Category: Mystery & Crime

Private eye/sf novel: translated from the Spanish (2002).''Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who've quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript,...
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Crime Zone.

By: Richardson, Gerald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Brown, Watson Ltd/Digit Books: London. : Nd (1960).

Seller ID: 48384

Binding: Paperback original.

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

Digit 410. Non-fiction account of the author's - ex-CID Chief - unique record of police work and crime investigation in Tangier. First published in hardcover in 1959.
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Glory In Death.

By: Robb, J. D. (aka Nora Roberts)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1996.

Seller ID: 04728

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Sf/crime novel set in the year 2058: an ''Eve Dallas Investigation'', part of a long ongoing series. Issued first in the USA as a paperback orginal.''..much better known under her working name, Nora Roberts, who under that name - though the Robb titles are themselves bestsellers - may be the most popular novelist in America, with sales of more than eight million copies a year (as of 2008). She is in fact of interest as an sf writer almost solely under her J. D. Robb name. which she has used exclusively to date for the Eve Dallas sequence of noirish, Near Future police procedurals set in a gru...
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Midland Murders & Mysteries.

By: Roberts, Barrie

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Quercus/John Roberts: Birmingham. : 1997.

Seller ID: 34533

ISBN-13: 9781898136149

Binding: Oversize paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

114 pages: ''a collection of murder cases that covers the bizarre, the pitiful and the plain nasty, and they come from Worcestershire, the Black Country, leafy Warwickshire and rural Staffordshire''.
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Image for Sherlock Holmes And The Devil's Grail: A Narrative Believed To Be From The Pen Of John H. Watson, MD, Annotated And Edited For Publication By Barrie Roberts.

Sherlock Holmes And The Devil's Grail: A Narrative Believed To Be From The Pen Of John H. Watson, MD, Annotated And Edited For Publication By Barrie Roberts.

By: Roberts, Barrie

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Constable: London. : 1995.

Seller ID: 45490

ISBN-13: 9780094746206

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little rubbing and light scratches to rear (blue) panel.

The Marble Tomb Mystery.

By: Robertson, Colin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Cherry Tree Books: London. : Nd (c.1945).

Seller ID: 43910

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: G/VG copy.

Mystery, first published in 1936.
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Twelve Hours To Destiny.

By: Robertson, Manning K.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: John Spencer/Badger Books: London. : Nd (early 1960's).

Seller ID: 29695

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Small price sticker on front cover, else a fine (unread) copy.

Badger SP 6. Spy novel. Written by John S. Glasby under the ''Manning K. Robertson'' pseudonym. Uncommon.
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The Parish Magazine: The Newsletter Of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Number 10.

By: Roden, Christopher (& Barbara Roden, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1994.

Seller ID: 28915

Binding: Stapled card wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

Tenth issue (March 1994): 32 pages.
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The Parish Magazine: The Newsletter Of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Number 11.

By: Roden, Christopher (& Barbara Roden, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1994.

Seller ID: 28916

Binding: Stapled card wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

Eleventh issue (August 1994): 32 pages.
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The Parish Magazine: The Newsletter Of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Number 12.

By: Roden, Christopher (& Barbara Roden, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1995.

Seller ID: 28917

Binding: Stapled card wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

Twelth issue (April 1995): 28 pages.
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The Parish Magazine: The Newsletter Of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Number 13.

By: Roden, Christopher (& Barbara Roden, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1995.

Seller ID: 28918

Binding: Stapled card wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy but for a little rusting to staples.

Thirteenth issue (November 1995): 28 pages.
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The Parish Magazine: The Newsletter Of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Number 9.

By: Roden, Christopher (& Barbara Roden, eds.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1993.

Seller ID: 28914

Binding: Stapled card wrappers.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Ninth issue (December 1993): 32 pages.
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Killing Time And Other Stories.

By: Rogers, Joel Townsley

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ramble House: MS. : 2010.

Seller ID: 35899

ISBN-13: 9781605430010

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Collects six long stories first published in the 1930s/1940s pulp detective magazines, with both an introduction and afterword by Alfred Jan. 268 pages.
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Saint With A Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye.

