BRETT, SIMON

The Torso in the Town - a Fethering Mystery

New York, Berkley Prime Crime. 2002, First. (ISBN: 0425185028). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjaket which is not price clipped. First US Edition First Printing. 340 pages. In the historic village of Fedborough Jude attends a dinner party for the new owners of Pelling House. But an uninvited guest - in the form of a mummified , armless and legless torso - has crashed the party. There's no telling how long the dead body has been in the cellar, or even who it once was. Intrigued with the new mystery on her hands Jude elicits Carole's help to solve the case - and hopefully snap Carole out of her growing depression from a recent failed relationship. Their detective work soon uncovers that Pelling House's previous owners include two divorced couples who harbor a lot of resentment and may be harboring some dark secrets as well. D4E. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011109

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Fethering Mystery 0425185028

BUTLER, GWENDOLINE

Coffin Knows the Answer

London, Allison and Busby. 2002, First. (ISBN: 0749005424). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 187 pages. With his wife, the acclaimed actress Stella Pinero, away on a movie shoot in Scotland, Chief Commander John Coffin is at a bit of a loose end with just the cat and dog for company. But one morning, as he checks through the mail for his wife, he gets a rather unpleasant surprise: horrific pictures of badly abused children sent anonymously to Stella. Rather than worry his wife, he vows to track down the culprit and calls in a trusted colleague, DCI Phoebe Astley, to assist him in his inquiries. As they investigate Stella's stalker, another serious problem faces the detectives of the Second City of London. Several young girls have been murdered in Spinnergate with distinct and brutal similarities between the cases. Is there a serial killer on the loose? What is the connection to Stella Pinero, or is it all coincidence? As the investigations get closer to each other in focus, Coffin starts to feel that there are very personal motives at play as his wife's tormentor racks up the tension. When excavations near St Luke's unearth a chilling secret buried in the grounds of Stella's theater, John feels the net closing around those nearest to him and must act quickly or risk losing all that he holds dear. D4A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011100

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: 0749005424

BUTLER, J.L.

Mine

London, HarperCollins. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9780008262419). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 424 pages. Francine Day is a high-flying lawyer about to apply for silk, ambitious and brilliant. She just needs one headline grabing client to seal her place as Queen's Counsel..Martin Joy, a high profile divorce case. The attraction is instant. Obsessive. They embark on a secret affair and Francine thinks she can hold it together. But then Martin's wife, Donna, goes missing and Martin is the prime suspect. As the case unravels so does Francine, because the last person to see Donna Joy alive, was her. D4F. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011118

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: 9780008262419

CARR, JOHN DICKSON

Till Death Do Us Part

Berne, Alfred Scherz. 1946. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Card covers have age darkening with hardly any wear. Internally there is age darkening to page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. 220 pages. Scherz Phoenix Books volume 45. Very good condition considering its age. First published in 1944 this is a scarce early printing. 'Dick Markham is engaged to a beautiful but somewhat mysterious young woman named Lesley Grant. When they attend a cricket match in the English village of Six Ashes, they stop at the nearby fair and Lesley insists on seeing the fortune teller. She is apparently unaware that the fortune teller is being played by Sir Harvey Gilman, the Home Office pathologist and expert on crime. After her session, Dick visits Sir Harvey. The crime expert is about to tell his visitor something unpleasant about Lesley when he is shot and wounded, accidentally it seems, by Lesley herself. Later that night, Sir Harvey tells Dick that he recognized Lesley as a murderer who killed three husbands but was never convicted . because she somehow got the men to inject themselves with poison. Later that night, Sir Harvey dies in a locked and sealed room, in the exact same fashion as the three husbands.The famed Dr. Gideon Fell is called in to assist the investigation, and what he says after simply seeing the corpse turns the whole case upside down. The brilliant sleuth knows he is on the trail of a cunning killer with a hidden motive, but his cryptic comments leave everyone else baffled. As Fell unravels the clues, including a set of drawing pins found scattered beside the body, the murderer strikes again. Meanwhile, a desperate Dick Markham can't help wondering whether Lesley is a woman in grave danger or a threat to his life.' NOT EX LIB 50. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010226

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Dr. Gideon Fell, Locked Room Mystery

CLEEVE, BRIAN

Assignment to Vengeance

London, The Thriller Book Club. 1962. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with some very minor small indentations to edges. Internally there is a strip of age darkening to endpapers and some light foxing to top edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has minimal wear. 15 years after the end of World War II the hunt for Nazi leaders still goes on, most have been accounted for, but suppose one of them - a man who had been very close to Hitler - were to reappear? Might he not become a figurehead for neo-Nazism? What would such a man have become in 15 years of hiding? What could he do when the hunt began to close in on him: a double-hunt, of old enemies and new would-be followers? The story offers a fast-moving and unexpected answer. C3D. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007093

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Hitler, Neo-Nazism

COUSINS, E.G.

Murder in the Top Drawer

London, John Gifford. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. TRUE FIRST EDITION Silver title on blue boards which are clean with some light marks but no wear. Internally there are a few spots of light foxing to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. The author is Edmund George Cousins (1893-1996 ) a British crime writer. A New Year's Eve party at a Lieutenant-General's home in Norfolk - the investigation of a young Army Captain's Court Martial in Rome - these were the apparently unrelated circumstances that merged together and involved Colonel Richard Barne of the War Office in a chain of adventures which nearly culminated in his disgrace and death, and in the course of which two murders in high places were exposed. NOT BOOK CLUB B2B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011298

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Colonel Richard Barne of the War Office

