Category: Mystery & Crime

Crime novel, the author's first book, written in the early 1960s but not published till now. Introduction by James Ellroy, afterword by Jennifer Steele.
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Hang Time (inscribed by the author).

By: Burke, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ulverscroft: Leicester. : 2008.

Seller ID: 42034

ISBN-13: 9781847822475

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. First published by Robert Hale in 2007, this is a 2008 library large-print edition. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR/''With best wishes to young enthusiast - - , from decrepit John Burke 27.10.08''.
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The Kill Dog.

By: Burke, Jonathan (writing as "Jonathan George")

Price: £25.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 1970.

Seller ID: 42075

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Pages a little browned else a fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.

Thriller.
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Four Hander: Paths To Murder (Hugh Lamb's copy).

By: Burns, Ian

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Self-published. : 2017.

Seller ID: 45528

ISBN-13: 9780994597649

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thriller/mystery from the grandson of Bernard Capes. With Hugh Lamb's signature and date (11/6/17) on the same page, and his initials rubber-stamped on the inside rear cover. In his preface the author credits Hugh Lamb as one of the main reasons he wrote the novel.
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Coffin On Murder Street (inscribed by the author).

By: Butler, Gwendoline

Price: £15.00

Publisher: HarperCollins/The Crime Club: London. : 1991.

Seller ID: 52265

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Crime novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Happiness is a Warm Tome and Other Stories: The Collected Jason Maccleson,

By: Cabell, Craig

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bellack Productions. : 2017.

Seller ID: 52890

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collection of crime stories featuring private detective Jason Maccleson, who is also an antiquarian bookseller.
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Scream For Jeeves: A Parody.

By: Cannon, P. H.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Wodecraft Press: NY. : 1994.

Seller ID: 00134

ISBN-13: 9780940884618

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects three Lovecraftian/Wodehouse(ian?) parodies, ''Cats, Rats And Bertie Wooster'', ''Something Foetid'', and ''The Rummie Affair Of Young Charlie'', plus a 23-page afterword by Cannon, ''The Adventure of the Three Anglo-American Authors: Some Reflections On Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse and H. P. Lovecraft''. LIMITED EDITION: 200 unnumbered hardcover copies printed (there was a simultaneous paperbound edition). ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition'' stated on copyright page.''Cannon parodies P.G. Wodehouse and H.P. Lovecraft by combining the two, and brevity, clean prose and a good ear ...
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A Notable Interlude.

By: Capes, Bernard

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Calabash Press: Ashcroft, British Columbia. : 1999.

Seller ID: 42518

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Sherlockian short story: ''published in January 1999 by Calabash Press to celebrate the birthday of Mr Sherlock Holmes''. Introduction by Jack Adrian. Very uncommon booklet.
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The Blind Barber.

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London. : 1974.

Seller ID: 19047

ISBN-13: 9780241024706

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First published in 1935. Dr. Gideon Fell mystery novel. Part of the Hamish Hamilton series of reissues as 'A Fingerprint Book'.
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The Emperor's Snuff-Box.

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London. : 1947.

Seller ID: 40134

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: A good reading copy, inked details on front free endpaper.

First published in 1943.
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The Case Of The Perfect Alibi.

By: Carrel, Mark

Price: £75.00

Publisher: W. Foulsham: London. : 1960.

Seller ID: 42779

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Small ink scribble in top corner of front free endpaper, page edges a little browned, aVG+ copy in a VG (bright, unfaded) pictorial dustjacket with one 2cm closed tear along bottom spine edge and small nicks to edges of front flap fold.

Thriller. Very uncommon UK hardcover.
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No Thanks For The Shroud (inscribed by the author).

By: Carstairs, Paddy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: W. H. Allen: London. : 1967.

Seller ID: 44486

ISBN-13: 9780491001403

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a G/VG dustjacket with spine edge wear and several small (1cm) closed tears.

Thriller involving Old Etonian writer Garway Trenton. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/''for Peter, souvenir of your stint on ''Slim John'', Paddy Carstairs Twickenham 1967''.
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The Chandler Collection. Volume 2: The High Window, The Long Good-bye and Playback.

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Picador/Pan: London. : 1983.

Seller ID: 47805

ISBN-13: 9780330281553

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for clear tape affixed along edges of inner covers.

Omnibus of three crime novels: 636 pages.
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Watson's Last Case.

By: Charnock, Ian

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Breese Books: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 17656

ISBN-13: 9780947533922

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Sherlock Holmes adventures.
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He Won't Need It Now.

By: Chase, James Hadley

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Rich & Cowan: London. : 1942.

