SECOND HAND CRIME CATALOGUE

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103972 AIRD, CATHERINE A LATE PHOENIX Ł 3.00

THREE DECADES HAVE PASSED SINCE A GERMAN BOMB FLATTENED THE HOUSES IN LAMB LANE - THREE DECADES, AND THEN A WORKMAN'S PICKAXE UNCOVERS AN OLD MACABRE MYSTERY - THE SKELETON OF A GIRL, AN UNBORN CHILD AND A BULLET. DETECTIVE INSPECTOR C. D. SLOAN'S UNCANNY INSTINCTS BEGAN TO DETECT A CRIME NOT QUITE AS OLD AS IT APPEARED TO BE. A CRIME THAT MIGHT EXPLODE AGAIN INTO MURDER. A CORGI PAPERBACK EDITION. 159 PAGES. S/H.

103974 ALLBEURY, TED CHILDREN OF TENDER YEARS Ł 4.00

LIKE SO MUCH INTELLIGENCE WORK, THE ASSIGNMENT SEEMED ROUTINE. MALIK KNEW WHAT WAS REQUIRED OF HIM: GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS, MAKE NO POLITICAL WAVES, WRAP IT ALL UP IN A NOTHING-TO-WORRY-ABOUT REPORT. THERE WERE JUST TWO PROBLEMS. THE TRIP TO GERMANY WAS ALSO A JOURNEY BACK INTO HIS OWN PAST. BACK TO THE NIGHTMARE WORLD OF THE DEATH CAMPS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS PEOPLE, HIS FAMILY. EVEN AFTER THIRTY YEARS, HATRED AND TERROR THREATENED TO WELL UP AND SPLIT APART HIS HARD-WON PROFESSIONAL SELF-CONTROL. AND THE DEFTLY SUPERFICIAL INVESTIGATION SOON LED DOWN INTO A MAZE OF FANATICISM AND PARANOID PLOTTING THAT COULD SHAKE THE DELICATE EAST/WEST BALANCE OF POWER - AND COULD EVEN BRING ABOUT A SECOND, FINAL, HOLOCAUST. A NEL PAPERBACK EDITION. 232 PAGES. S/H.

103975 ALLBEURY, TED A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS Ł 5.00

THORNTON UNDERSTOOD THAT WHEN HIS SUPERIORS TOLD HIM 'WE'VE GOT A SMALL PROBLEM…' IT MEANT 'KEEP IT DISCREET'. HE'D TALK TO A FEW PEOPLE. INVENT SOME PLAUSIBLE, PROBABLY BUREAUCRATIC REASON. CHECK RECORDS. PULL BACK IF ANYONE GREW TOO INTERESTED. HE KNEW THAT FISHER, THE MISSING MAN, WAS GOOD. GOOD ENOUGH SOMETIMES TO DO THINGS HIS WAY, NOT THE HEAD OFFICE WAY, AND GET AWAY WITH IT. NO MONEY TROUBLES. NO INDISCRETIONS. BALANCED. NO QUESTION OF A DEFECTION. BUT WHAT THORNTON DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO ENTER A MAZE OF LIES, OBSTRUCTION AND DECEPTION SURROUNDING AN INNOCENT GERMAN GIRL WITH EXTRAORDINARY POWERS, KGB AND CIA PLOT AND COUNTER PLOT, AN EAST/WEST KIDNAPPING - AND A SPY WITH A CONSCIENCE. A NEL PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

103976 ALLINGHAM, MARGERY THE CRIME AT BLACK DUDLEY Ł 3.00

THIS IS THE EARLIEST ALBERT CAMPION BOOK, AND HE APPEARS IN IT AS A STRANGE, ALMOST CRIMINAL CHARACTER. BLACK DUDLEY IS AN OLD MANOR HOUSE, AND A HOUSE PARTY ARRANGED THERE LEADS TO MURDER. NO ONE KNOWS WHO KILLED THE KINDLY INVALID UNCLE OF THE HEIR, BUT GRADUALLY AN ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR AND MISTRUST SPREADS THROUGH THE HOUSE, UNTIL ONLY DEATH FACES THE INNNOCENT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE PARTY… BUT THEN THEY ARE RESCUED BY THE LOCAL HUNT IN ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS I HAVE EVER READ IN A THRILLER. EVEN THEN THE FULL TRUTH ISN'T KNOWN, UNTIL THE LAST PAGES. PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 208 PAGES. S/H.

103977 ALLINGHAM, MARGERY THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE Ł 3.00

AS THE WORD GOES ROUND THAT JACK HAVOC, JAIL-BREAKER AND KNIFE ARTIST, IS AT LARGE AGAIN, CARVING HIS WAY INTO MORE - OR LESS - INNOCENT LIVES, THE HUNT GOES ON. TOGETHER ALBERT CAMPION AND CHIEF INSPECTOR LUKE DRAW A TIGHT NET AROUND THE MAN-EATER LOOSE IN LONDON'S NOVEMBER SMOG. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. MODERN REPRINT OF CLASSIC 1957 EDITION. NO ACTUAL DATE OF THIS REPRINT GIVEN - 20TH REPRINT. S/H.

103978 ALLINGHAM, MARGERY THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE Ł 2.00

AS THE WORD GOES ROUND THAT JACK HAVOC, JAIL-BREAKER AND KNIFE ARTIST, IS AT LARGE AGAIN, CARVING HIS WAY INTO MORE - OR LESS - INNOCENT LIVES, THE HUNT GOES ON. TOGETHER ALBERT CAMPION AND CHIEF INSPECTOR LUKE DRAW A TIGHT NET AROUND THE MAN-EATER LOOSE IN LONDON'S NOVEMBER SMOG. A REPRINTB SOCIETY HARDBACK EDITION. 288 PAGES. VG. READING COPY. S/H.

103981 "BAANTJER" DEKOK AND THE DEAD HARLEQUIN Ł 3.00

THIS TITLE LOOKS RATHER FUNNY."BAANTJER" IS THE WRITER'S PEN NAME, RATHER LIKE "SAPPER" IN ENGLISH. DEKOK IS THE POLICEMAN. MURDER, DOUBLE MURDER IS COMMITTED IN A WELL-KNOWN AMSTERDAM HOTEL. DURING A NIGHTLY CONVERSATION WITH THE MURDERER DEKOK TRIES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PREVENT THE MURDERER FROM GIVING HIMSELF UP TO THE POLICE. RISKING THE ANGER OF SUPERIORS DEKOK DISAPPEARS IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE PERPETRATOR FROM BEING FOUND. BUT HE IS FOUND, THANKS TO A SIX-YEAR OLD GIRL WHO CAUSES UNTOLD MISERY FOR HER FAMILY BY REFUSING TO SLEEP. A RESPECTED CITIZEN, HEAD OF AN IMPORTANT ACCOUNTING OFFICE, IS DEADLY SERIOUS WHEN HE ASKS FOR INFORMATION FROM THE POLICE. HE IS PLANNING TO COMMIT MURDER. HE DECIDES THAT DEKOK, AS AN EXPERT, IS THE BEST POSSIBLE SOURCE TO TEACH HIM HOW TO COMMIT THE PERFECT CRIME. AN INTERCONTINENTAL PUBLISHING FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 226 PAGES. S/H.

103982 BATEMAN, COLIN MURPHY'S LAW Ł 3.00

DETECTIVE MARTIN MURPHY IS UNDERCOVER - AND OVER HERE. THE MAN LOVES THE MUSIC - BUT IT MAKES HIM THINK TOO MUCH. HE LOVES THE DRINK - AND IT DULLS EVERYTHING. WHAT HE REALLY WANTS IS TO GET BACK ON THE STREETS, DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST. FIGHTING CRIME. BUT HIS MEDICAL FILE (ALREADY THICK AND GROWING FAST) SAYS HE SHOULD BE RETIRED. THEN HIS BOSS, MURDOCH (ONE REALISTIC EYE ON RETIREMENT, THE OTHER FANTASTICALLY SET ON LATE-LIFE PROMOTION), OFFERS HIM ONE FINAL CHANCE: TO INFILTRATE A GANG OF DIAMOND THIEVES. THEY ARE TOUGH, VIOLENT AND RUTHLESS. AND MURPHY WILL FIT IN PERFECTLY. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 345 PAGES. S/H.

103984 BEATON, M C AGATHA RAISIN AND THE VICIOUS VET Ł 3.00

THE SECOND OF THE AGATHA RAISIN MYSTERIES. AGATHA HAS RETIRED INTO A QUIET COTSWOLD VILLAGE - AND SHE IS BEGINNING TO THINK THAT THE ATTRACTIVE NEW VILLAGE VET HAS TAKEN A SHINE TO HER, BUT THEN HE ACCIDENTLY KILLS HIMSELF UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES... OR WAS IT MURDER? AGATHA AND JAMES LACEY SET OUT TO FIND THE TRUTH TOGETHER. ROBINSON PAPERBACK EDITION. 238 PAGES. S/H.

103983 BEATON, M C DEATH OF A GOSSIP Ł 3.00

WHEN SOCIETY WIDOW AND GOSSIP COLUMNIST LADY JANE WINTERS JOINED THE FISHING CLASS HER SHARP TONGUE BROUGHT HER MANY ENEMIES, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE WAS SURPRISED WHEN HER STRANGLED BODY WAS FISHED OUT OF THE RIVER. NOW WITH THE HELP OF THE LOVELY PRISCILLA HALBURTON-SMYTHE LOCHDUBH, CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH MUST FIND THE KILLER. IVY BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 149 PAGES. S/H.

103986 BELLAIRS, GEORGE THE BODY IN THE DUMB RIVER Ł 3.00

JAMES TEASDALE, A DECENT LITTLE BANKRUPT SHOPKEEPER IN THE NORTHERN TOWN OF BASILDEN, NEVER HAD ANY LUCK IN BUSINESS AND HIS FORMIDABLE FATHER-IN-LAW CALLED HIM A NO-GOOD BUM. FINALLY, HOWEVER, JAMES GOT A SUCCESSFUL JOB AS A TRAVELLER, ONLY TO MEET HIS DEATH AND BE FOUND IN THE FLOODED DUMB RIVER, MILES FROM HOME. WHEN SUPERINTENDENT LITTLEJOHN OF SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATING THE CASE, REVEALED WHAT JAMES WAS TRAVELLING IN AND WITH WHOM THERE WAS QUITE A COMMOTION IN BASILDEN. THERE WAS STILL GREATER SURPRISE WHEN HIS MURDERER WAS BROUGHT TO BOOK. THIS IS ANOTHER CASE WHERE LITTLEJOHN, THE COMPASSIONATE STUDENT OF MEN AND THEIR MOTIVES, BRINGS TO LIGHT THE BACKGROUND AND CHARACTERS WHICH CAUSE A VERY SINGULAR CRIME. A JOHN GIFFORD HARDBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

103990 BLAKE, JENNIFER GARDEN OF SCANDAL Ł 2.99

LAUREL BANCROFT HAS LIVED FOR YEARS LIKE A RECLUSE, ISOLATING HERSELF FROM A TOWN THAT HAS BRANDED HER A MURDERER. BUT NOW, CONVINCED PEOPLE HAVE FINALLY FORGOTTEN, SHE IS READY TO RESUME HER LIFE. THEN LAUREL MEETS ALEC STANTON. HIRED TO HELP HER REDESIGN HER GARDEN, ALEC IS A STRANGER WITH A MYSTERIOUS PAST. THOUGH MORE THAN TEN YEARS YOUNGER, ALEC IS EXACTLY WHAT LAUREL NEEDS: INTELLIGENT, TALENTED, AND PASSIONATE. BUT AS THEIR RELATIONSHIP GROWS, SO DOES A DANGEROUS THREAT AGAINST THEM. SOMEONE WANTS LAUREL TO RETURN TO HER SECLUSION AND GIVE UP HER YOUNGER LOVER - SOMEONE WHO HASN'T FORGOTTEN THAT NIGHT SO MANY YEARS AGO. A MIRA PAPERBACK EDITION. 378 PAGES. S/H.

57712 BRAUN, LILIAN JACKSON THE CAT WHO WASN'T THERE Ł 3.00

QWILLERAN AND POLLY DUNCAN ARE TOURING SCOTLAND WITH OTHER FRIENDS, AND THE CATS ARE LEFT AT HOME, BUT EVEN ACROSS THE OCEAN KOKO BECOMES AWARE THAT THERE ARE LETHAL GOINGS ON AMONG THE TOUR GROUP, AND EVEN BACK IN MOOSE COUNTY. HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 279 PAGES. NO PUBLICATION DATE GIVEN. S/H.

103991 BRETT, SIMON THE FETHERING MYSTERIES: THE BODY ON THE BEACH Ł 3.00

VERY LITTLE DISTURBS THE ORDERED CALM OF FETHERING, A PLEASINGLY SELF-CONTAINED RETIREMENT SETTLEMENT ON ENGLAND'S SOUTHERN COAST. WHICH IS PRECISELY WHY CAROLE SEDDON, WHO HAS OUTLIVED BOTH HER HUSBAND AND HER CAREER AT THE HOME OFFICE, HAS CHOSEN TO RESDE THERE. SO THE LAST THING CAROLE EXPECTS TO ENCOUNTER IN FETHERING IS A NEW NEIGHBOUR WITH BUT ONE NAME AND AN OBVIOUSLY COLOURFUL PAST. 'JUDE' WAS NOT REALLY FETHERING… BUT NEITHER WAS THE BODY CAROLE FOUND ON THE BEACH. A BODY, IT HAS TO BE SAID, THAT HAS DISAPPEARED BY THE TIME THE POLICE ARRIVE. ONLY JUDE IS READY TO BELIEVE WHAT HER NEIGHBOUR SAYS SHE SAW - AND FROM THAT MOMENT ON, THE TWO WOMEN ARE RESOLVED TO TURN DETECTIVES. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 338 PAGES. S/H.

103992 BRETT, SIMON MURDER UNPROMPTED Ł 2.99

THE CAREER OF CHARLES PARIS SEEMS TO HAVE REACHED AN ALL-TOO-RARE PEAK. A NEW PLAY AT TAUNTON, IN WHICH CHARLES LANDS A SUBSTANTIAL ROLE, TRANSFERS TO THE WEST END - ALBEIT WITH CHARLES DEMOTED TO UNDERSTUDY. BUT ON THE FIRST NIGHT THE STAR BROUGHT IN FOR THE LONDON RUN IS SHOT DEAD ON STAGE. CHARLES FINDS HIMSELF PLAYING THE LEAD - A HITHERTO UNKNOWN OCCURRENCE - BUT IT SOON PROVES TO BE EXTREMELY USEFUL IN HELPING HIM SOLVE THE MURDER. A VICTOR GOLLANCZ VISTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 176 PAGES. S/H.

103996 BUCHANAN, EDNA ACT OF BETRAYAL Ł 2.00

A MYSTERY FEATURING BRITT MONTERO. BRITT MONTERO, MIAMI NEWS POLICE REPORTER, IS BACK AS A FATAL BOMB BLAST PROPELS HER INTO THE STORY OF HER LIFE. DEADLY SECRETS AND BETRAYALS FROM THE PAST SWEEP INTO MIAMI ON THE WINDS OF A KILLER STORM. BUT MORE THAN ONE EVIL PROWLS THE SWELTERING CITY. WHEN BRITT REPORTS THE STORY OF A MISSING TEENAGER, SHE UNCOVERS A FRIGHTENING PATTERN OF IDENTICAL CASES. AS SHE PROBES THE BAFFLING CASE, THE OLD MYSTERY REOPENS PERSONAL WOUNDS WHEN SHE DISCOVERS THAT HER FATHER, EXECUTED BY A CASTRO FIRING SQUAD WHEN SHE WAS ONLY THREE, LEFT AN EXPLOSIVE PRISON DIARY NAMING THE TRAITOR WHO BETRAYED HIM. SUDDENLY EVERYONE WANTS THE DIARY - AND EVERYONE WHO ACQUIRES IT IS MARKED FOR MURDER. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM, AS IT SEEMS THAT DOOMSDAY HAS ARRIVED, BRITT LEARNS THE HORRIFYING TRUTH ABOUT THE MISSING BOYS, HER OWN PAST AND - AFTER MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS - FACES THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HER FATHER'S DEATH... AS A BETRAYAL EVEN MORE DEVASTATING IS REVEALED. A POCKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 292 PAGES. S/H.

103997 BUCHANAN, EDNA SUITABLE FOR FRAMING Ł 2.00

A MYSTERY FEATURING BRITT MONTERO. BRITT - THE MIAMI NEWS' POLICE BEAT REPORTER - WITNESSES A TRAGIC HIT-AND-RUN BY RAMPAGING YOUTHS WITH NO FEAR OF THE LAW. IN HER RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE STORY, SHE TRACKS DOWN HOWIE, A RELUCTANT GANG MEMBER WHO IS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE ON HIS OWN AND TRIES TO HELP HIM. BUT HOWIE DISAPPEARS. MEANWHILE THE DANGERS ON THE STREET PALE BY COMPARISON TO THE EVIL THAT HAS INVADED THE NEWSROOM. TRISH TIERNEY IS BEAUTIFUL, AMBITIOUS AND WANTS TO BE A STAR REPORTER FOR A BIG CITY NEWSPAPER. BRITT BEGINS TO SUSPECT THAT TRISH'S HEADLINE STORIES MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY SEEM AND THAT THE VICTIMS ARE BEING MANIPULATED. AS BRITT INVESTIGATES, SHE BECOMES A PRIME SUSPECT IN A HORRIFYING MURDER AND REALISES THAT THIS STORY COULD COST HER EVERYTHING… INCLUDING HER LIFE. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 243 PAGES. S/H.

104001 BURDEN, PAT SCREAMING BONES Ł 3.00

EX-DETECTIVE-CHIEF-SUPERINTENDENT BASSETT HAD HOPED TO GIVE UP POLICE WORK FOR THE RURAL JOYS OF A HEREFORDSHIRE SMALLHOLDING AND HIS TWO PET PIGS - BUT A GRISLY SURPRISE CONFRONTING THE LOCAL MILKLADY ONE DAYBREAK PROVES TOD ARKWRIGHT'S PITHY 'ONCE A COPPER, ALLUS A COPPER' ONLY TOO APT. RUMOURS OF LUCRATIVE SHEEP-RUSTLING AND LONG-SUPPRESSED ROMANTIC RIVALRIES ARE FUELLED BY THE PHEASANT'S ALES BUT BASSETT SOON REALISES THAT AMIDST THE GOSSIP LIES A VEIN OF TRUTH. AND HE BEGINS TO SUSPECT THAT THE MUMMIFIED CORPSE MAY BE THE MACABRE LEGACY OF A WARTIME CRIME OF PASSION. BUT THE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED DEATH OF THE VILLAGE'S ONLY OTHER NEWCOMER ADDS A NEW TWIST TO THE MYSTERY. BEFORE LONG THE COMPLEX TANGLE OF PAST AND PRESENT STARTS TO UNRAVEL… RIGHT BENEATH BASSETT'S FEET. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104003 BUTLER, GWENDOLINE A COFFIN FOR THE CANARY Ł 5.00

THE GIRL WHO TOOK THE TRAIN WAS CALLED OLIVIA. AND WHEN DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JOHN COFFIN MET HER (MUCH LATER ON) HE SAID: 'THAT GIRL'S GOT TROUBLE WRITTEN ALL OVER HER. BUT WHAT A FACE. I SUPPOSE THAT'S HOW DEIRDRE LOOKED - OR CASSANDRA'. THE TIME SEQUENCE OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY STORY IS NOT SIMPLE, NOR ARE THE EVENTS THAT DO (OR DO NOT) REVOLVE WITHIN IT. OLIVIA, HALF-SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND, MEETS A YOUNG MAN. HER CAR IS STOLEN. THE YOUNG MAN IS SHOT. HER CAR REAPPEARS - WAS IT USED FOR A POST OFFICE ROBBERY? THE POLICE THINK SO. OLIVIA MOVES DREAM-LIKE THROUGH A MAD PATTERN OF CONFLICTING DRAMAS. CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. IN THE END IT IS COFFIN WHO COMES TO DISENTANGLE IT ALL, THOUGH THE SINISTER MESH SURROUNDS AND NEARLY DRAGS HIM DOWN TOO. A BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES HARDBACK EDITION. 159 PAGES. S/H.