CROMBIE, DEBORAH

Dreaming of the Bones

London, Macmillan. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333717325). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Dr Victoria McClellan, English Fellow at All Saint's College, Cambridge, is writing a biography of the talented but tortured poet Lydia Brooke, five years after Brooke's tragic suicide. Victoria does not believe it was suicide, so, for the first time in eleven years, she calls her ex-husband, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to ask for help in proving Lydia was murdered. A beautifully crafted narrative that weaves between the present day, the era of the Edwardian Neo-Pagans and the scandalous sixties. NOT EX LIB D4B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 005064

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Murder Mystery, Crime Thriller, Dr. Victoria Mcclellan, Lydia Brooke, Superintendent Kincaid, Edwardian Neo-Pagans 0333717325

DEWAR, EVELYN

A Dying Business

London, Geoffrey Bles. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 071380890x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked with light foxing to closed edges. Dustjacket has some repaired tears and wear to edges and is not price clipped. A thriller of a war correspondent who has to go to Brussels to find an American General and soon finds himself embroiled in a international military scandal. SCARCE 24. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 002469

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Nato, Military Secrets, 071380890x

DICKINSON, DAVID

Death Called to the Bar - a Murder Mystery Featuring Lord Francis Powerscourt

London, Constable. 2006, First. (ISBN: 1845291298). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 247 pages. In 1902, Queen's Inn is the youngest and most fashionable of London's Inns of Court. On 28th February, at a Queen's feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon afterwards, his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to resolve the matter of the murdered barristers. The investigation takes him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the dead reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to the heart of a troubled marriage where the lack of children imperils everything. And it takes him to Calne, a mysterious house in the country where the past is boarded up and the treasures of generations lie hidden beneath dustsheets. Powerscourt, with a list of suspects that includes a jelous wife, a mistress fearful of being jilted, a work colleague beaten to the senior role in the Inn and a cuckolded husband who writes books about poisons, pursues the murderer through an increasingly dangerous spiral of events. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011062

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Lord Francis Powerscourt 1845291298

DOODY, MARGARET

Aristotle Detective

New York, Harper & Row. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0060110864). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. The Canadian born author, educated in England and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley presents her FIRST NOVEL. A murder mystery set in ancient Athens in 332 BC, written with wit it is a revealing whodunnit ending in a dramatic trial scene where Aristotle reveals the how and why. NOT EX LIB 3. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003701

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Historical Murder Mystery Fiction, Canadian Author, Athens 332 Bc, Aristotle 0060110864

DUNN, CAROLA

The Bloody Tower - a Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

New York, St. Martin's Minotaur. 2007, First. (ISBN: 9780312363062). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to the closed fore edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. In early 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - The Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Ravenmaster, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied, due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher assigned to resolve the case, Daisy finds herself in the middle of the investigation. L. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011065

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery 9780312363062

DUNN, CAROLA

Heirs of the Body - a Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

New York, Minotaur. 2013, First. (ISBN: 9780312675493). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 292 pages. In the late 1920's in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar, Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out the proper heir to the viscountcy and the estate. With the help of the family lawyer, who advertises Empire-wide, they have come up with four potential claimants. For his fiftieth birthday, Edgar invites those would-be heirs - along with Daisy and the rest of the family - to Fairacres, the family estate. In the meantime, Daisy is asked to be the family's representative at the lawyer's interviews with the claimants. The four potential heirs reside in every corner of the world and come from all walks of society. However, one of them seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth - whether permanently or not, no one knows. While the various claims are still being evaluated, the other three descend upon Fairacres, where a series of unfortunate axcidents begin to occur. But are they really accidents, or is someone trying to eliminate the competition while there's still time? With the help of her husband, Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher, Daisy must uncover the truth and find the rightful heir before its too late. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011060

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Daisy Dalrymple 9780312675493

EBERHART, MIGNON G.

Another Man's Murder

New York, Random House. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gold title and black motif on grey boards which are clean and unmarked with a little bumping to lower edge and more to one corner tip. Internally clean and tight with just a few light spots to fore edge. Dustjacket by Paul Galdone is not price clipped, has some wear to edges and back, marks to front and spine, a crease to front and is not price clipped - Good+. The TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING by the American crime writer (NOT THE UK COLLINS CRIME CLUB EDITION). A taut story of a killer on the loose, determined to murder again to hide his first crime, is played out against an exotic background of orange groves and graceful old mansions in the Florida Lake country. Mignon Good Eberhart (1899-1996) was an American author of mystery novels whose work ranged from 1929 to 1988 with many being filmed. In 1971, she was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award and in 1994 received the Agatha Award: Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement. B2E. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005392

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Murder Mystery Fiction, American Crime Fiction, Florida Setting

ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.

Sweet Women Lie - an Amos Walker Mystery

Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0395537673). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. TRUE FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING. 193 pages. The tenth in the Amos Walker Mystery series. The Motor City's toughest gumshoe is back on the case in this explosive tale of reunion and retribution. The sudden reappearance of Walker's ex-wife stirs more than bittersweet memories, plunging the sleuth into a dangerous web of trust and betrayal. Caught in the net are Gail Hope, a washed-up sixties siren with as much in the way of smarts as she has sex appeal; Bill Sahara, a CIA operative and 'counterassassin' with a tie to Walker's history; and Frank 'Papa' Usher, a government killer with a legend all his own. Their lethal desires are carried out by enough hard-hitting players to take Walker out of the game - for good. D4A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008858

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Amos Walker, Detroit Private Detective 0395537673

EVERSON, COLIN

The Second Victim

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0863327974). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A compelling crime thriller which tells of a young couple, who turn detective after stumbling across a grisly accident on the way to the opera. They leave their safe, respectable worlds far behind when their investigations lead them to the criminal underworld of pornography, blackmail, gun toting thugs - and murder. Set in the London and Sussex of the 1960's. B2B. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 006104

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Crime Fiction, 1960's London and Sussex 0863327974