Category: Mystery & Crime

Collects 23 original stories: crime and dark suspense. I must give the full publisher's address - Tindal Street Press, 217 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham.
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Bad Chili (signed/limited).

By: Lansdale, Joe R.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Mojo Press: Austin. : 1997.

Seller ID: 18703

ISBN-13: 9781885418159

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Hap & Leonard mystery novel. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by the author and cover artist John Picacio. Note however that this copy is unnumbered but marked ''PC''.
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Captains Outrageous (signed/limited).

By: Lansdale, Joe R.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Subterranean Press: USA. : 2001.

Seller ID: 06464

ISBN-13: 9781931081283

Binding: Hardcover.

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

A Hap & Leonard mystery. LIMITED EDITION: 450 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author. This is no 268. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY COVER ARTIST JOHN PICACIO.
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Freezer Burn (signed by the author).

By: Lansdale, Joe R.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 01437

ISBN-13: 9780892967032

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thiller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Freezer Burn (signed by the author)..

By: Lansdale, Joe R.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 00505

ISBN-13: 9780575067967

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

''Bill is a loser with no job, no money, and his mother dead and freeze-dried in her bedroom. His plan: to rob a firecracker stand. Which goes wrong and Bill winds up on the run with a freak show, including Ulysses S. Grant the bearded lady, and Conrad the dog man. Not to mention Gidget, the trailer-trash hot blonde who turns out to be as unreliable as hot blondes invariably do.''
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Mucho Mojo (signed by the author).

By: Lansdale, Joe R.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1995.

Seller ID: 05057

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Hap & Leonard crime novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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McNally's Folly.

By: Lardo, Vincent

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 06059

ISBN-13: 9780340793596

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller, featuring Lawrence Sander's private detective Archy McNally (Sanders had dies in 1998 and Lardo continued the series).
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Fat Chance (film tie-in).

By: Laumer, Keith

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY. : 1975.

Seller ID: 47326

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Private Eye novel: filmed in 1975 as PEEPER (with Michael Caine and Natalie Wood) - initially the film was going to be called FAT CHANCE and this 1975 Pocker paperback film tie-in is titled as that.

''PEEPER was a 1975 American comedy-mystery film directed by Peter Hyams that starred Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator. It was a send-up of 1940s film noir. Peeper was a box-office failure that jeopardized Hyams's career and almost prevented him from obtaining funding to produce Capricorn One''.
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A Most Wanted Man (signed/slipcased).

By: le Carre, John

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2008.

Seller ID: 51830

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy (as issued without dustjacket) in slipcase (as new).

Thriller/spy novel. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 numbered copies signed by the author and slipcased, exclusively available only through Waterstones book shops in the UK. This is no 149.
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Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate No 1 (inscribed by Michel Parry to Hugh Lamb)..

By: Lee, Christopher (& Michel Parry, eds.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Star Books: London. : 1975.

Seller ID: 43300

ISBN-13: 9780352398093

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Collection of Christopher Lee's personal favourite supernatural stories, with a seven page introduction by him plus introductions to each of the stories. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MICHEL PARRY TO FELLOW UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''to 'Hugh Certificate' Lamb- best wishes Michel Nov 75. PS. cover photo shows me suffering a bad attack of mumps!''. With Hugh Lamb's initials HL rubber-stamped on the inside back cover.
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The Perfect Murder: A Study In Detection.

By: Lehman, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Free Press: NY. : 1989.

Seller ID: 36285

ISBN-13: 9780029197707

Binding: Hardcover.

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

242 pages: ''A Guide To The Best Mysteries Ever Written''.
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Get Dutch! A Biography Of Elmore Leonard.

By: Leonard, Elmore (by Paul Challen)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: ECW Press: Ontario. : 2000.

Seller ID: 41005

ISBN-13: 9781550224221

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

182 pages: biography of crime writer Elmore Leonard by Paul Challen.
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Portrait Of A Thief (signed/limited + extra items).

By: Li, Grace D.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 2022.

Seller ID: 52618

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. LIMITED EDITION: an undetermined number of copies specially bound and signed by the author. This is the special ''Illumicrate Edition'' (no idea what that means), specially bound and issued in yellow mailing box with extra items: a number of bookmarks ''featuring all the main characters from the series'', a ''Song of the Spirits Papercraft Kit'', a ''To Be Remembered Print/Photo Album'', a cotton tote bag and an ''Art History Book Pot'', plus four page leaflet explaining what everything is.
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

By: Lindsay, Jeff

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 47675

ISBN-13: 9780752866758

Binding: Hardcover.

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

First in the crime series that also became a cult tv series.
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Dexter In The Dark

By: Lindsay, Jeff

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 2007.

Seller ID: 43242

ISBN-13: 9780752885094

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Third in the crime series that also became a cult tv series.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares.

By: Lovegrove, James

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Titan Books: London. : 2013.

Seller ID: 47760

ISBN-13: 9781781165416

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Supernatural/Victorian Sherlock Holmes novel.
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The Homicidal Hat.

By: Lovesey, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Crippen & Landru: USA. : 2008.

Seller ID: 46020

Binding: Stapled wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Eight page short story, published (and distributed free) at Malice Domestic XX held in April 2008 to commemorate the author's Lifetime Achievement Award. 1000 copies printed. Note though that this copy has a stapling error in that the pink covers have been stapled upside down.
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The Kiss of Death: A Peter Diaond Mystery.

