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London: Macmillan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333289730 . HC/DJ - near fine. Mylar cover, which has been taped to book. Light edgewear. Light soiling outer edge of pages, back cover, with slight soiling inside covers. Previous owner's small name stamp on two pages. Interior pages otherwise clean & unmarked. Rupert Conway goes to New York City to certify and advise on the sale of old masters in the Schellenberg Collection. In the meantime, Horst Rheinberg of the East German Secret Police murders a man and flees across the Austrian border, while a KGB officer by the name of Anna Liese Ulrich is on her way to Bologna to investigate recent fiascoes by Red Brigade terrorists. Rupert's fascinating detective work on the pictures belonging to the formidable Miss Schellenberg will lead him back to Europe where he becomes entangled in the dangerous events sparked by the activities of Horst and Anna.....a Splendid thriller! ; 8vo - over… Read More

London: Eyre Methuen/Magnum. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0413483908 . Clean, tight condition. Hardcover is clean & unmarked, slight edgewear, age tanning of pages. Jacket has light edgewear/scuffing, a couple tiny tears & creases, not clipped. 282 pages plus book ads. A journalist's greatest story - of drugs and prostitution....but also a scoop of death. Author's 2nd thriller for Methuen. (400noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Bantam Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Not First Edition. Hardcover. 0553803409 . Hardcover & jacket as new other than light scuffing of cover and crease to front flap - no markings. Publisher's Note: Arson specialist Kerry Murphy solves crimes with the help of her dog Sam, but behind her reputation as a fire detective, she hides a terrifying secret that explains her success more thoroughly than her hard work and dedication. ; 8vo .

Warner Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0739414917 . Hardcover is clean & unmarked with minimal wear. Jacket has light edgewear and rubbing along edges. Interior is clean & unmarked. "In Saulnier's entertaining sixth Alex Bernier adventure (after 2003's Ecstasy) , the stubborn, brassy reporter for the Gabriel, N. Y. , Monitor gets mixed up in the dispute over the town's once-glorious Starlight Theatre. When socialite Sissy Dillingham, the major force behind the Save Our Starlight group (aka S. O. S. ) , is brutally murdered, Alex realizes there's far more at stake than rescuing the old place from demolition...." ; 8vo .

Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. HC is clean, with only light wear to edges/corner, soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean & tight. DJ is yellowed, has moderate edgewear and a few small tears, light soiling, price clipped. Inspector Gideon of Scotland Yard delves into the sabotage of a power station in London as he tries to juggle a number of unrelated cases. Popular detective series by John Creasey, writing as J. J. Marric. "Commander George Gideon, of Scotland Yard, was standing on the Chelsea Embankment looking toward the big power station nearby, which had been sabotaged that morning..." 197 pages (400noto) ; 8vo .

Dial Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385279469 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Hardcover is unmarked, other than a light stain to one outer edge. Jacket has light edgewear and a few small edge tears. "A lively comedy/mystery involving a gym teacher, a 'superannuated virgin', a lonely widower, a troubled art historian, a grand dame & a tax expert whose reputation outside the office rests with her skintight peach satin pants....a zany, convoluted tale". (400noto) ; 8vo .

London: Viking/Penguin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce Title. Ex-library, with usual stamps & sticker, mylar covered, DJ attached to book, price clipped. DJ has been trimmed back by library before gluing onto book. DJ has light edgewear and chipping. Pages clean and tight, a few earmarks. 184 pages. A nice, tight clean copy. "Five people with very different reasons for wishing to escape Christmas answer the ad and travel from London to a remote Scottish island where Eric, the hopeful hostelier, has lured them. Whether the five are there to run away from the present or to commune with the past becomes clearer...."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0091597005 . HC/DJ - near fine. Hardcover has slight soiling outer edge of pages, slight corner bumping Interior clean and unmarked - first 2 pages are a little wrinkled. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, not price clipped. Imagine that the Crimea, instead of being a peninsula in the Black Sea, is an island. And imagine that island as a capitalist playground with sleek architecture, more cars than people, and every kind of luxury - a thorn in the side of the USSR in much the same way that Taiwan is an irritant for Communist China.......a rollicking, suspenseful story of intrigue and romance that is also a cautionary tale about the USSR and the fate of the West." Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. (495) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0345387821 . Retired library book with only light wear, laminated cover & usual library markings. Internal pages clean & tight. Light staining outer edge of pages. Very light edgewear, light scuffing to jacket. " When murder of the leading man halts filming on Indian land in New Mexico, blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, whose girlfriend plays an extra in the movie, suspects more than simple Indian animosity. "; 8vo .