By: Ruehlmann, William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York University Press. : 1974.

Seller ID: 35583

ISBN: 0814773550

Binding: Hardcover.

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

156 pages.
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Cook Up A Crime.

By: Russell, Charlotte Murray

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Rue Morge Press: CO. : 1998.

Seller ID: 09118

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Reprint of a 1951 crime novel with a new introduction.
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McNally's Gamble.

By: Sanders, Lawrence

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: London. : 1997.

Seller ID: 18373

ISBN-13: 9780340695296

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller, featuring private detective Archy McNally.
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McNally's Luck.

By: Sanders, Lawrence

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London. : 1993.

Seller ID: 16009

ISBN-13: 9780450574078

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller, featuring private detective Archy McNally.
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Wilde West.

By: Satterthwait, Walter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 1992,

Seller ID: 10457

ISBN-13: 9780002323765

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Crime novel.
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror; Second Series.

By: Sayers, Dorothy L. (ed.)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1949.

Seller ID: 37423

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, gift inscription on front free endpaper, a near fine copy in a VG+ dusjacket.

1148 pages (67 stories). First published in 1931.
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The A - Z Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers.

By: Schechter, Harold (& David Everitt)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: NY. : 1996.

Seller ID: 36704

ISBN-13: 9780671537913

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

342 pages.
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The Werewolf's Touch.

By: Scotch, Cheri

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Diamond Books: NY. : 1993.

Seller ID: 44691

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Werewolf novel, second in the series.
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Little Moscow.

By: Scully, Mick

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Tindal Street Press: Birmingham. : 2007.

Seller ID: 47741

ISBN-13: 9780955138447

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thrille set in Birmingham: ''you want it down and dirty? Up the arse or right between the eyes? Then Scully's your man''.''The Little Moscow, a shady basement bar at the side of the Grand Union canal in Birmingham, stamping ground for thieves, gangsters and conmen - plus some of the city's more glamorous creatures. Blue-skinned Nathan, a hardknock tattooist, refuses to pay Crawford's protection racket. Nearby, a refugee from Middle Eastern wars finds a body hanging from a lamppost and becomes entangled with a goodtime girl called Veronica and an apartment decorated with abstract art. Roles ge...
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The Sexton Blake Detective Library.

By: SEXTON BLAKE, (introduction by Norman Wright)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Hawk Books Limited: London. : 1989.

Seller ID: 26440

ISBN-13: 9780948248962

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

The first four volumes of the Sexton Blake Library: 11-page introduction by Norman Wright. Contains The Yellow Tiger, Ill-Gotten Gains, The Shadow of his Crime, The Rajah's Revenge, plus b/w comic strip The League of Crime (reprinted from The Knockpout Annual 1956). 290 pages.
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Soma Blues.

By: Sheckley, Robert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Forge: NY. : 1997.

Seller ID: 53026

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime/mystery novel.
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The Alternative Detective.

By: Sheckley, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Forge: NY. : 1993.

Seller ID: 53024

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Mystery/crime novel.
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Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson Annual

By: SHERLOCK HOLMES,

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Grandreams: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 43399

ISBN-13: 9780862270162

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Spin-off annual from the tv series: comic strip stories (both b/w and colour), several articles, stills from the tv series and the short story (text) ''The Case of the Suspect Swami''. The colour comic strips are ''The Case of the Jade Immortal'' and ''The Case of the Kris of Death''.
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How The Old Woman Got Home (with dustjacket).

By: Shiel, M. P.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: The Richards Press: London. : 1927.

Seller ID: 47269

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning and spotted, front free endpaper affixed to front pastedown, a VG copy in a good pictorial dustjacket (priced 7/6) with dust-soilng to rear (white) panel and wear and creasing along edges, including a fingernail-sized chip along the b

Mystery novel. Variant/later binding of blue cloth (the first binding state has red-orange cloth).
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The Crook Factory (signed by the author).

By: Simmons, Dan

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Avon Books: NY. : 1999.

Seller ID: 00756

ISBN-13: 9780380973682

Binding: Hardcover.