By: Lovesey, Peter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Crippen & Landru: USA. : 2000.

Seller ID: 46019

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

12 page booklet. 323 copies printed in December 2000, distributed to friends of the publisher and not offered for sale.
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The Comic Book Killer (signed/slipcased + colour comic).

By: Lupoff, Richard

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Offspring Press: Martinez, CA. : 1988.

Seller ID: 15218

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket and slipcase (as new) but for a touch of wear along the top spine edge.

270 page novel ''in the pulp tradition''. Six-page introduction by Joe Gores and four-page afterword by Algis Budrys. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by the author, illustrator and Budrys and Gores. The limited slipcased edition comes with a 16-page colour comic ''Gangsters At War'', an integral part of the plot.
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One Murder At A Time: The Casebook Of Lindsey & Plum.

By: Lupoff, Richard A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cosmos Books, an imprint of Wildside Press, USA. : 2001.

Seller ID: 39672

ISBN-13: 9781587154522

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Collects eight criime stories (plus one other): seven-page introduction by Gordon Van Gelder and Frankie Y. Bailey.
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Cinnamon Skin: The Twentieth Adventure Of Travis McGee.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Collins: London. : 1982.

Seller ID: 40162

ISBN: 000226510

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Fire Fall In Crimson.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Collins: London. : 1981.

Seller ID: 40174

ISBN-13: 9780002226073

Binding: Hardcover.

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

A Travis McGee novel.
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Judge Me Not (400-copy edition).

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 02101

ISBN-13: 9780709065272

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime novel. First published as a Gold Medal paperback original in 1951: this first printing is limited to 400 copies, as stated on the copyright page.
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The Damned.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd/Gold Medal: London. : 1964.

Seller ID: 36755

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, a VG+ copy.

Gold Medal 693, priced 2/6 on front cover. Uncommon UK paperback.
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The Green Ripper.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 34035

ISBN-13: 9780709183303

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Faint spotting along top page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.

Travis McGee thriller.
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The Lonely Silver Rain.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1985.

Seller ID: 40169

ISBN-13: 9780340378496

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges show light browning and spotting, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

A Travis McGee novel.
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You Live Once.

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: London. : 1976.

Seller ID: 40164

ISBN-13: 9780709146711

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Light spotting along page edges, else a fine copy in a fine price-clipped dustjacket.

First published as a Popular Library paperack original in 1956.
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AZ Murder Goes...Classic:Current Crimewriters Revisit Past Masters.

By: Malling, Susan (& Barbara Peters, eds.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press: Scottsdale, AZ. : 1998.

Seller ID: 36281

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

''First Revised Edition'': 284 pages. Pieces on classic mystery writers (first presented as papers at a Conference in Scottsdale in 1996) by current mystery writers - for example. Michael Connelly on Raymond Chandler, Edward Marston on John Dickson Carr, Peter Lewis on Eric Ambler and Laurie King on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Introductions by Dulcy Brainard, and Catherine Aird, plus appendices.
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The Mystery Book Of Days.

By: Malloy, William

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1990.

Seller ID: 36306

ISBN-13: 9780892964222

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-13: 9780715378779

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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Wild Cards 1V: Aces Abroad: A Wild Cards Mosaic Novel.

By: Martin, George R. R. (& Melinda M. Snodgrass, eds.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Bantam Spectra: NY. : 1988.

Seller ID: 43019

ISBN-13: 9780553276282

Binding: Paperback original.

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

466 pages: collection of original sf/fantasy stories set in the Wild Cards universe.
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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 Painted Man.

By: Masterton, Graham

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Severn House: London : 2008.

Seller ID: 47888

ISBN-13: 9781847510471

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

The second book in the Sissy Sawyer thriller series. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.

''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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Hunted Past Reason.

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tor: NY. : 2002.

Seller ID: 08194

ISBN-13: 9780765302717

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Mystery novel. Together with an uncorrected book proof. THIS PROOF IS BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Noir: Three Novels Of Suspense.

By: Matheson, Richard

Price: £75.00

Publisher: G & G Books: WI. : 1997.

Seller ID: 15631

ISBN-13: 9780964919327

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy (as issued without dustjacket) in fine slipcase (as new).

First hardcover editions (in omnibus form) of three crime novels published as paperback originals in the 1950s: 'Someone Is Bleeding', 'Fury on Sunday' and 'Ride The Nightmare'. Introduction by Matthew R. Bradley. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 552 copies, this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 390.''Crime fiction at its toughest: booze, guns, knives, chases, aberrant psychology, blackmail, icepick murders, femmes fatales, sinister psychos, brutish thugs, drunks, nymphos, homicide dicks, and a generous helping of sweat'' (Matthew R. Bradley, from the...
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Beauty And The Beast.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: London. : 1982.

Seller ID: 35315

ISBN-13: 9780241107690

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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Driving Lessons.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Orion: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 10788

ISBN-13: 9780752813257

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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Running From Legs And Other Stories.

By: McBain, Ed

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Allison & Busby: London. : 2000.

Seller ID: 35318

ISBN-13: 9780749005030

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-13: 9781931520263

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-13: 9780974768571

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-13: 9780241894477

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-13: 9780809511457

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-13: 9780806506197

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-13: 9780745301242

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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Criminal Proceedings: The Contemporary American Crime Novel.

By: Messent, Peter (ed.)

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Pluto Press: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 40193

ISBN-13: 9780745310169

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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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-13: 9780860254614

Binding: Hardcover.

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

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