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 WITH A NEARLY NUDE MODEL AND A COFFIN IN THE FRONT YARD - IS ATTRACTING A MOB OF NOISY GAWKERSL. BUT ZENO'S LOCAL REPUTATION SUFFERS A MUCH WORSE BLOW WHEN HIS ESTRANGED WIFE STORMS INTO TOWN TO HAVE HIM COMMITTED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL. AND BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OUT, EVEN STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN: THE VOLATILE ARTIST'S HOUSE GOES UP IN SMOKE, A DEAD BODY IS FOUND INSIDE THE COFFIN, AND THE ARTIST IS PROMPTLY ARRESTED FOR MURDER. NOW, CLAIRE STARTS SNOOPING WHERE SHE DOESN'T BELONG TO BECOME THE BUSYBODY WHO FINDS THE REAL KILLER. AN ONYX PAPERBACK EDITION. 269 PAGES. S/H.

104351 HEYER, GEORGETTE DETECTION UNLIMITED Ł 4.00

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 1953, THIS IS THE DETECTIVE STORY DELUXE, WITH EVERYONE SUSPECTING EVERYONE ELSE IN A QUIET VILLAGE. SET NOT LONG AFTER THE WAR, SERGEANT HEMINGWAY IS NOW CHIEF INSPECTOR HEMINGWAY, AND HE ENJOYS THE CUT AND SLASH OF SUSPECTS ALL BUSY INCRIMINATING EACH OTHER WHEN THE NASTIEST MAN IN THE DISTRICT IS SHOT. A PANTHER PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104352 HEYER, GEORGETTE ROYAL ESCAPE Ł 3.00

A VIVID ACCOUNT - IN THE FORM OF A HISTORICAL NOVEL - OF THE YOUNG CHARLES II'S ESCAPE AFTER THE CRUSHING DEFEAT OF HIS ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF WORCHESTER. CAPTURING ALL THE EXCITEMENT AND DRAMA OF THE TIMES, THE SWIFTLY-PACED NARRATIVE FOLLOWS THE OUTLAW KING AND HIS TINY PARTY ON A DANGEROUS JOURNEY THROUGH CROMWELL'S ENGLAND TO A CHANNEL PORT AND EVENTUAL SAFETY. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 383 PAGES. S/H.

104353 HEYER, GEORGETTE THE UNFINISHED CLUE Ł 3.00

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1934, THE VICTIM IS THE USUAL NASTY BULLY WHO MAKES EVERYONE'S LIFE A MISERY, AND THE KILLER IS A VERY RARE TYPE, I MIGHT SAY UNIQUE, UNLESS SOMEONE WITH MORE KNOWLEDGE THAN I CAN CORRECT ME. GENERAL SIR ARTHUR BILLINGTON-SMITH IS STABBED TO DEATH, AND THERE ARE THE USUAL SUSPECTS, THE SECOND WIFE, THE SISTER-IN-LAW, THE SON, THE SON'S EXOTIC FIANCE, THE FIRST WIFE'S FRIEND, THE LOOSELY- MARRIED COUPLE, THE MAN IN LOVE WITH THE SECOND WIFE, ALL AROUND THE HOUSE AT THE WRONG MOMENT. A PANTHER PAPERBACK EDITION. 208 PAGES. S/H.

104355 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA CHILLERS Ł 2.00

TRAPPED BY THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, PEOPLE CAN BEHAVE IN STRANGE AND DISCONCERTING WAYS. IN THIS COLLECTION OF STORIES PATRICIA HIGHSMITH EXPOSES THE DARKER SIDE OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE. HERE ARE ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN BENT ON REVENGE, HEADING FOR DESTRUCTION, HARBOURING GRUDGES, STRETCHED BEYOND ENDURANCE OR SIMPLY MISGUIDED BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOST CONTROL OF THIER LIVES. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 227 PAGES. S/H.

104356 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA A GAME FOR THE LIVING Ł 1.00

THEO AND RAMON BOTH SLEPT WITH LELIA. THE TWO WERE GOOD FRIENDS SO NEITHER MINDED SHARING THE SAME GIRLFRIEND. THEY DID MIND, HOWEVER, WHEN LELIA WAS FOUND MURDERED, RAPED AND HORRIBLY MUTILATED. WHO HAD COMMITTED THIS SENSELESS BUTCHERY? EVENTUALLY RAMON CONFESSES TO THE MURDER - BUT IS HE REALLY GUILTY? AND WHO IS THE SINISTER AND MYSTERIOUS BOY WHO LURKS NEVER FAR AWAY? A HAMLYN PAPERBACK EDIITON. 282 PAGES. S/H.

104357 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Ł 3.00

THREE OF THEM ARE WAITING. RYDAL KEENER IS WAITING FOR SOMETHING EXCITING TO HAPPEN IN THE GRUBBY LITTLE HOTEL IN ATHENS. CHESTER IS WAITING FOR HIS LIFE OF SWINDLING AND FRAUD TO CATCH UP WITH HIM. AND COLETTE, CHESTER'S WIFE - WELL, SHE'S WAITING FOR SOMETHING ELSE… TWO STARTLING MURDERS LATER, THE NIGHTMARE WAITING GAME EXPLODES INTO VIOLENT ACTION IN THE DESERTED LABYRINTH OF KNOSSOS. A HAMLYN PAPERBACK EDITION. 284 PAGES. S/H.

104359 HILL, REGINALD AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Ł 4.00

THE SECOND IN THE DALZIEL AND PASCOE SERIES. THE BODY OF A FORMER PRINCIPAL IS FOUND IN THE GROUNDS OF HER OLD COLLEGE AND DALZIEL AND PASCOE ARE CALLED IN. PASCOE DISCOVERS AN OLD FLAME ON THE STAFF AND DALZIEL FINDS THAT ALL HIS NOTIONS OF COLLEGE - OF RAMPANT SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LECTURERS AND STUDENTS - ARE ALL TOO TRUE. OF COURSE, THAT IS BEFORE THE SECOND BODY TURNS UP, AND THEN A THIRD. EXCELLENT MURDER YARN. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 271 PAGES. S/H.

104360 HILL, REGINALD AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Ł 3.00

104361 HILL, REGINALD AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Ł 3.00

104362 HILL, REGINALD AN APRIL SHROUD Ł 4.00

THE FOURTH IN THE DALZIEL AND PASCOE SERIES. HAVING SEEN PETER AND ELLIE OFF ON THEIR HONEYMOON, ANDY DALZIEL GOES OFF ON HOLIDAY ALONE, AND FINDS A COFFIN BEING TOWED THROUGH THE FLOOD. HE ALSO FINDS A MOST ATTRACTIVE WIDOW, A MURDER MYSTERY AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN INSURANCE SCAM. USUAL MAYHEM WHEN DALZIEL IS AROUND. A GRAFTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 269 PAGES. S/H.

104363 HILL, REGINALD ASKING FOR THE MOON Ł 5.00

THIS CONSISTS OF FOUR SHORT STORIES STARRING PASCOE AND DALZIEL. THE FIRST "THE LAST NATIONAL SERVICEMAN" COVERS THEIR FIRST MEETING; "PASCOE'S GHOST" HAS PASCOE CHASING A MISSING, PERHAPS DEAD, WIFE. "DAZIEL'S GHOST" HAS DAZIEL TELLING HIS FAVOURITE GHOST STORY TO PASCOE AS THEY WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN IN A SUPPOSEDLY HAUNTED HOUSE, AND THE FINAL ONE, "ONE SMALL STEP" IS FROM THE FUTURE. DAZIEL HAS RETIRED TO A NURSING HOME, PASCOE IS NOW THE UK COMISSIONER IN THE EUROFED JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND HE TAKES DAZIEL TO THE MOON TO INVESTIGATE THE FIRST SUSPECTED MURDER THERE. A PURE ROMP FROM START TO FINISH. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 272 PAGES. S/H.

104365 HILL, REGINALD BONES AND SILENCE Ł 5.00

WHEN DETECTIVE-SUPERINTENDENT ANDREW DALZIEL WITNESSES A BIZARRE MURDER ACROSS THE STREET FROM HIS OWN BACK GARDEN, HE IS QUITE SURE WHO THE CULPRIT IS. AFTER ALL, HE'S GOT TO BELIEVE WHAT HE SEES WITH HIS OWN EYES. BUT WHAT EXACTLY DOES HE SEE? AND IS HE MISTAKEN? PETER PASCOE THINKS SO. DALZIEL SENSES THE DOUBTERS AROUND HIM, WHICH ONLY STRENGTHENS HIS RESOLVE. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, HE'S BEING PESTERED BY AN ANONYMOUS LETTER-WRITER, THREATENING SUICIDE. WORSE STILL, PASCOE SEEMS INTENT ON REMINDING HIM OF THE FACT. MEANWHILE, THE EFFERVESCENT EILEEN CHUNG IS DIRECTING THE MYSTERY PLAYS. AND WHO DOES SHE HAVE IN MIND FOR GOD? DALZIEL, OF COURSE. HE SHOULDN'T HAVE TOO MUCH DIFFICULTY ACTING THE PART. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 416 PAGES. S/H.

104366 HILL, REGINALD A CLUBBABLE WOMAN Ł 3.00

THE FIRST OF THE DALZIEL AND PASCOE NOVELS, SET IN THE ROUGH AND TOUGH WORLD OF RUGBY. CANNON COMES HOME FROM THE CLUB, RATHER DAZED AFTER TAKING A NASTY KNOCK IN A MATCH, FINDS THAT HIS WIFE IS NOT TALKING TO HIM, GOES TO BED TO SLEEP IT OFF, THEN FINDS HER DEAD WHEN HE COMES DOWN. IN SOME WAYS THESE REMIND ME OF THE CALEB CLUFF NOVELS BY GIL NORTH, EXCEPT THEY HAVE A BIT MORE DIALOGUE, ESPECIALLY WHERE SUPERINTENDENT DALZIEL (PRONOUNCED DEE-EL) IS CONCERNED. GRAFTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. 104367 HILL, REGINALD DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD Ł 5.00

ANOTHER DAZIEL AND PASCOE NOVEL, I WAS GOING TO ADD AN UNUSUAL ONE, BUT NONE OF THIS SERIES ARE EXACTLY COMMONPLACE. A STRANGE SERIES OF DEATHS HAVE TAKEN PLACE, ACCIDENTS, IT IS ASSUMED, UNTIL THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER RUNS A STORY COMPETITION, AND ONE OF THE ENTRIES TALKS OF THESE DEATHS AS MURDER. THE LIST OF DEATHS, AND STORIES, GROWS LONGER, UNTIL THE FINAL DENOUMENT, OR IS IT? EXCELLENT, AS USUAL. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 558 PAGES. S/H.