104004 BUTLER, GWENDOLINE COFFIN WAITING Ł 3.00

WITH A FOREWORD BY JOHN KENNEDY MELLING. LIFE FOR MANY PEOPLE ORBITED AROUND ROXANNE ROLAND, THE BEAUTIFUL, PASSIONATE, CLEVER ENIGMA WHO LIVED IN A RAMSHACKLE HOUSE IN PRINCE CONSORT SQUARE, IN A SEEDY DISTRICT OF LONDON. LONELY PEOPLE, STRAY ANIMALS - ANY 'LAME DUCKS' - WERE ATTRACTED TO HER AND SHE WAS WELL-KNOWN IN THE COMMUNITY FOR HELPING THOSE IN DISTRESS. YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE JULIET DUVEEN HAD BEEN LIVING WITH ROXANNE FOR NEARLY THREE MONTHS AND SO FAR THE ARRANGEMENT HAD BEEN PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY. BUT THE DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BIRD ON THE DOORSTEP WORRIED JULIET ENOUGH FOR HER TO MENTION IT TO HER FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR, INSPECTOR JOHN COFFIN. HOWEVER, IT IS WHEN ROXANNE DISCOVERS A MACABRE GROUP OF WOMEN IN HER SITTING ROOM - ARRANGED IN A CONVERSATION PIECE BUT COMPLETELY LIFELESS - THAT THE HORROR REALLY BEGINS. A BLACK DAGGER CRIME HARDBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104002 BUTLER, GWENDOLINE COFFIN'S DARK NUMBER Ł 5.00

THREE LITTLE GIRLS HAD DISAPPEARED FROM THE SAME DISTRICT IN SOUTH LONDON IN THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. SUPERINTENDENT COFFIN AND INSPECTOR DOVE KNEW THERE WERE PLENTY OF CRIMES COMMITTED THAT THE POLICE NEVER HEAR ABOUT AND THEY WONDERED HOW MANY OTHER CHILDREN HAD VANISHED. THEIR AREA HAD MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE OF CRANKS. FOR INSTANCE, THERE WAS TONY YOUNG'S CLUB OF UFO WATCHERS. TONY HIMSELF WAS SCEPTICAL ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS BUT HE DID ENJOY ORGANISING CLUBS. WHAT WORRIED HIM WAS THE FACT THAT EACH TIME A CHILD DISAPPEARED MEMBERS OF THE CLUB WERE OUT INVESTIGATING A UFO SIGHTING. SOMEHOW HE THOUGHT IT UNLIKELY THAT VISITORS FROM OUTER SPACE HAD TAKEN THE CHILDREN; HE FELT THE MEMBERS NEEDED INVESTIGATING. CHILD CRIMES FOLLOW A CERTAIN PATTERN. IT WAS COFFIN'S JOB TO FIND OUT THAT PATTERN AND WHILE HE PROBED THE BACKGROUNDS OF THE VICTIMS TONY DID HIS OWN DETECTING. IN THE END IT WAS TONY WHO SUPPLIED THE ANSWER, AS OBVIOUS AS IT WAS UNEXPECTED. A GEOFFREY BLES HARDBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104005 CARR, JOHN DICKSON IT WALKS BY NIGHT Ł 3.00

AS BENCOLIN, THE DETECTIVE, SAYS IN THIS CASE: 'THERE ARE NO SECRET ENTRANCES; THE MURDERER WAS NOT HIDING ANYWHERE IN THE ROOM; HE DID NOT GO OUT BY THE WINDOW; HE DID NOT GO OUT THROUGH EITHER OF THE DOORS, WHICH WE WERE WATCHING - BUT HE WAS NOT THERE WHEN WE ENTERED. YET THE MURDERER HAD BEHEADED HIS VICTIM THERE; IN THIS CASE ABOVE ALL OTHERS WE KNOW THE DEAD MAN DID NOT KILL HIMSELF.' AND BENCOLIN SPOKE THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THE MURDERER STRUCK FIRST IN AN ELEGANT PARIS GAMBLING SALOON, NEXT IN A VERSAILLES GARDEN. NO RENAISSANCE VILLIAN CONCEIVED A VENGEANCE MORE DELICIOUS THAN THAT EXACTED BENEATH THE SILVER MASK. A HAMISH HAMILTON HARDBACK EDITION. 168 PAGES. S/H.

104006 CARR, JOHN DICKSON TILL DEATH DO US PART Ł 3.00

WAS IT SIR HARVEY GILMAN OF THE HOME OFFICE WHO HAD BEEN MURDERED? HAD LESLEY GRANT, ENGAGED TO THE SUCCESSFUL THRILLER-WRITER/PLAYWRIGHT DICK MARKHAM, ALREADY FIGURED IN THREE SINISTER CASES OF POISONING? WHY HAD SHE AND THE ATTRACTIVE CYNTHIA DREW APPARENTLY DONE BATTLE WHEN THE CONTENTS OF THE SAFE IN LESLEY'S ROOM WERE STILL A SECRET? DR GIDEON FELL HAD SELDOM HAD A MORE DIFFICULT PUZZLE TO SOLVE OR ONE WHICH SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DIRECTED ESPECIALLY AT HIM, TO MAKE OR MAR HIS REPUTATION. ONE OF THE BEST OF JOHN DICKSON CARR'S CLASSIC 'SEALED ROOM' MYSTERIES, WITH THE FAMOUS DR FELL AT HIS MOST IDIOSYNCRATIC. A HAMISH HAMILTON HARDBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104007 CHARLES, KATE APPOINTED TO DIE Ł 5.00

DEATH AT THE DEANERY - SUDDEN AND UNNATURAL DEATH. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING. EVEN BEFORE STUART LATIMER ARRIVES AS THE NEW DEAN OF MALBURY CATHEDRAL, SHOCK WAVES REVERBERATE AROUND THE TIGHTLY KNIT CATHEDRAL CLOSE, HERALDING SWEEPING CHANGES IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS NOT OPEN TO CHANGE. AND THE REALITY IS WORSE THAN THE EXPECTATION. THE DEAN'S NAKED AMBITION AND RUTHLESS BEHAVIOUR ALIENATE EVERYONE IN THE CHAPTER: THE CANONS, GENTLE JOHN KINGSLEY, VAGUE RUPERT GREENWOOD, POMPOUS PHILIP THETFORD AND SUBDEAN ARTHUR BRIDGES-FFRENCH, A TRADITIONALIST WHO RESISTS CHANGE MOST STRONGLY OF ALL. FINANCIAL JIGGERY-POKERY, CLANDESTINE MEETINGS, MALICIOUS GOSSIP AND SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO SEE MORE THAN THEY OUGHT TO: A POTENT MIX. BUT WHO COULD FORESEE THAT THE MISTRUST AND EVEN HATRED WITHIN THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE WOULD SPILL OVER INTO VIOLENCE AND DEATH? CANON KINGSLEY'S DAUGHTER LUCY DRAWS IN HER LOVER DAVID MIDDLETON-BROWN - AGAINST HIS BETTER JUDGEMENT - AND TOGETHER THEY PROBE THE SURPRISING SECRETS OF A SELF-CONTAINED WORLD WHERE NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 311 PAGES. S/H.

104008 CHESTERTON, G K FATHER BROWN Ł 5.59

IN AMATEUR SLEUTH FATHER BROWN, G.K. CHESTERTON CREATED AN ENDURINGLY FASCINATING CHARACTER: A CLUMSY, UNTIDY FELLOW WITH A FACE LIKE A DUMPLING, YET WITH SUCH BRILLIANT POWERS OF OBSERVATION AND DEDUCTION THAT HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT CRIME THAN THE POLICE OR THE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES. IN THIS SELECTION OF THE VERY BEST FATHER BROWN STORIES, THE CLERICAL DETECTIVE MAKES SENSE OF SOME BEWILDERING CLUES, ENABLING HIM TO TRACK DOWN 'THE INVISIBLE MAN' AND RESOLVE SOME BIZARRE MYSTERIES, SUCH AS THE ODD NOTEPAPER IN 'THE WRONG SHAPE' AND THE THEFT OF SILVER IN 'THE QUEER FEET'. YET IT IS FATHER BROWN HIMSELF WHO CONSTANTLY WRONG-FOOTS US, FOR UNDER HIS MILD EXTERIOR LURKS A RAZOR-SHARP MIND AND AN INSPIRED UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 397 PAGES. S/H.

104009 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE ABC MURDERS Ł 3.00

ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL POIROT MYSTERY RECOUNTED BY CAPTAIN ARTHUR HASTINGS WHO IS ON A VISIT TO BRITAIN IN 1935. THERE IS A SERIAL KILLER AT LARGE, ALICE ASCHER IS STRUCK DOWN IN ANDOVER, BETTY BARNARD STRANGLED IN BEXHILL, SIR CARMICHAEL CLARKE CLUBBED IN CHURSTON, AND A NEW ABC RAILWAY GUIDE HAS BEEN LEFT LYING BY THE BODY. WHAT IS MORE, THE KILLER IS INVITING POIROT TO JOIN IN THE HUNT, WRITING ANONYMOUS LETTERS TO HIM AT HOME. EXCELLENT TRADITIONAL TALE WITH LOTS OF RED HERRINGS. FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104010 CHRISTIE, AGATHA ABSENT IN THE SPRING Ł 3.00

AGATHA CHRISTIE WRITING AS MARY WESTMACOTT. ROMANCE MINGLED WITH SUSPENSE. THE MOVING STORY OF A WOMAN LOOKING BACK ON HER LIFE. STRANDED ON THE BORDERS OF ARABIA, JOAN SCUDAMORE STARTS THINKING OF HER MARRIAGE, HER FRIENDS, HER CHILDREN. AND IN THE HARSH, BRILLIANT LIGHT OF THE DESERT, SHE DOESN'T LIKE WHAT SHE FINDS. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104011 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING Ł 1.50

ON A SILVER DISH THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING REPOSED IN ALL ITS GLORY. A LARGE FOOTBALL OF A PUDDING, A PIECE OF HOLLY STUCK IN IT LIKE A TRIUMPHANT FLAG AND GLORIOUS FLAMES OF BLUE AND RED RISING ROUND IT. THERE WAS A CHEER AND CRIES OF 'OOH-AH'. HERCULE POIROT MERELY SURVEYED THE PORTION ON HIS PLATE WITH A RATHER CURIOUS EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. A RESULT, NO DOUBT, OF FINDING A CRYPTIC NOTE IN HIS BEDROOM WHICH HAD READ: DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL. THIS IS A SELECTION OF SHORT STORIES, WITH A FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR HERSELF, FIVE OF THEM FEATURE HERCULE POIROT, INCLUDING THE TITLE STORY, AS WELL AS "THE MYSTERY OF THE SPANISH CHEST", "THE UNDER DOG", "FOUR-AND-TWENTY BLACKBIRDS" AND "THE DREAM". THE SIXTH STORY "GREENSHAW'S FOLLY" STARS MISS MARPLE AND HER NEPHEW RAYMOND WEST. INCIDENTLY, THE BARRIE PLAY MENTIONED, "A KISS FOR CINDERELLA", STARS A POOR GIRL, A POLICE CONSTABLE AND A GROUP OF CHILDREN, AND IS SET IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. A FONTANA/COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 240 PAGES. S/H.

104012 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING Ł 3.00

104013 CHRISTIE, AGATHA BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS Ł 3.00

ANOTHER TOMMY AND TUPPENCE STORY. THEY VISIT AN ELDERLY AUNT IN HER NURSING HOME AND THOUGHT LITTLE ABOUT HER MISTRUST OF THE DOCTORS, KNOWING WHAT A DIFFICULT OLD LADY SHE WAS. BUT THEN MRS LOCKETT MENTIONED A POISONED MUSHROOM STEW AND MRS LANCASTER TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING BEHIND THE FIREPLACE - AND TOMMY AND TUPPENCE FOUND THEMELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF ANOTHER UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE. A CRIME CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104014 CHRISTIE, AGATHA CARDS ON THE TABLE Ł 3.00

ANOTHER OLD-FASHIONED DETECTIVE STORY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1936, AND HAVING NOT ONE, BUT FOUR DETECTIVES, M. HERCULE POIROT, OF COURSE, THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS ARIADNE OLIVER, THAT ARTFUL PASTICHE OF AGATHA HERSELF, SUPERINTENDANT BATTLE, AND THE SECRET SERVICE MAN, COLONEL RACE.THERE ARE ALSO FOUR SUSPECTS, EACH OF WHICH MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED A MURDER BEFORE. MR SHAITANA IS A FLAMBOYANT PARTY HOST WHO BOASTS TO HERCULE POIROT THAT HE COLLECTS SUCESSFUL MURDERERS AND INVITES THE DETECTIVE TO A PARTY TO MEET SOME. AFTER THE MEAL THE EIGHT GUESTS SIT DOWN TO PLAY BRIDGE, THE DETECTIVES AT A TABLE IN ONE ROOM, THE SUSPECTS AT A TABLE IN ANOTHER, AND SITTING WITH THEM THEIR HOST. AT THE END OF THE EVENING MR SHAITANA IS FOUND TO BE DEAD IN HIS CHAIR - AND ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR BRIDGE PLAYERS COULD HAVE DONE IT. ON THE OTHER HAND, EACH OF THEM HAD BEEN DUMMY FOR AT LEAST ONE HAND, AND HAD GOT UP FROM THE TABLE AND MOVED AROUND THE ROOM. A FASCINATING PUZZLE, TOLD WITH MRS CHRISTIE'S USUAL HUMOUR AND GIFT FOR WORDS. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104015 CHRISTIE, AGATHA CARDS ON THE TABLE Ł 3.00

ANOTHER OLD-FASHIONED DETECTIVE STORY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1936, AND HAVING NOT ONE, BUT FOUR DETECTIVES; M. HERCULE POIROT, OF COURSE, THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS ARIADNE OLIVER, THAT ARTFUL PASTICHE OF AGATHA HERSELF, SUPERINTENDANT BATTLE, AND THE SECRET SERVICE MAN, COLONEL RACE.THERE ARE ALSO FOUR SUSPECTS, EACH OF WHICH MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED A MURDER BEFORE. MR SHAITANA IS A FLAMBOYANT PARTY HOST WHO BOASTS TO HERCULE POIROT THAT HE COLLECTS SUCESSFUL MURDERERS AND INVITES THE DETECTIVE TO A PARTY TO MEET SOME. AFTER THE MEAL THE EIGHT GUESTS SIT DOWN TO PLAY BRIDGE, THE DETECTIVES AT A TABLE IN ONE ROOM, THE SUSPECTS AT A TABLE IN ANOTHER, AND SITTING WITH THEM THEIR HOST. AT THE END OF THE EVENING MR SHAITANA IS FOUND TO BE DEAD IN HIS CHAIR - AND ONLY ONE OF THE FOUR BRIDGE PLAYERS COULD HAVE DONE IT. ON THE OTHER HAND, EACH OF THEM HAD BEEN DUMMY FOR AT LEAST ONE HAND, AND HAD GOT UP FROM THE TABLE AND MOVED AROUND THE ROOM. A FASCINATING PUZZLE, TOLD WITH MRS CHRISTIE'S USUAL HUMOUR AND GIFT FOR WORDS. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104017 CHRISTIE, AGATHA A CARRIBBEAN MYSTERY Ł 3.00

A MISS MARPLE MYSTERY. MISS MARPLE IS ON HOLIDAY AT THE GOLDEN PALM HOTEL IN THE ISLAND OF ST. HONORE. SHE IS ENJOYING HERSELF, YET THERE IS SOMETHING LACKING. AT HOME IN ST. MARY MEAD THERE WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON, SOMETHING ONE COULD GET ONE'S TEETH INTO. MISS MARPLE LISTENS POLITELY TO MAJOR PALGRAVE'S BORING STORIES OF HIS EARLY LIFE IN KENYA - OR AT ANY RATE PRETENDS TO LISTEN. SHE IS NOT PAYING ALL THAT MUCH ATTENTION WHEN HE STARTS TELLING HER ABOUT A MURDERER HE HAS KNOWN; AND WHEN HE REACHES IN HIS WALLET TO SHOW MISS MARPLE A SNAPSHOT OF THAT MURDERER, HE IS SUDDENLY INTERRUPTED. MURDER FOLLOWS. IN THIS NEW FULL LENGTH NOVEL THE CLUES AND KEYS TO THE MURDERER'S IDENTITY ARE FAIRLY - ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY OSTENTATIOUSLY - PARADED IN FRONT OF THE READER. YET WE BELIEVE IT WILL BE A VERY PERCEPTIVE READER WHO OBSERVES AND INTERPRETS THEM CORRECTLY. MOST OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF READERS OF THIS BOOK WILL, IN THE END, ASK THEMSELVES HOW MRS CHRISTIE COULD HAVE FOOLED THEM ONCE AGAIN. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 158 PAGES. S/H.

104016 CHRISTIE, AGATHA A CARRIBBEAN MYSTERY Ł 4.00

104018 CHRISTIE, AGATHA CURTAIN: POIROT'S LAST CASE Ł 3.00

AND NOT ONLY POIROT'S LAST CASE, BUT AGATHA'S TOO, THIS IS ONE OF THE TWO SHE WROTE DURING THE WAR AND KEPT TO BE PUBLISHED AFTER HER DEATH, UPDATING THEM AS SHE WAITED, SINCE THIS WAS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1977. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT BOOK IT IS, WITH ALL HER MISCHIEF WELL TO THE FORE, AND ALL HER MISDIRECTION. HERCULE POIROT, AS WE ORIGINALLY MET HIM IN HER FIRST BOOK, PUBLISHED IN 1920 AND SET IN 1916, WAS AN OLD FRIEND OF THE YOUNG CAPTAIN HASTINGS AND RETIRED FROM THE BELGIAN POLICE FORCE. CAPTAIN HASTINGS WAS SEVERELY INJURED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, AND VERY TAKEN BY REDHEADS. EVENTUALLY HE MARRIED HIS REDHAIRED LOVE, CINDERS, AND RETIRED OUT TO ARGENTINA WHERE THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN. NOW, MANY YEARS LATER, POIROT IS A VERY OLD MAN, IN A WHEEL CHAIR, CINDERS IS DEAD AND HASTINGS HAS COME BACK ALONE TO BRITAIN TO SEE HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, WORKING FOR A SCIENTIST. POIROT SUMMONS HIM BACK TO THE SCENE OF THEIR FIRST CASE, STYLES, NOW TURNED INTO A COUNTRY HOTEL, AND INFORMS HIM THAT THEY ARE ON THE TRACK OF MURDER ONCE AGAIN. THE MURDER HAPPENS, AND HASTINGS AS USUAL QUITE MISTAKES THE CLUES THAT THE MURDERER LEAVES HIM, BUT THEN THE MURDERER IS FAR MORE CLEVER THAN HE IS. EXCELLENT AND SATISFYING STORY. FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION.188 PAGES. S/H.

104019 CHRISTIE, AGATHA CURTAIN: POIROT'S LAST CASE Ł 3.00

104022 CHRISTIE, AGATHA DEATH IN THE CLOUDS Ł 3.00

ANOTHER PERIOD PIECE, PUBLISHED FIRST IN 1935 AND STARRING HERCULE POIROT. AN AIRLINER FROM LE BOURGET, FRANCE, TO CROYDON, LONDON, WITH FIRST AND SECOND CLASS CABINS, 18 SEATS IN THE FIRST CLASS, WHERE WE SIT WITH THE PASSENGERS, AND MORE IN THE SECOND CLASS, WHERE THE SERVANTS SPEND THEIR TIME. AN ELDERLY WOMAN DIES ON THE FLIGHT, IN THE VERY PRESENCE OF HERCULE POIROT, NOT TO MENTION A HARLEY STREET SPECIALIST, TWO ARCHAEOLOGISTS, A WRITER OF DETECTIVE FICTION, A DENTIST AND A HAIRDRESSER. WHO IS SHE, AND WHO CAN HAVE KILLED HER? AN INTERESTING CASE FOR ALL CONCERNED, INCLUDING INSPECTOR JAPP. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104020 CHRISTIE, AGATHA DEAD MAN'S FOLLY Ł 2.00

SIR GEORGE AND LADY STUBBS ARE GIVING A GARDEN PARTY… WITH A DIFFERENCE. FOR ARIADNE OLIVER, THE WELL-KNOWN DETECTIVE NOVELIST, HAS BEEN HIRED TO ORGANISE THE MAIN ENTERTAINMENT, WHICH IS TO BE A MURDER HUNT. SHE ARRANGES EVERY DETAIL WITH HER CUSTOMARY FLAIR AND INGENUITY. THE CONTESTANTS ARE PROVIDED WITH A CHOICE OF LETHAL WEAPONS - A PISTOL, A PIECE OF LEAD PIPING, A BOTTLE OF "POISON", A LENGTH OF CLOTHES LINE OR A HYPODERMIC SYRINGE. BUT THE DAY BEFORE THE PARTY, ARIADNE BEGINS TO LOSE HER NERVE. IS THIS GAME QUITE AS INNOCENT AS SHE HAS BEEN LED TO BELIEVE? A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104021 CHRISTIE, AGATHA DEATH COMES AS THE END Ł 3.00

SET IN EGYPT IN 2000BC, A CONCUBINE TO A KA-PRIEST IS FOUND DEAD AT THE FOOT OF A CLIFF. WAS THIS AN ACCIDENT? RENISENB, THE PRIEST'S DAUGHTER, BEGINS TO BE CONVINCED THAT THERE IS EVIL BEHIND THIS - AND EVIL IN HER OWN FATHER'S HOUSEHOLD. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 222 PAGES. S/H.

104023 CHRISTIE, AGATHA DESTINATION UNKNOWN Ł 4.00

A STAND ALONE THRILLER, WITH SCIENTISTS DISAPPEARING WITHOUT TRACE. A GIRL ABOUT TO DIE IN A HOTEL ROOM IN CASABLANCA IS OFFERED AN ADVENTURE WITH ODDS OF SURVIVAL NO MORE THAN A HUNDRED TO ONE - AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS COMING AND GOING. EXCELLENT YARN. A BOOK CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104024 CHRISTIE, AGATHA DUMB WITNESS Ł 2.00

ANOTHER POIROT & HASTINGS STORY SET IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN THE 30S, AND WELL UP TO THE USUAL STANDARD OF CHARACTERS, WITH THE ELDERLY AUNT WHO DISAPPROVED OF HER RELATIVES AND LEFT HER MONEY TO HER COMPANION INSTEAD. THE STRANGE EVENT IS THAT SHE WROTE A LETTER TO HERCULE POIROT ASKING HIM FOR HELP, BUT HE ONLY RECEIVED IT TWO MONTHS AFTER HER DEATH. HE DECIDES TO INVESTIGATE WHAT SEEMS TO BE A PERFECTLY NORMAL DEATH, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY CLUES, THE WIRE HAIRED FOX TERRIER, BOB, THE LUMINOUS CLOUD ABOUT THE DYING WOMAN, THE BROOCH SEEN IN THE MIRROR. WAS IT MURDER, AND IF SO, WHO WAS THE KILLER? EXCELLENT PLOT AND CHARACTERISATION, AS USUAL. COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. 316 PAGES. S/H.

104025 CHRISTIE, AGATHA ENDLESS NIGHT Ł 3.00

THIS IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER, RATHER THAN A STRAIGHTFORWARD DETECTIVE STORY, BUT IT IS VERY COMPELLING. POOR BOY MEETS RICH GIRL, THEY MARRY AND BUILD A DREAM HOUSE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE, SUCH A SIMPLE STORY... APART FROM THE OLD GYPSY CURSE, THE DYING ARCHITECT, THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND AND THE AMERICAN CROOK. AT THE END IT ISN'T EASY TO TELL WHO IS THE KILLER AND WHO THE VICTIM. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 239 PAGES. S/H.

