Category: Mystery & Crime

The City In These Pages (signed/limited + dj).

By: Grant, John

Price: £30.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2008.

Seller ID: 24698

ISBN-13: 9781905834655

Binding: Hardcover.

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

SF/crime novella in homage to Ed McBain: introduction by David Langford. LIMITED EDITION: from a total hardcover printing of 700 copies, this is one of 200 numbered copies issued with a dustjacket and signed by both authors. This is no 25. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY COVER ARTIST VINCENT CHONG. ''From the author - I've been a devotee of the works of Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) for decades - since puberty, perhaps longer - so that when the great man died in July 2005 it was almost like losing a family member. I wanted to write my own, very humble tribute to him by way of thanks for all the pleasur...
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The Lonely Hunter.

By: Grant, John

Price: £12.00

Publisher: PS Publishing: UK : 2012.

Seller ID: 32803

ISBN-13: 9781848632066

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Slipstream fantasy/thriller novella. Unsigned trade hardcover in pictorial boards.
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Justice For None (signed by both authors).

By: Hackman, Gene (& Daniel Lenihan)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY. : 2004.

Seller ID: 52301

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller, set just before the Depression in 1929. SIGNED BY BOTH (Hollywood actor) GENE HACKMAN AND DANIEL LENIHAN.
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Who Done It? A Guide To Detective, Mystery And Suspense Fiction.

By: Hagen, Ordean A.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: R. R. Bowker: NY. : 1969.

Seller ID: 35510

ISBN-13: 9780835202343

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

Condition: Almost fine copy, as issued without a dustjacket.

834 pages.
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Murder By The Glass: A Vintage Collection of Crime And Mystery Stories.

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Souvenir Press: London. : 1994.

Seller ID: 26319

ISBN-13: 9780285632059

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Tales From The Rogues Gallery: A Guided Tour.

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Warner Books: London. : 1995.

Seller ID: 30088

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Reprint anthology: 340 pages. 28 stories of rogues and murderers, both fictional and real.
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The Art Of Mystery & Detective Stories: The Best Illustrations From Over A Century Of Crime Fiction.

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Treasure Press: London. : 1986.

Seller ID: 18656

ISBN-13: 9781850511359

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

Title change: first published by Souvenir Press in 1977 as 'MYSTERY. Mostly b/w with some colour.
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The Mammoth Book Of Armchair Detectives & Screen Crimes.

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 1998.

Seller ID: 26471

ISBN-13: 9781854875396

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

''The Stories That Inspired Great TV And Movie Thrillers'': 464 pages.
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The Television Crimebusters Omnibus: Great Stories Of The Police Detectives.

By: Haining, Peter (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 1994.

Seller ID: 26296

ISBN-13: 9781857979480

Binding: Hardcover.

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

512 pages.
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The Lords of Misrule.

By: Halter, Paul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Pugmire: USA. : 2006.

Seller ID: 46007

ISBN-13: 9781453897973

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Serial killer thriller set in Victorian London, first published in France in 1994. Translated by John Pugmire.''we are in Victorian London, with its gaslight and fog, not long after the Jack the Ripper Murders. A mysterious cloaked figure wearing a hideous, leprous mask and sleigh-bells is stalking the countryside outside the capital, committing murder wherever it goes, yet leaving no footprints. This is the first Paul Halter novel featuring amateur detective and aesthete Owen Burns, who regards the impossible crime as an art form. The Lord of Misrule was the first book to be published by wha...
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The Seven Wonders of Crime.

By: Halter, Paul

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Pugmire: USA. : 2007.

Seller ID: 46016

ISBN-13: 9781468029475

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Triller, first published in France in 1997. Translated by John Pugmire.''a man dies of thirst in an isolated shed with a full carafe of water beside him. Another is stabbed in a pergola surrounded by a sea of mud, but there are no other footprints. People are dying at an alarming rate, people with no apparent connection to one another save for a cryptic painting sent to the police before each murder. That, and the fact that each crime appears to have been impossible to execute. The paintings have a common theme: each contains a coded reference to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....
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Safari With Fear! (Sexton Blake Library #430).

By: Hardinge, Rex

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Amalgamated Press Ltd: London. : 1959 (May).

Seller ID: 25915

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for slight rusting to rear staple.

Sexton Blake Library no 430. Price 10p.
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John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book 1971.

By: Harris, Herbert (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1970.

Seller ID: 51147

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.

Original crime 'anthology of the Crime Writer's Association'.
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Montezuma's Revenge (signed by the author).

By: Harrison, Harry

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Doubleday: NY. : 1972.

Seller ID: 19531

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, light brown stain on front free endpaper, an almost fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

Mystery novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A very uncommon book.
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Queen Victoria's Revenge (signed by the author).

