AMBROSE, DAVID

Superstition

London, Macmillan. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333682645). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine copy which has a small indentation to lower closed edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel of a female investigative journalist who, intrigued by a psychologist's claim that paranormal phenomena exist, joins a scientific experiment to 'create' a ghost which goes to plan and confirms her theory that ghosts are created by the people who see them. But several inexplicable and disturbing events happen, forcing her to suspect that one of the experimenter's ghost has developed a life of it's own and is beyond control and when members of the group try and end the experiment and destroy the ghost, members of the group start dying mysteriously. D4A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 002937

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Creating a Ghost, Mysterious Deaths 0333682645

BARNES, TREVOR

Dead Meat

London, New English Library. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0450429290). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author's second novel is of a minister's murdered daughter whose body has been mutilated and Detective Blanche Hampton knows she must find the psychopath before he strikes again. All the evidence points to the dead woman's former lover and Blanche quickly arrests him. On the other side of London David Parker is a successful lawyer but a social failure, disturbed by the death of his mother, estranged from his fiancee, he strangles a woman and cuts the flesh from her body - he is the psychopath. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 003749

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Murder Mystery Fiction, Detective Blanche Hamilton, Psychopath Killer, London, Lawyer Murderer 0450429290

BARNES, LINDA

Flashpoint - a Carlotta Carlyle Mystery

New York, Hyperion. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 078686317x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped and which has a touch of creasing to lower edge. A taut mystery featuring Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favourite redheaded, wisecracking private investigator, that begins with a seemingly innocent landlord -tenant dispute but quickly escalates to arson, intrigue and murder. 21. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 002781

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Carlotta Carlyle, Boston 078686317x

BEATON, M.C.

Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree

London, Constable. 2017, First. (ISBN: 9781472117229). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near ine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Rory and Molly Harris, thenew vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They struggle to see the road ahead - but then screech to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in their headlights, a body hangs from a lightning-blasted tree at the edge of town. But it's not suicide; Margaret Darby, an elderly spinster of the parish, has been murdered - and the villagers are bewildered as to who would commit such a crime, and why. Agatha Raisin rises to the occasion, delighted to have some excitement back in her life - and two further murders follow, and Agatha begins to fear for her reputation - and her life. That the village has its own coven of witches certainly doesn't make her feel any better. D4E. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011309

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: 9781472117229

BLACK, VERONICA

My Name Is Polly Winter

London, Robert Hale. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709049013). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on blue boards which are clean unmarked with no wear or damage. Internally clean and unmarked. A Fine copy. Dustjacket is near Fine and unmarked with just light fading to spine and protected by a plastic cover and is not price clipped. Veronica Black is the pseudonym of Maureen Peters (1935-2008). The title is the words printed on a slip of paper in an old cookery book which historical researcher Cordelia James traces to a child in a pink dress who makes brief appearances in the vicinity of The Cedars where she has rented a room. There are other clues - the records of a mid 19th century case of a vanished governess and child. Parallels emerge as the house cleaner and her daughter go missing, as an old tale of lust and murder is replayed in a house where the restless ghost of Polly Winter seeks justice. C3C. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001702

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Maureen Peters 0709049013

BLACK, VERONICA

My Name Is Polly Winter

London, Robert Hale. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709049013). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear or damage. Internally clean and unmarked apart from a few very small marks to top edge. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket is clean and unmarked and also near Fine but has rippling to the plastic cover and is not price clipped. Veronica Black is the pseudonym of Maureen Peters. The title is the words printed on a slip of paper in an old cookery book which historical researcher Cordelia James traces to a child in a pink dress who makes brief appearances in the vicinity of The Cedars where she has rented a room. There are other clues - the records of a mid 19th century case of a vanished governess and child. Parallels emerge as the house cleaner and her daughter go missing, as an old tale of lust and murder is replayed in a house where the restless ghost of Polly Winter seeks justice. C3C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 002103

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Maureen Peters 0709049013

BLOCK, LAWRENCE

Hit Man

New York, William Morrow. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 068814179x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING . A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The novel by the Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America is of an assassin, Keller, who works for an anonymous mysterious man who nominates his own hits and passes on commissions from elsewhere. Keller's gentle demeanour and winning line in bar-room banter are a vivid contrast to the lethal skill with which he carries out contracts on his unwitting victims. L. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 010899

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Assassin, Contract Killer 068814179x

