RHEA, NICHOLAS

Garland for a Dead Maiden

Lo2002, Constable. 1841, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the great passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues and when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St. Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. NOT EX LIB C3A. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Fiction, Yorkshire Moorland, Detective Inspector Montague Pluke

RHODES, ELVI

The Merry Month of May

London, Severn House. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727851632). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel of an undercover government spy, Roland Challis, who is sent to the University of Northwell in North Yorkshire, under the guise of being a management consultant, who ends up investigating more than he bargained for. Challis thought that his only task was to find out the secret work of Professor Fletcher but soon becomes involved in the private world of the professor and his secret loves, especially the mysterious and beautiful Norma, but then finds himself in the midst of a brutal murder. Elvi Rhodes (1916-2015) was born in Yorkshire but lived and worked in Rottingdean, Sussex. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery Crime Fiction, Government Spy, Roland Challis, University of Northwell North Yorkshire, Professor Fletcher 0727851632

ROBERTS, DAVID

Hollow Crown

London, Constable. 2002, First. (ISBN: 1841195715). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 309 pages. It is October 1936. Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, to recover certain letters stolen from the King's intimate friend Wallis Simpson. There is no mystery about who has taken these letters - it is known to be Mrs. Raymond Harkness, a former mistress of the King and a close friend of Edward's. So Edward sets off or Haling, the country house of Conservative MP Leo Scannon, where Mrs. Harkness has also been invited. He is far from easy in his mind at the task before him, but he cannot guess that a case of retrieving stolen property is soon to be complicated by murder. Edward is joined by his friend and fellow sleuth Verity Browne, recently returned from the savagery of the Spanish Civil War. Weary and disheartened by the Republican reversals, she welcomes the distraction of helping Edward investigate the murder. L. As New/As New.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Lord Edward Corinth, Verity Browne 1841195715

ROBERTS, DAVID

Something Wicked - a Murder Mystery Featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne

New York, Carroll and Graf. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 0786720484). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US edition. 275 pages. Journalist Verity Browne comes home from an assignment in Prague with suspected tuberculosis. The only cure is deemed to be rest and a healthy diet so her anxious fiance, Lord Edward Corinth, arranges for her to stay at a private clinic in Henley-on-Thames. This is convenient for Edward as he can keep an eye on Verity while investigating the sadistic murder of his dentist, Eric Silver, whose death has a Henley connection. Silver had recently confided in Edward that he suspected three elderly patients of his had been murdered: an old general appeared to have drunk himself to death with a fine bottle of Clos des Mouches, A lady was poisoned by a new insecticide she was trying, and a beekeeper was stung to death by his bees. All three lived near Henley. So Edward goes to stay with an old friend who has just inherited a title and a property in the pretty town on the Thames and begins to follow the trail. His macabre investigation comes to a thrilling climax during the festivities for what many fear will be the last Henley Royal Regatta before the inevitable onset of war. L. As New/As New.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Lord Edward Corinth, Verity Browne, Henley Royal Regatta 0786720484

SCOTT, JACK

A Clutch of Vipers

London, Collins. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002310775). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Detective Sergeant Alfred Stanley Rosher had been demoted by the Force and deserted by his wife - the result was frustration in a desk job, chaos at home and a classified ad for domestic help in the local paper. Oddly enough, on that same July day Mad Frankie Daly, who was setting up a job, also inserted a classified ad in the paper, designed to summon those selected for the enterprise and to warn others to stay clear. The result of this curious coincidence was three deaths and a deal of anguish, for when Mad Frankie saw Rosher's ad, his Irish whimsy was tickled, and he decided to provide his old enemy with a housekeeper with two children and use them to finish off Rosher. NOT EX LIB C3C. Fine/Very Good.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Crime Fiction, Detective Sergeant Alfred Stanley Rosher, Mad Frankie Daly 0002310775

SEE, LISA

Dragon Bones

London, Century. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0712670262). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Printing. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The Chinese American author's novel set in China is a tale of the discovery of an American archaeologist's body and who is just one of many casualties at sites along the Yangzi river. The perpetrators are seeking a key to ultimate power - the Dragon Bones. D4B. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction, Chinese American Author, China, Yangzi River, Archaeologists Murder 0712670262

STRALEY, JOHN

The Music of What Happens

New York, Bantam. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 055309677x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING March 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The Shamus award winning author's novel featuring Investigator Cecil Younger who lives out on the edge - of a continent, of society and lately, it seems, of sanity, based in Sitka, Alaska, a place where civilisation touches on a wilderness of ice and water, where a man can lose his mind in a long winter of danger and doubt. But fresh out of the psych ward, Cecil has it on medical authority that he is not crazy, the problem, aside from his history of substance abuse, is the crack on the head received from the ex-husband of a client. He is advised to avoid stress and conflict but this case involves little else and a custody case turns into murder. A1D. Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery Crime Fiction, Investigator Cecil Younger, Sitka Alaska 055309677x