104027 CHRISTIE, AGATHA FIVE LITTLE PIGS Ł 3.00

THIS WAS CALLED IN AMERICA "MURDER IN RETROSPECT" AND LOOKS AT A MURDER COMMITTED TWENTY YEARS AGO. A GIRL WHO KNEW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT HER PARENTS HAD DIED RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HER DEAD MOTHER THAT TELLS HER THAT SHE IS INNOCENT OF HER FATHER'S MURDER. SHE COMES TO POIROT TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH. HE IN TURN GOES TO THE FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT AND ASKS THEM FOR THEIR MEMORIES AND FROM THIS HOTCHPOTCH HE DEDUCES THE TRUTH. A CHILLING TALE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, AND ASSUMPTIONS, AND WHAT PEOPLE REMEMBER. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 233 PAGES. S/H.

104029 CHRISTIE, AGATHA FIVE LITTLE PIGS Ł 3.00

THIS IS CALLED IN AMERICA "MURDER IN RETROSPECT" AND LOOKS AT A MURDER COMMITTED TWENTY YEARS AGO. A GIRL WHO KNOWS NOTHING EXCEPT THAT HER PARENTS HAD DIED RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HER DEAD MOTHER THAT TELLS HER THAT SHE IS INOCENT OF HER FATHER'S MURDER. SHE COMES TO POIROT TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH. HE IN TURN GOES TO THE FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT AND ASKS THEM FOR THEIR MEMORIES, AND FROM THIS HOTCHPOTCH HE DEDUCES THE TRUTH. A CHILLING TALE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, AND ASSUMPTIONS, AND WHAT PEOPLE REMEMBER. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 233 PAGES. S/H.

104026 CHRISTIE, AGATHA FIVE LITTLE PIGS Ł 3.00

THIS WAS CALLED IN AMERICA "MURDER IN RETROSPECT", AND LOOKS AT A MURDER COMMITTED TWENTY YEARS AGO. A GIRL WHO KNEW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT HER PARENTS HAD DIED RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HER DEAD MOTHER THAT TELLS HER THAT SHE IS INNOCENT OF HER FATHER'S MURDER. SHE COMES TO POIROT TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH. HE IN TURN GOES TO THE FIVE PEOPLE WHO WERE PRESENT AND ASKS THEM FOR THEIR MEMORIES AND FROM THIS HOTCHPOTCH HE DEDUCES THE TRUTH. A CHILLING TALE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, AND ASSUMPTIONS, AND WHAT PEOPLE REMEMBER. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104028 CHRISTIE, AGATHA HALLOWEEN PARTY Ł 3.00

MRS OLIVER, THE NOTED DETECTIVE STORY WRITER, IS IN DEEP DISTRESS AND COMES TO HER OLD FRIEND HERCULE POIROT FOR HELP. SHE WAS ATTENDING A CHILDREN'S PARTY WHEN A RATHER NASTY GIRL WAS DROWNED IN THE PAIL USED FOR BOBBING FOR APPLES. THE REASON SEEMS TO BE A REMARK THAT SHE MADE BEFORE THE PARTY, TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE HAD ONCE SEEN A MURDER - BUT WHAT KIND OF MURDER AND WHEN AND WHERE? NO ONE KNEW, SO POIROT SETS OUT TO TRACE THE KILLER. EXCELLENT AS USUAL. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104030 CHRISTIE, AGATHA HALLOWEEN PARTY Ł 3.00

104031 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE HOLLOW Ł 3.00

HERCULE POIROT WAS BOTH ANNOYED AND BORED. DEATH WAS NOT AMUSING AND HERE, BY WAY OF A JOKE, THEY HAD ARRANGED FOR HIM A SET PIECE IN EXTREMELY BAD TASTE. BY THE SIDE OF THE CROWDED POOL A BODY HAD BEEN ARTISTICALLY ARRANGED WITH AN OUTFLUNG ARM; EVEN SOME GHOULISH RED PAINT DRIPPED. THE 'BODY' WAS SPECTACULARLY HANDSOME AND SEVERAL PEOPLE STOOD ROUND IN UNLIKELY POSES. IT WAS ALL REALLY VERY AMATEURISH. BUT AS HE LOOKED, POIROT SUDDENLY REALISED THAT THIS SCENE HAD A POINT OF REALITY. A REALITY THAT HIT HIM BETWEEN THE EYES LIKE A HAMMER BLOW. FOR IT WAS NOT RED PAINT THAT DRIPPED. IT WAS BLOOD. HE WAS LOOKING AT A DYING MAN. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104032 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE HOUND OF DEATH Ł 3.00

THE HOUND OF DEATH AND OTHER STORIES. FEATURES: 'THE RED SIGNAL' - WHERE AN OMEN FROM 'THE OTHER SIDE' UNMASKS AN INSANE KILLER. 'THE LAMP' - IN WHICH AN UNHAPPY SPIRIT OF A CHILD LINGERS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE. 'THE LAST SÉANCE' - IN WHICH A GRIEVING MOTHER SEES HER DAUGHTER RETURN FROM THE DEAD - IN BODY AS WELL AS SPIRIT. 'THE HOUND OF DEATH' - WHERE A CONVENT BLOWS UP AND ON THE REMAINING WALL IS LEFT A BLACK POWDER MARK IN THE SHAPE OF A GREAT DOG. ALSO INCLUDES EIGHT OTHER SPINE-CHILLING MYSTERIES. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 218 PAGES. S/H.

104033 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE LISTERDALE MYSTERY Ł 3.00

AGATHA CHRISTIE AT HER BEST WITH A SELECTION OF INGENIOUS MYSTERIES. THE CURIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF LORD LISTERDALE. THE STRANGE MEETING ON A PORTSMOUTH TRAIN OF THE FECKLESS GEORGE ROWLAND AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL HE HAS EVER SEEN. THE WOMAN WHOSE ENEMIES ALL DIED BY ACCIDENT. THE EXTRAORDINARY COUNTRY HOUSE VISIT OF EDWARD ROBINSON AND EIGHT MORE DRAMATIC STORIES. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104034 CHRISTIE, AGATHA LORD EDGWARE DIES Ł 3.00

SUPPER AT THE SAVOY - HERCULE POIROT, THE FAMOUS DETECTIVE, WAS ENJOYING A PLEASANT LITTLE SUPPER PARTY AS THE GUEST OF LADY EDGWARE, FORMERLY JANE WILKINSON, A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG AMERICAN ACTRESS. DURING THE CONVERSATION LADY EDGWARE SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND, LORD EDGWARE, SINCE HE REFUSES TO DIVORCE HER AND ALLOW HER TO MARRY THE DUKE OF MERTON AS SHE WOULD LIKE. POIROT JOCULARLY REPLIES THAT GETTING RID OF HUSBANDS IS NOT HIS SPECIALITY. WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, HOWEVER, LORD EDGWARE DIES. COLLINS GREENWAY HARDBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104035 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT Ł 2.00

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1924, THIS IS THE STORY OF YOUNG, PRETTY ANNE WHO CAME TO LONDON FOR ADVENTURE, SAW A MAN MURDERED, MET COLONEL RACE AND SEVERAL INTERESTING YOUNG MEN. GREAT FUN AND VERY MUCH A PERIOD PIECE NOW. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104037 CHRISTIE, AGATHA MISS MARPLE'S FINAL CASES Ł 10.00

MISS MARPLE'S 6 FINAL CASES AND 2 OTHER STORIES. A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES, MOST OF THEM REGARDING MISS JANE MARPLE, AND A COUPLE OF OTHERS THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE. EXCELLENT. A COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. 138 PAGES. S/H.

104036 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE MOVING FINGER Ł 3.00

"THE LETTER ARRIVED, I REMEMBER, AT BREAKFAST. IT WAS A LOCAL LETTER WITH A TYPEWRITTEN ADDRESS. I OPENED IT BEFORE THE TWO WITH LONDON POSTMARKS. INSIDE, PRINTED WORDS AND LETTERS HAD BEEN CUT OUT AND GUMMED TO A SHEET OF PAPER. FOR A MINUTE OR TWO I STARED AT THE WORDS WITHOUT TAKING THEM IN. THEN I GASPED…" AT FIRST THE MALICIOUS, ANONYMOUS LETTERS CAUSE ONLY TERROR. BUT THEN THEY BRING ABOUT A DEATH. THE QUESTION IS - WHO WILL BE THE NEXT VICTIM? A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 160 PAGES. S/H.

104038 CHRISTIE, AGATHA MRS MCGINTY'S DEAD Ł 3.00

THIS IS UNUSUAL, AS A POLICEMAN, SUPERINTENDENT SPENCE, COMES TO SEE HERCULE POIROT ABOUT A MURDER CASE HE HAS HANDLED. THE SUPPOSED MURDERER HAS BEEN TRIED AND CONVICTED, AND THE EVIDENCE SEEMS OVERWHELMING, BUT THE POLICEMAN IS NOT SURE THAT THE CONVICTED MAN DID IT. HE JUST DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE TYPE TO BE A MURDERER - AND SPENCE APPEALS TO POIROT TO DISCOVER WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BEFORE THE CONVICTED MAN IS HANGED. AN EX-LIBRARY HARPER COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. NO PUBLICATION DATE GIVEN. 233 PAGES. S/H.

104039 CHRISTIE, AGATHA MURDER IN THE MEWS Ł 3.00

FOUR SHORT STORIES IN ONE VOLUME, ALL STARRING HERCULE POIROT. "THE INCREDIBLE THEFT", "DEAD MAN'S MIRROR", "TRIANGLE AT RHODES" AND THE TITLE STORY. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 222 PAGES. S/H.

104040 CHRISTIE, AGATHA MURDER IS EASY Ł 3.00

ANOTHER ENGLISH VILLAGE MYSTERY, WITH A BRIEF APPEARANCE BY SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE, BUT MOSTLY INVESTIGATED, IF NOT SOLVED, BY LUKE FITZWILLIAM. HE HAS RETIRED FROM THE TROPICS AND COME BACK TO ENGLAND TO LIVE - AND ON THE TRAIN TO LONDON HE MEETS AN ELDERLY LADY WHO TELLS HIM THAT SHE IS GOING TO SCOTLAND YARD, TO TELL THEM ABOUT A MURDERER THAT IS RUNNING RIOT IN HER VILLAGE. LUKE TAKES THIS WITH A PINCH OF SALT, UNTIL HE FINDS OUT THAT SHE WAS RUN OVER ON HER WAY UP WHITEHALL. CURIOUS, HE GOES DOWN TO WYCHWOOD HIMSELF, FINDING A FRIEND OF A FRIEND TO STAY WITH, TO LOOK INTO THE MATTER FOR HIMSELF. HE FINDS OUT THAT THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL ACCIDENTAL DEATHS AND PUTS HIMSELF AND HIS GIRLFRIEND INTO EXTREME DANGER - UNTIL HE REALISES THAT HIS SUSPICIONS ARE WILDLY ASTRAY. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104041 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Ł 3.00

IT WAS REALLY VERY HARD LUCK ON THE MURDERER. HE'D DOTTED HIS 'I'S AND WIPED THE DAGGER; HE'D CROSSED HIS 'T'S AND LEFT HIS FOOTPRINTS: ALL CLEAN AS A WHISTLE, ALL NEATLY TIED UP… AND THEN THE LETTER ARRIVED. A LETTER FROM A DEAD WOMAN. THAT WAS WHEN THE MURDERER'S BAD LUCK STARTED - AND WITH IT CAME HERCULE POIROT. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 221 PAGES. S/H.

104042 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES Ł 3.00

THIS IS THE FIRST OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS, IN WHICH WE MEET CAPTAIN HASTINGS, DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, WOUNDED AND SENT HOME. HAVING SPENT SOME MONTHS IN A NURSING HOME HE IS GIVEN A MONTH'S SICK LEAVE, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH HE MEETS JOHN CAVENDISH, AND IS INVITED TO STAY AT THE OLD FAMILY HOME, STYLES. HERE HE MEETS AGAIN HERCULE POIROT, "WHO HAD BEEN IN HIS TIME ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MEMBERS OF THE BELGIAN POLICE. AS A DETECTIVE HIS FLAIR HAD BEEN EXTRAORDINARY, AND HE HAD ACHIEVED TRIUMPHS BY UNRAVELLING SOME OF THE MOST BAFFLING CASES OF THE DAY." LITTLE DID ANYONE THEN, INCLUDING AGATHA HERSELF, REALISE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT SIXTY YEARS. WHEN A MURDER OCCURS AT STYLES HASTINGS SUGGESTS THAT POIROT IS ASKED TO SOLVE THE MATTER, AND WE MEET SUPERINTENDENT SUMMERHAYE AND DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JAPP. POIROT AT ONCE SAVES JAPP FROM MAKING A SERIOUS MISTAKE BY ARRESTING THE VICTIM'S HUSBAND, AND EVENTUALLY THE WHOLE CASE IS SOLVED. THE PLOT IS A FAVOURITE OF AGATHA'S AND WE MEET IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT IT IS ALWAYS CARRIED OFF SO WELL, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD ARE SO WELL DRAWN AND SO INDIVIDUAL, THE BOOK IS A PLEASURE TO READ. THE DEATH OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE EXTENDED FAMILY LIVING UNDER ONE ROOF, AND OF THE WEEKEND HOUSE PARTY, HAS LEFT A GAP IN THE TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH DETECTIVE STORIES THAT NO ONE HAS YET MANAGED TO FILL. NOW IS THE TIME TO MENTION THE LAST POIROT STORY, "CURTAIN", WHICH TAKES US BACK TO A VASTLY DIFFERENT STYLES, DECADES LATER, AND WHERE WE REALISE THAT AGATHA IS NOT MERELY ENTERTAINING US, BUT DEPICTING THE CHANGES IN THE ENGLISH SOCIAL SCENE AS ACCURATELY, AND ENTERTAINLY, AS JANE AUSTEN DID. A TRIAD GRANADA PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104043 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN Ł 4.00

PUBLISHED IN 1928, AND A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY, THIS CENTRES ON THE WORLD OF THE IDLE RICH AND NOT SO RICH. RUTH KETTERING IS THE DAUGHTER OF A VERY RICH MAN, BUT SHE IS UNLUCKY IN LOVE, AND THEN UNLUCKY IN LIFE, FOR SHE IS FOUND DEAD ON THE FAMOUS BLUE TRAIN TO NICE, AND HER JEWELS ARE MISSING. HER FATHER CALLS IN HERCULE POIROT TO FIND THE KILLER. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 251 PAGES. S/H.

104045 CHRISTIE, AGATHA N OR M? Ł 3.00

ANOTHER TOMMY AND TUPPENCE MYSTERY. THE YOUNGSTERS WE MET JUST AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN "THE SECRET ADVERSARY" ARE NOW MIDDLE-AGED, IN 1940, AND THEY ARE NOT NEEDED TO FIGHT THE WAR... OR ARE THEY? THERE ARE ALWAYS SPIES TO SEARCH OUT AND MANY RED HERRINGS ON THE WAY. EXCELLENT NOVEL SET AGAINST AN AUTHENTIC WAR-TIME SETTING. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104046 CHRISTIE, AGATHA N OR M? Ł 2.00

ANOTHER TOMMY AND TUPPENCE MYSTERY. THE YOUNGSTERS WE MET JUST AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN "THE SECRET ADVERSARY" ARE NOW MIDDLE-AGED, IN 1940, AND THEY ARE NOT NEEDED TO FIGHT THE WAR... OR ARE THEY? THERE ARE ALWAYS SPIES TO SEARCH OUT, AND MANY RED HERRINGS ON THE WAY. EXCELLENT NOVEL SET AGAINST AN AUTHENTIC WAR-TIME SETTING. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104044 CHRISTIE, AGATHA NEMESIS Ł 2.00

MISS MARPLE WAS MORE THAN A LITTLE SURPRISED WHEN SHE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FRIEND WHO HAD DIED ONLY A WEEK EARLIER. HIS LETTER URGED HER TO INVESTIGATE A CRIME - BUT HE GAVE NO DETAILS AS TO WHO WAS INVOLVED, WHERE OR EVEN WHEN IT HAPPENED. 'LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE WATERS AND RIGHTOUSNESS LIKE AN EVERLASTING STREAM' - HE QUOTED. THEY WERE FINE WORDS… BUT MISS MARPLE COULD HARDLY SEE HOW THEY APPLIED TO HERSELF. AND YET HER LATE FRIEND HAD CHRISTENED HER NEMESIS. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 222 PAGES. S/H.

104047 CHRISTIE, AGATHA PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT Ł 3.00

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1970, THIS BOOK IS DOUBLE UNUSUAL. FIRST, IT HAS A FOREWORD BY AGATHA HERSELF, AND SECONDLY IT IS A FANTASY, A TALE OF DERRING DO, OF HEROES AND VILLAINS, OF OLD-FASHION VALUES AND NEW ANARCHIES. THE HERO IS A NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMAT, WHO IS CURSED WITH A SENSE OF THE RIDICULOUS, AND THEREFORE NOT QUITE TRUSTWORTHY. HE IS SITTING IN TRANSIT PASSENGER LOUNGE IN FRANKFURT AIRPORT, STRANDED BY FOG, WHEN A WOMAN HE HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE BEGS HIM TO HELP HER ESCAPE TO LONDON BEFORE SHE IS KILLED. BEFORE HE HAS FINISHED HE HAS TRAVELLED HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD, MET GREAT WEALTH AND STRANGE OLD LADIES, AND THE WOMAN HE INTENDS TO MARRY. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104048 CHRISTIE, AGATHA POIROT INVESTIGATES Ł 2.00

THIS IS A SELECTION OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN 1924, INCLUDING "THE KIDNAPPED PRIME MINISTER" AND "THE CASE OF THE MISSING WILL". THIS IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING, AS MISS MARPLE ALSO HAS A CASE TO SOLVE WHERE THE WILL IS THERE BUT NOT THE RICHES. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104049 CHRISTIE, AGATHA POIROT'S EARLY CASES Ł 3.00

THESE CASES ALL COME FROM THE 1920S AND 1930S, AND WERE MAINLY PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES. THIS COLLECTION WAS PUT TOGETHER IN 1974, AND INCLUDES STORIES WITH ARTHUR HASTINGS AND WITH MISS LEMON. MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN SEEN ON TV STARRING DAVID SUCHET, AND THEY ARE BASICALLY PLAYED AS COSTUME DRAMAS, AND VERY WELL, TOO. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 222 PAGES. S/H.

104051 CHRISTIE, AGATHA POSTERN OF FATE Ł 2.00

THE LAST OF THE TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BOOKS. THEY HAVE RETIRED TO THE COUNTRY, AND ARE SETTING THEIR NEW HOME IN ORDER, WHEN TUPPENCE COMES ACROSS SOME UNUSUAL MARKS IN A CHILDREN'S BOOK. WHAT IS MORE, THEY SEEM TO REFER TO A MURDER. TUPPENCE AND TOMMY ARE SOON HOT ON THE TRAIL AS USUAL - AFTER FIFTY YEARS EXPERIENCE. A COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. EX-LIBRARY. S/H.

104050 CHRISTIE, AGATHA POSTERN OF FATE Ł 3.00

104052 CHRISTIE, AGATHA PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY Ł 3.00

A COLLECTION OF EIGHT SHORT STORIES, "PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY" AND "THE REGETTA MYSTERY" (MR PARKER PYNE), "THE HARLEQUIN TEASET" AND "THE LOVE DETECTIVES" (HARLEY QUINN), "THE SECOND GONG" AND "YELLOW IRIS" (HERCULE POIROT), AND "NEXT TO A DOG" AND "MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM". A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 227 PAGES. S/H.

104053 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE REGATTA MYSTERY Ł 5.00

A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FEATURING HERCULE POIROT, MR. PARKER PYNE AND MISS MARPLE. A FABULOUS DIAMOND DISAPPEARS WITHOUT A TRACE. AN INNOCENT MAN IS ACCUSED AND THE SCENE IS SET FOR MURDER. THIS IS A DEADLY CHALLENGE FOR THE DEDUCTIVE IMAGINATIONS OF THE THREE DETECTIVES. ALL OF THESE STORIES HAVE APPEARED IN UK COLLECTIONS ELSEWHERE.A DELL US PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104054 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SECRET ADVERSARY Ł 2.00

THE FIRST OF THE TOMMY AND TUPPENCE STORIES, WHICH CARRIED ON AT INTERVALS INTO THEIR RETIREMENT IN THE 1970S. THIS ONE, PUBLISHED IN 1922 IS DEDICATED "TO ALL THOSE WHO LEAD MONOTONOUS LIVES IN THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCE AT SECOND-HAND THE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OF ADVENTURE". TOMMY AND TUPPENCE HAVE EMERGED FROM THE WAR SUCCESSFULLY, BUT ARE NOW WITHOUT MONEY OR PROSPECTS. THEY DECIDE WHILE HAVING TEA IN LYONS THAT THEY WILL GO OUT AND LOOK FOR, INDEED ADVERTISE, ADVENTURE, BUT IT SOON COMES THEIR WAY IN BUCKETFULS. A NICE LITTLE THRILLER FOR A DARK, WET EVENING. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 221 PAGES. S/H.

104055 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SECRET ADVERSARY Ł 3.00

104058 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS Ł 3.00

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1925, THIS BOOK CONTAINS THE USUAL MIXTURE FOR THE AVERAGE THRILLER OF THE TIME, A SOUGHT-AFTER MANUSCRIPT, A MISSING HEIR TO A FOREIGN THRONE, A GREAT FINANCIER, A STATESMAN, A NOBLEMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER, A NOTORIOUS JEWEL THIEF, A MERRY WIDOW, A HANDSOME STRANGER, A FRENCH GOVERNESS, A FBI MAN AND A SUPERINTENDENT FROM SCOTLAND YARD - BUT AS USUAL IT IS TURNED INTO A HAPPY WHOLE AFTER SOME JUDUCIOUS STIRRING AND THE STORY SEEMS QUITE ORIGINAL. A COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. 220 PAGES. EX-LIBRARY. S/H.