104368 HILL, REGINALD EXIT LINES Ł 3.00

THREE OLD MEN DIE ON A STORMY NOVEMBER NIGHT, ONE BY DELIBERATE VIOLENCE, ONE IN A ROAD ACCIDENT AND ONE BY AN UNKNOWN CAUSE. PETER PASCOE IS INVESTIGATING THE FIRST DEATH WHEN HE HEARS THAT THE ROAD ACCIDENT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY A DRUNK DRIVER, SUPERINTENDENT DALZIEL - AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE ENTIRE MID YORKSHIRE CID - IS CALLED INTO QUESTION. A GRIPPING GROUP OF STORIES THAT COME TOGETHER INTO A JOINT CLIMAX. GRAFTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 299 PAGES. S/H.

104369 HILL, REGINALD ON BEULAH HEIGHT Ł 4.00

ANOTHER DAZIEL AND PASCOE NOVEL, BETTER THAN EVER, WE FEEL. A YOUNG GIRL DISAPPEARS FROM DANBY, AND EVERYONE REMEMBERS THE VALLEY OF DENDALE, NEXT DOOR TO DANBY, DROWNED TO MAKE A RESERVOIR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, WHERE THREE LITTLE GIRLS AND A GROWN MAN DISAPPEARED AND WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN. DAZIEL HAD FAILED TO FIND ANY OF THEM, AND WAS ANXIOUS TO DO BETTER THIS TIME, ESPECIALLY AS MOST OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED THEN ARE STILL AROUND OR HAVE COME BACK. THE PEOPLE OF DENDALE WERE MOSTLY MOVED TO DANBY, BUT NOW, AFTER THE HOTTEST AND DRIEST SUMMER FOR YEARS, THE RESERVOIR IS LOW ENOUGH TO REVEAL THE RUINS OF THE HOUSES. WHAT ELSE WILL BE REVEALED? MEANWHILE PASCOE HAS HIS OWN PROBLEMS, TO BE OVERWHELMED BY DANGER AND DEATH. A MOVING AND CHILLING STORY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CHANGED BY DISASTER YET REMAIN FRIGHTENINGLY HUMAN. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 440 PAGES. S/H.

104370 HILL, REGINALD PICTURES OF PERFECTION Ł 3.00

ANOTHER DALZIEL, PASCOE AND WIELD STORY, BUT THIS IS A BUCOLIC ROMP. RATHER THAN A DEEP PSYCHOLOGICAL MURDER. THE VILLAGE BOBBY IS MISSING FROM ENSCOMBE, A TINY VILLAGE HIGH IN THE MID-YORKSHIRE DALES. PASCOE AND WIELD GET WORRIED, THEN FLURRIED BY THE OLD-FASHIONED VILLAGE CULTURE, AND FINALLY DALZIEL HIMSELF IS INVOLVED IN A CLIMAX WORTHY OF GROUCHO MARX HIMSELF. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 392 PAGES. S/H.

104371 HILL, REGINALD UNDERWORLD Ł 4.00

ANOTHER DALZIEL AND PASCOE MYSTERY, SET IN A MINING VILLAGE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE BIG STRIKE. THESE BOOKS ARE TURNING MORE AND MORE INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL NOVELS INSTEAD OF JUST PLAIN OLD DETECTIVE STORIES. DALZIEL - WHO STARTED OFF AS A FAT, STUPID, UNGRACIOUS FOOL - HAS MANY TALENTS, INCLUDING A SHARP BRAIN, AND HIS SUBORDINATES ARE GETTING SMART ENOUGH TO RESPECT HIM. A YOUNG GIRL VANISHED IN THE WOODS AROUND THE MINING VILLAGE AND THE SUICIDE OF AN OLDER MAN SEEMS TO CONFIRM THAT HE WAS THE CHILD-KILLER. AFTERWARDS HIS SON COMES BACK TO THE VILLAGE AND MEETS ELLIE PASCOE ON A UNIVERSITY COURSE. MEANWHILE, A MURDER IN THE MINE BRINGS DALZIEL AND PASCOE IN TO SOLVE THIS AND OTHER MYSTERIES. EXCELLENT NOVEL. HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 348 PAGES. S/H.

104375 HILTON, JOHN BUXTON SOME RUN CROOKED Ł 1.00

THERE ARE A THOUSAND PATHS TO THE DELECTABLE TAVERN OF DEATH AND SOME RUN STRAIGHT AND SOME RUN CROOKED. AS REGARDS THE DEATHS RECORDED HERE THE PATH RUNS CROOKED, VERY CROOKED INDEED. THE AUTHOR TELLS US THAT THERE HAD LINGERED AT PEAK FOREST IN DERBYSHIRE A CURIOUS AND ANCIENT ANACHRONISTIC PRIVILEGE. A CHAPEL WAS FOUNDED THERE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 'OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTION OF THE BISHOPS' AND THE PRIEST WAS CALLED PRINCIPAL OFFICIAL AND JUDGE IN SPIRITUALITIES IN THE PECULIAR COURT OF PEAK FOREST. HE HAD THE RIGHT TO SOLEMNISE MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO A LIBERAL SET OF RULES - A RIVAL, ONE MIGHT SAY, TO GRETNA GREEN. IN 1758 AN ELOPING COUPLE WERE NASTILY MURDERED ON THEIR WAY TO PEAK FOREST. AS THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK SAYS - 'I HAVE TAKEN THIS AS A SUGGESTION RATHER THAN A MODEL.' THE PRINCIPAL MURDER TO BE INVESTIGATED HERE IS THAT OF JULIE WIMPOLE. JULIE CAME AS A STRANGER TO THE NEARBY (AND FICTITIOUS) VILLAGE OF PEAK LOW IN 1958 AND EVERYONE ASSUMED SHE WAS THERE FOR FIFTEEN DAYS, THE QUALIFYING PERIOD TO ALLOW HER TO MARRY HER LOVER UNDER THE CURIOUS LAWS STILL PREVAILING. BUT WAS SHE A STRANGER? SOME OF THE VILLAGERS KNEW MORE ABOUT JULIE THAN THEY CARED TO ADMIT - AND SHE ABOUT THEM. WHAT HAD SHE KNOWN ABOUT THAT OTHER GIRL ALSO SEEKING THE RESIDENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR A ROMANTIC AND HASTY MARRIAGE, WHO WAS MURDERED HERE IN 1940? KENWORTHY, WHO REAPPEARS HERE AS A POLICE INSPECTOR, IN EFFECT FINDS HIMSELF INVESTIGATING THREE MURDERS SPREAD OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS. HIS METHODS ARE AS BIZARRE AND CIRCUTIOUS AS EVER. THIS STORY IS IN EFFECT A TRIPLE WHODUNNIT. A HERON BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 186 PAGES. S/H.

104377 HORNUNG, E. W. THE COLLECTED RAFFLES Ł 4.00

RAFFLES IS ONE OF THE MOST GLAMOROUS FIGURES OF CRIME FICTION - A PUBLIC SCHOOL MAN WHO HAS FALLEN ON HARD TIMES AND DECIDES TO MAKE HIS LIVING BY STEALING IT FROM THE RICH AND TITLED. HIS DASHING EXPLOITS AS A GENTLEMAN BURGLAR AND AS A SOLDIER IN THE BOER WAR, WHICH WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 'THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN', 'THE BLACK MASK' AND 'A THIEF IN THE NIGHT' NOW APPEAR IN THIS BUMPER EDITION. HERE IS THE FULL STORY OF HOW RAFFLES TOOK BUNNY MANDERS INTO PARTNERSHIP AND CHARMED, CHEATED AND STOLE HIS WAY THROUGH THE GLITTERING SALONS AND COUNTRY HOUSE PARTIES OF LATE VICTORIAN ENGLAND. AN EVERYMAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 430 PAGES. S/H.

104373 ILES, FRANCIS MALICE AFORETHOUGHT Ł 3.00

IT WAS NOT UNTIL SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER HE DECIDED TO MURDER HIS WIFE THAT DR BICKLEIGH TOOK ANY ACTIVE STEPS IN THE MATTER. A CLASSIC CRIME NOVEL THAT ALLOWS TO UNDERSTAND AND EVEN SYMPATHISE WITH A HEN-PECKED, PALTRY LITTLE MAN WITH DAY-DREAMS OF SELF-ASSERTION; HIS SEIZING OF A WAY TO ESCAPE; HIS NERVOUS BLUNDERS; HIS STRUGGLES IN HIS TANGLED WEB; AND HIS EMOTIONS WHEN TRIED FOR HIS LIFE. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 236 PAGES. S/H.

104453 INNES, HAMMOND DEAD AND ALIVE Ł 1.00

THIS BOOK IS A SWIFT-MOVING NARRATIVE THAT TAKES THE READER FROM THE GALE-SWEPT COAST OF CORNWALL TO THE VICE-LADEN CITIES AND PRIMITIVE HILL VILLAGES OF ITALY. IT IS THE STORY OF TWO MEN, BACK FROM SERVICE OVERSEAS, WHO HAVE LOST THEIR ROOTS IN ENGLAND. THE STORY IS TOLD BY AN EX-NAVAL OFFICER WHO, WHILST STAYING AT A FARM IN CORNWALL, HEARS OF AN ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE THE WRECK OF A LANDING CRAFT WASHED UP ON THE ROCKS OF A NEARBY COVE. HE LITTLE KNEW, AS HE WALKED DOWN THAT ROCKY CLIFF PATH TO BOSSINEY COVE, THAT HIS FEET WERE LEADING HIM ON A DANGER-STUDDED TRAIL BACK TO THE MEDITERRANEAN TO STRANGE HAPPENINGS AND A TREMENDOUS ADVENTURE. CAN A MAN BUILD DREAMS OF A TRADING COMPANY ON THE WRECK OF ONE VESSEL? AND IF HE CAN, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE MEETS UP AGAINST THE ORGANISED UNDERWORLD OF GREEDY RACKETEERS? A COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 159 PAGES. NO DATE TO BE FOUND. S/H.