BOLITHO, JANIE

Lessons in Logic

London, Constable. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 1841194298). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with light bumping to top corner tips and a few very small marks to fore edge. Internally there are three very small initials to rear pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has just light creasing to rear top edge and is not price clipped - near Fine. The eleventh in the DCI Roper series, and the last one as the author died in 2002. Julie Watson is found knifed to death in a restaurant, having had a spate of anonymous phone calls, and her brutal killing changes the course of DCI Roper's investigation. Up to that point he believed his team were chasing a harmless nuisance caller when Julie had come into the station to complain, now he finds himself in charge of a murder enquiry with the possibility of more victims to come. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY B2E. Very Good/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 005481

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Murder Mystery, Crime Fiction, Dci Roper 1841194298

BOTTINI, OLIVER

Zen and the Art of Murder - a Black Forest Investigation

London, Maclehose Press. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9780857057662). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 296 pages. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 011485

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Black Forest Investigation, Chief Inspector Louise Boni 9780857057662

BRADDON, GEORGE

The Dog It Was That Died

London, Peter Garnett. 1948, First. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red title on sand coloured cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is foxing to closed top edge else a clean and unmarked copy. First edition November, 1948. A murder thriller set around a successful Harley Street doctor who marries into an impoverished noble family. George Sava (1903-1996) was a British surgeon and prolific writer of Russian origin, described as a 'Russian exile', born George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane on October 15, 1903. He wrote approximately 120 books under the pseudonyms George Sava, George Bankoff, George Borodin, George Braddon, Peter Conway, Alec Redwood, and others. 11. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 011234

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Harley Street

BRADLEY, ALAN

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - a Flavia de Luce Novel

London, Orion. 2015, First. (ISBN: 9781409149439). 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. 392 pages. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet.. Following Harriet's dramatic return home, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it. to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers (one of whom is a convicted murderess) and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, onher first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girlshave been disappearing from Miss Bodycote's with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why , but what exactly is the academy's true purpose, and why were her father and Aunt Felicity so keen for her to enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what exactly it means to be her mother's daughter. L. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 011058

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Flavia de Luce 9781409149439

BRADLEY, ALAN

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - a Flavia de Luce Novel

London, Orion. 2014, First. (ISBN: 9781409114260). 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. 315 pages. The presumed death of Harriet de Luce in a mysterious mountaineering accident in Tibet while Flavia was only a baby cast a sombre shadow over the family, leaving Colonel de Luce a broken man and Flavia herself with no memories of her mother. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects. For Flavia, a gruesome new crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations of Harriet's past and in doing so discovers an extraordinary tale of espionage and betrayal that also seems to be the key to her own destiny. L. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 011057

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Flavia de Luce 9781409114260

BRANDON, RUTH

Mind out

London, Collins Crime Club. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002323281). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 'What do you do when your scientist husband, having disappeared on a visit to the States, returns home with his own mind, memory, personality, even voice, but a different body? Belinda Watson soon found the change lent a certain piquancy to marriage, after all she and Charles had been getting a bit bored. As for Andrew Taggart, the journalist investigating her husband's disappearance (and incidentally consoling her), she didn't mind kissing him goodbye. Then the new 'Charles Watson' is murdered and the innocent Taggart is arrested - can he prove his innocence? Who has framed him and why? NOT EX LIB L. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 007570

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Murder Mystery Whodunit 0002323281

BRANDRETH, GYLES

Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol (Signed Copy)

London, John Murray. 2012. (ISBN: 9781848542532). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY GYLES BRANDRETH on Title page with 'THE CADOGAN 25.X.12. (The Cadogan Hotel, Room 118 was frequently patronised by Oscar Wilde and was where his infamous arrest took place. It was also where Gyles Brandreth held his Oscar Wilde party on the anniversary of Wilde's birth and his book launch). A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. xxv + 325 pages. Second printing. It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisinment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's astonishing detective powers remain undiminished - and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the Governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's most celebrated inmate? L. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 009585

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Oscar Wilde, Reading Gaol 9781848542532

BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON

The Cat Who Went Up the Creek - a Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit

London, Headline. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747270848). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition, First Printing. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further novel in the Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit series. Columnist James Qwilleran is enjoying a brief holiday at the Nutcracker Inn, but his two Siamese, Koko, with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery and Yum Yum, who prefer the comfort of home, beg to differ. The blissful tranquility is interrupted by the discovery of a body floating down the creek, a guest at the hotel, with gold nuggets in his possession. B2E. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 004093

Catalogue: Murder Mystery Thrillers Fiction

Mots-clés: Juvenilia, Cat Fiction, Jim Qwilleran, Siamese, Koko, Yum Yum 0747270848