104056 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS Ł 3.00

104057 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS Ł 3.00

104059 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY Ł 3.00

THIS BOOK, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1929, IS THE SEQUEL TO "THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS", AND STARS LADY EILEEN (BUNDLE) AND LORD CATERHAM, AMONG OTHERS. IT IS THE AGE OF THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, THE YOUNG MEN WHO DID A FEW HOURS AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE OR SOMEWHERE, AND THE YOUNG GIRLS THAT VERY ENERGETICALLY DID NO WORK AT ALL. IT IS THE STORY OF A CONSPIRACY, OF SEVERAL DEATHS, OF LOYALTY AND TREACHERY, AND GREAT FUN TO READ. SUPERINTENDANT BATTLE IS AT THE HEART OF THE MYSTERY. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104060 CHRISTIE, AGATHA SLEEPING MURDER Ł 3.00

THE LAST OF THE MISS MARPLE BOOKS, ACTUALLY WRITTEN DURING THE WAR AND SAVED UNTIL AFTER HER DEATH, WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR THE RATHER ODD TIME PERIOD IN IT, WITH RETIRED COOKS AND HOUSE MAIDS AND JOBBING GARDENERS ALL MIXED UP TOGETHER. GWENDA MOVED INTO HER NEW HOUSE, AND FOUND THAT SHE HAD KNOWN IT BEFORE, INCLUDING A MURDERER. EXCELLENT. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104061 CHRISTIE, AGATHA SLEEPING MURDER Ł 3.00

104062 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD Ł 3.00

VICTORIA JONES WAS A GIRL WITH A YEARNING FOR ADVENTURE - BUT SHE GETS MORE THAN SHE BARGAINS FOR WHEN A WOUNDED AGENT DIES IN HER HOTEL ROOM. A SECRET SUPERPOWER SUMMIT WILL BE HELD IN BAGHDAD AND AN UNDERGROUND ORGANISATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS PLANNING TO SABOTAGE IT, UNLESS VICTORIA AND HER FREINDS CAN STOP THEM. EXCELLENT THRILLER WITH FUNNY OVERTONES. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

104063 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THIRD GIRL Ł 3.00

A HERCULE POIROT STORY. THREE GIRLS SHARED A FLAT IN LONDON; ONE A SCRETARY, THE SECOND AN ARTIST AND THE THIRD COMES TO POIROT FOR HELP... AND THEN DISAPPEARS, BELIEVING HERSELF TO BE A MURDERER. ALSO INCLUDES MRS ARIADNE OLIVER, AGATHA'S PASTICHE OF HERSELF. GOOD FUN. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 221 PAGES. S/H.

104064 CHRISTIE, AGATHA THE THIRTEEN PROBLEMS Ł 3.00

OUR FIRST VIEW OF THE DELIGHTFUL MISS MARPLE, IN THE TUESDAY NIGHT CLUB. A GROUP OF PEOPLE MEET AND DICUSS UNSOLVED CRIMES AND MYSTERIES - AND THE WINNER EVERY TIME IS THE QUIET, ELDERLY MAIDEN LADY IN THE CORNER, MISS JANE MARPLE. WE ALSO MEET COLONEL AND MRS BANTRY AND SIR HENRY CLITHERING, A GLITTERING GALAXY OF STARS IN THIS LOCAL UNIVERSE. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104065 CLARK, MARY HIGGINS ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Ł 4.00

A MYSTERY FEATURING ALVIRAH AND WILLY. WILLY HAS BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING SANTA AT THE AFTER-SCHOOL CENTRE SET UP FOR CHILDREN OF WORKING PARENTS - AND ALVIRAH HAS BEEN BUSY WITH REHEARSALS FOR THE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT. BUT SUDDENLY A SHADOW FALLS UPON THE CHRISTMAS CHEER. THE CENTRE IS THREATENED WITH CLOSURE, A DEATHBED LEGACY GIVES THE PROMISED REPLACEMENT HOME TO OTHERS, A VALUABLE CHALICE - LONG MISSING - IS SPOTTED AT THE CENTRE BEFORE DISAPPEARING AGAIN AND A DESPERATE WOMAN TURNS UP, BEGGING FOR HELP IN TRACING THE BABY SHE ABANDONED SEVEN YEARS BEFORE. AND IN A FINAL BLOW, THE YOUNG GIRL WHO IS TO PLAY MARY IN THE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE. A POCKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 170 PAGES. S/H.

104066 CLARKE, ANNA LAST VOYAGE Ł 3.00

AS A CHILD ON HER FIRST CRUISE, SALLY LIVINGSTONE WAS THE ONLY WITNESS TO AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME: A MYSTERIOUS MAN PUSHED A WOMAN'S BODY OUT THE PORTHOLE OF THE SHIP. TEN YEARS LATER, JUST WHEN IT SEEMS THIS NIGHTMARE COULD BE FORGOTTEN, THE MURDERER COMES BACK INTO HER LIFE. SALLY FEELS TRAPPED AND CONFUSED. THERE IS NOWHERE TO TURN. EVEN HER SISTER, ROSE, CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH THIS HORRIBLE SECRET. BECAUSE THE MURDERER IS ROSE'S FIANCE. A BERKLEY MYSTERY PAPERBACK EDITION. 168 PAGES. S/H.

104067 CLARKE, ANNA LETTER FROM THE DEAD Ł 2.00

"ASHES TO ASHES" INTONED THE VICAR OF ST. MARK'S CHURCH AT THE NEWLY DUG GRAVE OF MAUREEN MYRTLE - THIRD WIFE OF NOVELIST REGINALD MYRTLE. BUT EVEN AS THEY LOWERED HIS WIFE'S REMAINS, REGGIE HAD A FOURTH MRS MYRTLE ALREADY IN MIND. UNFORTUNATELY FOR POOR REGGIE, THE DEAD AT THIS FUNERAL DIDN'T STAY BURIED. MAUREEN WOULD BE BACK - IN A LETTER LEFT WITH HER SOLICITORS. HER SON, CLIVE, SUSPECTED IT CONTAINED A DAMNING SECRET BUT NO-ONE, NOT CLIVE OR REGGIE OR EVEN THE VICAR, KNEW THAT ITS CONTENTS MEANT ONE OF THEM WOULD SOON HAVE TO DIE. A CHARTER MYSTERY PAPERBACK EDITION. 152 PAGES. S/H.

104069 COLE, HARRY POLICEMAN'S PATCH Ł 3.00

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN TO A POLICEMAN ON HIS PATCH: HE MAY, IN THE COURSE OF DUTY, FIND HIS NECK ENTWINED WITH THE RUBENESQUE THIGHS OF ROSIE RAFFERTY; HIS SEARCH FOR A VICTIM MAY BECOME A PIED PIPER TOUR OF A WHOLE TOWER BLOCK; THE VANDALISER OF AN OLD LADY'S FLAT MAY TURN OUT TO BE THE LAST PERSON HE'D IMAGINED; HE MAY EVEN FIND HIMSELF ON DUTY AT THE ROYAL WEDDING. PC COLE DESCRIBES THESE AND MANY OTHER OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED DURING THIRTY YEARS ON THE BEAT WITH A SENSE OF HUMOUR THAT NEVER FAILS HIM. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 220 PAGES. S/H.

104071 COLE, MARTINA BROKEN Ł 5.00

ONE BY ONE, CHILDREN ARE BEING ABANDONED. THANKFULLY, THEY'RE RESCUED FROM HARM. THEN ONE VICTIM IS NOT SO LUCKY AND KATE KNOWS SHE'S IN A RACE AGAINST TIME TO SAVE LIVES. AS A PARENT HERSELF, KATE'S FINDING THE CASE TOUGH AND SHE NEEDS THE SUPPORT OF HER LOVER, PATRICK KELLY, MORE THAN EVER. BUT PATRICK'S GOT PROBLEMS OF HIS OWN. A DEAD BODY'S TURNED UP IN HIS SOHO CLUB AND, ALTHOUGH HE INSISTS IT'S A SET-UP, KATE BEGINS TO DOUBT HIM. IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME PATRICK'S REPUTATION IN THE CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD HAS COMPROMISED HER POSITION. BUT NOW THERE'S A MANIAC TO CATCH AND KATE CAN'T LET ANYONE - NOT EVEN PATRICK - GET IN HER WAY. A HEADLINE LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK EDITION. 469 PAGES. S/H.

104072 COLE, MARTINA BROKEN Ł 5.00

104074 COLES, MANNING ALIAS UNCLE HUGO Ł 3.00

THE FIFTEENTH TOMMY HAMBLEDON ADVENTURE. HAMBLEDON IS SENT TO RESCUE A ROYAL HEIR FROM THE RUSSIANS. A THRILLER BOOK CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. NO DATE OF PUBLICATION GIVEN. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104075 COLES, MANNING DRINK TO YESTERDAY Ł 5.00

A SPY STORY. THE FIRST IN THE MANNING COLE SERIES SET ABOUT THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE LIFE OF MICHAEL KINGSTON/BILL SAUNDERS/DIRK BRANT. EXCITING AND ORIGINAL. A HODDER & STOUGHTON YELLOW JACKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104076 COLES, MANNING THE FIFTH MAN Ł 5.00

FIVE BRITISH PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED FROM THE NAZIS - OR HAVE THEY? BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SUSPECTS AN ELABORATE RUSE AND THAT ONE OF THE FIVE MAY WELL BE A DOUBLE AGENT PREPARED FOR COUNTER-ESPIONAGE. TOMMY HAMBLEDON IS ASSIGNED TO UNCOVER THE MOST DANGEROUS GERMAN SPY IN ENGLAND. A CRITIC'S CHOICE PAPERBACK EDITION. 287 PAGES. S/H.

104077 COLES, MANNING GREEN HAZARD Ł 5.00

SET IN 1941. HAMBLEDON IS MISTAKEN FOR A SCIENTIST AND KIDNAPPED BY THE GESTAPO. A HODDER & STOUGHTON HARDBACK EDITION. 284 PAGES. S/H.

104078 COLES, MANNING THEY TELL NO TALES Ł 5.00

HAMBLEDON IS BACK IN ENGLAND AT THE END OF 1938 AND HAS BEEN SENT DOWN TO PORTSMOUTH TO INVESTIGATE THE SINKING OF BRITISH SHIPS. A HODDER & STOUGHTON YELLOW JACKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104080 CONNOLLY, VIVIAN FIVE PORTS TO DANGER Ł 3.00

IN THE TRADITION OF MISS MARPLE, AGATHA CHRISTIE'S GRANDE DAME OF DETECTIVES, THE CRUSTY AND KEEN-WITTED KATHLEEN O'CONNELL FACES HER TOUGHEST CHALLENGE TO DATE. THE REDOUBTABLE AUNT KATHLEEN HAD SIGNED ON FOR A CARIBBEAN CRUISE TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL. ON BOARD SHE BEFRIENDED A BEAUTIFUL SPANISH GIRL, AN AMERICAN WRITER, A MYSTERIOUS PRIEST AND A NOTORIOUS SMUGGLER. BUT THE PLEASURE BOAT TURNED INTO A SHIP OF FEAR WHEN ONE OF THE PASSENGERS TURNED KILLER. IT WAS UP TO AUNT KATHLEEN TO SOLVE THE MURDERS TO SAVE HER FRIENDS' LIVES - AND HER OWN. A BMI PAPERBACK EDITION. NO DATE OF PUBLICATION GIVEN. 203 PAGES. S/H.

104082 COOK, KENNETH WAKE IN FRIGHT Ł 1.00

IN ONE MAGNIFICENT ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE OF A FIRST NOVEL, THE GARGANTUAN FLAVOUR OF THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK, ITS SICK HEAT AND ITS PEOPLE. LIKE QUICKSAND THEIR ANIMAL CUSTOMS, THEIR ANIMAL WOMEN, THEIR PERVERTS AND THEIR STUPENDOUS, OVERPOWERING HOSPITALITY DRAG INNOCENT, CITY-BRED JOHN GRANT DOWN TO HIS RUIN - AND BEYOND. HEADS YOU FIND YOURSELF AS HELPLESSLY INVOLVED IN HIS VIOLENT STORY AS HE WAS HIMSELF. TAILS YOU LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 143 PAGES. S/H.

104084 COOK, THOMAS H. SACRIFICIAL GROUND Ł 3.00

SHE WAS GORGEOUS, SIXTEEN AND RICH - AND SHE WAS DEAD. EVEN AS A CORPSE, ANGELICA DEVEREAUX IS AS BEAUTIFUL AND AS ENIGMATIC AS THE MEANS BY WHICH SHE MET HER VIOLENT END. AFTER THE SHATTERING SUICIDE OF HIS OWN TEENAGE DAUGHTER, THE DEVEREAUX CASE IS THE LAST THING ATLANTA COP FRANK CLEMONS NEEDS. BUT LIKE EVERYBODY WHOSE LIFE IS TOUCHED BY ANGELICA'S, FRANK CANNOT ESCAPE HER IRRESISTIBLE ALLURE - EVEN FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. IT WILL DRIVE HIM TO PROBE EVER DEEPER INTO THE SHORT, TROUBLED HISTORY OF A CHILD-WOMAN TOO DANGEROUSLY DESIRABLE NOT TO BE KILLED. BEFORE HE KNOWS IT, FRANK IS TRAPPED IN AN OBSESSION, TREADING A SERPENTINE PATH OF CORRUPTION, LONELINESS AND THWARTED LOVE, WHICH WILL EITHER LEAD HIM OUT OF THE TORTURED PAST - OR DESTROY HIM. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 287 PAGES. S/H.

104085 COOPER, NATASHA CREEPING IVY Ł 4.00

IN A WAY THIS IS A WILLOW AND TOM WORTH CSE, BUT THEY ARE ONLY ON THE SIDELINES. ANTONIA'S FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE, VANISHES FROM THE LOCAL PLAYGROUND. MANY PEOPLE ARE SUSPECTED - CHARLOTTE'S NURSE, HER REAL FATHER, HER STEPFATHER, EVEN ANTONIA'S COUSIN, TRISH MAGUIRE, BUT THE FULL HORROR OF WHAT HAPPENED TAKES TIME TO BE PERCEIVED. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 342 PAGES. S/H.

104086 CORNWELL, PATRICIA THE LAST PRECINCT Ł 3.00

THE SEQUEL TO "BLACK NOTICE", KAY SCARPETTA FINDS HERSELF THE OBJECT OF SUSPICION AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, AND SHE ALSO DISCOVERS THAT THE SO-CALLED WEREWOLF MURDERS MAY HAVE EXTENDED TO NEW YORK CITY AND INTO THE DARKEST CORNERS OF HER PAST. A FEMALE ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FROM NEW YORK IS BROUGHT IN AS PROSECUTOR, AND SCARPETTA MUST STRUGGLE TO MAKE WHAT SHE KNOWS TO BE THE TRUTH PREVAIL. A LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY HARDBACK EDITION. 449 PAGES. S/H.

104087 CORNWELL, PATRICIA UNNATURAL EXPOSURE Ł 3.00

ANOTHER DR KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY. YEARS AGO FIVE DISMEMBERED BODIES WERE FOUND IN IRELAND YEARS AGO, AND NOW FOUR HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE STATES. SUDDENLY A TENTH BODY IS FOUND, BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT, AND SUDDENLY THE NEXT BODY DEFINES THE HORRIFYING MURDER WEAPON - SMALLPOX. A LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY HARDBACK EDITION. 338 PAGES. S/H.

104094 CREASEY, JOHN QUARREL WITH MURDER Ł 1.00

HE'D BEEN LONGING FOR A CHANCE TO TALK TO SARAH MELLISON ON HER OWN, WITHOUT THE USUAL CROWD OF ADMIRERS SURROUNDING HER. BUT NOW THE OPPORTUNITY HAD ARISEN, THE MEETING WAS NOT AT ALL AS PLEASANT AS TONY GREY HAD ANTICIPATED. FOR, AT THEIR RENDEZVOUS ON THE COMMON, LAY THE BODY OF A YOUNG MAN WHOSE HEAD HAD BEEN SMASHED LIKE AN EGG… A YOUNG MAN WHO TONY THOUGHT WAS A STRANGER TO BOTH OF THEM. A CORGI PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104089 CREASEY, JOHN GIDEON'S FORCE Ł 4.00

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM VIVIAN BUTLER BUT BASED ON THE CHARACTERS INVENTED BY JOHN CREASEY (UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF J. J. MARRIC). THE NEWLY-BUILT WELLESLEY ESTATE - A MODERN CONCRETE-AND-GLASS RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH ITS OWN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE - HAS BECOME A FOCUS FOR MEANINGLESS VIOLENCE WHICH THE POLICE ARE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN OR CONTROL. INTIMIDATED BY FEAR OF RAPE, MUGGINGS, FIRE-RAISING, WINDOW SMASHING, EVEN MURDER, ITS INHABITANTS SET ABOUT FORMING THEIR OWN VIGILANTE GROUP. ELSEWHERE, DINO ORSINI, THE "WHITE SHEEP" OF HIS FAMILY, IS HELPING THE POLICE IN THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF HIS TWO BROTHERS, IN WHAT APPEAR TO BE VICIOUS GANG-LAND SLAYINGS. AND IN YET ANOTHER PART OF LONDON, ALL STOPS ARE OUT IN AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE THE KIDNAPPED WIFE OF LEADING BISCUIT MANUFACTURER, THOMAS CARGILL - EVEN THE RATHER CONTROVERSIAL SERVICES OF A CZECH CLAIRVOYANT ARE BEING USED. A LIST OF CRIMES TO MAKE THE AVERAGE POLICEMAN BLANCH. BUT TO COMMANDER GEORGE GIDEON THEY OFFER A CHALLENGE - AND ONE THAT MUST BE OVERCOME IF THE LAW, WHICH HE HAS SERVED, REPRESENTED AND FOUGHT FOR ALL HIS WORKING LIFE, IS NOT FINALLY TO BREAK DOWN. A BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES HARDBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104090 CREASEY, JOHN GIDEON'S VOTE Ł 3.00

A GENERAL ELECTION WAS IMMINENT - WHICH MEANT MORE WORK FOR COMMANDER GIDEON OF THE YARD. EVE OF POLL RALLIES WERE SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 5TH AND THAT WAS TOO SIGNIFICANT A DATE IN PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY TO BE COMFORTABLE. TODAY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS HAD NEW ENEMIES WHOSE FANATICISM WAS EQUAL TO THAT OF GUY FAWKES SO LONG AGO. AND IF THEY HAD MODERN WEAPONS IN THEIR HANDS, THEY COULD DESTROY ON A FAR VASTER SCALE… THEN A TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST WENT MISSING, ALONG WITH A VITAL PIECE OF ATOMIC EQUIPMENT. AND AS THE CROWDS AMASSED FOR THE GREATEST PEACE RALLY EVER HELD, ONLY GIDEON KNEW THE TRUE IRONY - AND APPALLING DANGER - OF THE SITUATION. FOR THOSE ENEMIES NOW HAD THE POWER TO DESTROY THE WHOLE OF LONDON AT THE PRESS OF A BUTTON. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104095 CREASEY, JOHN THE TOFF Ł 1.00

THE HONOURABLE RICHARD ROLLISON WOULD NEVER HAVE ENTERED UPON A LONG CAREER OF CRIME-BUSTING IF HE HAD BEEN THE KIND OF MAN TO IGNORE THE PLEAS OF A LADY IN DISTRESS. NOR WOULD HE HAVE SURVIVED LONG HAD HE NOT BEEN TOUGH, WARY AND ASTUTE. BUT WHEN THE 'LADY' IN DISTRESS TURNS OUT TO BE THREE IDENTICAL RICH SISTERS WHO LIKE TO PLAY GAMES WITH MEN - AND WHEN JOLLY DISAPPEARS IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES - THE TOFF BEGINS TO WONDER IF HE HASN'T BITTEN OFF MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104096 CRISPIN, EDMUND THE MOVING TOYSHOP Ł 3.00

IT IS LATE AT NIGHT WHEN POET CADOGAN STUMBLES ON THE DEAD BODY OF AN OLD LADY IN AN OXFORD TOYSHOP. THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE TOYSHOP HAS VANISHED AND IN ITS PLACE IS A GROCERY STORE. NOBODY, NOT EVEN THE POLICE, SEEM SURPRISED. HOW FORTUNATE THAT CADOGAN IS A FRIEND OF GERVASE FEN, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT OXFORD AND THAT MOST TENACIOUS AND PERCEPTIVE OF AMATEUR SLEUTHS. FEN IS DELIGHTED TO INVESTIGATE A CRIME THAT SEEMS NOT TO EXIST. WITH A LITTLE INSPIRATION AND A FEW HUNCHES, FEN DISCOVERS THAT THE TOYSHOP, THE CORPSE AND THE MOTIVE ARE ALL VERY REAL INDEED. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. ORIGINAL PENGUIN PAPERBACK PUBLISHED 1958 - THIS REPRINT HAS NO DATE OF PUBLICATION. 205 PAGES. S/H.

104097 CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS THE CHEYNE MYSTERY Ł 4.00

THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF MR CROFTS THE MOST FAMOUS CASES IN WHICH THAT BRILLIANT INVESTIGATOR - INSPECTOR FRENCH - WAS CONCERNED ARE BEING RECORDED AND, OF THESE, 'THE CHEYNE MYSTERY' IS THE SECOND. WHEN YOUNG CHEYNE FIRST FOUND THAT A DANGEROUS GANG OF CRIMINALS HAD AN UNPLEASANT INTEREST IN HIM, HE TRIED TO OUTWIT THEM ON HIS OWN; HOWEVER, THINGS BECAME SERIOUS, HIS LIFE WAS ATTEMPTED AND HE DECIDED TO GO TO THE YARD. FROM THEN FRENCH COMES INTO THE STORY AND CARRIES OUT ONE OF HIS TYPICAL INVESTIGATIONS BY HIS OWN PARTICULAR METHOD - THAT UNTIRING THOROUGHNESS DIRECTED BY FLASHES OF INSPIRATION WHICH IS THE SECRET OF HIS UNFAILING SUCCESS. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104098 CROSS, AMANDA THE THEBAN MYSTERIES Ł 4.00

KATE FANSLER, PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE, IS LURED OUT OF HER SABBATICAL BY A DESPERATE APPEAL FROM HER ALMA MATER - THE THEBAN SCHOOL, ONE OF NEW YORK'S FINEST GIRLS' SCHOOLS - TO CONDUCT A SEMINAR ON ANTIGONE. THE GREEK HEROINE'S BOLD AND DEFIANT STANCE SEEMS TO HAVE UNCANNY RELEVANCE FOR A GENERATION CAUGHT UP IN SEX, DRUGS AND PROTEST. BUT LITERARY ALLUSIONS ASSUME SINISTER SHAPE WHEN KATE IS DRAWN INTO THE STRANGE ACTIVITIES SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BODY IN THE OLD SCHOOL BUILDING. A VIRAGO PAPERBACK EDITION. 191 PAGES. S/H.