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

1940s thriller with Ernest Hemingway as the main protagonist. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''In 1942, at the height of World War II, Ernest Hemingway sought permission form J. Edgar Hoover to operate a spy ring out of his ranch in Cuba. This much is true... The author expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of historical suspense. It is the summer of '42, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway, who has recklessly decided to play spy in the Caribbean. Lucas has been instructed to somehow gain the great writer's trust and frie...
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Peking Duck: A Moses Wine Detective Novel.

By: Simon, Roger L.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: London. : 1979.

Seller ID: 29040

ISBN-13: 9780233971223

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for some fading to the spine lettering (orange to yellow/green).

Thriller.
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Augustus Rex.

By: Sinclair, Clive

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: London. : 1992.

Seller ID: 35814

ISBN-13: 9780233987682

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with review slip and publisher's press release laid in.

Fantasy novel.''UK writer best-known for his first novel, Bibliosexuality (1973), which contains elements of fabulation. Hearts of Gold (coll 1979) and Bedbugs (coll 1982) both contain some fantasy and supernatural fiction, including ''Uncle Vlad'', a vampire tale, in the first, and ''Genesis'', which features a fallen angel, in the second. Generally, though, his stories make use of fable elements as an estranging device, and tend to hover along the peripheries of the fantastic. AUGUSTUS REX (1992), however, steps vigorously over the line; narrated by Beelzebub, it tells how August Strindberg ...
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Skullduggery vol 2 no 4 (whole no 8).

By: SKULLDUGGERY (USA),

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Corsair Press: Cambridge, MA. : 1981 (Fall).

Seller ID: 39515

Binding: Stapled pictorial wrappers.

Condition: Fine (unread) copy.

Issue 8. A short-lived small-press crime/mystery magazine that ran for eight issues under the title Skullduggery and then a further four issues under the title Spiderweb. It's first editor was Michael Cook (Jan 1980 - Jun 1980), then Will Murray (Jan 1981 - Jun 1981), finally Karen Shapiro & Bill Desmond (Jul 1981 - Dec 1981).
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Invisible Green: A Thackeray Phin Mystery.

By: Sladek, John

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London. : 1977.

Seller ID: 22746

ISBN-13: 9780575023154

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges just a little browned, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

The second Thackerary Phin detective novel, following BLACK AURA. A Locked Room Mystery.
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Like A Charm (signed by various).

By: Slaughter, Karin (ed.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Century: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 51974

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Crime thriller consisting of 16 chapters (each a separate story by a different writer) linking together to make one novel, the first and last chapter written by the editor. THIS COPY SIGNED BY SIX OF THE CONTRIBUTORS.
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The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide.

By: Smith, Daniel

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Aurum Press: London. : 2009.

Seller ID: 34047

ISBN-13: 9781845134587

Binding: Oversize hardcover.

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

192 pages: illustrated throughout.
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The Chronicles Of Sherlock Holmes Volume Three.

By: Smith, Denis O.

Price: £50.00

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

Seller ID: 42530

ISBN-13: 9781899562862

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The Chronicles Of Sherlock Holmes Volume Two.

By: Smith, Denis O.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Calabash Press: Ashcroft, British Columbia. : 1998.

Seller ID: 28899

ISBN-13: 9781899562596

Binding: Hardcover.

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

The Chronicles Of Sherlock Holmes.

By: Smith, Denis O.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Calabash Press: Ashcroft, British Columbia. : 1997.

Seller ID: 28857

ISBN-13: 9781899562367

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Paperbound edition: released simultaneous with the hardcover edition.
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Golden Age Detective Stories.

By: Smith, Marie (ed.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Parragon: Bath. : 1999.

Seller ID: 23604

ISBN-13: 9780752535401

Binding: Trade paperback original.

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

518 pages: classic reprints from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Originally published as THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF GOLDEN AGE DETECTIVE STORIES in 1994.
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Bad Things.

By: Smith, Michael Marshall (writing as "Michael Marshal")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 2009.

Seller ID: 29664

ISBN-13: 9780007209989

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Supernatural thriller.
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The Intruders.

