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The Mystery Book Of Days.

By: Malloy, William

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY.: 1990.

Seller ID: 36306

ISBN: 0892964227

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in pictorial boards, as issued without dustjacket (as new).

Events related to mysteries, detective stories etc, for every day of the year.
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Deadlier Than The Male: An Investigation Into Feminine Crime Writing.

By: Mann, Jessica

Price: £15.00

Publisher: David & Charles: London.: 1981.

Seller ID: 36708

ISBN: 0715378775

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Top page edges a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

256 pages.
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Dead Horsemeat.

By: Manotti, Doninique

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Arcadia Books/EuroCrime: London.: 2006.

Seller ID: 47865

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thriller, first published in France in 1997, newly translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz.
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Kingpins: Tales From Inside The Mob.

By: Manson, Cynthia (& Charles Ardai, eds.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Carroll & Graf: NY.: 1992.

Seller ID: 12121

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Almost fine copy in a VG dustjacket.

Reprint collection of seventeen stories: includes Stephen King, Avram Davidson, Andrew Vachss among others.
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Hard-Boiled Dicks No 5: William Peter McGivern.

By: Martin, Roger (William Peter McGivern)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Roger Martin: Paris.: 1983.

Seller ID: 29004

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Published in France: French text. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR.
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The Green Toad.

By: Masterman, Walter S.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ramble House:: 2008.

Seller ID: 44764

ISBN: 1605430595

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Mystery novel, first published in 1929.
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Touchy And Feely.

By: Masterton, Graham

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 2006.

Seller ID: 29194

ISBN: 0727863320

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Supernatural thriller.

''The first in the new Sissy Sawyer series When Fidelio Valdes, a disaffected young Puerto Rican, and Robert Touche, a drunk and aggressive businessman who has lost his job and his wife, meet, they begin a spree of random shootings. The Connecticut Police are baffled until widowed fortune-teller Sissy Sawyer contacts them to say that her cards are predicting the murders and giving her clues to the identity of the killers''.
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Snowman.

By: Masterton, Graham

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 1999.

Seller ID: 29196

ISBN: 0727854275

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Supernatural thriller: the fifth book in the Harry Hole series. Very uncommon UK hardcover.

''the night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved cas...
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The Painted Man.

By: Masterton, Graham

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 2008.

Seller ID: 29211

ISBN: 072786596X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The second book in the Sissy Sawyer thriller series.

''the discovery of a murdered office worker in the elevator of a condemned building sets in motion a chain of events that will make the streets of Cincinnati run with blood. Police artist Molly and her alternative, chain-smoking, fortune-telling mother-in-law, Sissy Sawyer, become inextricably involved. Sissys tarot cards seem to be offering her clues, if only she can decipher them in time''.
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The Painted Man.

By: Masterton, Graham

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 2008.

Seller ID: 47888

ISBN: 1847510477

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Hunted Past Reason.

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tor: NY.: 2002.

Seller ID: 08194

ISBN: 0765302713

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Mystery novel.
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Driving Lessons.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orion: London.: 1999.

Seller ID: 10788

ISBN: 0752813250

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

72-page crime novella. Preceded the Carroll & Graf edition by one year.
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Beauty And The Beast.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London.: 1982.

Seller ID: 35315

ISBN: 0241107695

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket with light staining to rear inner flap.

Third of the author's Matthew Hope crime novels, each of which has as it's title a famous fairy story (the previous two were Goldilocks and Rumpelstiltskin).
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Running From Legs And Other Stories.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London.: 2000.

Seller ID: 35318

ISBN: 0749005033

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publisher's press release laid in.

Crime stories. From what I can gather, first published in the US as a trade paperback original. Although not uncommon, most copies of this UK hardcover seem to be ex-library.
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A Slepyng Hound To Wake: A Mystery.

By: McCaffrey, Vincent

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Small Beer Press: USA.: 2011.

Seller ID: 46277

ISBN: 1931520267

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Bibliomystery in which ''Eddy Perry, a former book scout now devastated by drugs, sells bookseller Henry Sullivan a book by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. That night Eddy is murdered''.
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Secrets & Ghost Horses: A Low Country Mystery.

By: McClure, Holly

Price: £5.00

Publisher: BellaRosaBooks: Rock Hill, SC.: 2005.

Seller ID: 19815

ISBN: 097476857X

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Young adult mystery novel. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Who's Who In Spy Fiction.

By: McCormick, Donald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Elm Tree Books: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 17327

ISBN: 0241894476

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new, but for price-clipping).

216 pages.
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The Identity Of Jack the Ripper.

By: McCormick, Donald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1962.

Seller ID: 46999

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, spotting to first and last couple of pages, else a near fine (NF) copy.

Great Pan G542. First published in hardcover in 1959. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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The Mark Of Zorro.