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0091514207 . Hardcover has slight soiling around edge & outer edge of pages. Interior is clean & tight, with no markings. Light wear to spine ends. Jacket has light edgewear, light soiling and a few tiny tears, not price clipped. 427 pages. Novel moves from Germany in the early 1920s through wartime Burma back to a devastated post-war Berlin and on to the agony of Vietnam. Through the story of Paul Christopher - who has appeared in previous McCarry novels - the novel traces the development of the secret American intelligence group known as "the Outfit" from buccaneering days in the struggle against the Nazis & Japanese to the bitterness and moral complexities of the present day.... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Thriller Book Club. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. B002ADVYD2 . HC/DJ - very good. Hardcover clean other than green booksale stamp on top edge and small stamp and couple of old prices on first blank endpage, one small ink mark inside rear cover. A little bumping to spine ends. Jacket is moderately scuffed with light wear to edges, light soiling to rear and crease on front flap. A young woman is about to leave for the Aegean on holiday when a bleeding man lands on her balcony. It was fortunate that she believed his story for with her help he was able to devise an ingenious plan to evade his pursuers ... But then things became even more complicated. [223-osl? ]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

William Heinemann. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 0434019712 . Heinemann 1962 First Edition. HC/DJ - very good/good minus. Hardcover is clean and intact, with with no markings, a little fading and bumping to spine to spine ends. Good minus jacket is age tanned, with light soiling and several edge tears and chips, edge rubbing. . ; 8vo; "The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson’s brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler’s checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the… Read More

Ulverscroft Large Print. Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0708937705 . Ulvescroft large print. Ex-library book, but still in quite nice condition, no jacket as issued. Pages are clean and tight, library marks to upper edge of pages. Cover has a little wear at corners, light scuffing and light soiling to rear. Wales 1880: Young Tom Mortymer, son of rich industrialist Iestyn Mortymer, has turned his back on his inheritance for a gypsy existence with his young Romany wife, Jen Wildflower. They come to settle on Flatholm Island where they become a refuge for animals. But their simple idyll does not last as they become aware of a strange malevolence towards them..... [640 ]; Ulverscroft Large Print Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 496 pages .

St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 031229056x . Excellent condition. Hardcover is clean and tight, unmarked other than a tiny (dot) remainder mark bottom edge. Jacket has light scuffing and very light wear at corners, price sticker on rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Review: "Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, gets a call from former lover Laura, whose son has disappeared with his girlfriend, Amanda. Kovak's inquiries lead him to the local headquarters of a religious sect known as the Seven Trumpets. Kovak is uncomfortable; all the women are pregnant, and the two sect leaders are two very contented--and evasive--men. Then Amanda's naked, lifeless body is found at a remote location of the sprawling compound. The investigation focuses on the religious sect and its unsavory leaders, but Kovak can't make any sort of a forensic case against them. Using the time-tested investigatory technique of… Read More

Toronto: Dorset Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 088893016X . HARDCOVER edition, Dorset 1979, first edition, same ISBN. HC/DJ - fine/VG. Hardcover is clean and tight with slight bumping of spine ends. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Jacket has light edgewear and a few tiny tears/chips, light scuffing, not clipped. Mantouche: Not the white man's all powerful, all knowing God....But cherished by the Native peoples as the force that regulates and balances life. Mantouche: In trouble, Puzzled, Threatened....Because of man's destruction of the environment, because of man's unbalanced nature. Heeding the pleas of a beautiful Ojibway girl, Canadian trouble-shooter Adrian Dumas agrees to do his best to help Mantouche. His covenant with Mike Red Sky involves him in a cruel KGB plot to manipulate a uranium industrialist's secret guilt. This very nearly costs him his life.....; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 277 pages .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover has light stain to rear & bottom edge, green dot on top edge. Light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior pages clean & unmarked. Jacket has moderate edgewear and a few tiny tears/chips, stain (watermark?) across back & spine, light scuffing/rubbing of rest of jacket, not clipped. Book Description Jackie Greenstein is a victim of the Midas Compulsion. The stock market is his obsession, and though he is pushing gold mining stocks, not everyone Jackie touches will find gold....This novel takes you where no book about buying and selling of stocks has ever gone - into the private lives of the special breed of greed merchants who manage one of the highest risk games there is.. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385193777 . HC/DJ - near fine. Only light wear overall, light soiling outer edge of pages, pages clean and intact, old pencilled price on endpage. Mylar cover protector lightly scuffed, price clipped. Within a cloistered world dedicated to peace and love, a violent death occurs. The prior of Tathwell Abbey has been found murdered, and suspicion falls on a most unlikely assortment of people: the entire order of Gilbertine nuns and monks who live in "peaceful" seclusion there. ; 8vo .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0340164891 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Re-issue of 1958 first edition. Light edgewear and small edge tears to jacket. The newly appointed Superintendent of Scotland Yard, Roger West, must solve a mystery in which a beautiful young girl in London is murdered, her face slashed to ribbons, and an elderly art dealer in New York is killed in the same fashion... (400noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771069448 . HC/DJ - very good. Hardcover is clean, has moderate wear to edges & corners, light soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight. Jacket has light edgewear and a few small tears/chips, age yellowing to edges, light soiling, sticker residue on front, not clipped. A chillingly authentic thriller set against a background of the Tchiakovsky International Music Festival in Moscow. . ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Mcclelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771027273 . Signed by author on title page. McClelland hardcover is in a Andre Deutsch dustjacket so price is in pounds. Hardcover & jacket - near fine/very good. Hardcover has light wear to spine ends & corners, very light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean & unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, age tanning and a few tiny tears/chips. The author's first novel and winner of the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. A story of a harrowing Vancouver courtroom duel between a brilliant but unstable prosecutor and the evil Dr. Au. A thrilling drama which exposes some of the most brutal aspects of the heroin trade. ; 8vo; Signed by Author .