104100 CUNNINGHAM, E. V. THE CASE OF THE KIDNAPPED ANGEL Ł 2.00

KIDNAPPED ANGEL IS THE WIFE OF A TOP FILM STAR, MIKE BARTON; AND SHE'S NO ANGEL. IN FACT, THE GENERAL OPINION IS THAT HE'S WELL RID OF HER. BUT THOUGH HE SEEMS LESS THAN GRIEF-STRICKEN, HE RAISES THE MILLION DOLLAR RANSOM FOR HER. OR DOES HE? MASAO MASUTO, THE AMERICAN-BORN JAPANESE DETECTIVE WHOSE BRILLIANCE HAS ALREADY BEEN DISPLAYED IN 'THE CASE OF THE SLIDING POOL', IS CONVINCED THAT THE KIDNAPPING WAS FAKED BY BARTON AND HIS WIFE. BUT VERY SOON MIKE HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD, AT CLOSE RANGE; AND ANGEL IS BACK HOME, SAFE AND WELL; AND THE MILLION HAS VANISHED. SO WHO KILLED MIKE: THERE'S QUITE A RANGE OF SHADY SUSPECTS - THOUGH NOT FOR LONG, AS THE SUSPECTS BEGIN TO BECOME CORPSES TOO. AND WHO HAS THE MONEY? A GOLLANCZ HARDBACK EDITION. 180 PAGES. S/H.

104102 DALY, ELIZABETH AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW Ł 4.00

SPINSTER ALICE DUNBAR DISAPPEARED SHORTLY AFTER HER OLD AND WEALTHY AUNT WOODWORTH DIED. BUT NO ONE CONNECTS THE EVENTS EXCEPT GAMADGE. DAUGHTER OF A COMFORTABLY WELL-OFF FAMILY, ALICE'S DREARY LIFE CONSISTED OF RUNNING HOUSEHOLD ERRANDS WITH THE FAMILY CHAUFFEUR. WHAT MOTIVE WOULD SHE HAVE TO RUN AWAY? SHE HAD NO MONEY, NO VICES AND NO LOVER. OR DID SHE? ONCE GAMADGE DISCOVERS THE TRUE DESTINATION OF ALICE'S FREQUENT DRIVES, HE FINDS HIMSELF RACING DOWN A WINDING, DARK ROAD THAT LEADS STRAIGHT TO A VERY DEAD END. CHARMING AND GENTEEL, DASHINGLY ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN, HENRY GAMADGE MAKES HIS HOME ON THE POSH EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK AND MAKES HIS LIVING AS A CONSULTANT ON OLD BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND INKS. BUT HIS FAME IN DETECTION SURPASSES HIS FINE REPUTATION AS A BIBLIOPHILE. HE CAN FIND A MISSING BODY FASTER THAN A MISPLACED TOME, DECIPHER CLUES QUICKER THAN AN ANCIENT AUTHOR'S SCRIPT AND HAS CAUGHT ENOUGH CLEVER KILLERS TO FILL A WHOLE LIBRARY OF CRIME. A BANTAM PAPERBACK EDITION. 167 PAGES. S/H.

104103 DALY, ELIZABETH THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR Ł 5.00

IN 1904, HENRY GAMADGE WAS BORN IN THE FAMILY HOME IN THE EAST SIXTIES OF NEW YORK CITY. HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER HAD BOTH BEEN INTERESTED IN RARE BOOKS AND HENRY HIMSELF WAS STEEPED IN BOOKS FROM INFANCY. BY 1939, AFTER THE USUAL PROPER SCHOOLING FOR ONE OF HIS BACKGROUND, HE WAS DRAWN BY CIRCUMSTANCES INTO WHAT HE CALLS 'A SIDE-LINE WITH A PUZZLE INTEREST'. THIS, OF COURSE, REFERS TO HIS DETECTIVE WORK IN WHICH HE HAS TO DATE 'PARTICIPATED', AS HE SAYS, IN TEN CASES. HE MARRIED CLARA DAWSON IN 1940 AND HAS ONE SON, BORN IN 1943. HIS HOBBIES AND RECREATIONS ARE BRIDGE, GOLF, MUSIC (AS A LISTENER) AND - HE INSISTS - THE CONSERVATION OF THE TRANSITIVE VERB. HE SAYS HE HAS NO PETS. 'THAT YELLOW OBJECT WHICH YOU SEE ROLLING AMONG MY PAPERS, MY CAT MARTIN, IS NOT A PET. HE MERELY CAME AND STAYED. YOU MIGHT CALL HIM LOCAL COLOUR OR YOU MIGHT CALL HIM MY FAMILIAR'. DURING THE WAR HE WORKED HERE AND IN EUROPE FOR COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE. WHEN ASKED WHAT HE DID, HE SAYS HE FLEW AROUND. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 220 PAGES. S/H.

104104 DALY, ELIZABETH MURDERS IN VOLUME 2 Ł 5.00

WHEN MR HENRY GAMADGE, EXPERT ON ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS, ARRIVES ON THE SCENE, THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY MURDER, ONLY THE CURIOUS REAPPEARANCE OF A LONG-LOST VOLUME OF BYRON'S POETRY IN THE VAUREGARD HOUSEHOLD. AN OLD NEW YORK FAMILY WITH POSITION BUT NO WEALTH, THE VAUREGARDS LIVE IN SUCH A DESICCATED ATMOSPHERE IT IS UNTHINKABLE THAT THE PASSION FOR MURDER COULD FLOURISH THERE. BUT IT DOES. AN OTTO PENZLER CLASSIC AMERICAN MYSTERY LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDITION. 176 PAGES. S/H.

104105 DALY, ELIZABETH NOTHING CAN RESCUE ME Ł 5.00

HENRY GAMADGE WAS ASKED TO DISCOVER WHO HAD TAMPERED WITH THE WEALTHY MRS. MASON'S MANUSCRIPT. GAMADGE KNEW IMMEDIATELY THAT THE SINISTER ENTRIES WHICH HAD BEEN MADE WERE QUOTATIONS FROM POE, MEREDITH AND FORD AND THAT THE LAST AND TERRIBLE WORDS WERE FROM MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS: WHATSOEVER NOISE YE HEAR, COME NOT UNTO ME, FOR NOTHING CAN RESCUE ME. GAMADGE DESPERATELY TRIED TO FIND OUT WHO AMONG FLORENCE'S MANY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES HAD ADDED THESE LINES BUT HE WAS NOT FAST ENOUGH. THE MURDERER MADE GOOD THOSE OMINOUS WORDS AND THERE WAS NO HELP FOR THE TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE FOUND VERY QUIET - AND VERY DEAD. A BERKLEY MEDALLION PAPERBACK EDITION. 159 PAGES. S/H.

104106 DAVIS, LINDSEY THE JUPITER MYTH Ł 3.00

MARCUS DIDIUS FALCO IS ON A RELAXING VISIT TO HELENA'S RELATIVES IN BRITAIN, BUT WHEN THE CORPSE OF THE RENEGADE HENCHMAN OF LOYAL ALLY KING TOGIDUBNUS IS FOUND STUFFED HEAD FIRST DOWN A WELL HE IS THRUST INTO THE HEART OF A DIPLOMATIC SITUATION. ONE MURDER LEADS TO OTHERS, AND FALCO AND HIS FRIEND PETRONIUS HAVE A VERY INTERESTING TIME. ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. NO PUBLICATION DATE. 405 PAGES. S/H.

104108 DAWSON, JANET DON'T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN Ł 2.00

PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR JERI HOWARD IS OFF DUTY, VISITING RELATIVES ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA - BUT HER VACATION IS CUT SHORT WHEN A MINOR INCIDENT LEADS TO MURDER. BEAUTIFUL ARIEL LOGAN, LAST SEEN FIGHTING WITH HER BOYFRIEND OUTSIDE A PUB, NOW LIES DEAD ON A CALIFORNIA BEACH. AND THE AUTOPSY REVEALS THAT ARIEL'S DEATH IS NO ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. JERI HAS MORE THAN A PROFESSIONAL INTEREST IN THE CASE: ARIEL'S BOYFRIEND IS JERI'S COUSIN, BOBBY RAVELLA, NOW A PRIME SUSPECT FOR MURDER. SHE KNOWS HE IS INNOCENT - AND INSTINCT TELLS HER THE MURDER IS PART OF A FAR LARGER EVIL. PERHAPS THERE'S A CONNECTION TO THE RECENT SPATE OF PELICAN MUTILATIONS OR THE MALEVOLENT PRANKS THAT ARE DESTROYING THE REPUTATION OF CAFÉ MARIE, ONE OF MONTEREY'S BEST-LOVED RESTAURANTS. TO FIND THE ANSWERS, JERI DELVES INTO TREACHEROUS WATERS - AND DISCOVERS THAT ARIEL'S LIFE WAS RIDDLED WITH SECRETS AS DEEP AND DARK AS THE OCEAN ITSELF. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 438 PAGES. S/H.

104113 DE LA TORRE, LILLIAN THE DETECTIONS OF DR. SAM JOHNSON Ł 3.00

THESE MYSTERY TALES OF AN EARLIER DAY ARE NOT TRUE. THEY ARE PROBABLE FICTIONS, SUGGESTED BY REAL PERSONALITIES, PLACES AND EVENTS OF THE AGE OF JOHNSON (1709-84) CENTERING AROUND THE MOST TOWERING FIGURE OF THAT AGE, DR SAM: JOHNSON HIMSELF AND NARRATED AS IF BY HIS FAMOUS BIOGRAPHER, JAMES BOSWELL. A XANADU PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104109 DEAVER, JEFFERY THE BONE COLLECTOR Ł 3.00

THE FIRST LINCOLN RHYME NOVEL. LINCOLN RHYME IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST FORENSIC CRIMINALISTS. HE IS ALSO A QUADRIPLEGIC, PARALYSED FROM THE NECK DOWN. AMELIA SACHS IS HIS LEG WOMAN, INVESTIGATING CORPSES AND CRIME SITUATIONS. A BRILLIANT BOOK BUT DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 404 PAGES. S/H.

104111 DELAHAYE, MICHAEL STALKING HORSE Ł 3.00

FOR THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF FLIGHT AL 639 FROM NEW YORK TO ROME THE MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCE OF A TRIPLE ENGINE FAILURE BECOMES FATAL REALITY ABOVE THE SUB-ZERO WATERS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. FOR MATTHEW DI COIANO, MEMBER OF THE TEAM OF AIR CRASH SPECIALISTS SENT TO CAPE COD TO INVESTIGATE THE DISASTER, HIS COLLEAGUES' EXPLANATION STANDS SEVERAL MILES FROM THE TRUTH. BUT CAN HE PROVE IT? ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BRITISH POLITICAL ANALYST ADRIAN MEDCALF HAS BEEN PLUCKED FROM HIS DESK AT NATO HEADQUARTERS AND SENT BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN TO COLLECT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. BUT WHY CHOOSE SOMEONE AS INEXPERIENCED IN THE WAYS OF ESPIONAGE AS MEDCALF? SEPARATED BY TIDES AND TIME THE TWO MEN WILL NEVER MEET BUT THEIR DESTINIES ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED, FOR THE DISCOVERIES OF ONE WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF THE OTHER. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 313 PAGES. S/H.

104114 DEXTER, COLIN THE DEAD OF JERICHO Ł 3.00

THE FIRST INSPECTOR MORSE MYSTERY. THE SHAPELY DIVORCEE NO BETTER THAN SHE OUGHT TO BE - HANGED BY THE NECK. THE SEEDY ODD-JOB MAN MURDERED AMONGST HIS HOME LIBRARY OF PORN. BOTH OF THEM NEIGHBOURS IN THE MEAN STREETS OF OXFORD'S RUN-DOWN JERICHO DISTRICT, CLOSER TO THE CANAL THAN TO THE DREAMING SPIRES. INSPECTOR MORSE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN A MORE COOLY PROFESSIONAL INTEREST IF HE HAD NOT BEEN ON THE POINT OF ACCEPTING THE LADY'S VERY OPEN INVITATION ONLY MINUTES AFTER THE MURDER SQUAD BEGAN THEIR INVESTIGATION. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104115 DEXTER, COLIN THE REMORSEFUL DAY Ł 3.00

THIS IS THE WELL-KNOWN LAST BOOK IN THIS SERIES, AS CHIEF INSPECTOR MORSE FINALLY DIES OF HIS DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS. AS A DIABETIC MYSELF I AM ONLY SURPRISED HE DID NOT DIE YEARS AGO, THE WAY HE ABUSED HIS BODY, BUT AT LEAST THIS IS TRUE TO LIFE AND HE GOES THE WAY HE WOULD HAVE WISHED, SOLVING HIS LAST CASE WITH PANACHE. EXCELLENT NOVEL. PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 448 PAGES. S/H.

104116 DEXTER, COLIN SERVICE OF ALL THE DEAD Ł 2.00

AN INSPECTOR MORSE MYSTERY. CHURCHWARDEN MURDERED DURING SERVICE SCREAMED THE HEADLINE. BUT INSPECTOR MORSE FOUND THERE WAS MORE TO IT THAN THAT. MUCH MORE. TWO BODIES MORE, IN FACT… AFTER THE SECOND DEATH, THE CASE WAS CLOSED. EVERYONE AGREED THAT THE MURDERER WENT ON TO COMMIT SUICIDE. EVERYONE, THAT IS, EXCEPT MORSE. HE SENSED THAT UNREST STILL REIGNED OVER THE OXFORD PARISH OF ST. FRIDESWIDE. HE FOUND NEW EVIDENCE AND DISCREPANCIES, NOT TO MENTION A RATHER ATTRACTIVE LADY CALLED RUTH RAWLINSON. AND, HEY PRESTO, ANOTHER BODY. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104117 DEXTER, COLIN THE SILENT WORLD OF NICHOLAS QUINN Ł 3.00

AN INSPECTOR MORSE MYSTERY. MORSE HAD NEVER CEASED TO WONDER WHY, WITH THE STAGGERING ADVANCES IN MEDICAL SCIENCE, ALL PRONOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING TIMES OF DEATH SEEMED SO DISCONCERTINGLY VAGUE. CALLED TO INVESTIGATE THE MURDER OF AN OXFORD ACADEMIC, MORSE FINDS THE DONS IN UPROAR. THE CODE OF INTEGRITY HAD BEEN BREACHED. AND QUINN'S DEATH WASN'T A QUESTION OF HOW OR WHY - BUT WHEN. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 205 PAGES. S/H.

104122 DOCTOROW, E.L. BILLY BATHGATE Ł 2.50

OPEN THIS BOOK AND ENTER THROUGH HIS OWN WORDS THE PERILOUS 1930S NEW YORK UNDERWORLD OF BILLY BATHGATE, THE BRAZEN BOY WHO HAS INSINUATED HIMSELF INTO THE INNER CIRCLE OF THE NOTORIOUS DUTCH SCHULTZ GANG TO BECOME GOOD LUCK CHARM, APPRENTICE AND FINALLY PROTÉGÉ TO ONE OF THE GREAT MURDERING GANGSTERS OF HIS TIME. MEET THE GUNMAN LULU ROSENCRANTZ, THE GENIUS NUMBERS MAN ABBADABBA MERMAN, THE LOVELY DANGEROUS SOCIALITE MISS LOLA, MISS DREW AND THE FIEND WHO RULES THEM ALL - THE DUTCHMAN HIMSELF. AND BE ASTONISHED BY BILLY, WHO WILL MAKE YOU AN INTIMATE OF HIS FATEFUL ADVENTURES. A PICADOR PAPERBACK EDITION. 323 PAGES. S/H.

104123 DOHERTY, PAUL THE MASK OF RA Ł 3.00

AS USUAL A DIFFERENT KIND OF, BOOK, SET IN A DIFFERENT AGE. PHARAOH IS WEAK AFTER HIS VICTORIES AGAINST THE SEA RAIDERS IN THE NILE DELTA, BUT NO ONE EXPECTS HIM TO DIE WITHIN AN HOUR OF HIS HOMECOMING. HIS WIDOW RESOLVES TO FIND THE TRUTH, WITH THE AID OF AMEROTKE, A JUDGE OF THEBES. SET IN THE 15TH CENTURY BC, THIS IS A FASCINATING NOVEL. HEADLINE LARGE FORMAT PAPERBACK EDITION. 321 PAGES. S/H.

104202 DOHERTY, PAUL MURDER IMPERIAL Ł 6.00

A MURDER MYSTERY SET IN ANCIENT ROME. AT THE DAWN OF THE FOURTH CENTURY, THE ROMAN EMPIRE IS BESET BY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, BARBARIAN INCURSIONS AND RELIGIOUS DIVIDES. AFTER A SERIES OF TYRANNICAL RULERS, EMPEROR DIOCLETIAN HAS DIVIDED THE EMPIRE INTO EAST AND WEST. NOW, WITH CONSTANTINE'S VICTORY OVER MAXENTIUS IN THE WEST, ROME FINALLY APPEARS TO BE EMERGING FROM ITS TURBULENT PAST. BUT INSTEAD OF ENJOYING THE FRUITS OF HIS VICTORY, EMPEROR CONSTANTINE IS IN TROUBLE. IN ORDER TO CONSOLIDATE HIS AUTHORITY - AND UNDER THE GUIDANCES OF HIS MOTHER HELENA - HE PLANS TO HARNESS THE POWER OF THE INCREASINGLY INFLUENTIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THEN A SERIES OF MURDERS BRINGS HIS LOYALTIES INTO QUESTION. THE EMPEROR FREQUENTS COURTESANS FROM THE GUILD OF APHRODITE, THREE OF WHOM HAVE BEEN FOUND DEAD - ALL WITH CROSSES ETCHED ON THEIR FOREHEADS AND EACH CHEEK. IN ORDER TO PROTECT HER SON'S FUTURE, HELENA, AIDED BY THE PRIEST ANASTASIUS, CALLS UPON THE SERVICES OF AN 'AGENTE IN REBUS POLITICUS' - OR SPY. CLAUDIA IS THE NIECE OF A TAVERN-OWNER AND IS PLACED AS A WINE-SERVER IN CONSTANTINE'S HOUSEHOLD. BUT CLAUDIA HAS SECRET MOTIVES OF HER OWN. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 242 PAGES. S/H.

104203 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Ł 2.00

AMID THE FOGGY STREETS OF SINISTER LONDON AND THE EVEN MORE SINISTER SMILING COUNTRYSIDE, HOLMES AND WATSON ONCE MORE SOLVE THE UNSOLVABLE. IN 'THE SPECKLED BAND, THE SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA', 'THE ENGINEER'S THUMB' AND NINE OTHER INTRIGUING STORIES, THE GREAT MASTER-MIND OF DETECTION GRAPPLES WITH THE VERY EXTREMES OF TREACHERY, DUPLICITY AND MURDEROUS EVIL. CONTAINS THE STORIES "A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA", "A CASE OF IDENTITY", "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE", "THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY", "THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS", "THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP", "THE BLUE CARBUNCLE", "THE SPECKLED BAND", "THE ENGINEER'S THUMB", "THE NOBLE BACHELOR", "THE BERYL CORONET" AND "THE COPPER BEECHES". A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 285 PAGES. S/H.

104204 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Ł 1.00

THE TWELVE LAST CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. SHERLOCK HOLMES, ACCOMPANIED BY THE FAITHFUL WATSON, USES HIS ASTOUNDING METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC DEDUCTION TO SOLVE THE UNSOLVABLE. THIS AUSTERE VICTORIAN DETECTIVE, ADDICTED TO HIS WORN ARMCHAIR, HIS VIOLIN AND HIS SHAG-PIPE, HAS BECOME A MYTH TO EVERY GENERATION. FEATURES "THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLANCHED SOLDIER", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAZARIN STONE", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE GABLES", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUSSEX VAMPIRE", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE GARRIDEBS", "THE PROBLEM OF THOR BRIDGE", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE CREEPING MAN", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE LION'S MANE", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE VEILED LODGER", "THE ADVENTURE OF THE SHOSCOMBE OLD PLACE" AND "THE ADVENTURE OF THE RETIRED COLOURMAN". A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

104207 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED NOVELS Ł 4.00

A COLLECTION BRINGING TOGETHER FOUR OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' LONGER ADVENTURES. THESE GRIPPING STORIES SPAN THE CAREER OF THE MASTER SLEUTH, FROM HIS HISTORIC FIRST MEETING WITH DR WATSON TO HIS CLASHES WITH THE ARCH-VILLAIN MORIARTY. ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE STRAND MAGAZINE AND OTHER EARLY EDITIONS PROVIDE THE PERFECT SETTINGS FOR THESE FOUR GEMS. INCLUDES THE STORIES "A STUDY IN SCARLET", "THE SIGN OF FOUR", "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" AND "THE VALLEY OF FEAR". A CHANCELLOR PRESS HARDBACK EDITION. 496 PAGES. S/H.

104208 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED SHORT STORIES Ł 5.00

THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS ALL FIFTY-SIX SHORT STORIES WRITTEN BY CONAN DOYLE ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES. THE STORIES WERE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE, BETWEEN 1891 AND 1927. THIS NEW COLLECTED EDITION OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES IS ENHANCED BY ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE MAGAZINE. A CHANCELLOR PRESS HARDBACK EDITION. 986 PAGES. S/H.

104212 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Ł 4.00

THIS BOOK BRINGS TOGETHER ALL THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES UNIVERSE - A WHO'S WHO, THE PLOT OF EACH STORY, BIOGRAPHIES OF HOLMES AND WATSON, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THEIR APHORISMS AND A CHAPTER ON THEIR RELATION TO SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THEIR CREATOR. INCLUDES ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CHARACTERS BY SIDNEY PAGET. A JOHN MURRAY HARDBACK EDITION. 312 PAGES. S/H.