104455 INNES, MICHAEL DEATH AT THE PRESIDENT'S LODGING Ł 3.00

INSPECTOR JOHN APPLEBY HAS A DIFFICULT AND DELICATE TASK WHEN HE INVESTIGATES THE MURDER OF THE UNPOPULAR JOSIAH UMPLEBY OF ST ANTHONY'S COLLEGE. THE CRIME IS AT ONCE INTRIGUING AND BIZARRE, EFFICIENT AND THEATRICAL - AND, INTELLECTUALLY, IT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING CRIME OF HIS CAREER. FOR APPLEBY MUST PICK HIS WAY THROUGH THE MALICIOUS GOSSIP AND LEARNED SQUABBLES OF THE COLLEGE'S BRIGHTEST ACADEMICS AND SIFT THROUGH AN EMBARASSMENT OF CLUES - GENUINE AND PLANTED. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 275 PAGES. S/H.

104456 JAMES, P D THE BLACK TOWER Ł 2.00

AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY. HOPING FOR A LITTLE INVESTIGATION TO ENLIVEN HIS CONVALESCENCE, COMMANDER ADAM DALGLIESH ACCEPTS AN INVITATION FROM AN OLD FRIEND TO VISIT DORSET AND SOLVE A PROBLEM. BUT WHEN HE ARRIVES AT TOYNTON GRANGE, A PRIVATE HOME FOR THE DISABLED, HE DISCOVERS THAT HIS HOST HAS DIED SUDDENLY. OTHER MORE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS FOLLOW AND DALGIESH FINDS THAT THE 'PROBLEM' IS AN ENCLOSED WORLD SEETHING WITH MALICE, INTRIGUE, HATRED AND MURDER. A SPHERE PAPERBACK EDITION. 288 PAGES. S/H.

104457 JAMES, P D A DALGIESH TRILOGY Ł 3.00

FEATURES THE DALGIESH MYSTERIES 'SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE', 'THE BLACK TOWER' AND 'DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS'. SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE: STUDENT NURSE PEARCE, STANDING IN FOR A COLLEAGUE, IS GIVEN A LETHAL DOSE OF POISON. WAS IT INTENDED FOR HER? AND IF SO, WHY? THE BLACK TOWER: RECUPERATING FROM A SERIOUS ILLNESS, ADAM DALGIESH TAKES HIMSELF TO VISIT MICHAEL BADDELEY, AN OLD FAMILY FRIEND WHO NEEDS HIS HELP. BUT HE IS TOO LATE, FOR MICHAEL IS ALREADY DEAD. DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS: THE SCIENTISTS WORKING AT HOGGATT'S LABORATORY ARE ALL EXPERTS IN VIOLENT DEATH. SO OF ALL HIS ENEMIES THERE, WHICH ONE SILENCES DR LORRIMER FOREVER? A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 851 PAGES. NO APPARENT DATE. S/H.

104458 JAMES, P D DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS Ł 6.00

AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY. IT IS SO EASY TO GIVE THE PLOT AWAY, SO I WAIT UNTIL I HAVE ENTERED THE BOOK ON THE CATALOGUE TO READ IT. AFTER ALL, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE DETECTIVE IS ADAM DALGLIESH, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE MURDER AND THEY TAKE PLACE IN AND AROUND AN ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE IN SUFFOLK. I'M SURE THOSE FACTS ARE ENOUGH TO PERSUADE READERS TO BUY THE BOOK. AFABER LARGE SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION. 387 PAGES. S/H.

104459 JAMES, P D A MIND TO MURDER Ł 2.00

AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY. A SUDDEN SCREAM SHATTERED THE CALM OF THE EVENING PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSION AT THE STEEN CLINIC. IN THE BASEMENT LAY THE BODY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, A CHISEL THRUST POWERFULLY AND WITH ALMOST SURGICAL PRECISION THROUGH HER HEART. SUPERINTENDENT ADAM DALGLIESH HURRIED TO THE SCENE - AND QUICKLY FOUND THAT BENEATH ITS REASSURINGLY UNRUFFLED SURFACE THE CLINIC WAS A LABYRINTH OF ANTAGONISM AND FEAR, WHERE PROFESSIONAL TACT AND DISCRETION MASKED THE BRUTALLY UNCOMPROMISING MIND OF A MURDERER. A SPHERE PAPERBACK EDITION. 221 PAGES. S/H.

104460 JANCE, J A DESERT HEAT Ł 3.00

ANDY BRADY WAS A GOOD HONEST LAWMAN, A GOOD HUSBAND AND CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF OF COCHISE COUNTY - UNTIL A BULLET ABRUPTLY DESTROYED HIS FUTURE. NOW THE POLICE BRASS ARE CLAIMING HE WAS A MAVERICK WHOSE INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG-RUNNING DROVE HIM TO SUICIDE. BUT ANDY'S STRONG-WILLED WIFE JOANNA KNOWS A COVER-UP WHEN SHE HEARS ONE - AND A MURDER WHEN SHE SEES IT. AND SHE IS RELENTLESSLY DETERMINED TO CLEAR HER HUSBAND'S NAME. BUT HER OBSESSIVE HUNT FOR A KILLER THREATENS TO PLACE BOTH JOANNA AND HER NINE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER JENNY IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY. BECAUSE, IN THE DESERT, THE TRUTH CAN BE MORE LETHAL THAN A RATTLESNAKE'S BITE. AN AVON PAPERBAKC EDITION. 246 PAGES. S/H.

104461 JECKS, MICHAEL THE TRAITOR OF ST. GILES Ł 3.00

IT IS 1321 AND THE FOLK OF TIVERTON ARE PREPARING FOR ST. GILES' FEAST UNDER THE SHADOW OF MURDER. PHILIP DYNE HAS CONFESSED AND CLAIMED SANCTUARY IN ST. PETER'S CHURCH BUT DANGER STILL LIVES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. AS SIR BALDWIN FURNSHILL, KEEPER OF THE KING'S PEACE, AND BAILIFF SIMON PUTTOCK ARRIVE AT LORD HUGH DE COURTENAY'S CASTLE FOR THE FEAST, ANOTHER BODY IS FOUND - THAT OF SIR GILBERT OF CARLISLE, AN IMPORTANT AMBASSADOR - LYING NEAR TO THE DECAPITATED FIGURE OF DYNE. THE CORONER IS SATISFIED THAT DYNE KILLED THE KNIGHT AND WAS THEN MURDERED; DYNE WAS AN OUTLAW, SO HE DOESN'T MERIT THE LAW'S ATTENTION, BUT SIR BALDWIN FEELS TOO MANY QUESTIONS ARE LEFT UNANSWERED. HOW COULD AN UNARMED PEASANT KILL A TRAINED WARRIOR? AND IF HE DID, WHAT HAPPENED TO SIR GILBERT'S HORSE - AND MONEY? WHEN BALDWIN AND SIMON ARE THEMSELVES VICIOUSLY ATTACKED THEY KNOW THAT A MORE SINISTER ENEMY IS AT LARGE. BUT THERE ARE SO MANY SUSPECTS… A HEADLINE BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 335 PAGES. S/H.

104463 KATZENBACH, JOHN JUST CAUSE Ł 3.99

ROBERT EARL FERGUSON, A BLACK PRISON INMATE CONVICTED OF A YOUNG WHITE GIRL'S BRUTAL MURDER, WRITES TO MIAMI JOURNALIST MATTHEW COWART TO TELL HIM HE'S INNOCENT. NO GREAT SURPRISE THERE, THINKS COWART, A VETERAN OF THE SELECTIVE MEMORY PROCESSES OF THOSE ON DEATH ROW. BUT AS HE CUTS THROUGH THE FOG OF RACIAL HATRED, FEAR AND DUBIOUS EVIDENCE SURROUNDING THE CONVICTION, HE BEGINS TO THINK FERGUSON MAY HAVE A POINT. IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOW, COWART'S INVESTIGATIVE ARTICLES NOT ONLY RECTIFY A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, THEY ALSO TURN HIM INTO A CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED CELEBRITY. BUT BEHIND THE PLAUDITS LIES THE SHADOW OF A DISTURBING TRUTH: THE REAL KILLER IS STILL AT LARGE. AND HE'S STILL KILLING. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 601 PAGES. S/H.

104464 KAYE, M M DEATH IN ZANZIBAR Ł 3.00

TO DANY ASHTON IT SEEMS LIKE THE OFFER OF THE HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME WHEN HER STEPFATHER INVITES HER TO STAY ON THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL 'ISLE OF CLOVES'. BUT EVEN BEFORE HER PLANE TAKES OFF, DANY'S DELIGHT HAS FADED AS SHE FINDS HERSELF AT THE CENTRE OF A FRIGHTENING MYSTERY. ON HER ARRIVAL AT KIVULIMI, THE 'HOUSE OF SHADE', HER UNEASE TURNS TO TERROR WHEN SHE REALIZES THAT AMONG THE HOUSE-GUESTS IS A DANGEROUS AND RUTHLESS MURDERER. DANY DOESN'T KNOW WHOM TO TRUST. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 270 PAGES. S/H.

104466 KELLY, JIM THE WATER CLOCK Ł 5.00

IN THE BLEAK SNOWBOUND LANDSCAPE OF THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENS, A CAR IS WINCHED FROM A FROZEN RIVER. INSIDE, LOCKED IN A BLOCK OF ICE, IS A MAN'S MUTILATED BODY. LATER, HIGH ON ELY CATHEDRAL, A SECOND BODY IS FOUND, GROTESQUELY RIDING A STONE GARGOYLE. THE DECAYING CORPSE HAS BEEN THERE MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS. WHEN FORENSIC EVIDENCE LINKS BOTH VICTIMS TO ONE AWFUL EVENT IN 1966, LOCAL REPORTER PHILIP DRYDEN KNOWS HE'S ON TO A GREAT STORY. BUT AS HIS INVESTIGATIONS UNCOVER SOME DISTURBING TRUTHS, THEY ALSO POINT TOWARDS ONE TERRIFYING FOGGY NIGHT IN THE FENS TWO YEARS AGO. A NIGHT THAT CHANGED DRYDEN'S LIFE FOREVER. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 313 PAGES. S/H.