By: McCulley, Johnston

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1959.

Seller ID: 37255

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Neat inked name and date on front free endpaper, lightly bruised top front corner tip, otherwise a fine copy in a VG pictorial dustjacket with some dust-soiling along spine panel and rear panel.

Classic pulp adventure that had first appeared as a long story - ''The Curse of Capistrano'' - by McCulley in All-Story Magazine in 1919, then made into a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. followed by a US hardcover in 1924. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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The Spider Strain And Other Tales From The Pulps.

By: McCulley, Johnston

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wildside Press: USA.: Nd.

Seller ID: 45970

ISBN: 0809511452

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

222 pages. Collects six crime stories from the pulp magazines, though no other information is given as to their original publication history, no introduction, no publication date. As a print on demand book, I am reluctant to describe it as a ''First Edition''.
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The Man From Uncle no 6: The Dagger Affair (tv tie-in).

By: McDaniel, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Four Square/New English Library: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 44000

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a good copy.

Four Square 1621. Based on the MGM television series. ''First published in July 1966'' on the copyright page.

''(1922-2007) UK author, journalist and actor, almost all of whose books were borderline-sf ties for TV spin-off series, beginning with two titles tied to The Avengers: Deadline (1965) and Dead Duck (1966), both as by Patrick Macnee but probably entirely ghostwritten by Leslie. His tales for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968) series began with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #5: The Finger in the Sky Affair (1966) and ended with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #17: The Unfair Fare Affair (1...
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The Man From Uncle no 6: The Dagger Affair (tv tie-in).

By: McDaniel, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Four Square/New English Library: London.: 1966.

Seller ID: 44001

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A near fine (NF) copy.

The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock.

By: McDevitt, Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Citadel Press: NY.: 1976.

Seller ID: 02772

ISBN: 0806506199

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

248 pages: b/w stills throughout.
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Dope Opera.

By: McDowell, Michael

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pluto Press: London.: 1987.

Seller ID: 31990

ISBN: 074530124X

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with price sticker on inner front flap.

Mystery/private eye novel.
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The Chrysanthemum Chain.

By: Melville, James

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1980.

Seller ID: 11990

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.

Crime novel: the author's second book.
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Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel.

By: Messent, Peter (ed.)

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Pluto Press: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 40193

ISBN: 0745310176

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

252 pages.
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Pure Deception.

By: Michie, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: London.: 2001.

Seller ID: 15289

ISBN: 0727854534

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller.
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The Baker Street Irregular: The Unauthorised Biography Of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Mitchelson, Austin

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Ian Henry Publications, Ltd: UK.: 1994.

Seller ID: 28865

ISBN: 0860254615

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Queen Kong (film tie-in).

By: Moffatt, James

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Everest Books: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 47371

ISBN: 0905018419

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Film tie-in: novelisation of the 1976 film of the same name. With eight pages of b/w stills from the film. Uncommon UK paperback.

''(1922-1993) Canadian-born UK author who wrote at least 290 novels in several genres under at least forty-five pseudonyms, including the Hank Janson House Name (though no Janson sf titles) and Richard Allen, a personal pseudonym for the non-sf Skin books. In the 1960s he wrote the first chapter of a novel which, when taken over by Michael Moorcock according to a practice very common in UK pulp publishing, became Somewhere in the Night (1966) as by Moorcock...
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A Dry Spell (signed by the author).

By: Moloney, Susie

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Headline: London.: 1997.

Seller ID: 15736

ISBN: 0747219044

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket with promotional letter laid in (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Fantasy novel: ''a dying town, a desperate woman, then comes the Rainmaker''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Uncommon UK hardcover.
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The Russian Intelligence (signed by the author).

By: Moorcock, Michael

Price: £95.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1983.

Seller ID: 31997

ISBN: 0450060322

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Jerry Cornelius spy novel (as alter ego ''Jerry Cornell''), sequel to THE CHINESE AGENT (1970) with an introduction by Jack Trevor Story. First published by Savoy Books as a paperback original in 1980. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Very uncommon UK hardcover.
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The Phantom Gunman.

By: Morland, Nigel

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Cassell and Co.: London: 1956.

Seller ID: 45472

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a good pictorial dustjacket with edge wear and dustsoiling to rear (white) panel.

Crime thriller, first published in 1935.
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Blood Oath.

By: Morrell, David

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Severn House: London: 1989.

Seller ID: 13600

ISBN: 0727817884

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned and lightly spotted, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket(as new).

Sequel to FIRST BLOOD (which was the basis for the film RAMBO - and indeed this Seven House cover depicts the main character as Sylvester Stallone). Uncommon UK hardcover (most Severn House titles - as with Robert Hale - were printed for the library market).
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Poison Is Queen.

