Category: Mystery & Crime

Part reprint, part original anthology. Twenty-three stories (many supernatural and over half of which are original to this collection) with an introduction by the editor.
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The Thriller: The Suspense Film From 1946.

By: Davis, Brian

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Studio Vista: London. : 1973.

Seller ID: 35475

ISBN-13: 9780289703410

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

160 pages. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.
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The Hand Of Zei (new cover art).

By: de Camp, L. Sprague

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ace Books: NY. : 1982.

Seller ID: 49299

ISBN-13: 9780441316274

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Fantasy/sf novel, second in the Krishna series (serialised in Astounding October 1950 - January 1951), first published in hardcover by Avalon Books in 1963, followed in paperback as half of an Ace Double (F-249) in 1963. This 1982 Ace paperback reprints THE HAND OF ZEI by itself with new cover art by Paul Alexander.
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Strange Pursuit.

By: de Mexico, N. R. (pseudonym of Larry Shore)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Farrell Publishing Co.: NY. : 1951.

Seller ID: 28950

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Bottom third of rear cover missing (cut out), else a VG+ copy.

Suspense novel. Originally released as MADMAN ON A DRUM (1944).
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I Want To Watch.

By: de Silva, Diego

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Heinemann: London. : 2007.

Seller ID: 47648

ISBN-13: 9780434012428

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Psychological thriller, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside.''in an apartment in Italy, a man and a little girl are playing hide and seek. Indulgently, he gives up the search, and she emerges from her hiding-place with a happy squeal. The man pulls a startled face, the loser of the game. The girl hurls herself at him, hugging his waist. He kneels down and she throws her arms around him, as he kisses her forehead and the top of her head. He strokes her back and wraps his arms around her. Then, coldly, clinically and expertly, he breaks her neck. Celeste is a schoolgirl, barely sixt...
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The International Sherlock Holmes: A Companion Volume To The World Bibliography Of Sherlock Holmes And Dr. Watson.

By: de Waal, Ronald Burt

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Archon Books/Mansell. : 1980.

Seller ID: 28890

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Ex-library, else hear fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

622 pages.
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Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins Of The Great Crime Films.

By: Decharne, Max

Price: £10.00

Publisher: No Exit Press: England. : 2003.

Seller ID: 36297

ISBN: 18424370X

Binding: Hardcover.

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

240 pages: non-fiction.
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The Len Deighton Companion.

By: Deighton, Len

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Grafton Books: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 52993

Binding: Hardcover.

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

332 pages: compiled by Edward Milward-Oliver.
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 17262

ISBN-13: 9780224015783

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The author's first book, in which Holmes attempts to solve the Ripper murders. Sharp, unread, as new copy, with £3.95 price on inner flap.
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Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens.

By: Dickens, Charles (ed. Peter Haining)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Peter Owen: London. : 1996.

Seller ID: 45983

ISBN-13: 9780720609943

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collects 12 stories with a 15-page introduction by editor Peter Haining. Also included is a 13-page essay by M. R. James ''The Edwin Drood Syndicate'' (which had originally appeared in two instalments in The Cambridge Review 30th November and 7th December, 1905).
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American Crime Fiction: Studies In The Genre.

By: Docherty, Brian (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY. : 1988.

Seller ID: 36711

ISBN-13: 9780312016852

Binding: Hardcover.

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

146 pages. Uncommon US hardcover.
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The Devil To Pay (Sexton Blake Library #467).

By: Dolphin, Rex

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Fleetway Publications: London. : 1961 (January).

Seller ID: 25912

Binding: Pictorial stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for slight rusting to rear staple and a little wear at top and bottom of spine.

Sexton Blake Library no 467. Price 1/-.
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Dick Barton - Special Agent No 1: The Great Tobacco Conspiracy (tv-tie-in).