By: Smith, Michael Marshall (writing as "Michael Marshal")

Price: £15.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: London. : 2007.

Seller ID: 21405

ISBN-13: 9780007209972

Binding: Hardcover.

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

Thriller.''Jack Whalen was an LAPD patrol cop for twelve years. He left in difficult circumstances and now he's not really sure what he is. He's not too sure about his wife, either -- when she goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, Jack heads up there to find her: only to discover she's not really missing after all. Over the coming days it becomes increasingly clear that something has changed, however -- and is still changing. Jack is meanwhile contacted by a childhood acquaintance, Gary Fisher. Fisher's a lawyer now, and wants help in solving an odd little mystery concerning a bu...
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Monkey In The Middle.

By: Solomita, Stephen

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Severn House: London : 2008.

Seller ID: 47886

ISBN-13: 9781847510655

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

''a contemporary hard-boiled New York noir mystery''. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover.
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The Art of Murder.

By: Somoza, Jose Carlos

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Abacus: London. : 2004.

Seller ID: 47720

ISBN-13: 9780349117065

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

470 pages. Thriller, translated from the Spanish.''welcome to an art scene where realism has reached a new level, where each painting is literally alive, where the model is the canvas. And for the gorgeous men and women lining up for the privilege - to be painted and posed, bought and rented by collectors - there is one artist to whom they are all drawn: the Dutch master, Bruno van Tysch. A young female model is brutally murdered, and the detectives assigned to the case may have little interest in modern art, but they're going to have to acquire an appreciation quickly. Van Tysch is about to...
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A Coin For The Hangman (signed by the author)..

By: Spurrier, Ralph

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Hookline Books: London. : 2016.

Seller ID: 40492

ISBN-13: 9780993287466

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Crime novel, the author's (an old friend and colleague of mine from way back) first book. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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A Serpent Uncoiled.

By: Spurrier, Simon

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Headline: London. : 2011.

Seller ID: 31630

ISBN-13: 9780755335923

Binding: Trade paperback original.

Condition: Fine (as new) copy.

Thriller.''a missing mobster. A bizarre spiritualist society. And three deaths, linked by a chilling forensic detail. Working as an enforcer in London's criminal underworld brought Dan Shaper to the edge of a breakdown. Now he's a private investigator, kept perilously afloat by a growing cocktail of drugs. He needs to straighten-up and rebuild his life, but instead gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job-offer from Mr George Glass. The elderly eccentric claims to be a New Age Messiah, but now needs a saviour of his own. He's been marked for murder. Adrift amidst liars and thug...
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The Casebook of Sherlock Doyle: True Mysteries Investigated By Conan Doyle.

By: Stone, Harry

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Ian Henry Publications, Ltd: UK. : 1991.

Seller ID: 28863

ISBN-13: 9780860254393

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for faint bruising to rear top corner tip.

Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Make Your Hair Stand On End.

By: Sullivan, Eleanor (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Max Reindhart: London. : 1984.

Seller ID: 42199

ISBN-13: 9780370305844

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for small nick along top edge of rear board.

Collects 25 stories first published in Alfed Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Tales To Send Chills Down Your Spine.

By: Sullivan, Eleanor (ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Max Reindhart: London. : 1980.

Seller ID: 42200

ISBN-13: 9780370302997

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Collects 29 stories first published in Alfed Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: ''A Bottle of Wine'' by Borden Deal, ''The Glass Bridge'' by Robert Arthur, ''Luck is No Lady'' by Robert Bloch, ''The Exit Was a Wall'' by Evans Harrington ''An Interlude for Murder'' by Paul Tabori, ''Peephole'' by Henry Slesar, ''Death Overdue'' by Eleanor Daly Boylan, ''The Best-Friend Murder'' by Donald E. Westlake, ''Man Bites Dogs'' by Donald Honig, ''Go to Sleep Darling'' by James Holding, ''Murder is Dominant'' by Glenn Andrews, ''A Reform Movement'' by Donald Martin, ''Remote Control'' by Jean Garris, ''The Bo...
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Category: Mystery & Crime

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