Seller ID: 32972

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Light spotting along page edges, an almost fine copy in a VG dustjacket with several short closed tears.

Thriller. First published in hardcover in 1939. Reprint (''168th Thousand'' on front cover and title page), but very uncommon it seems in any edition/printing.
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Past Tense (signed by the author).

By: Child, Lee

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Bantam Press: London. : 2018.

Seller ID: 51333

ISBN-13: 9780593078198

Binding: Hardcover.

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

A Jack Reacher thriller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Seven Dials Mystery.

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pan Books: London. : 1962.

Seller ID: 43783

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, a near fine (NF) copy.

Great Pan G571.
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Raymond Chandler In Hollywood.

By: Clark, Al

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Proteus Publishing: NY. : 1983.

Seller ID: 36417

ISBN-13: 9780862761097

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Almost fine copy with a little background spine fade (dark blue to light blue).

160 pages: b/w photos throughout.
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Prelude To Space.

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Four Square: London. : 1962.

Seller ID: 47283

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy.

Four Square 755. SF novel, the author's first published book. First published as a Galaxy paperback original in 1951, followed by a Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover in 1953: this is the second UK paperback (new art work) following the 1954 Pan paperback.
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Atlantis Adventure.

By: Clifford, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Lutterworth Press: London. : 1958.

Seller ID: 40462

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a G/VG price-clipped dustjacket.

Boys' adventure sf novel.

''working name of UK writer John Clifford Bayliss (1919-1978), the young protagonists of whose ATLANTIS ADVENTURE (1958) discover the eponymous Lost World in an oceanic trench in the Caribbean Sea, where they discover ancient relics, sea monsters and robots; unfortunately, their experimental nuclear submarine breaches the walls keeping the ocean at bay, though the youths make their escape''(John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition).
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Gone For Good.

By: Coben, Harlan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 2002.

Seller ID: 13024

ISBN-13: 9780752846040

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime/thriller.
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The Stone Angels (signed by the author).

By: Cohen, Stuart Archer

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 2003.

Seller ID: 12721

ISBN-13: 9780752859897

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Twenty-First Century Grail: The Quest For A Legend.

By: Collins, Andrew

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Virgin Books: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 43505

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

260 pages: ''a highly potent confection and a profoundly compelling study of the Grail Mythos'' (Kenneth Grant).
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Kisses Of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook.

By: Collins, Max Allan

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Crippen & Landru: USA. : 2001.

Seller ID: 41002

ISBN-13: 9781885941558

Binding: Hardcover.

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

LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbeed copies signed by the author with an extra comic strip ''Heaven And Heller'' added (the comic not present in the trade hardcover). This is no 77.
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Slot-Machine Kelly: The Collected Private Eye Cases of the ''One-Armed Bandit''.

By: Collins, Michael (aka Dennis Lynds)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Crippen & Landru: USA. : 2005.

Seller ID: 46017

ISBN-13: 9781932009408

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collection thirteen stories published between 1962 and 1966. Lynds added prefaces to each story, explaining their significance in his development as a writer: he checked the final proofs a week before his untimely death, so this collection has become a memorial to the extraordinary writer who was Dennis Lynds and Michael Collins.
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The Woman In White.

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Daily Express Publications: London. : 1933.

Seller ID: 36956

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Rebound, a fine copy.

Classic detective novel, first published in 1860.

''he is more important to the development of detective fiction than of supernatural fiction through THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1859-1860 All the Year Round; 1860), with its Gothic residue, and The Moonstone: A Romance (1868), one of the earliest police procedurals, which also established a subgenre of accursed-jewel stories'' (Mike Ashley/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
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Justice City.

By: Compton, D. G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1994.

Seller ID: 00384

ISBN-13: 9780575058385

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Near future sf novel.''Justice City is the punishment block, the Strangeways of the future... a woman-killer dies in the first stage of induction, a drugging process known as thresholding. Our cop, Alec Duncan, is made to feel like an outsider, though as a black Scot he's used to that. The possibilities are satisfyingly various: the edgy, intelligent thrills are constant'' (Oxford Times) ''remarkable for the unswerving ferocity of its depiction of a milieu in which small-minded intolerance is given full rein. It is an economically swift and tightly plotted thriller. Recommended'' (Interzone)....
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In The Deep Woods.

By: Conde, Nicholas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 35804

ISBN-13: 9780450505041

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with review slip laid in.

Thriller.
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The Reapers (signed by the author).

By: Connolly, John

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2008.

Seller ID: 29797

ISBN-13: 9781416569527

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Part of the Charlie Parker supernatural thriller series. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Woman In The Woods (signed by the author).

By: Connolly, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2018.