By: Dorrell, Mike

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Star Books: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 47415

ISBN-13: 9780352303073

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

TV tie-in. Dick Barton : Special Agent was a short-lived TV series produced by Southern Television for ITV in 1978 and 1979. Four novels were published by Star Books and one annual issued for 1979. With eight pages of b/w stills.
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Dick Barton - Special Agent No 2: The Mystery of the Missing Formula (tv-tie-in).

By: Dorrell, Mike

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Star Books: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 47455

ISBN-13: 9780352303080

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

TV tie-in. Dick Barton : Special Agent was a short-lived TV series produced by Southern Television for ITV in 1978 and 1979. Four novels were published by Star Books and one annual issued for 1979. With eight pages of b/w stills.
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Burial Of The Fruit.

By: Dortort, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Avon Publications, Inc.: NY. : Nd (late 1940s?).

Seller ID: 49501

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Avon 326. Crime/Juvenile Delinquent novel, first published in hardcover by Crown in 1947. The first Avon printing (Avon 183) was in 1948.
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Sherlock Holmes Illustrated.

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: World International Publishing Ltd: Manchester. : 1981.

Seller ID: 46377

ISBN-13: 9780723565994

Binding: Hardcover.

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

128 page annual: stories, articles, illustrated, including a colour comic strip adaptation of ''Hound of the Baskervilles''. Features by Clive Hopwood, illustrated by Paul Crompton and Glenn Rix.
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Betrayed.

By: DuBois, Brendan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Time Warner: London. : 2003.

Seller ID: 18800

ISBN-13: 9780316724654

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.
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The Crimson Query or, How The Squid Got Besuckered.

By: Eadie, Arlton

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ramble House: MS. : 2010.

Seller ID: 41840

ISBN-13: 9781605435220

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Detective thriller, first published in 1929.
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Midnight Comes At Noon.

By: Easterman, Daniel (also writes as "Jonathan Aycliffe")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 2001.

Seller ID: 15442

ISBN-13: 9780007103485

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. The author also writes supernatural fiction as ''Jonathan Aycliffe''.
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Kizilkar: Red Snow.

By: Elford, George Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 43336

ISBN-13: 9780450056925

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: inked price on front cover, spine lean, a VG copy.

War novel of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, sequel to DEVIL'S GUARD.
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The Dark Fantastic.

By: Ellin, Stanley

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1983.

Seller ID: 32065

ISBN-13: 9780892960590

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Mystery novel.
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Spider Kiss.

By: Ellison, Harlan

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Armchair Detective Library: NY. : 1991.

Seller ID: 01605

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Faint spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Originally published as a Gold Medal paperback original in 1961 under the title ROCKABILLY, and later reissued as a Pyramid paperback with textul revisions and new author's note: this hardcover edition contains a new six page introduction by the author: '' the early days of rock-and-roll. a basic hardboiled situation, dealt with in terms of the psychology of the characters, and the pressure of society. the traditional poor-boy-from-the-boondocks-makes-good-in-the-city theme is turned back to front, and coated with the pervasive corruption of the music industry. talent can corrupt and absolute ...
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Crime Wave: Reportage And Fiction From The Underside of L.A.

By: Ellroy, James

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Century: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 05015

ISBN-13: 9780712679688

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Published in the US as a trade paperback. Collects the crime author's investigative non-fiction articles, previously published in the American edition of GQ, plus two new novellas, ''Hollywood Shakedown'' and ''Tijuana Mon Amour''.
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L. A. Confidential

By: Ellroy, James

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Century/Mysterious Press: London. : 1990.

Seller ID: 52316

Binding: Hardcover.

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

asis for the 1997 film starring Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, and Kim Basinger. BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON WHITE PLAIN LABEL AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE.
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L. A. Noir - the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy - Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill.

By: Ellroy, James

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Arrow Books: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 47739

ISBN-13: 9780099255093

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

Omnibus of three crime novels.
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Death Of The Duchess (signed by both authors).

By: Eyre, Elizabeth (aka Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Harcourt Brace: NY. : 1992.