104977 KEMELMAN, HARRY SATURDAY THE RABBI WENT HUNGRY Ł 4.25

THE RABBI IS PREPARING FOR YOM KIPPUR WHEN A MEMBER OF HIS CONGRGATION IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS CAR. THE POLICE THINK THE DEATH AN ACCIDENT, THE INSURANCE COMPANY SUSPECT SUICIDE, BUT THE RABBI'S PREGNANT WIFE THINKS IT'S MURDER, AND IT IS UP TO HIM TO PROVE HER RIGHT. FAWCETT CREST PAPERBACK EDITION. 218 PAGES. 104470 KEVERNE, RICHARD HE LAUGHED AT MURDER Ł 3.00

MICHAEL LORNE LED A STAID, AGREEABLE LIFE AT 13 TIVERTON STREET, BLOOMSBURY. HE WAS A WRITER AND QUITE A SUCCESSFUL ONE; YOUNG AND QUITE ATTRACTIVE WITH A MONGREL CALLED AMY AND AN AGENT CALLED MARIAN TO MANAGE HIS BUSINESS AFFAIRS. BUT EVEN THE STAIDEST LIFE HAS ITS MOMENTS OF EXCITEMENT - AND MICHAEL HAD BEEN, YEARS BACK, IN A DANGEROUS CAFÉ BRAWL IN A LITTLE LATVIAN SEAPORT ON THE BALTIC. AND NOW HIS SOBER LIFE CAME SLAP UP AGAINST THIS OLD, ALMOST FORGOTTEN INCIDENT AND HE WAS SNATCHED BY TELEGRAM FROM THE WARMTH OF TIVERTON STREET TO THE BLEAK SUFFOLK COUNTRYSIDE, TO A HUNT OF MURDEROUS INTENSITY, A LATVIAN FILM STAR AND A GIRL CALLED JANET HOWARD. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 251 PAGES. S/H.

104645 LAKE, DERYN DEATH AT THE BEGGARS OPERA Ł 3.00

A JOHN RAWLINGS MYSTERY. ANOTHER STORY OF THE APOTHOCARY JOHN RAWLINGS AND THE BLIND BEAK, SIR JOHN FIELDING, SET THE THE 1750S IN LONDON. AT A NEW PERFORMANCE OF "THE BEGGAR'S OPERA", THE ACTOR PLAYING MACHEATH IS MURDERED IN THE LAST ACT IN FRONT OF A CROWDED AUDIENCE. NEL HARDBACK EDITION. 295 PAGES. S/H.

104646 LAURENCE, JANET CANALETTO AND THE CASE OF THE PRIVY GARDEN Ł 4.00

THE SEQUEL TO "THE CASE OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE", SET IN LONDON IN 1747. THE PAINTER IS SEEKING COMMISSIONS FOR HIS WORLD FAMOUS VIEWS, BUT IS UNPREPARED FOR THE GRISLY SIGHT OF THE MURDERED GIRL HE AND HIS FRIEND OWEN FIND ONE STORMY NIGHT? EXCELLENT STORY, FULL OF BACKGROUND AND INCIDENT. PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 423 PAGES. S/H.

104647 LAURENCE, JANET RECIPE FOR DEATH Ł 3.00

PARTED FROM WILLIAM PIGRAM, HER DETECTIVE BOYFRIEND, DARINA LISLE DECIDES TO CONCENTRATE ON HER CAREER AND THE COOKERY BOOK SHE IS WRITING. LITTLE DOES SHE REALISE SHE IS ABOUT TO BECOME EMBROILED IN MURDER. HELPING TO JUDGE A COOKERY CONTEST AT A TOP LONDON HOTEL, SHE IS FLATTERED BY THE ATTENTION OF SOMERSET RESTAURATEUR SIMON CHAPMAN AND INTRIGUED TO FIND THAT CONSTANCE FRY, MOTHER OF THE WINNER, RUNS AN ORGANIC FARM IN THE WEST COUNTRY. AN INVITATION TO VISIT IS IRRESISTIBLE. BUT THERE ARE UNEXPLAINED HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE FRY FAMILY MEMBERS: SIMON CHAPMAN IS SOMEHOW INVOLVED AND SO IS ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST COOKERY WRITERS. AND WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, DARINA FINDS SHE MUST DELVE DEEP INTO THE FRYS' PAST IN ORDER TO UNRAVEL A RECIPE FOR DEATH. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 239 PAGES. S/H.

104649 LE BRETON, AUGUSTE RIFIFI IN NEW YORK Ł 3.00

THE THEFT OF OVER 20 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF DIAMONDS IN NEW YORK IS THE FANTASTIC THEME OF RIFIFI IN NEW YORK BY AUGUSTE LE BRETON. AMONG THE THIEVES ARE: A HEROIN ADDICT; AN EX-FRENCH COMMANDO WHO LOVES WOMEN, ACTION AND MONEY EQUALLY; LITTLE SAM WITH TWO PISTOLS WHOSE LOVES ARE KILLING AND WATCHING CIRCUSES ON TV. OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GANG ARE RECRUITED FOR THEIR USEFULNESS. ONCE THE ROBBERY OCCURS - AND IT IS WELL-PLANNED - THE GANG FINDS ITSELF IN THE MIDDLE, BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE MAFIA WHO ARE DISTURBED BY AN "UNAUTHORIZED" HEIST. THE ACTION THROUGHOUT IS INTENSE. THIS IS A REAL THRILLER, FAST PACED ALL THE WAY. A DAY BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104651 LEE, BARBARA DEAD MAN'S FINGERS Ł 3.00

MARYLAND REAL ESTATE AGENT EVE ELLIOTT HAS LEFT MANHATTAN FOR A MORE PEACEFUL LIFE ALONG THE SHORES OF THE CHESAPEAKE, LAND OF BLUE CRABS, STUNNING VISTAS - AND DANGER, EVE DISCOVERS, AS GREED, CORRUPTION AND MURDER ROCK THE CALM WATERS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. BOTH EVE AND HER AUNT/BUSINESS PARTNER, LILLIAN, FIND THEMSELVES SCAPEGOATS IN A HEATED CONTROVERSY OVER ZONING. DEVELOPMENT SCAMS, CROOKED POLITICIANS AND UNHAPPY WIVES WITH DANGEROUS SECRETS ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE. SOON, SINISTER THREATS AND THE MURDER OF AN ATTRACTIVE, AMBITIOUS ENVIRONMENTALIST WARN EVE SHE'S DIGGING TOO CLOSE TO SOMETHING SOMEBODY WANTS TO KEEP BURIED. NOW THE MURKY ISSUES ARE BECOMING FRIGHTFULLY CLEAR: HER LIFE… VERSUS A KILLER'S DEADLY INTENT. A WORLD WIDE LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDITION. 251 PAGES. S/H.

104653 LEMARCHAND, ELIZABETH THE AFFACOMBE AFFAIR Ł 3.00

AN INSPECTOR POLLARD MYSTERY. "LITTLE ESCAPE THE NOTICE OF MRS OLIVIA STRODE, THE WELL-KNOWN LOCAL HISTORIAN," TEASED HER SON. BUT THE JOKE CAME ONLY TOO TRUE. EVEN BEFORE THE BODY WAS DISCOVERED BELOW MONK'S LEAP, OLIVIA FOUND HERSELF CAUGHT UP IN THE FRINGES OF BLACKMAIL. CHIEF DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR TOM POLLARD WAS TO DISCOVER THAT THE BLACKMAILER HAD GOT THE WRONG END OF THE STICK, BUT THE BLACKMAILER HAD TO DIE - FOR A START. A TANDEM PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104654 LEMARCHAND, ELIZABETH THE AFFACOMBE AFFAIR Ł 4.00

104655 LIPPMAN, LAURA EVERY SECRET THING Ł 4.00

TWO LITTLE GIRLS BANISHED FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD BIRTHDAY PARTY TAKE A WRONG TURN DOWN AN UNFAMILIAR BALTIMORE STREET - AND ENCOUNTER AN ABANDONED STROLLER WITH AN INFANT INSIDE. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS SHOCKING AND TERRIBLE AND THREE FAMILIES ARE IRREPARABLY DESTROYED. SEVEN YEARS LATER, ALICE MANNING AND RONNIE FULLER, NOW EIGHTEEN, ARE RELEASED FROM "KID PRISON" TO BEGIN THEIR LIVES OVER AGAIN. BUT THE SECRETS SWIRLING AROUND THE ORIGINAL CRIME CONTINUE TO HAUNT THE PARENTS, THE LAWYERS, THE POLICE - ALL THE ADULTS IN ALICE AND RONNIE'S LIVES. AND NOW ANOTHER CHILD HAS DISAPPEARED, UNDER FREAKISHLY SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. AN AVON PAPERBACK EDITION. 410 PAGES. S/H.