Seller ID: 51854

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Charlie Parker supernatural mystery novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Hitchcock Murders.

By: Conrad, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 35479

ISBN-13: 9780571200238

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Non-fiction: 362 pages.
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Sweet Silver Blues.

By: Cook, Glen

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Signet Books: NY. : 1987.

Seller ID: 49440

ISBN-13: 9780451150615

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Edges of inner covers a little browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.

First in the Garrett occult detective series. ''First printing, Augiust, 1987'' on copyright page. Tim Hildebrandt cover art.''This genial yet sinister cynicism is the besetting tone of his rather different Garrett series: SWEET SILVER BLUES (1987), Bitter Gold Hearts (1988), Cold Copper Tears (1988), Old Tin Sorrows (1989), Dread Brass Shadows (1990), Red Iron Nights (1991), Deadly Quicksilver Lies (1994) and Petty Pewter Gods (1995). Private eye Garrett is an occult detective, aided by an undead nonhuman Mycroft Holmes figure. The books pay constant homage to Hammett, Chandler and Spilla...
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Bad Scene.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2000.

Seller ID: 51444

ISBN-13: 9780754041177

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1987, no 50 in the series.
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Dark Entry.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Linford: Leicester. : 2004.

Seller ID: 51445

ISBN-13: 9781843953845

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1981, no 33 in the series.
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Don't Bleed On Me.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2005.

Seller ID: 51446

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1968, no 6 in the series.
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Feedback.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2001.

Seller ID: 51448

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1974, no 16 in the series.
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Hang Loose.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 1990.

Seller ID: 51449

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1982, no 34 in the series.
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Heavy Iron.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2003.

Seller ID: 51450

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1987, no 48 in the series.
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No Flowers For The General.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Linford: Leicester. : 2000.

Seller ID: 51453

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1967, no 3 in the series.
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No Flowers For The General.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2001.

Seller ID: 51454

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1967, no 3 in the series.
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Scratch On The Dark.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2002.

Seller ID: 51455

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1967, no 4 in the series.
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Shoot-Out.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Linford: Leicester. : 2005.

Seller ID: 51456

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1982, no 35 in the series.
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The Dark Mirror.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 1991.

Seller ID: 42216

ISBN-13: 9780862207960

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The first Mike Faraday private eye novel, first published by Robert Hale in 1966, now reprinted with a new two-page introduction by Laurence Henderson. Part of the Chivers Press Black Dagger Crime series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries.
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The Exploits Of Solar Pons (presentation copy to Basil Copper from publisher).

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Fedogan & Bremer: Minneapolis. : 1993.

Seller ID: 00132

ISBN-13: 9781878252111

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Contains four previously unpublished long stories. The detective Solar Pons was originally created by August Derleth and based on Sherlock Holmes (names and biographical details were changed, and the setting moved from the Victorian period to the 1920's): on Derleth's death, Arkham House authorised British author Basil Copper to continue the series. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION BY FEDOGAN & BREMER CO-PUBLISHER PHILIP RAHMAN TO THE AUTHOR/''To Basil, with fond memories, the first of a series! 27/10/93''. Additionally signed by Greg Ketter, Chairman of the Co...
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The Far Horizon.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2001.

Seller ID: 51447

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1982, no 30 in the series.
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The High Wall.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2006.

Seller ID: 51451

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1975, no 18 in the series.
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You Only Die Once.

By: Copper, Basil

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Chivers Press: Bath. : 2006.

Seller ID: 51457

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, part of the Mike Faraday (Los Angeles Private Detective) series. 52 novels published in total between 1966-1988, all from Robert Hale: most are very uncommon, as the vast majority of copies went to libraries. This title was originally published in 1984, no 42 in the series.
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The Devil's Redhead (signed by the author).

By: Corbett, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 2003.

Seller ID: 12723

ISBN-13: 9780752860084

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First novel. Crime. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Cosmos Science Fiction And Fantasy: all four issues published.

By: COSMOS, (ed. David Hartwell)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Baronet: NY. : 1977.

Seller ID: 52988

Binding: Magazine.

Condition: VG+ copies.

Four issues (all published). Edited by David G. Hartwell: literate, slick sf magazine with strong stories and interior colour centrefolds by established sf artists (Jack Gaughan was the art editor). See Ashley/Tymn: Science Fiction, Fantasy, And Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 173-175.''COSMOS contained a sophisticated mixture of sf and fantasy in an elegant format which included full-colour interior illustration. It serialized a short novel in Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser series, ''Rime Isle'' (May-July 1977); ran Michael Bishop's ''The House of Compassionate Sharers'' (May 1977); and featured a...
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Category: Mystery & Crime

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