Seller ID: 41792

ISBN-13: 9780151241026

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First in a series of historical crime novels featuring the Renaissance detective Sigismondo, written by Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey under the pseudonym ''Elizabeth Eyre''. THIS COPY SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS.
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Nothing Burns In Hell.

By: Farmer, Philip Jose

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1998.

Seller ID: 03955

ISBN-13: 9780312864705

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Violent detective novel, for ''fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever present gratuous violence of Robert Altman, a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomised by Black Mask''.

Detective novel.
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Scare Tactics.

By: Farris, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1988.

Seller ID: 01457

ISBN-13: 9780312930851

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Comprises the short novel THE GUARDIANS plus two shorter pieces, ''The Odor Of Violets''and ''The Horror-Show''.
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Solar Eclipse.

By: Farris, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 31662

ISBN-13: 9780312850722

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.''Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her eleven-year-old daughter when a lorry sends her car over an embankment. The two must jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, Shay walks with the girl until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads. As Shay fights to free herself from the web of money and drugs she's stumbled into, the killers close in. Only by relying on all of her skill and training will she...
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The Big Swingers A Biography : Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950); Tarzan (1912- ).

By: Fenton, Robert W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Prentice-Hall Inc., NJ. : 1967.

Seller ID: 36878

Binding: Hardcover.

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

258 pages. Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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The Executioner's Art.

By: Fine, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tindal Street Press: Birmingham. : 2002.

Seller ID: 47740

ISBN-13: 9780954130312

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thriller, set in Sheffield.
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5 Against The House.

By: Finney, Jack

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode: London. : 1954.

Seller ID: 42514

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Free endpapers part-browned, else a fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Thriller, the author's first novel and made into a film a year later. ''First impression August 1954/Second impression October 1954'' stated on copyright page.
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The Murder Mystique: Crime Writers On Their Art.

By: Freeman, Lucy (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Ungar: NY. : 1982.

Seller ID: 36280

ISBN-13: 9780804422123

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Nearly fine copy in a VG dustjacket.

140 pages: pices from Thomas Chastain, Hillary Waugh, Edward D. Hoch, Shannon O'Cork, Bruce Cassidy, Franklin Bandy, Eleanor Sullivan, D.R. Benson, Helen Wells and the editor.
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The Crime Club: Stories Of Crime.

By: Froest, Frank (& George Dilnot)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Collins Crime Club: London. : 2016.

Seller ID: 45461

ISBN: 978008137335

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First published by Eveleigh Nash in 1915, and later as the first publication of The Detective Story Club Ltd in 1929. Both those editions contained twelve stories, but three more stories written by both authors for The Red Book magazine are now included in this new edition for the first time, with a six-page introduction by David Brawn. The wraparound cover art reproduces the covers for the 1929 edition of the book. Laid in is a compliments slip from David Brawn/HarperCollins.
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The D.A. Breaks An Egg.

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Four Square/PBS Limited: Manchester. : 1973.

Seller ID: 32217

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, a NF/Fine (unread) copy with a touch of spine edge wear.

Crime novel. ''TOTAL Special Edition. Not to be re-sold'' on front cover. First published in the USA in 1949.
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Sons Of Sam Spade: The Private Eye Novel In the 70's: Robert B. Parker, Roger L. Simon, Andrew Bergman.

By: Geherin, David

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1982,.

Seller ID: 11972

ISBN-13: 9780804461702

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy.

168 pages.
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The American Private Eye: The Image In Fiction.

By: Geherin, David

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1985.

Seller ID: 36271

ISBN-13: 9780804461849

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: NF/Fine (unread) copy.

228 pages.
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The American Private Eye: The Image In Fiction.

By: Geherin, David (PRIVATE EYE NOVELS)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Frederick Ungar: NY. : 1985.

Seller ID: 11986

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket with several small closed tears and creasing.

228 pages.
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The Fingerprint.

By: Gilbert, Anthony

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Black Dagger Crime/Chivers Press: UK. : 1991.

