FERRARS, ELIZABETH

The Seven Sleepers

London, Constable. 1990. (ISBN: 0094700605). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Constable Crime series. First published in 1970 this is the sixth of the prolific crime author's novels to be reprinted by Constable. Elizabeth Ferrars (1907-1995) is the pseudonym of Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown. The late Professor Garvie-Brown of Edinburgh, it transpired, had murdered seven wives, four bigamously, profiting by each marriage and regarded as a wonderful man by his colleagues. What were his descendants do about this and what particularly ought they do when the Professor's eighth wife, who astonishingly survived him, shows signs of developing a conscience and feels that his descendants should do something for a young man in London, who it has been discovered is the sole surviving grandson of one of his bigamous wives. Luke wants no help but his wealthy relations, a High Court Judge, a doctor and another professor are not sure that blackmail will not surface and Luke and a private detective are drawn into their lives and problems and to an eighth murder. A1B. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 003099

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Edinburgh 0094700605

FINDLEY, FERGUSON

A Handful of Murder

London, Max Reinhardt. 1955, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dilver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally thre is an inscription to front endpaper, some light foxing to closed edges and a little to endpapers else clean and unmarked. Coloured pictorial dustjacket has some chipping at head of spine and is price clipped. A detective fiction and suspense novel by the American writer, featuring a continental rogue, bodies in the shrubbery, blondes, a brunette bound for Barbados, and a collection of thugs in a nightclub. B2B. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001242

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

FITZGERALD, NIGEL

The Day of the Adder

London, Collins Crime Club. 1963. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red boards have part of dustjacket spine stuck to spine else unmarked with no wear. Internally there are remnants of the dustjacket to pastedowns and a cut down of the dustjacket front stuck to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. 256 pages. A Superintendent Duffy of the Irish Civic Guards mystery. Irish actor and crime writer Nigel Fitzgerald (1906-1981) was highly regarded in the genre. B2B. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011307

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Superintendent Duffy, Irish CIVIC Guards

GEORGIADIS, PETER

Quite a Pleasant Journey

Cranbrook, Kent, Circle of Pens. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 095524711X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A murder mystery, based on an actual historical event, set in 1918 towards the end of the Great War, which explores the problems two Plymouth detectives encounter as they investigate an horrific murder. We follow them as they try to capture their suspect whilst engaged with the bureaucracy of the British War Office when Allied forces attempt to obstruct a U-boat haven during a raid on the German controlled Belgian harbours of Zeebrugge and Ostend. 4. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 006802

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Keywords: Great War, Zeebrugge, Ostend, Plymouth Detectives, U-Boats 095524711x

GILL, B.M.

The Fifth Rapunzel

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340549998). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is winner of the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award and has been nominated three time for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awwards. This is her eighth novel and marks the return of Det. Chief Inspector Maybridge. NOT EX LIB 24. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001800

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Keywords: Detective Chief Inspector Maybridge 0340549998

GLASS, AVA

Alias Emma

London, Century. 2022, First. (ISBN: 9781529135886). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmrked copy with As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition Fist Printing. Move fast, stay dark. These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She's been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him in to MI6. It should be easy but the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows that if spotted she and her target will be killed. What follows is a perilous chase through London's night-time streets. But in a city full of cameras where can you hide? Ava Glass is the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011492

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Keywords: Emma Makepeace, Mi6, Spy Fiction 9781529135886

GLEESON, JANET

The Grenadillo Box

London, Bantam. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0593048032). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing This is the author's FIRST NOVEL although she has written on antiques and was responsible for 'Miller's Antiques and Collectibles'. It is a historical novel set in 1755 where a journeyman to the cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale finds himself drawn into a chilling affair when his patron is found shot in his new library. Rich in period detail and a gripping detective story. L. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001792

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Keywords: Historical Fiction, 18th Century London, Thomas Chippendale 0593048032

GRANGER, ANN

An Unfinished Murder - a Campbell and Carter Mystery

London, Headline. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9781472252654). 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. 313 pages. As young children, Josh Browning and his sister, Dilys, stumbled across a dead body while playing on the outskirts of their Cotswold village. Terrified by what they seen, neither of them told a soul. Now, twenty years later, Josh finds the dead woman's charm bracelet among his siter's possessions. Who better to tell than his trusted friend, the man he gardens for, retired Superintendent Alan Markby? As Markby listens to Josh's confession, alarm bells start to ring. The dates and details tie in with a missing person case that was never solved. Joining forces with Superintendent Ian Carter, who also investigated the original case, and Inspector Jess Campbell, from the region where the missing girl was last seen, Markby delves into the unsolved mystery. Together they are determined to catch a clever killer who almost got away with murder.. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011117

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Keywords: Superintendent Alan Markby, Superintendent Ian Carter, Inspector Jess Campbell 9781472252654

GREGSON, J.M.

