Category: Mystery & Crime

A Dry Spell (signed by the author).

By: Moloney, Susie

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Headline: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 15736

ISBN-13: 9780747219040

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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Printer's Devil: Nick Adlard, S.M.A.S.H.

By: Moorcock, Michael (writing as "Bill Barclay")

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Roberts & Vinter, Ltd/Compact: London. : 1966.

Seller ID: 28343

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: A little spine lean, a VG+ copy.

Compact F322. Spy thriller. Later revised and issued as THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE. A rare UK paperback.
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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-13: 9780727817884

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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Fiddleback (inscribed by the author)..

By: Morris, Mark (writing as "J. M. Morris")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 2002.

Seller ID: 08411

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Mystery novel by a writer better known for his horror fiction. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON PLAIN WHITE LABEL AFFIXED TO TITLE PAGE/''to - , best wishes, Mark Morris aka J. M. Morris''.
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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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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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Criminal Intent 1 (signed/slipcased).

By: Muller, Marcia (& Ed Gorman & Bill Pronzini)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Dark Harvest.: USA. : 1993.

Seller ID: 04275

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Three original crime novellas. First in an intended series by the publisher to do for crime what their NIGHT VISIONS series did for horror. Though being the first and last in the series, I guess it didn't. LIMITED EDITION: 250 copies signed by all three authors and slipcased. This is no 84.
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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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Mystery Scene: 133 of the first 147 issues.

By: MYSTERY SCENE, (US magazine)

Price: £100.00

Publisher: : 1985-2016.

Seller ID: 51280

Binding: Magazines.

Condition: Overall a fine set, several early issues have a little wear (like the first issue).

133 of the first 147 issues of MYSTERY SCENE from 1985 - 2016, missing no 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 66, 69, 72, 82, 118, 1210, 128 and 133: ''an an American magazine, first published in 1985, that covers the crime and mystery genre with a mix of articles, profiles, criticism, and extensive reviews of books, films, TV, short stories, audiobooks, and reference works''. The first issue was one sheet, folded to make four pages, but by no 4 it was one hundred pages (where it more or less remained). Shipping overseas will be more than shown.
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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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Cobra Trap (signed by the author)..

By: O'Donnell, Peter

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Souvenir Press: London. : 1996.

Seller ID: 00015

ISBN-13: 9780285633322

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Modesty Blaise novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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Saguaro Riptide.

By: Partridge, Norman

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY. : 1997.

Seller ID: 11045

ISBN-13: 9780425156995

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-13: 9780425161432

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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The Ten Ounce Siesta.

By: Partridge, Norman

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Berkley: NY. : 1998.

Seller ID: 11394

ISBN-13: 9780425161432

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Mystery novel by a writer better known in the horror field.
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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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Raymond Chandler: His Novels Into Film.

By: Pendo, Stephen

Price: £50.00

Publisher: The Scarecrow Press: USA. : 1976.

Seller ID: 36913

ISBN-13: 9780810809314

Binding: Hardcover.

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

240 pages.
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Bibliomysteries: Stories Of Crime In The World of Books And Bookstores.

By: Penzler, Otto (ed.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pegasus Books: NY. : 2017.

Seller ID: 52882

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

526 pages: introduction by Ian Rankin.
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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-13: 9780603035043

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 market were...
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The Horn Of Roland.

By: Peters, Ellis

Price: £32.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 1974.

Seller ID: 15093

Binding: Hardcover.

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

A mystery novel set in the Alps.
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Back From The Dead.

By: Petit, Chris

Price: £10.00

Publisher: MacMillan: London. : 1999.

Seller ID: 33391

ISBN-13: 9780333622780

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.
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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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Shards: A Dark Mystery (inscribed & signed by author).

By: Piccirilli, Tom

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Write Way Publishing: Aurora, CO. : 1996.

Seller ID: 52173

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. SIGNED AND DATED (6/20/97) BY THE AUTHO.
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The Dead Past (inscribed & dated by the author).

By: Piccirilli, Tom

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Write Way Publishing: Aurora, CO. : 1997.

Seller ID: 52172

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller. SIGNED AND DATED (6/20/97) BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION.
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Generous Death: A Jenny Cain Mystery (signed/slipcased).

By: Pickard, Nancy

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Dark Harvest.: USA. : 1992.

Seller ID: 51954

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) in a slipcase that is split along the bottom edge.

Crime novel, introduction by Carolyn G. Hart. LIMITEd EDITION: m300 numbered copies signed by both authors and slipcased. This is no 221.
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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-13: 9780715367490

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-13: 9781848683143

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-13: 9780747504184

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: £15.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1981.

Seller ID: 10608

ISBN-13: 9780575030282

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Spy thriller.
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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 Angeles'' (Jo...
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Son Of Gun In Cheek: An Affectionate Guide To More Of The ''Worst'' In Mystery Fiction.

By: Pronzini, Bill

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY. : 1987.

Seller ID: 35576

ISBN: 0892962873

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The Giant Book Of Private Eye Stories.

By: Pronzini, Bill (& Martin H. Greenberg, eds.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Magpie Books: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 36650

ISBN-13: 9781854876584

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Some browning along page edges, else a fine copy with clear tape affixed along edges of inner covers.

Title change: originally published as THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PRIVATE EYES STORIES. 592 pages.
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Dick Barton - Special Agent No 4: The Gold Bullion Swindle (tv tie-in).

By: Pryce, Larry

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Star Books: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 47458

ISBN-13: 9780352303103

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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