By: Harrison, Harry

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Doubleday: NY. : 1974.

Seller ID: 19534

ISBN-13: 9780385078023

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

Thriller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Queen Victoria's Revenge.

By: Harrison, Harry

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 1977.

Seller ID: 49165

ISBN-13: 9780722143735

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Spoof thriller, first published by Doubleday in hardcover in 1974: Severn House issued a hardcover in 1977. There was no US paperback edition till 1987 (from Tor).
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The QE2 Is Missing.

By: Harrison, Harry

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 49418

ISBN-13: 9780708819555

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Thriller: ''they found her, lifeless, adrift, a vast modern Marie Celeste''. Severn House issued a hardcover a year later. ''First published in Great Britain 1980'' on copyright page.
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Vendetta For The Saint (signed by the author).

By: Harrison, Harry (writing as "Leslie Charteris")

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Doubleday: NY. : 1984.

Seller ID: 17928

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a G/VG dustjacket.

SIGNED BY HARRY HARRISON.
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American Purgatorio.

By: Haskell, John

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Canongate: Edinburgh. : 2005.

Seller ID: 32617

ISBN-13: 9781841955971

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller: the author's first novel.
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Scare Story.

By: Hey, Stan

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 33392

ISBN-13: 9780340625774

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

A Frank Brennan Mystery.
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Scare Story:

By: Hey, Stan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 18377

ISBN-13: 9780340625774

Binding: Hardcover.

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

A Frank Brennan Mystery.
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The Eye Of The Storm.

By: Higgins, Jack

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Chapmans: London. : 1992.

Seller ID: 24990

ISBN-13: 9781855920613

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The first book in the Sean Dillon series.

''Sean Dillon is an assassin, a hired hand who, despite working for the IRA, PLO and ETA, has not seen the inside of a prison cell. He's just the man that Iraqi, Michael Aroun has been looking for - the kind of professional who won't flinch from an attack on the offices of British government''.
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Mad Dogs.

By: Hodge, Brian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 2007.

Seller ID: 34867

ISBN-13: 9781587671494

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller: 578 pages. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 hardcover copies, signed by the author.
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Wild Horses.

By: Hodge, Brian

Price: £10.00

Publisher: William Morrow: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 04760

ISBN-13: 9780688165277

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel.

''a great rodeo ride of a book, leaping and twisting and bucking for all it's worth. Delightful surprises. Wonderful thrills and smooth writing'' (Joe R. Lansdale)
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Wild Horses.(inscribed & signed by the author).

By: Hodge, Brian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co.: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 52286

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Guy, this not entirely satisfactory alternative to the life of crime I'd really rather be leading., Enjoy. Brian Hodge 4/17/99''.

''a great rodeo ride of a book, leaping and twisting and bucking for all it's worth. Delightful surprises. Wonderful thrills and smooth writing'' (Joe R. Lansdale)
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Born Bad (signed/limited + signed uncorrected proof).

By: Hoffman, Barry

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Cemetery Dance (CD): Baltimore. : 2000.

Seller ID: 34876

ISBN-13: 9781881475873

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. Dustjacket art by Harry O. Morris. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 260. Together with an uncorrected book proof inscribed and signed by the author on printed publisher's label affixed to the title page.
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Hungry Eyes (signed/limited + uncorrected book proof).

By: Hoffman, Barry

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Gauntlet Publications: Springfield, PN. : 1997.

Seller ID: 15719

ISBN-13: 9781887368124

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Serial killer thriller: introduction by William F. Nolan and afterword from Rick Hautala. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by all three authors. This is no 378. Together with a (fine/unread) uncorrected book proof.
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Bulman 2: One Of Our Pigeons Is Missing: A Novel From Scripts Written By Murray Smith.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Futura: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 10253

ISBN-13: 9780708827161

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Novelisation of television crime series.
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Bulman 2: One Of Our Pigeons Is Missing: A Novel From Scripts Written By Murray Smith.

By: Holdstock, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Futura: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 44167

ISBN-13: 9780708827161

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Near fine (NF) copy with a little browning along page edges.

Novelisation of television crime series.
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The Final Murder.

By: Holt, Anne

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Sphere Books: London. : 2007.

Seller ID: 47696

ISBN-13: 9781847440396

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Serial killer crime novel, first published in Norway in 2004, newly translated by Kari Dickson. The second volume in the Vik/Stubo series.
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The Mystery Lovers' Book of Quotations

By: Horning, Jane (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1989.

Seller ID: 36699

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

278 pages: ''a choice selection from Murder Mysteries, Detective Stories, Suspense Novels, Spy Thrillers And Crime Fiction''.
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Dark Harbour.

By: Hosp, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: London. : 2005.