104659 LOWNDES, MARIE BELLOC THE LODGER Ł 2.00

THE LODGER IS AN ACKNOWLEDGED CLASSIC OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE. THIS SPINE-CHILLER IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF A MASS MURDERER WHICH CONCERNS ITSELF WITH THE BURNING QUESTION 'WHY?'. FROM THE FIRST MOMENT THAT MR. SLEUTH RENTS ROOMS IN MR. AND MRS. BUNTING'S LODGING HOUSE WE KNOW THAT HE IS JACK THE RIPPER. YET THE STORY IS SO SKILFULLY TOLD THAT THE READER IS HELD BREATHLESS THROUGHOUT. WHY DOES MR. SLEUTH, OBVIOUSLY A GENTLEMAN, RENT LODGINGS SUITABLE ONLY FOR THE POOR? WHY DOES HE TURN ALL THE PICTURES TO THE WALL? WHY DOES A MAN SO GENTLE STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEART OF MRS. BUNTING? AS MURDER AFTER MURDER IS COMMITTED IN A PANIC-STRICKEN LONDON, THESE AND MANY MORE QUESTIONS WILL HOLD THE READER SPELL-BOUND UNTIL THE LAST PAGE. A FOUR SQUARE PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104661 LYNDS, GAYLE MESMERIZED Ł 3.00

AFTER A HEART TRANSPLANT SAVES BRILLIANT WASHINGTON ATTORNEY BETH CONVEY, SHE INEXPLICABLY ACQUIRES NEW TASTES AND ABILITIES, AND FINDS HERSELF HAUNTED BY STRANGE DREAMS - OR ARE THEY MEMORIES? HER SEARCH FOR ANSWERS LEADS BETH TO FORMER FBI AGENT TURNED REPORTER JEFF HAMMOND. TOGETHER THEY HUNT DOWN THE TRUTH AND DISCOVER TOP-SECRET INFORMATION THAT COULD REIGNITE THE COLD WAR. A POCKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 557 PAGES. S/H.

104663 LYONS, ARTHUR OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY Ł 3.00

PRIVATE EYE JACOB ASCH HAD NEVER ACCEPTED A CASE FROM A TURK BEFORE - PROBABLY BECAUSE NO TURK HAD EVER TRIED TO HIRE HIM. BUT NOW, A MR. SAFFARIAN OFFERS A SUBSTANTIAL CASH RETAINER FOR ASCH TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. WHAT THE DETECTIVE DOESN'T KNOW IS THAT THE GIRL IS PART OF A WORLD-CLASS SMUGGLING OPERATION PLOTTING TO BRING AN ANCIENT TREASURE INTO THE UNITED STATES. ASCH IS QUICKLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY BOUNCED FROM THE CASE, AFTER AN EARLY AND UTTERLY ROUTINE REPORT TO SAFFARIAN. BUT ONE OF HIS ASSOCIATES REFUSES TO LET THINGS DROP - AND SHORTLY DROPS OUT OF SIGHT HIMSELF. ASCH'S SEARCH FOR HIS CO-DETECTIVE TURNS UP A COMPLEX NETWORK OF UNDERGROUND SMUGGLING CONNECTIONS, LEADING FROM A SMALL-TIME FRAUD ARTIST TO THE AUSTERE GATES OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM TO THE BEL AIR DOORSTEP OF AN ART-COLLECTING BILLIONAIRE. AT STAKE IS AN ASSORTMENT OF GOLDEN ARTIFACTS OF A PRE-HITTITE CULTURE AND THE GLEAM LEADS ASCH TO AN OIL-DRILLING PLATFORM BEYOND THE 12 MILE LIMIT, A TERRIFYING MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS AND THE LAST-MINUTE REVELATIONS OF GREED AND MENDACITY. A MYSTERIOUS PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION. 213 PAGES. S/H.

104665 MCBAIN, ED LADY KILLER Ł 3.00

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY WAS A HOT DAY. THE CITY SWELTERED IN THE STEAM-HEAT OF MIDSUMMER AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE LURKED A KILLER AND HIS VICTIM, IDENTITIES UNKNOWN. THE BOYS AT THE 87TH PRECINCT KNEW HE WAS THERE, HE TOLD THEM: 'I WILL KILL THE LADY TONIGHT AT 8. WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?'. WEDNESDAY 24 JULY WAS A VERY HOT DAY. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 172 PAGES. S/H.

104673 MACDONALD, JOHN D. THE GIRL IN THE PLAIN BROWN WRAPPER Ł 4.00

TRAVIS MCGEE IS A SALVAGE EXPERT AND BOAT BUM, NOT A SOCIAL WORKER. BUT, DEEP IN THE PUTTY HE CALLS A HEART, THERE LURK SOME VERY FOND MEMORIES OF HELENA PEARSON. BESIDES, HE CAN'T RETURN HER CHEQUE AND TURN DOWN THE REQUEST THAT CAME WITH IT BECAUSE, BY THE TIME HE GOT THEM, HELENA WAS ALREADY DEAD. NOTHING FOR IT BUT TO TAKE A TRIP TO THE KEYS, SEE WHY HER DAUGHTER SEEMS TO WANT TO GET THE SAME WAY. BUT WHEN MCGEE REACHES FORT COURTNEY, HE'S GREETED BY A BUMPER CROP OF DEAD BODIES. AND HE'D BETTER FIND OUT WHY - BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE COULD BE HIS OWN. A SPHERE PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104675 MACDONALD, PHILIP THE RASP Ł 4.00

THE DECEASED WAS NO ORDINARY PERSON BUT A CABINET MINISTER AND THE MAN WHO FINDS HIS INGENIOUS MURDERER IS PHILIP MACDONALD'S INDOMITABLE SLEUTH, ANTHONY GETHRYN. GETHRYN FIRST LEARNT THAT TROUBLE WAS IN THE AIR WHEN HE WAS RUNG UP AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND HE WAS IN NO GOOD TEMPER WHEN HE WAS TOLD WHAT HAD HAPPENED. ONCE AT MARLING, WHERE JOHN HOODE, THE CABINET MINISTER IN QUESTION, HAD BEEN MURDERED, HE MOVED FAST. SO FAST, INDEED, THAT HE WAS ABLE, BEFORE MANY DAYS HAD ELAPSED, TO PUT HIS FINGER ON ONE OF THE MOST DIABOLICAL MURDERERS OF ALL TIME. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104671 MCGOWN, JILL AAG. SHRED OF EVIDENCE Ł 4.00

LYING IN THE GLARE OF THE POLICE ARC-LIGHT WAS THE BODY OF NATALIA OUSPENSKY, A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLGIRL. SHE HAD BEEN BEATEN, STRANGLED AND POSSIBLY RAPED. FOR DETECTIVE INSPECTOR JUDY HILL AND DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTOR LLOYD THIS IS THE START OF A HARROWING POLICE ENQUIRY - ONE THAT WILL DEEPLY AFFECT THE LIVES OF THE INNOCENT BUT MIGHT WELL FAIL TO CONVICT THE GUILTY. AN ENQUIRY, IT SEEMS, THAT IS NOT GOING TO YIELD A SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE. A PAN BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 378 PAGES. S/H.

104667 MACINNES, HELEN AGENT IN PLACE Ł 2.00

CHUCK KELSO IS AN IDEALIST, NOT A TRAITOR. WHEN HE STEALS A TOP SECRET NATO DOCUMENT, IT IS TO LEAK IT TO THE PRESS. BUT THEN IT FALLS INTO THE HANDS OF A HIGHLY-PLACED TRAITOR. WITHIN HOURS THE REPORT HAS REACHED MOSCOW AND BLOWN THE COVER OF THE CIA'S BEST AGENT THERE. WITH NO TIME TO SPARE BEFORE A TOP-LEVEL NATO CONFERENCE, THE CIA MUST UNCOVER THE RUSSIAN SPY. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 320 PAGES. S/H.

104668 MACINNES, HELEN THE UNCONQUERABLE Ł 3.00

SEPTEMBER 1939 - THE LAST DAYS OF WARSHAW. THE INEVITABLE TELEPHONE GAVE ITS HARSH RING IN THE HALL. "FOR ME, I EXPECT," STEVENS SAID QUIETLY. THERE WAS A NEW TENSION IN THE ROOM AS HE LEFT. THE FACES WERE OPENLY ANXIOUS NOW. THE SMILES AND FRIENDLY TALK OF THE LAST HOURS SEEMED VERY FAR AWAY. WHEN THE AMERICAN CAME BACK HE WAS GRIM. "GOT TO LEAVE NOW. EMERGENCY." THE MAN WHOSE SHOULDERS WERE BENT OVER THE RADIO SUDDENLY STIFFENED. HE HELD UP ONE HAND. HIS HEAD WAS THROWN BACK, HIS EYES WERE WHITE CIRCLES. THE ANNOUNCER'S VOICE CUT THROUGH THE SUDDEN SILENCE OF THE ROOM. "LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO GERMAN PLANES BOMBED POLISH TERRITORY. WITHOUT ANY DECLARATION OF WAR…" IT HAD COME. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 511 PAGES. S/H.

104677 MCMULLEN, MARY THE OTHER SHOE Ł 2.00

SOMEONE'S MURDERED DEAR OLD ILL-TEMPERED AUNT LELIA. BUT THAT WAS FOUR LONG YEARS AGO. THE VICTIM'S YOUNG NIECE CLARE WAS THE BEST SUSPECT AT THE TIME OF THE DOWAGER'S DEMISE - AND FOUR YEARS LATER, SHE'S STILL THE BEST SUSPECT. AND, WHAT'S WORSE, SOMEONE'S BEEN SENDING CLARE THE MOST ACCUSING POISON PEN LETTERS. NOW, ON THE URGING OF JUSTIN, A DISTANT COUSIN, CLARE RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, BECAUSE IF JUSTIN'S HUNCH IS CORRECT, THE MURDERER HASN'T MOVED SINCE THE FATAL FELONY BEFELL AUNT LELIA. IT'S A TRIP THAT TAKES THEM BACK INTO THE PAST AS THEY WAIT FOR THE MURDERER TO STRIKE AGAIN. A BERKLEY PAPERBACK EDITION. 171 PAGES. S/H.

104679 MARSH, NGAIO DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN Ł 3.00

"NOW LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT," SAID MANDRAKE, IN SLOW WONDER, "IN ONE WEEKEND YOU HOPE TO RECONCILE A REJECTED LOVER, NOT ONLY TO HIS LATE LOVE BUT ALSO TO HIS SUCCESSOR, A BUSINESS WOMAN TO HER DETESTED RIVAL, A RUINED BEAUTY TO A MEMBER OF THE PROFESSION THAT MADE A GRUESOME EFFIGY OF HER FACE - AND A MOTHER TO A GIRL WHO HAS REJECTED HER FAVOURITE SON FOR HIS BROTHER!" "WELL YES," ANSWERED JONATHAN ROYAL, "I MEAN, THE WEEKEND WILL BE FAR MORE FUN IF THEY ALL LOATHE EACH OTHER…" A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 285 PAGES. S/H.