104218 ECCLES, MARJORIE THE COMPANY SHE KEPT Ł 3.00

WHEN THE HALF-DRESSED BODY OF ANGIE ROBINSON IS FOUND STRANGLED IN A LAY-BY ON A LONELY MOORLAND ROAD, IT SEEMS THAT HER MURDER IS THE RESULT OF A MEANINGLESS AND UNPROVOKED SEX ATTACK. FOR ANGIE HAS LED A BLAMELESS LIFE, WITH NO INTERESTS OTHER THAN HER UNTIRING SUPPORT FOR THE CAMPAIGN TO KEEP OPEN THE LOCAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. BUT THERE ARE TOO MANY APPARENTLY UNRELATED ELEMENTS IN THE CASE FOR DCI GIL MAYO TO BE SATISFIED WITH THAT EXPLANATION. FOR ONE THING, AN ANONYMOUS LETTER HAS BEEN SENT TO THE POLICE WITH HINTS OF A LONG GONE MURDER AND ANCIENT SACRIFICIAL RITES. THEN THERE IS THE OLD HOUSE, FLOWERDEW, WHICH EXERTS A STRANGE BUT COMPELLING FASCINATION. AND WHAT OF FLOWERDEW'S ECCENTRIC BUT ENDEARING OWNER, THE AGED KITTY WILBRAHAM, A FORMER ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO HAD WORKED ON THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CARTHAGE AND WHO HAS NOW DISAPPEARED? IT IS NOT UNTIL ANOTHER BODY IS DISCOVERED THAT MAYO, WITH HIS NEW SERGEANT, ABIGAIL MOON, IS FINALLY ABLE TO LINK THE TWO MURDERS TOGETHER AND ARRIVE AT A SOLUTION WHICH IS AS UNEXPECTED AND BIZARRE AS ANY IN HIS CAREER. A COLLINS CRIME CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104219 ECO, UMBERTO THE NAME OF THE ROSE Ł 2.50

IMAGINE A MEDIEVAL CASTLE RUN BY THE BENEDICTINES, WITH CELLARISTS, HERBALISTS, GARDENERS AND YOUNG NOVICES.ONE AFTER THE OTHER HALF A DOZEN MONKS ARE FOUND MURDERED IN THE MOST BIZARRES OF WAYS. A LEARNED FRANCISCAN WHO IS SENT TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY FINDS HIMSELF INVOLVED IN THE FRIGHTENING EVENT. A SLEUTH'S PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MYSTERY ALSO INVOLVES THE PURSUIT OF MEANING - THE WORDS, SYMBOLS, IDEAS AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SIGN THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE CONTAINS. A PICADOR PAPERBACK EDITION. 502 PAGES. S/H.

104220 ELKINS, AARON MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S ARMES Ł 7.00

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AND "SKELETON DETECTIVE" GIDEON OLIVER - IN ENGLAND ON HIS HONEYMOON - FINDS HIMSELF IN WESSEX NEAR A DIG BEING RUN BY A FORMER CLASSMATE. WHEN HE AND HIS WIFE JULIE ARRIVE ON THE SITE, THEY DISCOVER THAT THE ABRASIVE NATE MARCUS IS ABOUT TO BE INVESTIGATED BY HIS BACKERS - AND THAT THE LOCAL PAPER HAS MYSTERIOUSLY LEARNED OF GIDEON'S PRESENCE, LINKING IT WITH THE INVESTIGATION. THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE DIG IS UNPLEASANT: THERE IS SUSPICION, DISTRUST AND PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RIVALRY AMONG THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND STUDENTS. NATE CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND PROOF OF A THEORY SCOFFED AT BY THE ENTIRE PROFESSION… AND HIS REFUSAL TO REVEAL IT DISTURBS GIDEON. THEN ONE OF THE STUDENTS DISAPPEARS. WHEN A BODY IS FOUND, GIDEON'S UNIQUE DETECTIVE SKILLS ARE FORCED INTO PLAY - NOT SOMETHING HE'D ANTICIPATED WHILE PLANNING HIS HONEYMOON. HIS SLEUTHING ACTIVITIES LEAD TO ANOTHER MURDER AND PLACE BOTH GIDEON AND JULIE IN MORTAL DANGER. A COLLINS CRIME CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. 208 PAGES. S/H.

104215 ESTLEMAN, LOREN D SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA Ł 9.00

ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE ADVENTURE OF THE SANGUINARY COUNT'. A DESERTED SHIP BEACHES ON A TREACHEROUS REEF IN AN ENGLISH HARBOR, ITS LIFELESS CAPTAIN LASHED TO THE WHEEL, ITS CARGO FIFTY BOXES OF EARTH, ITS ONLY PASSENGER A HUGE BLACK DOG WHICH VANISHES INTO THE NIGHT. THE MYSTERY IS CLEARLY A CASE FOR THE INFALLIBLE SHERLOCK HOLMES. BUT THE UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF THE SHIP'S STRANGE CARGO, THE DISCOVERY OF PUNCTURE WOUNDS ON THE DEAD CAPTAIN'S THROAT AND A RASH OF BIZARRE NOCTURNAL CRIMES ALL POINT TO A VILLIAN THAT UNNERVES EVEN HOLMES - COUNT DRACULA HIMSELF. BASED ON A NEWLY DISCOVERED WATSON MANUSCRIPT, SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA CHRONICLES THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE VAMPIRE'S EXPULSION FROM ENGLAND BY HOLMES AND SUBSEQUENT DESTRUCTION BY PROFESSOR VAN HELSING. FROM THE GHASTLY FINISH OF THE UNDEAD LADY IN WHITE TO THE COUNT'S CHILLING APPEARANCE AT 221B BAKER STREET, FOLLOWED BY A HAIR-RAISING CHASE ACROSS ENGLAND, HOLMES' ADVENTURE WITH THIS FORMIDABLE FOE IS ALIVE WITH ACTION AND SUSPENSE. LOREN ESTLEMAN'S SKILLFUL AND AUTHENTIC BLENDING OF THE TERRIFYING EVENTS OF BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA WITH THE UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HAS RESULTED IN A TALE THAT WILL DELIGHT HOLMES FANS AND VAMPIRE LOVERS ALIKE. A DOUBLEDAY HARDBACK EDITION. 214 PAGES. S/H.

104221 EVANS, GERALDINE DEAD BEFORE MORNING Ł 2.40

WHEN THE NUDE, BLUDGEONED BODY OF A YOUNG PROSTITUTE IS FOUND ON THE GROUNDS OF ELMHURST PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, THE FIRST TASK OF INSPECTOR JOSEPH RAFFERTY IS TO IDENTIFY THE VICTIM. HER CLOTHES WERE STOLEN, HER FACE PURPOSELY BEATEN BEYOND RECOGNITION. INSPECTOR RAFFERTY'S BLUNT, UNCEREMONIOUS STYLE CLASHES WITH HIS PRECISE, LOGICAL PARTNER, SERGEANT LLEWELLYN, AND WITH THE HOSPITAL'S SUAVE, WELL-CONNECTED DR ANTHONY MELVILLE-BRIGGS, WHO IS FAST BECOMING THE PRIME SUSPECT. BUT WHEN THE IDENTITY OF THE WOMAN IS DETERMINED, A COMPLICATED WEB OF NEW SUSPECTS - AND MOTIVES - EMERGES, AS RAFFERTY DISCOVERS EVEN CLEVER KILLERS CAN MAKE MISTAKES. A WORLDWIDE MYSTERY PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104223 FALLON, ANN C HOUR OF OUR DEATH Ł 4.00

A MYSTERY FEATURING JAMES FLEMING. IT WAS BIG NEWS IN THE SMALL TOWN OF BUNCLODA: A VISION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN CAME TO MARY DOWD AS SHE AND TWO COMPANIONS PRAYED BY A STONE GROTTO IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING. NOW VISITORS FLOCK TO BUNCLODA FROM ALL OVER IRELAND - THE CURIOUS, THE DEVOUT, THE SICK AND DESPAIRING, SOME TO WORSHIP, OTHERS TO GAWK OR SELL SOUVENIRS. BUT IT IS NO APPARITION WHEN A BODY TURNS UP BESIDE THE SACRED SHRINE - AND DUBLIN SOLICITOR JAMES FLEMING, WITH HIS GROWING REPUTATION AS A SLEUTH, BECOMES ENTWINED IN A CASE OF UNGODLY MURDER AND INEXPLICABLE MIRACLES. AMONG THE LOCALS JAMES MEETS IN BUNCLODA ARE THE TWO WHO WITNESSED MARY'S ENLIGHTENMENT: A RECLUSIVE FARMER NAMED DEVANE AND RITA GARROTTY, A SULLEN AND OVERWORKED SHOP CLERK. YET HIS INVESTIGATION SEEMS AT CROSS PURPOSE WITH THE VERY MAN WHO SUMMONED HIM TO THE CASE - FATHER JUDE DONNELLY, AN ARROGANT AND OPPORTUNISTIC CURATE WHO IS UNABASHEDLY THRILLED THAT THE "MIRACLE" OCCURRED IN HIS NOW-FAMOUS PARISH. HIMSELF SKEPTICAL, JAMES IS NOT ABOVE SETTING UP A DANGEROUS SNARE TO DRAW OUT THE MURDERER. NOW IT IS JAMES WHO'LL WATCH AND WAIT FOR A VISION - OF A KILLER UNVEILED. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 247 PAGES. S/H.

104225 FENWICK, ELIZABETH A FRIEND OF MARY ROSE Ł 3.00

THE NOTE READ 'MR NICKLIS IS IN HIS HOUSE UPSTAIRS. HE IS HURT VERY BAD.' MR NICHOLAS WAS INDEED HURT VERY BAD. BUT ONLY MR NICHOLAS, AS HE LAY IN HIS HOSPITAL BED, KNEW WHAT DANGER MARY ROSE WAS IN - AND WAS PREPARED TO BE HER FRIEND. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 160 PAGES. S/H.

104226 FRANCIS, DICK BOLT Ł 10.00

COPY SIGNED BY DICK FRANCIS. SEQUEL TO 'BREAK IN'. WHEN KIT FIELDING, CHAMPION STEEPLECHASE JOCKEY, FINDS THAT PRINCESS CASILIA, HIS CHIEF PATRON, IS FACING SERIOUS TROUBLE, HE GOES UNHESITATINGLY TO HER AID. NEITHER REALISES THAT HIS INSTINCTIVE SUPPORT IS THE FIRST STEP TO A FRIGHTENING BATTLE INVOLVING VIOLENT RISK, WITH THE HONOUR OF THE PRINCESS'S FAMILY AS THE PRIZE AND KIT'S OWN DESTRUCTION AS THE FORFEIT. BESET BY OTHER PROBLEMS, NOT LEAST HIS TROUBLED ROMANCE WITH DANIELLE, THE PRINCESS'S NIECE, KIT KNOWS THAT WHILE STEERING THROUGH DEADLY OUTSIDE DANGERS AND RIDING AT BREAKNECK SPEED IN RACES, HE MUST ALSO CONTEND WITH THE LONG-TERM HATRED OF HIS OWN FAMILY'S ENEMY. A MICHAEL JOSEPH. 239 PAGES. S/H.

104227 FRANCIS, DICK KNOCK DOWN Ł 2.00

IT STARTED WITH THE PURCHASE OF A HORSE FOR A RICH AMERICAN, BUT IT DIDN'T END THERE. BY THE END OF THE MATTER THERE WAS MORE DAMAGES AND MORE DEATHS THAN ANYONE COULD BELIEVE. PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104228 FRANCIS, DICK SHATTERED Ł 5.00

OF COURSE HORSES ARE INVOLVED, BUT THE HERO IS A GLASSBLOWER, GERARD LOGAN. WHEN HIS JOCKEY FRIEND, MARTIN STUKELY, DIES DURING A FALL IN A STEEPLECHASE AT CHELTENHAM RACES, GERARD GETS EMBROILED IN THE PERILOUS SEARCH FOR A MISSING VIDEOTAPE, AND MEETS A REAL GROUP OF VILLAINS ON THE WAY. LOTS OF ACTION BY A MASTER STORY-TELLER. MICHAEL JOSEPH HARDCOVER EDITION. 272 PAGES. S/H.

104230 FRASER, ANTONIA QUIET AS A NUN Ł 1.75

A JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY. WHEN A NUN IS FOUND DEAD, APPARENTLY STARVED TO DEATH, IN A RUINED TOWER AT BLESSED ELEANOR'S CONVENT, JEMIMA SHORE, THE RENOWNED TELEVISION REPORTER, IS CALLED IN BY REVEREND MOTHER ANCILLA TO INVESTIGATE. FOR JEMIMA, THE CASE IS PARTICULARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST - BLESSED ELEANOR WAS JEMIMA'S OWN CONVENT SCHOOL AND THE DEAD NUN, SISTER MIRIAM, WAS NONE OTHER THAN ROSABELLE POWERSTOCK, HEIRESS TO ONE OF THE LARGEST FORTUNES IN BRITAIN. A MANDARIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 176 PAGES. S/H.

104232 FRASER, ANTONIA A SPLASH OF RED Ł 1.00

A JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY. BLOOMSBURY IN A HOT SUMMER - AND JEMIMA SHORE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME PEACEFUL RESEARCH IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY WHEN THE SINISTER HAPPENINGS BEGIN. JEMIMA, HAVING BORROWED HER FRIEND CHLOE FONTAINE'S FLAT, IS RELUCTANTLY INVOLVED WHEN CHLOE DISAPPEARS - AND A SHOCKING MURDER IS DISCOVERED. HER INVESTIGATIONS LEAD HER INTO A TANGLE OF POSSIBLE MOTIVES AND CONFLICTING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG A VARIED AND COLOURFUL GROUP OF SUSPECTS, RANGING FROM A CONTROVERSIAL PROPERTY TYCOON TO A DRUNKEN ARTIST AND FROM A WEALTHY PUBLISHER TO AN ENIGMATIC SQUATTER. A METHUEN PAPERBACK EDITION. 229 PAGES. S/H.

104233 FRASER, ANTONIA YOUR ROYAL HOSTAGE Ł 1.00

A JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY. SENSATIONALLY SACKED BY MEGALITH TELEVISION, NEWS OF STAR REPORTER JEMIMA SHORE IS PLASTERED ALL OVER THE NATIONAL HEADLINES, HER COVERAGE RIVALLING THAT OF THE IMMINENT AND MUCH-PUBLICISED MARRIAGE OF HRH PRINCESS AMY AND PRINCE FERDINAND. BUT WHILST PLANS ARE WELL ADVANCED FOR A SENSATIONAL ROYAL WEDDING, SO ARE THOSE BEING HATCHED BY A SECRET ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP WHICH SPECIALISES IN ITS OWN KIND OF PUBLICITY. WHEN JEMIMA SHORE IS HIRED BY AN AMERICAN COMPANY TO COVER THE ROYAL WEDDING, SHE STUMBLES UPON A DANGEROUS CONNECTION. AND IN THE DEADLY EVENTS THAT FOLLOW, IT IS ONLY SHE WHO CAN DARE TO INTERCEDE. A MANDARIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 216 PAGES. S/H.

104235 FREELING, NICOLAS THE SEACOAST OF BOHEMIA Ł 1.00

A HENRI CASTANG MYSTERY. ANITA ROGIER IS LIVING EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE. FOUR YEARS AGO HER YOUNG SON VANISHED WITHOUT TRACE - NO RANSOM DEMAND, NO PROGRESS FROM THE POLICE, NO CONTACT WITH THE MISSING CHILD. UNTIL, THAT IS, SHE RECEIVES A CRUELLY BRIEF TELEPHONE CALL THAT CONVINCES HER HE IS STILL ALIVE. THE POLICE BELIEVE SHE IS SUFFERING FROM DELUSIONS AND REMAIN SCEPTICAL AT BEST, SO IN DESPERATION SHE TURNS TO HENRI CASTANG, A FORMER POLICE OFFICER NOW WORKING AS ADVISOR TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. CASTANG'S SEARCH FOR A MOTIVE IS FRUITLESS UNTIL HE LEARNS THAT ANITA'S FATHER, 'OLD KLAAS', IS A FORMER SS OFFICER AND CONCEIVABLY THE TARGET FOR A LONG-HELD DESIRE FOR REVENGE. THE TRAIL POINTS TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE DISCOVERY THAT KLAAS FATHERED A SON WHILE RECOVERING FROM A WAR WOUND FIFTY YEARS AGO. BUT IN THIS LATTER DAY WINTER'S TALE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THEIR GOAL UNEARTHS A MORE PERPLEXING PUZZLE, AS THE MYSTERY TAKES THEM ON TO DENMARK TOWARDS A CONFRONTATION OF TRAGIC IMPORT. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 213 PAGES. S/H.

104234 FREELING, NICOLAS LOVE IN AMSTERDAM Ł 2.00

IT WAS NOT EASY TO COAX THE INFORMATION OUT OF MARTIN. VAN DER VALK LET HIM SLEEP TILL LATE. THEN HE TRIED AGAIN. 'SHE COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT MEN. I THINK SHE WAS A BIT MASOCHISTIC PHYSICALLY. SHE LIKED TO BE ABUSED, SWORN AT, ORDERED ROUND, PUNISHED, DEPRIVED FOR A DAY OR TWO. SHE LIKED BEING BEATEN. THAT'S PHYSICAL. MENTALLY, SHE DEVELOPED COMPLETE POWER OVER HER MEN. NOT ONLY ME; I SAW IT WITH OTHER MEN. THEY NO LONGER LIVED UNLESS SHE WAS THERE BREATHING LIFE INTO THEM… SHE MADE THEM DO RIDICULOUS THINGS TO SATISFY HER APPETITE FOR DOMINATION. I THINK SHE LIKED SEX FOR THAT REASON TOO; IT DIDN'T GIVE HER MUCH PLEASURE, IT WAS THE FEELING OF MASTERY THAT WAS BETTER, SUCKING ALL THE GUTS OUT OF A MAN.' A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104308 FREEMAN, R AUSTIN THE PENROSE MYSTERY Ł 10.00

ANOTHER DOCTOR THORNDYKE MYSTERY, IN WHICH WE MEET NOT ONLY OUR FAVOURITE CHARACTER OF THE DOCTOR HIMSELF BUT ALSO MR POLTON AND MR BRODRIBB AND DOCTOR JERVIS. THESE STORIES ARE QUITE WHIMSICAL IN CHARACTER, WITH REMARKABLE CHARACTERS WHO COME AND GO, BUT THE MYSTERIES ARE CLEVER AND REWARDING TO PURSUE TO THE END, AND THORNDYKE HIMSELF IS A GEM, A REAL SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE WHO MAKES THE MOST ASTONISHING DEDUCTIONS. A HODDER & STOUGHTON HARDBACK EDITION. 317 PAGES. S/H.

104236 FREMLIN, CELIA APPOINTMENT WITH YESTERDAY Ł 4.00

BY 1972 CELIA FREMLIN HAD CORNERED A SPECIAL PLACE FOR HERSELF AMONG THRILLER ADDICTS WITH A SUCCESSION OF STUNNING TALES, BOTH NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES, IN WHICH THE ELEMENT OF HORROR IS ALL THE MORE APPALLING BECAUSE IT IS A FEAR, NOT OF THE BODY BUT OF THE MIND. A GOLLANCZ HARDBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104237 FREMLIN, CELIA THE HOURS BEFORE DAWN Ł 4.89

LOUISE HENDERSON, A YOUNG HOUSEWIFE AND MOTHER, IS TRYING HER BEST TO TEND TO A HUSBAND, TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS AND HER CONSTANTLY CRYING BABY. SHE IS SO TIRED SHE FEARS SHE IS BECOMING PSYCHOTIC, AS SHE CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL THAT THEIR NEW LODGER, A SEEMINGLY RESPECTABLE SCHOOLMISTRESS, IS A THREAT TO HER AND HER FAMILY. A VIRAGO PAPERBACK EDITION. 216 PAGES. S/H.

104239 GALLICO, PAUL THE ZOO GANG Ł 3.00

THE PLACE: THE GLITTERING FRENCH RIVIERA. THE ACTION: A GIANT JEWEL HEIST, AN ARTISTIC THEFT OF GREAT PAINTINGS, A CUNNING KIDNAPPING, A SAVAGE DUEL TO THE DEATH AGAINST A SINISTER DRUG-SMUGGLING SYNDICATE. THE HERO: A MAN NAMED ROQUEBRUN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FOX, THE LEADER OF THE ZOO GANG. A DELL PAPERBACK EDITION. 302 PAGES. S/H.

104241 GALLISON, KATE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP Ł 3.00

A MOTHER LAVINIA GREY MYSTERY. THE CATS WERE MISSING. MOTHER LAVINIA GREY NOTICED THE SIGNS PLEADING FOR THE RETURN OF "FLUFFY" AND SEVERAL OTHER PETS. BUT SHE WAS BUSY PLANNING HER FIRST WEDDING AT ST. BEDE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - FOR WHICH SHE'D SERVE AS THE PRIEST, NOT THE BRIDE - AND DIDN'T CONNECT THE MYSTERIOUS CAT-NAPPINGS WITH THE SIGNS OF A SATANIC CULT. UNTIL THE OTHER TROUBLES BEGAN. OF COURSE, LUCIFER WASN'T TO BLAME FOR THE RETURN OF A VENGEFUL EX-CON TO PLACID FISHERSVILLE (OR WAS HE?). BUT A SERIES OF BURGLARIES AND THE DONATION OF A FREEZER CHEST TO ST. BEDE'S FILLED WITH SOMETHING MOST MACABRE SOON HAS MOTHER GREY RESEARCHING THE "CLAVICLES OF SOLOMON" AND LOOKING FOR HEXAGRAMS. AND WITH HER COMPANION, DETECTIVE DAVE DOGG, OUT OF TOWN, SHE HAS ONLY THE LORD'S HELP AND HER OWN SHARP WIT, TO FIND OUT WHO WAS DOING THE DEVIL'S HANDIWORK WHEN A BODY - HEADLESS AND UNNAMED - IS FOUND. A DELL PAPERBACK EDITION. 277 PAGES. S/H.