Seller ID: 47687

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller, the author's first book.''the disembowelled body of a young woman is fished out of Boston harbour. The distinctive mutilations to the corpse bear all the hallmarks of the killer they call Little Jack. But unlike the six previous victims, Natalie Caldwell was no prostitute, but a highflying lawyer. As the last person to see her alive, Scott Finn, her colleague and ex-lover, comes under intense scrutiny in the subsequent investigation. Finn is also struggling to pick up the pieces of the high-profile case Natalie was involved in before she died. On September 11th 2005, a packed commute...
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100 Favorite Mysteries Of The Century, Selected By The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

By: Huang, Jim (ed.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Crum Creek Press: Carmel, Indiana. : 2000.

Seller ID: 36697

ISBN-13: 9780962580468

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

160 pages. First printing (''December 2000'' as stated on the copyright page).
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The Adventures of Creighton Holmes.

By: Hubbell, Ned

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Popular Library: NY. : 1979.

Seller ID: 48692

ISBN-13: 9780445043503

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy but for a little rubbing to covers.

Collects The Mysterious Death at Wetherby Manor, The Case of the Scientific Recluse, The Strange Death of Matthew Tidmore, The Kohinoor Gem Shop Burglary, The Incriminating Glove, The Murder of the Enigmatic Husband, and The Case of the Bewildering Alibi. Privately printed by the author six years earlier in 1973.
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The Magician's File.

By: Hunt, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 11031

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Psychosexual thriller.
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The Mystic Arts Of Erasing All Signs Of Death,

By: Huston, Charlie

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: NY. : 2009.

Seller ID: 38519

ISBN-13: 9780345501110

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Compulsion.

By: Hutson, Shaun

Price: £25.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 2001.

Seller ID: 24997

ISBN-13: 9780333737231

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.''a gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits' end trying to put a stop to the gang's activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House - an old people's home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang's most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffitl on w...
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Hush Money.

By: Israel, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1974.

Seller ID: 29041

ISBN-13: 9780340199749

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges a little browned and spotted, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket but for some fading (brown to blue, not affecting lettering) along the spine panel.

Thriller.
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Kiss Me Sadly (signed by the author).

By: Jakubowski, Maxim

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Do-Not Press Ltd: London. : 2002.

Seller ID: 15379

ISBN-13: 9781899344888

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Erotic thriller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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The Best British Mysteries.

By: Jakubowski, Maxim (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 23605

ISBN-13: 9780749083007

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

384 pages: 24 reprint stories.
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The Mammoth Book Of Pulp Action.

By: Jakubowski, Maxim (ed.)

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Robinson: London. : 2001.

Seller ID: 17829

ISBN-13: 9781841192888

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

630 pages: 23 crime and mystery reprints (though not necessarily from the pulp magazines) including one original story (''Dog Life'') by Mark Timlin.
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Dead Tomorrow (inscribed by the author).

By: James, Peter

Price: £30.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 2009.

Seller ID: 04300

ISBN-13: 9780553075922

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Detective Roy Grace novel. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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When Dames Get Tough With Scarred Faces And Other Rarities.

By: Janson, Hank (aka Stephen Frances)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Telos Publications: UK. : 2004.

Seller ID: 41001

ISBN-13: 9781903889855

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Reprints five long Hank Janson stories. 224 pages: introduction by Steve Holland.
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Writing Crime Fiction.

By: Keating, H. R. F.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: A & C Black: London. : 1986.

Seller ID: 36263

ISBN-13: 9780713628692

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

88 pages.
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Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books (signed by the author).

By: Keating, H. R. F. (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Xanadu: London. : 1987.

Seller ID: 37265

ISBN-13: 9780947761257

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Introduction by Patricia Highsmith. SIGNED BY H. R. KEATING.
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Crime Writers: Reflections On Crime Fiction.

By: Keating, H. R. F. (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: BBC Books: London. : 1978.

Seller ID: 36420

ISBN-13: 9780563162636

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: VG copy.

Tie-in with the BBC series CRIME WRITERS, broadcast as six Further Education Television programmes from November 1978: contributors include Reginald Hill (on Sherlock Holmes), P. D. James (on Dorothy L. Sayers) and Julian Symons (on Dashiel Hammett).
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Whodunit? A Guide To Crime, Suspense & Spy Fiction.

By: Keating, H. R. F. (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Windward/W. H. Smith: UK. : 1982.

Seller ID: 36268

ISBN-13: 9780711202498

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Bottom corner tips bruised, an almost fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.

320 pages.
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Road Kill (inscribed by the author)

By: Ketchum, Jack

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Headline: London. : 1994.

Seller ID: 43717

ISBN-13: 9780747210665

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. Published in the US as a paperback original a year later as JOYRIDE. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON PLAIN WHITE LABEL AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE.
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