STRONG, TONY

The Death Pit

London, Doubleday. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385408730). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from usual age toning to page edges) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 351 pages. When young academic Terry Williams goes to a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, she's simply intending to edit the letters of Catherine McCulloch, tortured and burnt as a witch in the 17th century. Then the body of a young woman is found on a local farm, dumped in the death pit amidst a pile of rotting pigs. She is Donna Fairhead, one of a nearby community of Wiccans - modern day witches. As forensic excavation of the death pit throws up yet more horrors, Terry's work on the letters reveals that there may have been more to Catherine's death than anyone had ever imagined. And as the present-day death toll mounts, Terry realises that the identity of the killer may also be part of a three-centuries-old mystery, a mystery whose next victim might well be herself. D4B. Near Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Witch, Wiccans, Scottish Highlands 0385408730

TRIPP, MILES

Deadly Ordeal

London, Severn House. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0727854747). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further novel featuring the private detective John Samson, who is handing over the agency to his younger partner Shandy, when on the night before the handover, Shandy's daughter is raped and she catches sight of a black man with one of his fingers missing. However he is a witness but is too scared to come forward at a time of racial hatred in inner city London. NOT EX LIB 2. Fine/Fine.

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Buchzahl: 003332

Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery Crime Fiction, Private Detective John Samson 0727854747

TYLER, L.C.

The Herring in the Library

London, Macmillan. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780230714687). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 277 pages. When literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle is invited to accompany crime-writer Ethelred Tressider to dinner at Muntham Court, she is looking forward to sneering at his posh friends. What she is not expecting is that, half way through the evening, her host will be found strangled in his locked study. Since there is no way that a murderer could have escaped, the police conclude that Sir Robert Muntham has killed himself. A distraught Lady Muntham, however, asks Ethelred to conduct his own investigation. Ethelred, ably hindered by Elsie, sets out to resolve a classic 'locked room' mystery. Another ingenious outing for crime fiction's most mismatched double-act. L. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Locked Room Mystery, Ethelred Tressider, Elsie Thirkettle 9780230714687

WARD, SARAH

The Shrouded Path - a Dc Childs Mystery

London, Faber and Faber. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9780571332410). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine (Fine apart from a very small light mark to closed fore edge) else unmarked with Fine dustjacket wich is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 391 Pages. November 1957 - Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five reappear on the other side. October 2017 - Feverishly fixated on a childhood friend, Mina's dying mother makes a plea - 'Find Valerie'. DC Connie Childs - off balance after her last big case - is partnered with a new arrival to Bampton, DC Peter Dahl. Following up on what seems like a routine death by natural causes, DC Childs' old instincts kick in, pointing her right back to one cold evening in 1957. As Connie starts to broaden her enquiries, the investigation begins to move increasingly close to home. D4B. Near Fine/Fine.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Dc Childs Mystery 9780571332410

WHITE, KATE

A Body to Die for

New York, Warner. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0446531480). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further murder mystery featuring Bailey Wiggins, crime reporter and sleuth, who whilst at an elegant spa, discovers a corpse wrapped mummy style in a treatment room and suddenly her time-out is transformed into a full-tilt murder investigation, and now she's dealing with a list of suspects dirtier than a mud bath; a spurned lover, a shady husband and a group of employees who seem to be hiding something. Desperate to help her mother's friend, the owner of the spa, Bailey finds herself chasing clues across state lines just as another death sweeps her into the sights of a vicious killer, and this time, the body in the mud could be her own. C3D. Fine/Fine.

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Buchzahl: 004742

Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery Fiction, Bailey Wiggins 0446531480

WINSPEAR, JACQUELINE

Leaving Everything Most Loved

New York, Harper Collins. 2013, First. (ISBN: 9780062049605). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 339 pages. London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. L. As New/As New.

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Buchzahl: 011069

Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Maisie Dobbs 9780062049605

WINSPEAR, JACQUELINE

Messenger of Truth - a Maisie Dobbs Mystery

London, John Murray. 2006. (ISBN: 0719567378). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. Second impression. The remarkable Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, returns to investigate the mysterious death of an artist, Nick Bassington-Hope, in London in 1931. After her brother's death from a fall, Georgina Bassington-Hope, who believes he was murdered, engages Maisie and the case soon takes her from the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent to the dark underbelly of London's art world. C3A. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery, Kent, London Art World 0719567378

WRIGHT, ERIC

Buried in Stone

London, Harper Collins. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002325713). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The English born Canadian author's crime novel featuring ex-cop Mel Pickett, Charlie Salter's old colleague, who finds his peace shattered by the discovery of a body in the woods near his home. Another witty novel from the author that will keep you guessing right to the end. B2C. Fine/Near Fine.

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Buchzahl: 003414

Katalog: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Murder Mystery Crime Fiction, Ex Cop Mel Pickett 0002325713