104248 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY THE CASE OF THE GREEN-EYED SISTER Ł 3.00

A PERRY MASON MYSTERY. J.J. FRITCH WAS A HEAVY MAN, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE FELL DEAD OF HIS OWN LIQUOR CABINET ONE MORNING. HIS PROFESSION WAS BLACKMAIL - AND SOMEBODY PAID THEIR LAST INSTALMENT TO J.J. FRITCH WITH AN ICEPICK IN HIS BACK. PERRY MASON LOOKED IN ON THE CASE FOR A GREEN-EYED TOGER-CAT OF A WOMAN WHO WAS BEING BLACKMAILED BY THE LATE LAMENTED J.J. FRITCH… BUT THE TRAIL RAN COLD UNTIL IT LEAD TO A GIANT DEEP FREEZE. A MAYFLOWER PAPERBACK EDITION. 191 PAGES. S/H.

104243 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY THE CASE OF THE CRIMSON KISS Ł 3.00

A PERRY MASON MYSTERY. THE CRIME: A WEALTHY PLAYBOY FOUND INEXPLICABLY DEAD IN HIS APARTMENT WITH 'THE PRINT OF HALF-PARTED LIPS FLARED IN GAUDY CRIMSON FROM THE FRONT OF HIS BALD HEAD'. THE CLUES: AN UPTURNED WHISKEY GLASS, LACED WITH AN ENIGMATIC ODOUR. AN APARTMENT TOO 'NEATLY' ARRANGED. AN INTRIGUING SITUATION THAT HAS TO BE DELICATELY UNTANGLED BY PERRY MASON IN THE TITLE-STORY OF THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT-STORIES, ALL OF WHICH BEAR ERLE STANLEY GARDNER'S SIGNATURE OF STYLE, PACE, INVENTIVENESS AND THAT FINAL MISCHIEVOUS TWIST. A METHUEN PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104244 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY THE CASE OF THE DEADLY TOY Ł 6.00

A PERRY MASON MYSTERY. PERRY MASON HAS CAUSE TO PONDER THE OLD ADAGE 'LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON' IN THIS EXPLOSIVE DRAMA OF MURDER AMONG CALIFORNIA'S UPPER CRUST, FEATURING A SMALL BOY WHO JUST LOVES GUNS - PREFERABLY THOSE THAT GO BANG. THE CURTAIN RISES ON MELVIN SELKIRK'S SCANDALOUS DIVORCE. THEN, WITH THE BATTLE FOR CUSTODY OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ROBERT STILL PENDING, SELKIRK'S FIANCEE, NORDA ALLISON, LEARNS OF SOME UNFORTUNATE QUALITIES IN HER INTENDED. EXIT ROMANCE; ENTER LETTERS - CRUDE, THREATENING ONES ADDRESSED TO NORDA. THAT'S WHEN SELKIRK'S EX-WIFE AND HER SECOND HUSBAND COME ON STAGE, A POWERFUL FATHER-IN-LAW LURKS BEHIND THE SCENES - AND PERRY MASON MAKES HIS ENTRANCE AS STAR IN A DARING AND DEADLY ROLE. A HEINEMANN HARDBACK EDITION. 236 PAGES. S/H.

104246 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY THE CASE OF THE DUBIOUS BRIDEGROOM Ł 5.00

A PERRY MASON MYSTERY. ONE NIGHT A GIRL DROPS IN ON PERRY MASON VIA THE FIRE ESCAPE FROM THE GARVIN MINING, EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ON THE FLOOR ABOVE. SHE TELLS A STORY WHICH CLEARLY NEITHER OF THEM BELIEVES AND DISAPPEARS. NEXT DAY GARVIN HIMSELF CALLS. GARVIN DIDN'T KNOW THE GIRL, HE SAID, BUT HE DID WANT TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD TWO WIVES. PERRY MASON TAKES ON THE CASE, WHICH SOON INCLUDES A MURDER AND LEADS TO A CLIMAX IN ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL COURT-ROOM SCENES IN MASON'S UNUSUAL CAREER. A HEINEMANN HARDBACK EDITION. 227 PAGES. S/H.

104247 GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY THE CASE OF THE FUGITIVE NURSE Ł 3.00

A PERRY MASON MYSTERY. STEFFANIE MALDREN DRIPPED MINK AND DIAMONDS - BUT THERE WASN'T A TEAR IN HER EYE FOR HER DEAR DEPARTED. PERRY WAS SUSPICIOUS. HOW COME SHE SEEMED SO UNPERTURBED BY HER LATE HUSBAND'S AFFAIR WITH A GLAMOROUS NURSE? MASON WOULD HAVE TO FIND OUT - EVEN IF IT MEANT STEPPING STRAIGHT OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE. FOR HE LIKED NOTHING MORE THAN TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. A MAYFLOWER PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104249 GASH, JONATHAN THE GRAIL TREE Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. IN THE WORLD OF ANTIQUES THE HOLY GRAIL IS A HOLY TERROR - FOR ALMOST EVERY MONTH SOMEONE CLAIMS TO POSSESS THE ORIGINAL. SO WHEN AN INEBRIATED EX-CLERGYMAN CONFIDED TO LOVEJOY THAT HE DID INDEED POSSESS THE CUP, THE RESOURCEFUL ANTIQUE DEALER KNEW JUST WHAT TO MAKE OF SUCH A STATEMENT. THE TROUBLE WAS THAT SOMEONE ELSE THOUGHT THIS VERSION OF THE GRAIL WAS WORTH STEALING - AND NOW THE OWNER WAS DEAD AMID CONSIDERABLE CARNAGE. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. 104250 GASH, JONATHAN THE GREAT CALIFORNIA GAME Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. LOVEJOY IN AMERICA - AND IN TROUBLE AGAIN. LOVEJOY IS WORKING - ILLEGALLY OF COURSE - IN A NEW YORK BAR, BUT NOTHING CAN KEEP HIM FROM HIS ANTIQUES. THE DIVVIE'S CASUAL RECOGNITION OF ZIRCONS PARADED AS PRICELESS DIAMONDS STARTS HIM ON A TRAIL LEADING HIM TO THE DEADLY MYSTERIES OF THE HIGHEST STAKES CARD GAME IN AMERICA. BUT FIRST LOVEJOY HAS TO BUY HIMSELF INTO THE GAME. ENLISTING THE HELP OF A MANHATTAN HOOKER AND A GUN-TITING SEVEN YEAR OLD, HE SETS ABOUT RAISING A SUM FROM MUSEUMS, AUCTION HOUSES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS USING HIS USUAL DESPERATE WILES. BUT BY THE TIME HE REACHES CALIFORNIA, HE REALISES THAT IT IS NOT ONLY HIS HARD-EARNT MEGA-BUCKS ON THE TABLE, BUT HIS OWN SWEET SKIN. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 216 PAGES. S/H.

104251 GASH, JONATHAN PEARLHANGER Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. EAST ANGLIA'S SCRUFFIEST DEALER AND DIVVIE IS UNCONVINCED BY THE SPIRIT MESSAGE INSTRUCTING HIM TO HELP DONNA VERNON FINDHER MISSING DEALER HUSBAND. BUT A JOB'S A JOB AND LOVEJOY SETS OUT WITH DONNA ON THE TRAIL. BY THE TIME HE CATCHES UP WITH VERNON ON THE ESSEX MARSHES, THOUGH, IT'S TOO LATE. THEN, HARRIED BY CROOKED POLICE, WATCHED BY THE ANTIQUES SQUAD, HUNTED BY A KILLER AND INCREASINGLY HAUNTED BY THE MEDIUM'S PROPHECY OF WHAT LIES IN STORE, LOVEJOY BECOMES THE BAIT AT THE PRICIEST AUCTION IN THE DISTRICT. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 197 PAGES. S/H.

104252 GASH, JONATHAN THE SIN WITHIN HER SMILE Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. LOVEJOY FINDS HIMSELF AS A 'SLAVE FOR A DAY' AFTER BEING AUCTIONED AT THE LOCAL VILLAGE HALL FOR CHARITY. HE IS 'BOUGHT' BY TWO PUSHY WOMEN AND SWIFTLY INCORPORATED INTO A SCAM PERPETRATED BY THEM. RUMOURS OF EARLY ROMANO-CELTIC GOLD ARE EVERYWHERE AND LOVEJOY IS WOMEHOW PERSUADED TO JOIN IN THE SEARCH FOR THE TREASURE. BUT THINGS SOON GET TOO HOT AND LOVEJOY FLEES TOWARDS WALES WITH A COLOURFUL ARRAY OF CHARACTERS, INCLUDING THE LEADER OF A CRAZY RELIGIOUS CULT, MENTAL PATIENTS, A PHONEY MYSTIC AND THE NYMPHOMANIACAL WIFE OF A US AIR FORCE GEOLOGIST. AS ALWAYS, NOTHING IS QUITE AS IT SEEMS AND THE INIMITABLE LOVEJOY ONCE AGAIN FINDS HIMSELF IN THE THICK OF MYSTERY AND DANGER. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 231 PAGES. S/H.

104253 GASH, JONATHAN THE SLEEPERS OF ERIN Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. LOVEJOY IS A 'DIVVIE' - WHICH MEANS HE CAN RECOGNISE INSTANTLY WHEN ANTIQUES ARE GENUINE. THAT'S WHY A GORGEOUS WOMAN WANTS HIM TO JOIN THE WEALTHIEST ANTIQUES RING IN THE WORLD. THEIR LATEST SCAM IS 'DISCOVERING' FIFTEEN GOLD TORCS IN A BRONZE AGE BURIAL CHAMBER. BUT ONLY ONE IS REAL. LOVEJOY IS IN DEADLY COMPANY - BUT PLANS TO KEEP A MOVE AHEAD. OTHERWISE THE OLD CELTIC GRAVE MAY HAVE A NEW INHABITANT. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104256 GASH, JONATHAN THE VERY LAST GAMBIDO Ł 3.00

A LOVEJOY MYSTERY. IN THE WORLD OF ANTIQUES THERE IS ONE GREAT REMAINING SCAM. THE VERY LAST GAMBADO. ROBBING THE BRITISH MUSEUM. OF COURSE, THE MURDER, MAYHEM AND DOUBLE-CROSSING IS ONLY GOING TO HAPPEN IN A FILM. OR IS IT? AFTER ALL, LOVEJOY HAS BEEN EMPLOYED ON THE SET AS ANTIQUES ADVISOR. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 298 PAGES. S/H.

104309 GEORGE, ELIZABETH A GREAT DELIVERANCE Ł 2.00

AN INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERY. FAT UNLOVELY ROBERTA TEYS HAD BEEN FOUND, CLAD IN HER BEST DRESS, AN AXE IN HER LAP, BESIDE HER FATHER'S HEADLESS CORPSE. SHE SAYS ONLY "I DID IT. AND I'M NOT SORRY." INSPECTOR THOMAS LYNLEY, 8TH EARL OF ASHERTON AND DETECTIVE SERGEANT BARBARA HAVERS ARE SENT TO SCOTLAND YARD TO SOLVE THIS MURDER BUT FIND IT MORE COMPLICATED THAN ANYONE THOUGHT. A FIRST NOVEL BY SOMEONE WITH A GIFT - BUT NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH. A BANTAM PAPERBACK NOVEL. 320 PAGES. S/H.

104310 GILBERT, MICHAEL THE BLACK SERAPHIM Ł 4.00

WHEN OVERWORK CATCHES UP WITH DR JAMES SCOTLAND, HE TAKES HIMSELF OFF FOR A MONTH'S REST TO THE MELCHESTER CHRISTERS' SCHOOL, WHERE HIS COUSIN IS HEADMASTER. CATHEDRAL CLOISTERS SHOULD OFFER PEACE BUT THE CALM IS DECEPTIVE. AND FROM THE MOMENT JAMES WITNESSES ONE OF MELCHESTER'S TRADITIONAL LIVING CHESS GAMES, HE BEGINS TO REALISE THAT IN SUCH A TIGHT COMMUNITY ONE MAKES AN ILL-CONSIDERED MOVE AT ONE'S PERIL. DEAN AGAINST ARCHDEACON, ARCHDEACON AGAINST ORGANIST… THESE DEVIOUS CLERICAL MANOEUVRINGS HAVE LETHAL CONSEQUENCES. AND WHEN SUDDEN DEATH STRIKES, SUSPICION INVADES THE CLOSE LIKE A PERNICIOUS WEED. A MYSTERIOUS PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104311 GILBERT, MICHAEL BLOOD AND JUDGMENT Ł 3.00

ONE MISTY NOVEMBER EVENING A WOMAN'S BODY IS FOUND NEAR A RESERVOIR BY THREE BOYS COLLECTING FIREWOOD FOR GUY FAWKES NIGHT. SHE TURNS OUT TO BE THE WIFE OF MONK RITCHIE, AN ESCAPED CRIMINAL - AND SHE HAS BEEN MURDERED. DETECTIVE-SERGEANT PATRICK PETRELLA HAS A PERSONAL INTEREST IN THE CASE, FOR HIS COLLEAGUE STILL LIES UNCONSCIOUS AFTER A BEATING UP BY ONE OF RITCHIE'S GANG. PETRELLA'S ENTHUSIASM LEADS HIM TO WORKING OVERTIME, BY NIGHT DIVING IN THE RESERVOIR. AND THOUGH HE COMES UP WITH A SUNKEN BOAT AND A BODY - AND THE MURDER WEAPON - IT NEARLY PUTS PAID TO HIS PROMISING CAREER. A HAMLYN PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104312 GILBERT, MICHAEL CLOSE QUARTERS Ł 5.00

THIS IS MICHAEL GILBERT'S FIRST BOOK, BRINGING CRIME INTO THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE. THE DEAN WAS UNEASY, FOR NO REAL REASON,YET, IF HE ASKED HIS POLICEMAN NEPHEW TO SPEND A FEW DAYS WITH HIM, MAYBE THINGS WOULD GET BETTER? A HODDER & STOUGHTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104313 GILBERT, MICHAEL DEATH IN CAPTIVITY Ł 4.00

CYRIAKOS COUTOULES WAS THE LEAST POPULAR MAN IN BRITISH POW CAMPO 127 SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ITALY. NOT TO MINCE WORDS, HE WAS GENERALLY ASSUMED TO BE AN ITALIAN STOOLPIGEON. SO IT SEEMED ONLY TOO TRUE TO FORM THAT IF COUTOULES WAS TO BE FOUND DEAD IT SHOULD BE IN THE MOST INCONVENIENT PLACE POSSIBLE - IN A FALL OF SAND IN THE ONLY VIABLE ESCAPE TUNNEL STILL PRESUMED TO BE A SECRET FROM THE ENEMY. THE TROUBLE WAS THE ENTRANCE TO THAT PARTICULAR TUNNEL LAY UNDER THE NOT INCONSIDERABLE BULK OF HUT C COOKING STOVE AND IT TOOK FOUR MEN EACH DIGGING SHIFT TO RAISE THE STOVE BY BLOCK AND TACKLE DISGUISED AS A CLOTHES AIRING RACK. THOUGH NO TIME WAS LOST IN REMOVING HIS MORTAL PARTS FOR REDISCOVERY IN A LESS SENSITIVE SPOT, THE FACT REMAINED THAT THERE WAS NO WAY COUTOULES COULD HAVE JUST WANDERED INTO THE TUNNEL IN HUT C BY HIMSELF. AND WITH THE ITALIANS DISPOSED TO PICK THEIR OWN SCAPEGOAT FOR SUMMARY JUSTICE, THE ESCAPE COMMITTEE DEPUTED THE BESPECTACLED AND THOUGHTFUL SCHOOLMASTER HENRY GOYLES TO TRY AND FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. A CLASSIC CLOSED COMMUNITY PUZZLE MADE MORE PRESSING BY TWO THINGS - A THREAT OF EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD AND THE SLOW BUT INDISPUTABLE ADVANCE OF THE ALLIED FORCES UP THE ITALIAN PENINSULA. A BOOK CLUB HARDBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104314 GODDARD, ROBERT CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT Ł 4.19

ON ASSIGNMENT IN VIENNA, PHOTOGRAPHER IAN JARRETT FALLS IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN HE MEETS BY CHANCE, MARIAN ESGUARD. BACK IN ENGLAND, HE LEAVES HIS WIFE AND GOES TO MEET MARIAN, ONLY FOR HER TO VANISH FROM HIS LIFE AS MYSTERIOUSLY AS SHE ENTERED IT. SEARCHING FOR THE WOMAN FOR WHOM HE HAS SACRIFICED EVERYTHING, JARRETT COMES ACROSS A DORSET CHURCHYARD FULL OF GRAVESTONES OF DEAD ESGUARDS. HE ALSO MEETS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST, DAPHNE SANGER. SHE TOO IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE: A FORMER CLIENT WHO BELIEVES SHE IS THE REINCARNATION OF MARIAN ESGUARD, WHO MAY HAVE INVENTED PHOTOGRAPHY TEN YEARS BEFORE FOX TALBOT. BUT WHY IS MARIAN ESGUARD UNKNOWN TO HISTORY? AND WHO AND WHERE IS THE WOMAN JARRETT MET IN VIENNA? JARRETT SETS OUT TO SOLVE A MYSTERY WHOSE ORIGINS LIE AMID THE MAGICAL-SEEMING PROPERTIES OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY. BUT AT THE END OF HIS SEARCH A TRAP AWAITS HIM. HE IS CAUGHT IN A WEB OF DECEPTION, WOVEN BETWEEN THE ENIGMAS OF THE PAST AND THE REVENGES OF THE PRESENT. AND THERE IS NO WAY OUT. A CORGI PAPERBACK EDITION. 445 PAGES. S/H.

104316 GORMAN, ED HAWK MOON Ł 4.19

A LIFE SPENT STUDYING THE WORST KIND OF KILLERS AND SOCIOPATHS TAKES ITS TOLL ON A GUY. BUT EX-FBI INVESTIGATOR ROBERT PAYNE WORKS HARD AT BEING AN OPTIMIST. SOMETIMES IT'S DIFFICULT. LIKE WHEN HIS CLIENT IS A PRETTY NATIVE AMERICAN AND HER HUSBAND IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF MURDER AND RITUAL MAIMING. PAYNE WILL BRING TO THE CASE ALL HIS SKILLS IN THE ART OF CRIMINAL PROFILING AND UP-TO-DATE FORENSIC TECHNIQUES. HE WILL DO HIS DAMNEDEST TO PROVE THE YOUNG INDIAN IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLAUGHTER AND MUTILATION. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 305 PAGES. S/H.

104317 GRAFTON, SUE A IS FOR ALIBI Ł 3.00

A KINSEY MILLHONE MYSTERY. KINSEY HAD BEEN OUT FOR MOST OF THE MORNING AND THE CLIENT WAS WAITING IN THE CORRIDOR. NIKKI FIFE. THE EIGHT YEARS SINCE KINSEY HAD SEEN HER AND LEFT NO VISIBLE SCARS. BUT NOW SHE WAS LOOKING FOR THE HELP THAT ONLY A DETECTIVE COULD PROVIDE. FOR WHOEVER HAD KILLED HER HUSBAND IT WASN'T NIKKI FIFE. AND IF HIS WIFE WASN'T THE MURDERER, THAT MEANT SOMEONE ELSE WAS… A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104318 GRAFTON, SUE P IS FOR PERIL Ł 4.00

A KINSEY MILLHONE MYSTERY. NINE WEEKS AGO DOCTOR DOWAN PURCELL VANISHED WITHOUT TRACE. HE HAD SAID GOODNIGHT TO HIS COLLEAGUES AT THE PACIFIC MEADOWS NURSING HOME, HAD CLIMBED INTO HIS CAR AND DRIVEN AWAY, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. HIS EMBITTERED FIRST WIFE, FIONA, IS CONVINCED HE IS STILL ALIVE, HIS SECOND WIFE, CRYSTAL, A FORMER STRIPPER THIRTY YEARS HIS JUNIOR, IS JUST AS SURE HE IS DEAD. PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR KINSEY MILLHONE IS HIRED BY FIONA TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH. PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 514 PAGES. S/H.

104319 GRANGER, ANN SAY IT WITH POISON Ł 2.00

THE FIRST MITCHELL AND MARKBY MYSTERY. MEREDITH MITCHELL OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, HAS AGREED TO STAY WITH HER COUSIN EVE IN THE RUN-UP TO EVE'S DAUGHTER'S WEDDING - BUT SHE DOESN'T EXPECT MURDER AND BLACKMAIL. ON THE OTHER HAND SHE DOES MEET CHIEF INSPECTOR MARKBY AND HELPS HIM SOLVE THE MYSTERY. AN EXCELLENT START TO A GOOD PARTNERSHIP. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 281 PAGES. S/H.

104320 GRANT-ADAMSON, LESLEY THREATENING EYE Ł 3.00

A MURDERED GIRL IN A FIELD, A SEARCH FOR A MAN SEEN NEAR THE BODY… ROGER DALE HAS GROWN CARELESS, HIS SEEDY DOUBLE LIFE WILL BE EXPOSED IF THE POLICE CLOSE IN. BUT AS DALE FEARS RUIN, JEFFREY MILES IS REBUILDING HIS LIFE, INSPIRED BY THE SECRET UNCOVERED IN A COUNTRY CHURCH. TRAGEDY AT BENFIELD LINKS THE MEN IN A COMPELLING STORY OF EVIL, DECEIT AND DESTRUCTION. A FABER & FABER PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104322 GREEN, CHRISTINE DEADLY ERRAND Ł 2.00

IN THE MIDLANDS MARKET TOWN OF LONGBOROUGH A YOUNG NURSE IS FOUND DEAD IN THE GROUNDS OF ST DYMPHNA'S HOSPITAL. KIND, QUIET, HARDWORKING AND RELIGIOUS - JACKY BYFIELD MAKES A MOST UNLIKELY MURDER VICTIM. WHEN THE POLICE FAIL TO PRODUCE A SUSPECT, BUDDING PRIVATE EYE KATE KINSELLA IS HIRED TO HELP OUT. KATE - ATTRACTIVE, JUST THIRTY, SIZE FOURTEEN AND SINGLE - BEGINS HER INVESTIGATION WITH THE HELP OF HER LANDLORD AND WOULD-BE SIDE-KICK, HUBERT HUMBERSTONE, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. BUT AS THE TOLL OF DEATHS, NATURAL AND UNNATURAL, INCREASES IT APPEARS THAT KATE'S RESEARCH IS GETTING TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT. DETERMINED NOT TO RUN SCARED FROM HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT, KATE PREPARES TO CONFRONT THE KILLER. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 312 PAGES. S/H.