104680 MARSH, NGAIO DEATH AT THE BAR Ł 3.00

P.C. OATES LOOKED DOWN AT THE FIGURE ON THE SETTEE. HE HAD REMEMBERED TO REMOVE HIS HELMET - BUT THE WATER DRIPPED OFF HIS CAPE IN LITTLE STREAMS. WHEN HE BENT FORWARD A DROP FELL ON ONE OF THE STARING EYES. HE SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED?" WATCHMAN'S EYES WERE WIDE OPEN. THEY SEEMED TO STARE WITH GLISTENING ASTONISHMENT AT THE CEILING. "WELL," REPEATED P.C. OATES VIOLENTLY, "CAN'T ANY OF YOU SPEAK? WHAT HAPPENED?" HE COULDN'T STAND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD - HIS OWN BLOOD. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104681 MARSH, NGAIO DEATH IN A WHITE TIE Ł 3.00

THE SEASON HAD BEGUN. DEBUTANTES AND CHAPERONS WERE PLANNING THEIR LUNCHEONS, TEAS, DINNERS AND BALLS. AND THE BLACKMAILER WAS PLANNING HIS STRATEGIES, STALKING HIS NEXT VICTIM. BUT CHIEF DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR RODERICK ALLEYN KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS UP. HE HAD ALREADY PLANTED HIS FRIEND LORD ROBERT GOSPELL AT THE SCENE. BUT SOMEONE ELSE GOT THERE FIRST. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 348 PAGES. S/H.

104683 MARSH, NGAIO FINAL CURTAIN Ł 4.00

"ONE MOMENT SIR CEDRIC," ALLEYN BEGAN, "WHY DID YOU AND MISS SONIA ORRINCOURT PLAN A SERIES OF PRACTICAL JOKES ON YOUR GRANDFATHER?" IT WAS NOT PLEASANT TO WATCH THE BLOOD SINK FROM CEDRIC'S FACE. THE PROCESS LEFT HIS EYELIDS AND THE POUCHES UNDER HIS EYES MAUVISH. HIS COLOURLESS LIPS POUTED AND THEN WIDENED INTO AN UNLOVELY SMILE. "WELL REALLY!" HE TITTERED, "THAT JUST SHOWS YOU, DOESN'T IT? SO DARLING SONIA HAS CONFIDED IN YOU." AFTER A MOMENT'S HESITATION, HE ADDED, "AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, DEAR MR ALLEYN, THAT'S THE END OF DARLING SONIA." A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 251 PAGES. S/H.

104682 MARSH, NGAIO FINAL CURTAIN Ł 3.00

A SERIES OF MALEVOLENT PRACTICAL JOKES. A WHOOPEE CUSHION, PAINT ON THE BANNISTERS, MORE ON THE CAT AND A FLYING COW ON SIR HENRY ANCRED'S PORTRAIT. DID WHOEVER WROTE 'GRANDFATHER IS A BLOODY OLD FOOL' ALSO POISON IN JEST? A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 282 PAGES. S/H.

104684 MARSH, NGAIO HAND IN GLOVE Ł 3.00

THE BODY IN A DRAINAGE DITCH AFTER AN APRIL FOOL'S PARTY THAT HAD FEATURED A CROSS-COUNTRY TREASURE HUNT AND A VERY NOISY DOG FIGHT. THE VICTIM WAS HAROLD CARTELL, A RETIRED SOLICITOR WHO WAS NOTED FOR HIS UNBENDING PRINCIPLES AND NOT NOTED FOR HIS GENEROSITY. THE SUSPECTS INCLUDED CARTELL'S PENNILESS NEICE AND NEPHEW, SEVERAL COUNTY NEIGHBOURS AND MR PYKE PERIOD, AN AUTHORITY ON ETIQUETTE. SUPERINTENDENT ALLEYN WAS FACED WITH TOO MANY CLUES - AND TOO MANY POTENTIAL MURDERERS. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104685 MARSH, NGAIO LIGHT THICKENS Ł 4.00

PEREGRINE JAY, OWNER OF THE DOLPHIN THEATRE, IS PUTTING ON A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION OF MACBETH, THE PLAY THAT, SUPERSTITION SAYS, ALWAYS BRINGS BAD LUCK. THE ACTORS LEARN TO USE REAL SWORDS, TENSION MOUNTS. SOME BELIEVE THE CURSES WHILST OTHERS PLAY GRISLY PRACTICAL JOKES. BUT ONE NIGHT THE CLAYMORE SWINGS AND THE DUMMY'S HEAD IS MORE THAN REAL: IT'S MURDER BEHIND THE SCENES. LUCKILY, SUPERINTENDENT RODERICK ALLEYN IS IN THE AUDIENCE. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 251 PAGES. S/H.

104686 MARSH, NGAIO THE NURSING HOME MURDER Ł 4.00

THE SURGEON'S LIPS MOVED TREMBLINGLY. "YOU'D DO WELL TO KEEP CLEAR OF ME O'CALLAGHAN," HE SAID, "I ASSURE YOU IF THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED ITSELF I SHOULD HAVE NO HESITATION IN PUTTING YOU OUT OF THE WAY." LESS THAN A WEEK LATER, SIR DEREK O'CALLAGHAN, THE HOME SECRETARY, COLLAPSED WITH PERITONITIS. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104688 MARSH, NGAIO PHOTO FINISH Ł 3.00

AN IDYLLIC ISLAND RETREAT - THE MILLIONAIRE'S LUXURY MANSION WAS ON A BEAUTIFUL LAKE IN A REMOTE PART OF NEW ZEALAND. SURELY THE IDEAL PLACE FOR THE WORLD FAMOUS OPERA SINGER, TO REST AFTER HER TRIUMPHANT AUSTRAILIAN TOUR AND TO ESCAPE FROM THE HORRIBLE, SINISTER INCIDENTS WHICH WERE MAKING HER LIFE A MISERY. AN UNEXPECTED INVITATION - THE ARTIST, TROY ALLEYN AND HER HUSBAND WERE AMONG HER HOUSE GUESTS - BUT THEIRS WAS NOT A SOCIAL VISIT. SHE WAS TO PAINT THE MAGNIFICENT DIVA'S PORTRAIT AND ALLEYN OF SCOTLAND YARD HAD COME TO INVESTIGATE SOME ALARMING RUMOURS. A BRUTAL MURDER, TRAGEDY STRIKES AS THE ISLAND'S PEACE IS SHATTERED. A RUTHLESS KILLER IS IN THEIR MIDST. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

104687 MARSH, NGAIO PHOTO FINISH Ł 5.00

THE SETTING IS IDYLLIC - A LUXURY ISLAND MANSION IN AN UNSPOILT NEW ZEALAND WILDERNESS. THE PARTY-GOERS ARE GLAMOROUS. THEY INCLUDE A WORLD-FAMOUS OPERA SOPRANO, HER MILLIONAIRE 'COMPANION', THE ARTISTIC ELITE OF THREE CONTINENTS - AND THE DISTINGUISHED DETECTIVE, ALLEYN OF THE YARD. BUT THE CRIME IS MURDER. A FIRST EDITION FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

VERY GOOD CONDITION - SOME SMALL CREASES. 104689 MARSH, NGAIO WHEN IN ROME Ł 4.00

WHEN THEIR GUIDE DISAPPEARS MYSTERIOUSLY IN THE DEPTHS OF A ROMAN BASILICA, THE MEMBERS OF MR SEBASTIAN MAILER'S TOUR GROUP SEEM STRANGELY UNPERTURBED. BUT WHEN A BODY IS DISCOVERED IN AN ETRUSCAN SARCOPHAGUS, SUPERINTENDENT ALLEYN, IN ROME ON THE TRAIL OF AN INTERNATIONAL DRUG RACKET, IS VERY MUCH CONCERNED. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 250 PAGES. S/H.

104690 MARSH, NGAIO WHEN IN ROME Ł 4.00

104691 MARSTON, EDWARD CAA. THE QUEEN'S HEAD Ł 3.00

A NICHOLAS BRACEWELL EDWARDIAN MYSTERY. WHEN A HOT-HEADED ACTOR IS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN A TAVERN BRAWL, NICHOLAS BRACEWELL, THE RESOURCEFUL BOOK HOLDER OF LORD WESTFIELD'S MEN, HAS TWO MAJOR PROBLEMS. FIRST, HE HAS TO FIND AN IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT ACCEPTABLE TO THE IRASCIBLE LAWRENCE FIRETHORN, THE COMPANY'S GREAT LEADING ACTOR. SECOND, HE HAS TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO THE DYING MAN AND BRING HIS MURDERER TO JUSTICE. THE REPLACEMENT IS ALREADY AT HAND, IN THE RESPONSIBLE SHAPE OF SAMUEL RUFF, WHO QUICKLY MAKES HIMSELF INDISPENSABLE. THE MURDERER PROVES MORE ELUSIVE. AS ACCIDENTS, ROBBERIES AND OTHER MISFORTUNES DOG LORD WESTFIELD'S MEN, NICK BRACEWELL STARTS TO SUSPECT A WIDER CONSPIRACY. WHEN THE COMPANY'S SUCCESSES ON STAGE ARE REWARDED WITH THE ULTIMATE ACCOLADE - AN APPEARANCE AT THE COURT OF ELIZABETH - HIS FOREBODINGS GROW. IS SOMEONE OUT TO RUIN THE COMPANY OR IS SOMETHING EVEN GREATER AT STAKE? A CORGI PAPERBACK EDITION. 237PAGES. S/H.