By: Morrissey, J. L.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: John Gifford: London.: Nd (1949).

Seller ID: 42781

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Near fine copy in a good (bright, unfaded) pictorial dustjacket with shallow chipping, creasing and several small closed tears along the edges.

Thriller. Very uncommon UK hardcover (there was a more common Thriller Book Club edition the following year).
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The Third Person.

By: Mosby, Steve

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Orion: London.: 2003.

Seller ID: 12724

ISBN: 0752860062

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller.
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A Little Yellow Dog (signed by the author).

By: Mosley, Walter

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Serpent's Tail: London.: 1996.

Seller ID: 21458

ISBN: 1852425660

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket as new) but for a little browning along page edges.

An Easy Rawlings mystery. WITH TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Antares: Science Fiction & Fantastique San Frontieres no. 27.

By: Moumon, Jean-Pierre (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: 1987.

Seller ID: 38191

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Third Quarter 1987 (no. 27). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. French sf magazine.
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Murder In Pug's Parlour.

By: Myers, Amy

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Malvern Publishing Company: UK.: 1986.

Seller ID: 47428

ISBN: 0947993398

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Spotting along top page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

The author's first novel, a Victorian murder mystery.
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The Mystery Fancier vol 12 no 3.

By: MYSTERY FANCIER, (ed. Guy M. Townsend)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Guy M. Townsend: Madison, IN.: 1990.

Seller ID: 46069

Binding: Card pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Summer 1990 issue: 104 pages. Magazine devoted to crime/mystery.
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The Mystery Fancier vol 13 no 4.

By: MYSTERY FANCIER, (ed. Guy M. Townsend)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Guy M. Townsend: Madison, IN.: 1992.

Seller ID: 46070

Binding: Card pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fall 1992 issue: 104 pages. Magazine devoted to crime/mystery.
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Dictionary Of Crime.

By: Nash, Jay Robert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Headline: London.: 1992.

Seller ID: 32694

ISBN: 0747206252

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a nearly fine dustjacket.

434 pages. Dictionary of real crime (not crime writers and their fiction!) - over 16000 entries covering the slang used in law, police work, forensic science, drug & prison cultures, the media and criminals themselves.
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The Mystery Writer's Art.

By: Nevins Jr., Francis M. (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.: 1970.

Seller ID: 36710

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: G/VG copy.

338 pages: collection of essays.
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New Blood no 1 - 7 (all published).

By: NEW BLOOD, (ed. Chris Lacher)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: 1987-1990.

Seller ID: 31233

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: Fine (unread) copies.

Seven issues of this small-press horror fiction magazine were published between 1987-1990, the first (''Premiere'') issue as an A5 booklet in plain red stapled wrappers, the next two as (larger) A4 perfect bound magazines in illustrated wrappers, and issues 4 - 7 as A4 stapled magazines. By issue seven it had become a slick professional newstand magazine with colour covers - and promptly folded. This is a fine/as new (unread) set of all seven issues.
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Guinevere (inscribed by the author).

By: Newman, Sharan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY.: 1981.

Seller ID: 39131

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

Historical fantasy. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED TO THE UK SF WRITER KEITH ROBERTS/''For Keith Roberts, with thanks and many wishes for a happy holiday, Sharon Newman, 1991''.
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Sherlock Holmes And The Arabian Princess.

By: North, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ian Henry: Essex.: 1990.

Seller ID: 17272

ISBN: 0860252701

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

The Skin Palace.

By: O'Connell, Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY.: 1996.

Seller ID: 11059

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Thriller.
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Cobra Trap (signed by the author)..

By: O'Donnell, Peter

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Souvenir Press: London.: 1996.

Seller ID: 00015

ISBN: 0285633325

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Modesty Blaise novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Night Of Morningstar.

By: O'Donnell, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1984.

Seller ID: 41932

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

A Modesty Blaise thriller.
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The Xanadu Talisman (Modesty Blaise).

By: O'Donnell, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1982.

Seller ID: 41947

ISBN: 0330268473

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

A Modesty Blaise thriller.
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The Rivals Of Frankenstein: A Gallery Of Monsters (inscribed to Hugh Lamb).

By: Parry, Michel (ed.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1977.

Seller ID: 43773

ISBN: 0552104655

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a NF/Fine (unread) copy..

Anthology: reprints with a checklist of Frankenstein films. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR TO FELLOW UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Hugh - another chop off the Axeman's Block! Best wishes Michel , June 1977''. With Hugh Lamb's signature at top corner of the same page and his initials rubber-stamped on the inside rear cover: Hugh has also highlighted some of the film titles in the checklist at the back of the book. Laid in is a clipping from the Sept/Oct 1979 BFS Bulletin which has a review by Hugh Lamb of the book.
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