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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 (inscribed by the author)..

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 AND SIGNED 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 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 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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Chaga.

By: McDonald, Ian

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1995.

Seller ID: 04582

ISBN: 057060522

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF novel.
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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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Phone Call (film tie-in).

By: Messmann, John (aka Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY.: 1979.

Seller ID: 49088

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: VG+ copy.

Novelisation from the screenplay by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack for the 1982 film MURDER BY PHONE. Yes, this novelisation came out three years before the film ''First Signet printing, May 1979'' on copyright page.
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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).

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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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: £10.00

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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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 Ten Ounce Siesta.

By: Partridge, Norman

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1998.

Seller ID: 11394

ISBN: 0425161439

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Mystery novel by a writer better known in the horror field.
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Saguaro Riptide.

By: Partridge, Norman

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1997.

Seller ID: 11045

ISBN: 0425156990

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for browning along inner covers.

Crime novel.
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The Ten Ounce Siesta (signed & dated by the author).

By: Partridge, Norman

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1998.

Seller ID: 48621

ISBN: 0425161439

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Mystery novel by a writer better known in the horror field. SIGNED AND DATED (February 24th, 1998) BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION.
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I'll Hate Myself In The Morning and Summer In December.

By: Paul, Elliot

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Random House: NY.: 1945.

Seller ID: 46025

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Bottom corners bumped, else a near fine copy in a fair dustjacket.

Two mystery novels. ''First printing'' stated on copyright page.
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The Dangerous Assassins.

By: Pearl, Jack

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Monarch Books: CT.: 1964.

Seller ID: 49678

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

Monarch K74. ''Published in January, 1964'' on copyright page. ''A comprehensive account of assassination attempts, from Caesar's time to the present, ending with the murder of President Kennedy''.
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Image for Mystery and Crime: The New York Public Library Book of Answers: Intriguing and Entertaining Questions and Answers about the Who's Who and What's What Of Whodunits.

Mystery and Crime: The New York Public Library Book of Answers: Intriguing and Entertaining Questions and Answers about the Who's Who and What's What Of Whodunits.

By: Pearsall, Jay

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Fireside: NY.: 1995.

Seller ID: 35604

ISBN: 0671872370

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

176 pages.
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Raymond Chandler: His Novels Into Film.

By: Pendo, Stephen

Price: £50.00

Publisher: The Scarecrow Press: USA.: 1976.

Seller ID: 36913

ISBN: 0810809311

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges show light spotting,, else a fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).

240 pages.
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The Great Detectives.

By: Penzler, Otto (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Little, Brown And Company: Boston.: 1978.

Seller ID: 35572

ISBN: 0316698830

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine price-clipped dustjacket.

Interviews with 26 crime/thriller writerrs: ''twenty-six masters of contemporary detective fiction are put on the stand and asked many questions about the private and professional lives of their sleuths''.
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Raffles' Crime In Gibraltar (A Sexton Blake Story).

By: Perowne, Barry (aka Philip Atkey)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd: London.: Nd (1968).

Seller ID: 45471

ISBN: 0603035043

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Inked name on inside front board, page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy in pictorial boards (as issued).

Small pocket-sized hardcover. Originally published in 1937 in The Sexton Blake Library no 601 (and published two years later in the USA as ''They Hang Them in Gibraltar'').

''Barry Perowne was a pseudonym of the British writer Philip Atkey (1908 - 1985), best known for his crime fiction. Another pseudonym he used was Pat Merriman and also published books under his own name. By agreement with the E W Hornung Estate, he continued the A. J. Raffles series after its creator E. W. Hornung's death, as well as other stories with his own characters. Four hardbacks designed for the younger mar...
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The Human Pool.

By: Petit, Chris

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Scribners: London.: 2002.

Seller ID: 11988

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.
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Back From The Dead.

By: Petit, Chris

Price: £10.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London.: 1999.

Seller ID: 33391

ISBN: 0333622782

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.

Thriller.
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The Dorking Gap Affair: A Mycroft Holmes Adventure.

By: Petrie, Glen

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bantam Press: London.: 1989.

Seller ID: 17260

ISBN: 0593016963

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Dead Man Running.

By: Picard, Sam

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Award Books: NY.: 1971.

Seller ID: 49206

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

Award A854S. Espionage novel, third in The Notebooks series.
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The Last Deep Breath (signed/limited).

By: Piccirilli, Tom

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tasmaniac Publications: Tasmania, Australia.: 2010.

Seller ID: 47651

ISBN: 0980636744

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Crime novella, introduction by Patrick Lussier. Includes the short story ''Between The Dark And The Daylight''. LIMITED EDITION: 206 copies printed in total (26 hardcover) of which this is one of 180 numbered paperback copies signed by the author. Note however that this copy is unnumbered but lettered ''PC''.

''the story follows Grey, a drifter on the search for his foster sister, who showed up for the first time in ten years with a knife in her side, then vanished without a trace. Grey winds up in Los Angeles dealing with manipulative actresses and scummy agents, hoping to find some ...
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The Murders In The Rue Morgue The Complete Crime Stories.

By: Poe, Edgar Allan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orion: London.: 2002.

Seller ID: 12314

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects the title story plus four others: 166 pages. Part of the Crime Masterworks series.
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The Public Life Of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Pointer, Michael

Price: £15.00

Publisher: David & Charles: London.: 1975.

Seller ID: 08141

ISBN: 0715367498

Binding: Hardcover.

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

200 pages: ''the first book to recount the many ways in which the entertainment industry has used, and misused, the best-known character in all fiction''.
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West Midland Murders.

By: Posner, Michael

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Amberley Publishing: Gloucestershire.: 2010.

Seller ID: 34513

ISBN: 1848683146

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

160 pages.
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The Methods Of Uncle Abner.

By: Post, Melville Davisson

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Aspen Press: Boulder, CO.: 1974.

Seller ID: 41436

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects four Uncle Abner detective stories, edited and with a five-page introduction by Tom Schantz and Enid Schantz.
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Celebration.

By: Preiss, Byron (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury: London.: 1989.

Seller ID: 47756

ISBN: 0747504180

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy with clear tape affixed along edges of inner covers.

368 pages: six page introduction by Frank MacShane: ''in this anthology of new Marlowe stories, 23 heirs to the Chandler tradition celebrate the worlds most popular private eye''.
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Soldier No More.

By: Price, Anthony

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1981.

Seller ID: 10608

ISBN: 0575030283

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Espionage novel.
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The Doomsday Men: An Adventure.

By: Priestley, J. B.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: William Heinemann: London.: 1938.

Seller ID: 40675

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, a VG+ copy (dark blue cloth) in a G/VG price-clipped dustjacket with shallow chipping along the edges and a little browning to thespine panel (background only, not affecting red lettering).

SF novel.

''a surprising amount of his work makes use of sf or fantasy themes and devices, though sometimes in a delusional frame, as with Albert Goes Through (1933), whose eponymous hero's experiences in an absurd cinematic universe are explained as a fever-dream. But sf concerns do to some extent propel Adam in Moonshine (1927), featuring a Ruritanian-flavoured conspiracy to restore monarchical rule to the UK, and Benighted (1927; vt The Old Dark House 1928) - and appear more overtly in THE DOOMSDAY MEN (1938), where a Mad Scientist has housed a doomsday Weapon in a tower in Los Angel...
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Son Of Gun In Cheek: An Affectionate Guide To More Of The ''Worst'' In Mystery Fiction.

By: Pronzini, Bill

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY.: 1987.

Seller ID: 35576

ISBN: 0892962873

Binding: Hardcover.

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

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