Seller ID: 51238

ISBN-13: 9780862208110

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel, first published in 1964. New introduction by Basil Copper. Part of the Black Dagger Crime reprint series.
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Murder For Christmas.

By: Godfrey, Thomas (ed.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1982.

Seller ID: 44552

ISBN-13: 9780892960583

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Anthology of classic seasonal crime stories, illustrated by Gahan Wilson. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by the editor and illustrator and slipcased. This is no 98.
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Cage Of Night (signed/limited).

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £15.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2008.

Seller ID: 27803

ISBN-13: 9781906301118

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller: introduction by Stephen Gallagher. First published as a paperback original in 1996. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 700 copies, this is one of 500 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author.''twenty-one-year-old Spence returns to his home after two years in the Army. He falls in love with Cindy Brasher, Homecoming Queen and small town goddess to a long line of jealous young men. But string of robberies puts Spence at odds with his obsessive love for Cindy. One by all of Spence's rivals are implicated in horrific crimes. Spence begins to wonder how much Cindy knows a...
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Cage Of Night (signed/slipcased).

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £40.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2008.

Seller ID: 51004

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller: introduction by Stephen Gallagher. First published as a paperback original in 1996. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 700 copies, this is one of 200 numbered copies signed by both authors and slipcased. This is no 5.''twenty-one-year-old Spence returns to his home after two years in the Army. He falls in love with Cindy Brasher, Homecoming Queen and small town goddess to a long line of jealous young men. But string of robberies puts Spence at odds with his obsessive love for Cindy. One by all of Spence's rivals are implicated in horrific crimes. Spence begins to wonder h...
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Hawk Moon.

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Headline: London. : 1995.

Seller ID: 35833

ISBN-13: 9780747215875

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. The USA hardcover was one year later (1996).
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Out There In The Darkness (and) The Moving Coffin: Collected Ed Gorman Vols 1 and 2.

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £75.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2007.

Seller ID: 20377

ISBN-13: 9781905834150

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copies in fine dustjackets and slipcased together.

Two volumes, collecting 39 stories with 'Story Notes' from the author. Introductions by Lawrence Block (vol 1) and Max Allan Collins (vol 2). LIMITED EDITION: 700 copies (of each volume) printed in total of which this is one of 200 sets signed by the author and both contributors and slipcased. This is no 5.
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The Dwyer Trilogy: Autumn Dead And A Cry Of Shadows And Eye Of The Beholder (signed/limited).

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 1996.

Seller ID: 51309

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Omnibus of the two Jack Dyer novels (first published in 1987 and 1990 respectively), plus the (first publication of) short story :Eye Of The Beholder'': short introduction by the author. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 218.
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The Poker Club (signed/limited).

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 1999.

Seller ID: 52288

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. LIMITED EDITION: 750 (unnumbered) copies signed by the author.
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The Poker Club.

By: Gorman, Ed

Price: £20.00

Publisher: CT Publishing: Birmingham, UK. : 1999.

Seller ID: 10004

ISBN-13: 9781902002071

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. Preceded the Cemetary Dance limited edition.
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Invitation To Murder

By: Gorman, Ed (& Martin Greenberg, eds.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Dark Harvest.: USA. : 1991.

Seller ID: 52281

Binding: Hardcover.

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

'All new stories of mystery and suspense' beginning with the same premise - ''a young woman is found dead on the apartment floor'': introduction by Bill Pronzini. Authors include Richard Laymon (the title story), Rex Miller and Andrew Vachss.
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Invitation To Murder (signed/slipcased).

By: Gorman, Ed (& Martin Greenberg, eds.)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Dark Harvest.: USA. : 1991.

Seller ID: 01178

Binding: Hardcover.

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

'All new stories of mystery and suspense' beginning with the same premise - ''a young woman is found dead on the apartment floor'': introduction by Bill Pronzini. Authors include Richard Laymon (the title story), Rex Miller and Andrew Vachss. LIMITED EDITION: 400 numbered copies signed by all 20 contributors and slipcased. This is no 139.
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