104692 MARTIN, LEE THE MENSA MURDERS Ł 3.00

A DEB RALSTON MYSTERY. THREE WOMEN ARE MURDERED - IN IDENTICAL AND VERY UNUSUAL WAYS. THE KILLER IS SOLICITOUS - FIRST BREAKING THEIR NECKS, THEN TUCKING THEM NEATLY INTO BED BEFORE CLEANING THE HOUSE AND TENDING TO THE PETS. WITH NO TRAIL TO FOLLOW - SINCE THE KILLER INSISTS ON STRAIGHTENING UP THE MESS - FORT WORTH DETECTIVE DEB RALSTON LOOKS BEYOND THE SCRUBBED FLOORS TO DISCOVER THE VICTIMS WERE ALL MEMBERS OF MENSA, AN ORGANIZATION FOR THE SUPERINTELLIGENT. DEB QUICKLY DISCOVERS THAT THE GROUP'S MEMBERS ARE NOT ALL AS SANE AS THEY ARE SMART. IT'S CERTAINLY UNSETTLING - BECAUSE IT LOOKS AS THROUGH A KILLER WITH A DIRT FETISH MAY JUST DECIDE TO CLEAN DEB RALSTON'S HOUSE NEXT! A WORLD WIDE PAPERBACK EDITION. 250 PAGES. S/H.

104670 MCCAFFERTY, JEANNE STAR GAZER Ł 3.00

A MACKENZIE GRIFFIN MYSTERY. MURDER SCENES AREN'T SUPPOSED TO LOOK THIS GOOD. THE LIGHTING, THE STAGING, THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE BODY, EVEN THE CLOTHES ARE EERIE RECREATIONS OF POP SUPERSTAR PETER ROSSELLINI'S HOT MUSIC VIDEOS. IN FACT, EACH VICTIM RESEMBLES THE SEXY SINGER. CLEARLY THE KILLER IS OBSESSED. BUT IS PETER THE NEXT INTENDED VICTIM? CRIMINOLOGIST MACKENZIE GRIFFIN FEARS JUST THAT. BUT IN PROBING THE RECORDING INDUSTRY WITH ITS MOGULS, SUPERAGENTS, PROMOTERS, GROUPIES AND FAN CLUBS, MAC HAS NO SHORTAGE OF SUSPECTS. AND ONE IS SETTING THE STAGE FOR A HIT THAT'S TO DIE FOR. A WORLD WIDE PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104694 MELVILLE, JAMES THE BODY WORE BROCADE Ł 2.00

A SUPERINTENDENT OTANI MYSTERY. IT JUST WASN'T SUPERINTENDENT TESUO OTANI'S DAY. PAYING HIS CUSTOMARY VISIT TO THE IKUTA SHRINE IN KOBE WITH HIS WIFE HANAE, HE PROVOKED AN UNPRECEDENTED OUTBURST FROM HER BY A SEEMINGLY CASUAL REMARK. PAINFUL INJURY SUCCEEDED INSULT WITHIN A MATTER OF HOURS, WHEN OTANI, MOROSELY CONTEMPLATING A SCULPTURE OF A NUDE IN A PUBLIC PARK, WAS HIT IN THE BACK BY A RIFLE BULLET. LUCKY NOT TO HAVE BEEN KILLED, THE INCIDENT AT LEAST LEAD TO A TEMPORARY TRUCE WITH HANAE. BUT WHO HAD SHOT HIM AND WHY? BROODING SUCH QUESTIONS WHILE HE CONVALESCES, OTANI FINDS THAT THE MURDER OF A WEALTHY NOH ACTOR PROVIDES A DISTRACTION - WHICH INCIDENTALLY PUTS HIM ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH HIS CHIEF OF INVESTIGATIONS, HARA. BEFORE LONG MANY MORE SURPRISES ARE IN STORE FOR THE ENDURING OTANI AS HE AND HIS TEAM UNRAVEL A BAFFLING MYSTERY INVOLVING A SECRET WILL, POLITICAL MANOEUVRINGS AND A SECOND, TRAGIC DEATH. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 174 PAGES. S/H.

104695 MEREDITH, D R MURDER BY SACRILEGE Ł 3.00

THE PREACHER'S BRIDE WAS A TRUCK-STOP WAITRESS - AND NO ONE APPROVED OF HER OR HER COZY WAYS WITH MALE PARISHIONERS. BUT FOR THE MINISTER TO MURDER HIS TEENAGE BRIDE AFTER A MONTH OF MARRIAGE AND PLUNK HER INTO THE CHRISTMAS NATIVITY SCENE DRESSED AS THE VIRGIN MARY… WELL, WHO CAN SWALLOW THAT? THE OUTRAGEOUS SACRILEGE SO INFLAMES CHURCH MEMBERS THAT TO FORESTALL MORE MAYHEM, THE BEST DAMN LAWYER IN WEST TEXAS - JOHN LLOYD BRANSON, ESQ. - AGREES TO DEFEND THE GUILTY MAN. BUT JOHN LLOYD IS STUCK WITH A CLIENT WHO REFUSES EVEN TO DISCUSSS HIS ACTIONS - AND WITH A BEAUTIFUL LAW CLERK WHO FIGHTS EVERY MOVE HE MAKES. IT WILL ALL LEAD TO A SPECTACULAR COURTROOM BATTLE THAT PITS THE UNFLAPPABLE BRANSON AGAINST AMARILLO'S MOST FORMIDABLE ASSISTANT D.A. AND AS THE MINISTER AWAITS HIS DESTINY, THE MURKY SECRETS OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT ARE EXPOSED TO THE BRIGHT LIGHT OF DAY. A BALLANTINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 275 PAGES. S/H.

104696 MEYER, NICHOLAS THE WEST END HORROR Ł 3.00

A REPRINT OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN H. WATSON AS EDITED BY NICHOLAS MEYER. A MONTH OF SINGULAR OCCURRENCES IN THE WEST END. FIRST THERE WAS THE BIZARRE MURDER OF THEATRE CRITIC JONATHAN MCCARTHY. THEN CAME THE LAW-SUIT AGAINST THE MARQUESS OF QUEENSBERRY FOR LIBEL. AND WHAT OF THE INGENUE AT THE SAVOY, DISCOVERED WITH HER THROAT SLASHED? OR THE POLICE SURGEON WHO DISAPPEARED TAKING WITH HIM TWO CORPSES FROM THE MORTUARY? SOME OF THE THEATRE DISTRICT'S MOST FASHIONABLE AND CREATIVE LUMINARIES WERE INVOLVED OR AFFECTED BY THESE EVENTS: BERNARD SHAW, ELLEN TERRY, GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, BRAM STOKER, HENRY IRVING, FRANK HARRIS AND OSCAR WILDE. SCOTLAND YARD WAS MYSTIFIED BY WHAT APPEARED TO BE UNRELATED CASES - BUT TO HOLMES THE MATTER WAS ELEMENTARY. A MANIAC WAS ON THE LOOSE. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 160 PAGES. S/H.

104698 MOODY, SUSAN KING OF HEARTS Ł 3.00

A CASSANDRA SWANN BRIDGE MYSTERY. EX-BIOLOGY TEACHER CASSANDRA SWANN TURNED IN HER LAB COAT TO PURSUE HER TRUE PASSION: PLAYING BRIDGE PROFESSIONALLY. BUT SHE SOON FOUND THAT HER CARD SENSE TRANSLATED INTO A SURPRISING SKILL FOR DETECTION - AND NOW SHE'S MAKING HER BID TO BECOME THE BRIDGE WORLD'S FIRST AMATEUR SLEUTH. THE RACEHORSE ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN WAS NAMED HANDSOME HARRY - STARTLING CASSIE INTO A SUDDEN MEMORY OF HER FATHER, WHO'D GONE BY THE SAME NICKNAME AND HAD DIED DURING A BAR BRAWL MANY YEARS AGO. BUT WHEN CASSIE SAW THE HORSE'S OWNER, SHE KNEW IT WAS MORE THAN COINCIDENCE: THE WOMAN LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE SOMEONE WHO'D BEEN AT THE SCENE ON THAT FATEFUL NIGHT. BUT WHILE CASSIE'S TRYING TO SOLVE THE RIDDLE OF HER FATHER'S DEATH, ANOTHER CASE DEMANDS HER ATTENTION: THE MURDER OF AN INDIAN DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN ONE OF HER BRIDGE PUPILS. AND THE MORE SHE INVESTIGATES, THE MORE SHE FEARS THAT THE STAKES ARE GETTING DANGEROUSLY HIGH. A BERKLEY PAPERBACK EDITION. 298 PAGES. S/H.

104699 NEEL, JANET DEATH AMONG THE DONS Ł 5.00

A FRANCESCA WILSON MYSTERY. WHEN THE WARDEN OF GLADSTONE COLLEGE DIES OF A LETHAL COMBINATION OF PILLS AND BOOZE, A MYSTERY REMAINS - WAS IT ACCIDENTAL DEATH OR SUICIDE? AS NEW WARDEN, CIVIL SERVICE GRANDEE DAME SARAH MURCHIESON SOON UNDERSTANDS THE PRESSURES THAT DRIVE HER PREDECESSOR OVER THE BRINK; THE COLLEGE FINANCES ARE IN CHAOS, A LONG-RUNNING INTERNAL BATTLE OVER GLADSTONE'S FUTURE STILL RAGES AND THE SEXUAL MEANDERINGS OF A CHARISMATIC FELLOW ARE CAUSING A STIR. EVEN WITH ALLIES LIKE THE REDOUBTABLE FRANCESCA WILSON, SECONDED FROM THE DTI, AND HER HUSBAND SUPERINTENDENT JOHN MCLEISH, SETTING THE COLLEGE BACK ON ITS FEET IS A FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE. THEN A FRIGHTENING SERIES OF ATTACKS FORCES GLADSTONE TO UNITE IN THE FACE OF A POTENTIAL KILLER. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 235 PAGES. S/H.

104701 NEEL, JANET DEATH ON SITE Ł 4.00

A FRANCESCA WILSON MYSTERY. WHY DOES EXPERIENCED CLIMBER ALAN FRASER - MOUNTAINEER AND SCAFFOLDER - FALL FROM THE HIGHLAND ROCK FACE? CHIEF INSPECTOR JOHN MCLEISH, ON HOLIDAY WITH HIGHFLYING FRANCESCA WILSON, SEES THE NEAR-FATAL ACCIDENT. GATHERED IN THE SAME VILLAGE ARE MANY OF THE POWERFUL VERNON FAMILY WHO EMPLOY FRASER AND HIS PARTNER ON THEIR VAST BUILDING SITES. WHEN THE GROUP RETURN TO WORK IN LONDON, SUPPRESSED EMOTIONS EXPLODE AND THERE IS ANOTHER FALL. BUT THIS TIME IT IS DEFINITELY MURDER. MCLEISH, EVEN WITH THE HELP OF FRANCESCA, IS HARD PUT TO IT TO SEARCH THROUGH THE TANGLED MOTIVES OF PASSION AND GREED BEFORE THERE IS ANOTHER VIOLENT DEATH. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 239 PAGES. S/H.

