly bumped ; A bright solid, book, DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; This is the author's first book, a mystery. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Buchzahl: 10436

Katalog: Fiction::Mystery

Sonstige Stichworte: 0432191585 British Literature & Fiction MYSTERY Fiction::Mystery