104324 GREENWOOD, D. M. CLERICAL ERRORS Ł 3.00

A THEODORA BRAITHWAITE MYSTERY. IN THE SHADOW OF HONEY-COLOURED MEDEWICH CATHEDRAL, AMIDST THE PERFECT LAWNS OF THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE, THE DIOCESAN OFFICE OF ST MANICUS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PEACEFUL IF NOT AN ESPECIALLY EXCITING PLACE FOR NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD JULIA SMITH TO START HER FIRST JOB. YET SHE HAS BEEN IN ITS PRECINCTS FOR LESS THAN AN HOUR WHEN SHE STUMBLES ON A HORROR OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS - A SEVERED HEAD IN THE CATHEDRAL FONT. AND SHE HAS WORKED FOR THE SUAVE CANON WHEELER FOR LESS THAN A DAY WHEN SHE REALISES THAT THE DEAN AND CHAPTER IS AS RIVEN BY RIVALRY, AMBITION AND PETTY JEALOUSY AS THE COURT OF ANY RENAISSANCE PRELATE. IN THIS JUNGLE OF INTRIGUE A YOUNG DEACONESS, THEODORA BRAITHWAITE, STANDS OUT AS A LONE PILLAR OF COMMON SENSE. TACITURN BUT KINDLY, SHE TAKES JULIA UNDER HER WING AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF IAN CARETAKER - A YOUNG MAN WHO HATES CANON WHEELER AS MUCH AS HE LOVES THE CHURCH - THEY ATTEMPT TO UNRAVEL THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DEATH OF A WELL-MEANING MAN, THE REVEREND PAUL GRAY, LATE INCUMBENT OF MARKHAM CUM CUMBERMOUND. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 216 PAGES. S/H.

104325 GREENWOOD, D. M. IDOL BONES Ł 3.00

A THEODORA BRAITHWAITE MYSTERY. TO VINCENT STREAM HIS APPOINTMENT AS DEAN OF BOW ST AELFRIC IS A GIFT FROM GOD. HERE, IF ANYWHERE, THERE IS A NAME TO BE MADE. BUT, AS DEACON THOEDORA BRAITHWAITE QUICKLY PERCEIVES, WHEN IT COMES TO IMPOSING ORDER ON THE SHAMBLES LEFT BY HIS PREDECESSOR, STREAM IS UNLIKELY TO BE OFFERED A CLEAR RUN. FOR THE STUBBORNNESS OF THE CATHEDRAL CLERGY IS LEGENDARY; CONTENTIOUS AS TERRIERS, FOR YEARS THEY HAVE WORRIED AWAY AT THE BONES OF POWER AND ARE UNLIKELY TO HAND THEIR TROPHIES OVER WITHOUT A FIGHT - ESPECIALLY TO ONE SUCH AS STREAM. WITHIN A WEEK OF STREAM'S RESIDENCE THE CLERGY ARE FACED WITH ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO THEIR AUTHORITY: A WELL-PRESERVED HEAD OF THE ROMAN GOD JANUS IS DISCOVERED IN THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE. AND WHEN A BODY IS FOUND LAID OUT BEFORE THE STATUE, ITS THROAT SLASHED LIKE A SACRIFICIAL LAMB'S, IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT THE CLERGY'S BATTLE FOR POWER HAS PROVED MORE BLOODY THAN EVEN THEODORA EXPECTED. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 216 PAGES. S/H.

104326 GREENWOOD, D. M. UNHOLY GHOSTS Ł 3.00

A THEODORA BRAITHWAITE MYSTERY. FATHER HEREWARD MARR IS A PROBLEM. AGGRESSIVE, UNRELIABLE AND FREQUENTLY INTOXICATED, HIS ONLY DISCERNIBLE VIRTUE AS A PARISH PRIEST IS HIS TALENT FOR DEATHBED CONVERSIONS. SO, WHEN HIS BODY IS FOUND IN THE PIT HE HIMSELF DUG IN A CRAZED ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THE CHURCH CENTRAL HEATING, FEW ARE TRULY SORRY. BUT, AS IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT HIS DEATH WAS NOT ACCIDENTAL AND WILL REFLECT BADLY ON THE CHURCH, ECCLESIASTICAL ALARM BELLS START RINGING. IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT DEACONESS THEODORA BRAITHWAITE, ENJOYING A BREAK IN NORFOLK FROM HER DUTIES IN HER INNER-CITY PARISH, IS ASKED BY THE BISHOP TO LEND A HAND. SHE HAS LITTLE CHOICE BUT TO OBLIGE AND, AS SHE HERSELF ACKNOWLEDGES, SHE DOES HAVE A CONNECTION WITH THE CASE. FOR AMY MARR, THE DEAD MAN'S WIFE WHOM THEODORA MET IN HER LONDON GROUP FOR BATTERED CLERGY WIVES, IS MISSING: EITHER ANOTHER MURDER VICTIM OR SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 215 PAGES. S/H.

104328 GRIMES, MARTHA THE BLUE LAST Ł 5.00

RICHARD JURY DOES NOT WANT TO REMEMBER THE WAR THAT KILLED HIS PARENTS, HIS CHILDHOOD, AND MADE ORPHANS OF SO MANY OF THE CHILDREN PICTURED IN THE HANDFUL OF SNAPSHOTS DCI MICKEY HAGGERTY GAVE HIM, BUT MICKEY WANTED HIS HELP. TWO SKELETONS HAS BEEN EXCAVATED FROM THE SITE OF A CITY PUB, THE BLUE LAST, AND MICKEY BELIEVES THAT A CHILD WHO SURVIVED THE BOMBING HAS BEEN POSING FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS AS A CHILD WHO DIDN'T. CAN JURY HELP? A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 468 PAGES. S/H.

104329 GRIMES, MARTHA THE CASE HAS ALTERED Ł 4.89

A RICHARD JURY MYSTERY. THE LINCOLNSHIRE FENS ARE THE SETTING FOR SUPERINTENDENT RICHARD JURY'S LATEST CASE. THIS LANDSCAPE IS ONE THAT CAN EASILY DECEIVE, VOLUNTEERING NOTHING - MUCH LIKE THE LOCALS OF THE ONLY PUB FOR MILES AROUND, THE CASE HAS ALTERED. THERE'S BEEN A DOUBLE MURDER. THE BODY OF ONE WOMAN IS FOUND ON THE WASH; ANOTHER WOMAN LIES FLOATING IN A CANAL IN WINDY FEN. BOTH ARE CONNECTED WITH THE MANOR HOUSE, FENGATE: DORCAS REESE WAS A SEVANT THERE; VERNA DUNN WAS THE LOUCHE EX-WIFE OF THE OWNER, MAX OWEN - A MAN WITH A PASSION FOR ANTIQUES. SO WHEN THE PRINCIPAL SUSPECT TURNS OUT TO BE JENNY KENNINGTON, A WOMAN JURY HAS LONG LOVED, HE DECIDES HE NEEDS SOMEONE INSIDE FENGATE. SOMEONE WHO CAN IMPERSONATE AN ANTIQUES EXPERT. WHO BETTER THAN ARISTOCRATIC MELROSE PLANT, DETECTIVE MANQUE? A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 440 PAGES. S/H.

104330 GRIMES, MARTHA THE STARGAZEY Ł 4.19

SATURDAY NIGHT WAS NOT A NIGHT TO BE SPENDING ALONE, RIDING A BUS THROUGH SOUTHWEST LONDON. BUT HAD HE BEEN ANYWHERE ELSE, HE WOULDN'T HAVE SEEN HER. SHE CAME OUT OF THE STARGAZEY ON THE FULHAM ROAD, PULLING UP THE COLLAR OF HER FUR COAT AGAINST THE COLD NOVEMBER EVENING. HE WAS DRAWN TO HER, HE COULDN'T HELP BUT FOLLOW HER. TWELVE HOURS LATER THE BODY OF A YOUNG WOMAN IS FOUND IN THE GROUNDS OF FULHAM PALACE AND SUPERINTENDENT RICHARD JURY IS FACED WITH THE EMBARRASSING TASK OF EXPLAINING HIS RATHER DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF HER LAST MOVEMENTS. BUT WHEN A VISIT TO THE MORGUE REVEALS THAT THE FUR COAT IN QUESTION SEEMS TO HAVE COME INTO THE POSSESSION OF AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WOMAN, JURY HAS SOME QUESTIONS OF HIS OWN. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 437 PAGES. S/H.

104332 HAGEN, LORINDA WINTER ROSES Ł 3.00

ROSE WINTERS CERTAINLY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS. IN HER OWN SUCCESSFUL MYSTERY NOVELS, THERE WAS ALWAYS A LOGICAL EXPLANATION. BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SUCH EXPLANATION FOR THE STRANGE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING IN HER HOUSE - AND THE MANIFESTATIONS WERE UPSETTING HER NIECE, LESLIE, WHO WAS STAYING WITH HER. THEN LESLIE INEXPLICABLY VANISHED FROM HER BATHROOM, LEAVING BEHIND ALL HER CLOTHES AND A TUB FULL OF STEAMING WATER. ROSE WAS FORCED TO ASSUME THE ROLE OF DETECTIVE IN ORDER TO FIND THE MISSING GIRL BEFORE THE RESIDENT "GHOST" STARTED PLAYING FOR KEEPS. A BMI PAPERBACK EDITION. NO APPARENT ISBN NUMBER ON BOOK BUT BELIEVED TO BE A REPRINT OF ISBN NO. 0843950005. 238 PAGES. S/H.

104334 HAGGARD, WILLIAM THE HIGH WIRE Ł 3.00

COLONEL CHARLES RUSSELL, THE SUAVE, TOUGH CHIEF OF THE SECURITY EXECUTIVE, FACES THE DELICATE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN DIPLOMATICALLY DEFEATING AN ALLY - WITHOUT ENDANGERING THE ALLIANCE. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104335 HAMBLY, BARBARA SEARCH THE SEVEN HILLS Ł 6.00

PREVIOUSLY ENTITLED "THE QUIRINAL HILL AFFAIR". IT IS A.D. 116. THE ROMAN STREETS ARE QUIET. THE MOON IS FULL. THE PERFECT SETTING FOR THE PERFECT CRIME. MARCUS SILANUS IS A SERIOUS YOUNG MAN. BUT NONE OF HIS KNOWLEDGE HELPS WHEN THE LOVELY TULLIA VARIA, THE WOMAN HE HAS LOVED SINCE CHILDHOOD, IS KIDNAPPED AT THE TOP OF ROME'S EXCLUSIVE QUIRINAL HILL BEFORE HIS EYES. HAUNTED BY HIS BELOVED'S SCREAMS, MARCUS BEGINS TO SEARCH FOR TULLIA, EMBARKING ON A QUEST THAT TAKES HIM FROM THE LUXURIANT BATHS TO THE PAGEANT-FILLED ARENAS, FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE CATACOMBS TO A SENSUOUS BROTHEL. IT'S A SUSPENSE-FILLED JOURNEY THAT BRINGS HIM FACE-TO-FACE WITH GLADIATORS, PAGANS, CHRISTIANS, SENATORS AND SLAVES ALIKE. A BALLANTINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 309 PAGES. S/H.

104337 HARDWICK, MICHAEL THE REVENGE OF THE HOUND Ł 3.00

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON ARE BACK IN A NEW ADVENTURE WRITTEN BY SHERLOCKIAN MICHAEL HARDWICK. A SLEEPING DERELICT IS SAVAGED BY A HUGE HOUND; THE HEADLESS SKELETON OF OLIVER CROMWELL IS STOLEN; A CHINESE SHIP'S STEWARD IS MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED; AND THE KING OF ENGLAND IS THREATENED WITH BLACKMAIL. A SINISTER GAME IS AFOOT AND IT'S UP TO SHERLOCK HOLMES AND HIS DEVOTED CRONY AND CHRONICLER DR JOHN WATSON TO PUT THE PIECES OF THE BIZARRE PUZZLE TOGETHER IN ORDER TO KEEP THE BRITISH EMPIRE FROM BEING TORN APART. A PINNACLE PAPERBACK EDITION. 347 PAGES. S/H.

104339 HARDWICK, MOLLIE THE BANDERSNATCH Ł 4.00

THE FOURTH DORAN FAIRWEATHER MYSTERY. TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF HER SON, ANTIQUES DEALER DORAN FAIRWEATHER BOUGHT A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY RELIGIOUS CARVING AT AUCTION, LATER TO DISCOVER THAT THIS WOODEN CHERUB WAS REPUTED TO CONTAIN A PIECE OF THE TRUE CROSS. AS A RESULT, HER LIFE WITH RODNEY AT BELL HOUSE IN ABBOTSBOURNE BEGAN TO CHANGE FROM IDYLL TO NIGHTMARE. THEFT, THE ARRIVAL OF AN UNWANTED VISITOR, IMPERSONATION, KIDNAP AND, FINALLY, MURDER CREATED A DESPERATE NEW RHYTHM IN THE WAKE OF HER PURCHASE. A CORGI PAPERBACK EDITION. 206 PAGES. S/H.

104341 HARRISON, RAY DEATH OF AN HONOURABLE MEMBER Ł 5.00

IN HIS FIRST VICTORIAN CRIME NOVEL, AUTHOR RAY HARRISON INTRODUCED TWO NOTABLE CHARACTERS: SERGEANT BRAGG AND CONSTABLE MORTON OF THE CITY OF LONDON POLICE. NOW WE MEET THEM AGAIN AS THEY BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPARENTLY ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF ONE OF THE CITY'S MPS. ONCE AGAIN THE AUTHOR HAS SET A SUSPENSEFUL DETECTIVE STORY AGAINST A DETAILED EVOCATION OF LONDON IN THE 1890S. A QUARTET QRIME FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. 154 PAGES. S/H.

104342 HARRISON, RAY HALLMARK OF MURDER Ł 1.00

A SERGEANT BRAGG AND CONSTABLE MORTON MYSTERY. SPRAWLED IN FRONT OF THE CITY GOLDSMITH'S OPEN SAFE WAS THE BODY OF A MAN. BENEATH THE BLOOD-MATTED, GREYING HAIR A DEEP WOUND GAPED BY THE EYE SOCKET OF THE ESTABLISHMENT'S PROPRIETOR, RODGER NEWBY, THE SQUARE MILE'S LORD MAYOR-ELECT. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A PRICELESS SILVER PUNCH-BOWL; THE UNBURNT CORNER OF A DEED PAPER - A NEW WILL? - IN THE SHOP'S FIREPLACE; A BRONZE STATUETTE WIPED CLEAN AND REPLACED ON THE MANTELPIECE; THE CLUES ACCUMULATE FOR THE BAFFLED CITY OF LONDON POLICE, AS DO THE SUSPECTS, MAINLY IN THE PERSONS OF THE LUCKLESS NEWBY'S EXTENDED FAMILY. A QUARTET QRIME EX-LIBRARY HARDBACK. 207 PAGES. S/H.

104343 HARROD-EAGLES, CYNTHIA DEATH WATCH Ł 4.00

A BILL SLIDER MYSTERY. WHEN THE NAKED AND BADLY CHARRED BODY OF "JOHN SMITH" IS FOUND IN THE BURNED-OUT ROOM OF A SLEAZY MOTEL, THE TOP BRASS AT LONDON'S METROPOLITAN POLICE WOULD RATHER CALL IT SUICIDE THAN BLOW THE BUDGET WITH AN EXPENSIVE MURDER INVESTIGATION. BUT DETECTIVE INSPECTOR BILL SLIDER CAN'T IGNORE THE EVIDENCE. THE STRANGE MARKS ON THE VICTIM'S NECK AND SHREDS OF A MELTED PLASTIC BAG STUCK TO HIS HAIR HINT AT SOME KINKY SEX GAME GONE BAD, YET HIS WALLET AND CREDIT CARDS ARE MISSING AS WELL. SLIDER IS DETERMINED TO GET ANSWERS BUT DIGGING INTO THE SECRET LIFE OF "JOHN SMITH" DRAWS UNEASY PARALLELS TO HIS OWN. AND AS HE DISCOVERS A TANGLED AND TRAGIC THREAD THAT STRETCHES BACK SOME TWO DECADES, HE CAN'T HELP WONDERING IF HIS OWN LITTLE INDISCRETIONS MIGHT SOMEDAY BRING HIM TO SUCH A SORRY END. AN AVON PAPERBACK EDITION. 280 PAGES. S/H.

104344 HARROD-EAGLES, CYNTHIA KILLING TIME Ł 3.00

A BILL SLIDER MYSTERY. WITH HIS COLLEAGUE ATHERTON IN HOSPITAL, DETECTIVE INSPECTOR BILL SLIDER IS HOPING FOR A QUIET WEEK. BUT EROTIC DANCER JAY PALOMA IS MURDERED AND HE IS FORCED TO PLUNGE INTO THE SEEDY WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT TO QUESTION TABLE-DANCERS, PIMPS AND CABINET MINISTERS. DID JAY'S MURDERER ALSO WHACK POPULAR PC COSGROVE? WHAT WAS COSGROVE'S CONNECTION WITH PROSTITUTE MAROON BROWN? WHO WAS BLACKMAILING WHOM? AND WHY WOULD AN ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP STORM A TACKY SHEPHERD'S BUSH NIGHTCLUB? FIGHTING A THUMPING HEADACHE AND WITH ATHERTON'S NUBILE REPLACEMENT ANXIOUS TO SHOW HIM HER TESTIMONIALS, SLIDER HAS TO CONCENTRATE TO UNRAVEL THE TRUTH. A MAGNA LARGE PRINT EX-LIBRARY HARDBACK. 462 PAGES. S/H.

104345 HART, CAROLYN HONEYMOON WITH MURDER Ł 3.00

MYSTERY FEATURING ANNIE LAURANCE AND DETECTIVE MAX DARLING. MYSTERY BOOKSHOP OWNER ANNIE LAURANCE AND DETECTIVE MAX DARLING ARE FINALLY TYING THE KNOT - BUT A BIZARRE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS MIGHT UNRAVEL THIS BLISSFUL MARRIAGE BEFORE IT BEGINS. WITH THE CEREMONY COMPLETED AND THE CHAMPAGNE GOBLETS EMPTIED, MAX SWEEPS ANNIE INTO HIS ARMS FOR AN AMOROUS MOMENT… WHEN THE PHONE RINGS AND A WOMAN ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE SCREAMS BLOODY MURDER. THE NEWLY WEDS RUSH TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT INGRID JONES, ANNIE'S BOOKSTORE ASSISTANT, HAS VANISHED, LEAVING THE BODY OF A NEIGHBORHOOD PEEPING TOM ON HER LIVING ROOM RUG. AS THE COMMUNITY OF BROWARD'S ROCK, INCLUDING A DOTTY NEW AGE PSYCHIC AND ANNIE'S MEDDLING NEW MOTHER-IN-LAW, MOBILIZES TO FIND THE MISSING WOMAN, THE COLD CORPSE PUTS HONEYMOON PLANS ON THE SHELF… AND ANNIE'S LOVE OF INVESTIGATION THREATENS TO BRING THE BIG CHILL TO MAX'S HUNGRY HEART. A BANTAM PAPERBACK EDITION. 227 PAGES. S/H.

104347 HENKE, PAUL DEBACLE Ł 3.00

A NICK HUNTER ADVENTURE. FOLLOWING A SUMMIT MEETING IN PARIS AN ALLIANCE OF INTERESTED COUNTRIES FORM AN ELITE FIGHTING FORCE TO COMBAT TERRORISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. BASED IN BRITAIN AND UNDER THE COMMAND OF A BRITISH GENERAL, THE TEAM IS MADE UP OF WESTERN, RUSSIAN AND OTHER NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES' SPECIAL FORCES. WITHOUT WARNING THE TERRORISTS STRIKE. A GROUP OF BANKERS, POLITICIANS AND INDUSTRIALISTS ARE TAKEN PRISONER OFF THE COAST OF SCOTLAND AND THE NEW, UNTRIED FORCE IS SENT TO SEARCH FOR THEM. THE ENEMY IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST RUTHLESS AND WANTED TERRORISTS - AZIZ HABIB. LEADING THE TASK FORCE IS NICK HUNTER, LIEUTENANT COMMANDER, ROYAL NAVY, AN UNDERWATER MINE AND BOMB CLEARANCE EXPERT WITH EXPERIENCE IN CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS. HE IS BACKED UP BY TWO COMPUTER EXPERTS; SARAH FROM GCHQ AND ISOBEL, HIRED BY THE GENERAL TO RUN THE IT FOR THE NEW FORCE. WHILE STOCK MARKETS TAKE A POUNDING AND EXCHANGE RATES GO MAD, THE STATE SPONSORING THE TERRORISM IS MAKING A FORTUNE. IT HAS TO STOP. AT ALL COSTS. A GOOD READ PAPERBACK EDITION. 424 PAGES. S/H.

104349 HERON, JAMES THE CAT'S PAW Ł 1.00

THE BAIT: Ł500,000 AND THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. THE JOB: IMPERSONATE THE MILLIONAIRE CHAIRMAN OF A HUGE PUBLISHING ORGANIZATION. THE CATCH: SOMEONE WANTS THAT CHAIRMAN DEAD. A TENSE AND THRILLING NOVEL OF BLUFF AND COUNTER-BLUFF AS ONE MAN TRACKS HIS DOUBLE FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK AND FROM NEW YORK TO A STARTLING CLIMAX IN THE WILDS OF KENYA. A FUTURA PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

104350 HESS, JOAN BUSY BODIES Ł 3.00

A CLAIRE MALLOY MYSTERY. LEAVE IT TO CLAIRE MALLOY, DEVOTED AMATEUR SLEUTH AND OWNER OF THE BOOK DEPOT IN FARBERVILLE, TO START OUT HAVING TEA AND END UP INVESTIGATING A MURDER. WHEN ZENO GORGIAS, AN AVANT-GARDE ARTIST, MOVES INTO TOWN, THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD IS UP IN ARMS. HIS "INTERACTIVE ART" - COMPLETE