Merely Players

Sutton, Surrey, Severn House. 2010, First. (ISBN: 9780727869845). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. Adam Cassidy is one of Brunton's most famous residents. He plays the lead role in a successful TV detective show. It is now his time for a crack at Hollywood and he doesn't care who he has to betray in order to fulfil his dream. Meanwhile, DCI Percy Peach is in danger of being drawn into the local anti-terrorism initiative. What he needs is a high-profile murder case to sink his teeth into - and he may be about to get what he wishes for . L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011059

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Keywords: D.C. I. Percy Peach 9780727869845

GRIFFITHS, ELLY

The Vanishing Box - a Stephens and Mephisto Mystery

London, Quercus. 2017, First. (ISBN: 9781784297008). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket whih is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 358 pages. Winter 1953. A young flower seller is found dead in her room at a Brighton boarding house, posed with chilling perfection into a recreation of a famous painting of the death of Lady Jane Grey. This is a killer unlike any DI Edgar Stephens has encountered before. Across the city at the Hippodrome theatre, Max Mephisto is top of the bill in a double act with his daughter Ruby. Tarnishing the experience. though, is one of the other acts: a seedy living tableaux show where barely-dressed women strike poses from famous historical scenes. Is the resemblance to the murder scene pure coincidence or is life imitating art? When another death occurs - this time within the troupe itself - Max once agin finds himself involved in one of Edgar's cases. D4D. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011313

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Di Edgar Stephens, Max Mephisto, Brighton 9781784297008

GRIMSDALE, PETER

Just Watch Me

London, Orion. 2009, First. (ISBN: 9780752890821). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 339 pages. Dan Carter, his wife Sara and their two children are at Gatwick airport, about to get on a plane that will take them on their first holiday as a family. Sar has planned the trip in meticulous detail, but at the check-in desk, Dan finds his passport is missing. Exasperated, he tells them to go ahead and he'll catch up. A few hours later, Dan sees on a newsflash that the plane has gone down over the ocean and with a single blow his life is shattered. But after the first explosion of grief, the questions start to haunt him. Was it an accident his passport disappeared? Did Sara have an agenda? Was he the intended target of a terrorist attack connected to his time as a sniper in Afghanistan or his spell in the security services? As the search for answers sets him on a deadly trailof revenge, Dan realises that the truth may be the last thing he wants to find. 13. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 010909

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Keywords: 9780752890821

HANNAH, SOPHIE

The Monogram Murders - the Brand New Hercule Poirot Mystery

London, Harper Collins. 2014, First. (ISBN: 9780007547418). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. (DJ would be Fine apart from removal of price label from front). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 373 pags. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 noels and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel feturing Dame Agatha's most beloved creation. Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted by a young woman who confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim... Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011489

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Keywords: Hercule Poirot 9780007547418

HARDWICK, MICHAEL

Nightbone

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297798065). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. A vivid tale of vengeance and the sex trade in Victorian London with the hero being Nightbone, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police, a loner, hard but just, both respected and feared. He falls from favour then his downfall is brought about by 'Bailey' Watts, a cunning criminal. Stripped of uniform and authority, he turns for refuge to 'Old Mazurka', a shopkeeper who had lost his daughter to white slavers, and finds himself involved in a quest for revenge, helped by a prostitute, Jenny Jacks, in a race to save yet another innocent girl from the white slave trade. C3B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004872

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Keywords: Murder Mystery, Crime Fiction, Victorian London, White Slave Trade, Sergeant Nightbone 0297798065

HEALD, TIM (EDITED BY)

A Classic English Crime

London, Pavilion. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 1851455493). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy apart from a small ink stamp to front endpaper with dustjacket which is not price clipped. Thirteen stories for the Christie Centenary from the Crime Writers' Association with contributions from Margaret Yorke, David Williams, Julian Symons, Susan Moody, Peter Lovesey, H.R.F. Keating, Tim Heald, Paula Gosling, Celia Dale, Liza Cody, Simon Brett, Robert Barnard, Catherine Aird. D4F. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003023

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: 1851455493

HEATH, MICHAEL

The Albion Conspiracy

Southend on Sea, Essex, Desert Island. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 1905328192). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with dedication 'To Linda All Good Wishes'. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In Switzerland a British tourist dies violently on the ski slopes. In Russia a top scientist conducts cutting-edge research under the scrutiny of the state secret police. In France a world weary detective hunts Arab terrorists bombing the streets of Paris. In England the Special Intelligence Service secretly monitors an international conference of The World Health Organisation. These four apparently unrelated threads converge, and the fly in the web is Alan Russell, a British Government interpreter, whose car collides with another driven by a Russian journalist, the consequences of that collision penetrate the highest ranks of British Intelligence and transform Russell's life. Overtaken by events beyond his control, plunged into the world of international espionage, he has no choice but to participate in The Albion Conspiracy. C3D. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 006801

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Keywords: Espionage Fiction, Murder Mystery, Special Intelligence Service 1905328192