104702 NEEL, JANET A TIMELY DEATH Ł 6.00

A FRANCESCA WILSON MYSTERY. WILLIAM PRINCE HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN UP TO NO GOOD AND HIS DOUBLE-DEALINGS ARE ABOUT TO CATCH UP WITH HIM. DEFRAUDING MONEY FROM PEOPLE BUYING HIS UNFINISHED TIME-SHARES, DIPPING HIS FINGERS INTO THE INHERITANCE OF HIS TWO SONS, PRICE IS ALREADY KNOWN TO CATHERINE CRANE OF THE FRAUD SQUAD. WHEN HIS DEAD BODY IS DISCOVERED HANGING IN THE BASEMENT OF HIS OFFICE WEARING WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR, IT IS DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT JOHN MCLEISH WHO IS CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE. HE AND HIS WIFE FRANCESCA, WHOSE FINELY-HONED DETECTION SKILLS AND INSIDE KNOWLEDGE PROVE INVALUABLE, PROBE INTO THE HEART OF THE MYSTERY AND DISCOVER A NEST OF VIPERS WAITING TO BITE. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 219 PAGES. S/H.

104704 NEWMAN, CHRISTOPHER THE DEVIL'S OWN Ł 3.50

A NOVEL BY CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN BASED ON A STORY BY KEVIN JARRE. THE PLACE IS NORTHERN IRELAND. THE YEAR IS 1973. AND FRANKIE MCGUIRE IS ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE SEES PROTESTANT GUNMEN KILL HIS DAD. HE GROWS UP WITH ONE BURNING DESIRE - TO KILL BACK. NOW FRANKIE, AKA FRANKIE THE ANGEL, IS COMING TO AMERICA FOR A TOP SECRET ARMS DEAL THAT CAN BLOW ENGLAND OFF THE MAP. IT'S GOING TO TAKE MILLIONS TO FINANCE; IT'S GOING TO TAKE A HARD-ASS IRISHMAN TO PULL IT OFF. VETERAN NEW YORK COP TOM O'MEARA HAS A GUT FEELING ABOUT "RORY", THE BELFAST IMMIGRANT STAYING IN HIS BASEMENT APARTMENT. HE THINKS RORY IS A GREAT GUY, EVEN A SURROGATE SON. THE ONLY CATCH IS THAT RORY PLANS TO COMMIT MASS MURDER AND THE CONSPIRACY IS GOING TO CATCH O'MEARA'S FAMILY IN A CROSS FIRE OF BULLETS, MONEY AND BETRAYAL - UNLESS A TOUGH COP GIVES AS GOOD AS HE GETS. OR BETTER. BECAUSE O'MEARA INTENDS TO DO WHAT THE ENGLISH ARMY COULDN'T - HUNT FRANKIE THE ANGEL DOWN. A DELL PAPERBACK EDITION. 277 PAGES. S/H.

104708 NORTH, GIL THE CONFOUNDING OF SERGEANT CLUFF Ł 2.00

A SHOE, BELONGING TO AN ELDERLY SPINSTER, FOUND BESIDE THE RAILWAY LINE AND THE EXISTENCE OF A MAN WHO SEEMS TO SPECIALISE IN TERRORISING WOMEN. SO THERE COMES INTO THE FOREGROUND A TRIO OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVE TO BE ANSWERED. QUESTION ONE: WHY DOES THE IDIOT BOY, JONTY JARVIS, TRAIL AROUND AFTER KAREN CUPAR AND HER BOY-FRIEND? QUESTION TWO: WHY DOES THE MIDNIGHT OIL BURN SO FREQUENTLY IN THE OFFICE OF DERRYCRAFT, THE INSURANCE MANAGER? QUESTION THREE: WHY, ON THE NIGHT THE SNOW BEGINS, IS LILY TROTTER ATTACKED? EVEN WHEN CLUFF GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WHOLE PROBLEM, HE SEEMS UNABLE TO ACCEPT THE CRUEL CONCLUSION THAT STARES HIM STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. A HODDER PAPERBACK EDITION. 190 PAGES. S/H.

104709 NORTH, GIL MORE DEATHS FOR SERGEANT CLUFF Ł 3.00

TO ANYONE BUT SERGEANT CLUFF THE BURGLARY OF A GROCER'S SHOP IN GUNNARSHAW WOULD HAVE SEEMED STRAIGHTFORWARD ENOUGH; BUT CLUFF UNCOVERS BEHIND IT ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL CRIMES HE HAS FACED, WHEN A BOY, LOOKING FOR A FROG-SPAWN BY A RIVER, FINDS A DISMEMBERED ARM IN AN OLD RUBBISH TIP. A HODDER & STOUGHTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 158 PAGES. S/H.

104711 NORTH, GIL SERGEANT CLUFF AND THE MADMEN Ł 4.00

TWO SERGEANT CLUFF STORIES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. "THE BLINDNESS OF SERGEANT CLUFF" AND "SERGEANT CLUFF LAUGHS LAST" ARE SEPARATE STORIES IN THEMSELVES BUT DO, NEVERTHELESS, MERGE WITH ONE ANOTHER. FOR IN BOTH STORIES, SERGEANT CLUFF IS UP AGAINST THE SAME SORT OF MADNESS; A MADNESS INDUCED BY A LAST ERUPTION OF FAILING MANHOOD; A MADNESS THAT BRINGS NEW AND STRANGE PROBLEMS TO THE POLICE FORCE OF GUNNARSHAW AND DISTRICT. A HODDER & STOUGHTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104714 NORTH, GIL SERGEANT CLUFF STANDS FIRM Ł 3.00

SERGEANT CLUFF RELAXED. HE SANK INTO A TORPOR, ONLY HIS EYES ALIVE. THE EYES OF HIS VICTIM DARTED FROM CORNER TO CORNER, RESTING FOR LONGER AND LONGER ON THE DOOR. HIS VICTIM CONSIDERED, NOT CONSCIOUSLY BUT BY INSTINCT, MAKING A BREAK FOR IT, A DESPERATE RUSH FOR THE DOOR. HE COULD NOT ENDURE THE QUIET, THE INACTION, THE ACCUSATION WITH WHICH THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE WAS PREGNANT. "SHE'S DEAD," CLUFF SAID, "DEAD! DEAD!" THE HATE IN HIS WORDS, THE CONTEMPT, THE VIOLENCE OF CLUFF'S ANGER WAS LIKE A DOUCHE OF ICY WATER. A TRUST PAPERBACK EDITION. 143 PAGES. S/H.

104710 NORTH, GIL SERGEANT CLUFF GOES FISHING Ł 3.00

WHEN A COLONEL AMBLER, THE LAST OF A LONG LINE, MEETS AN UNFORTUNATE DEATH AT THE RIVERSIDE, SERGEANT CLUFF PROMPTLY GOES ON A FISHING HOLIDAY - TO OBSERVE. IMMEDIATELY THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN; THE RECTOR, FRUSTRATED WITH PASSION, IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BATH; THE YOUNG SIMS, ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY PENNILESS, BUYS HIMSELF A MOTOR-CYCLE AND KILLS HIMSELF ON IT WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE ACCIDENTS? SERGEANT CLUFF HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE A HOLIDAY BEFORE. A HODDER & STOUGHTON PAPERBACK EDITION. 159 PAGES. S/H.

104716 OLIPHANT, B.J. A CEREMONIAL DEATH Ł 3.49

A SHIRLEY MCCLINTOCK MYSTERY. THE BEAUTIFUL COSMIC HEALER, NEE BRIDGET MCCREE, HAD NOT BEEN DEAD LONG WHEN HER NEIGHBOR SHIRLEY MCCLINTOCK FOUND HER VICIOUSLY MUTILATED BODY. WAS THE MURDER THE WORK OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS, AS RECENT CATTLE MUTILATIONS IN THE SANTA FE AREA ARE BELIEVED TO BE? SHIRLEY'S INVESTIGATION INTO SHADOW DANCER'S TORRID ROMANCES AND TANGLED FAMILY AFFAIRS SUGGESTS MORE TRADITIONAL MOTIVATIONS: GREED, LUST AND ENVY. SO AFTER A SECOND SORDID KILLING AND SLY RUMORS THAT SHIRLEY AND HER FAMILY ARE SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN BOTH CRIMES, SHE GOES ON THE WARPATH: STRAIGHT TOWARD THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH AND A HEAD-ON CONFRONTATION WITH SHADOW DANCER'S MURDEROUS LAST CLIENT. A FAWCETT PAPERBACK EDITION. 283 PAGES. S/H.

104718 ORCZY, BARONESS THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER Ł 3.00

A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. REPORTER POLLY BURTON MEETS THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER OF THE CAFÉ OFTEN AND HE IS ALWAYS ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE LATEST MURDER MYSTERY TO HER. LIGHT HEARTED COLLECTION. A HODDER & STOUGHTON HARDBACK EDITION. 340 PAGES. S/H.

104720 PAGE, KATHERINE HALL THE BODY IN THE VESTIBULE Ł 3.00

AMATEUR SLEUTH FAITH FAIRCHILD, WHO GAVE UP BIG-TIME NEW YORK CATERING FOR SMALL-TOWN NEW ENGLAND FAMILY LIFE, IS SATISFYING HER HUNGER FOR EPICUREAN ADVENTURE IN THE FRENCH PROVINCES, WRITING A COOKBOOK AND REVELING IN THE ABUNDANCE OF INCREDIBLE EDIBLES. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO THROW THE PERFECT DINNER PARTY - OR AS IT TURNS OUT, TO SOLVE A NOT-SO-PERFECT MURDER? THE PARTY IS A SOCIAL AND GASTRONOMICAL TRIUMPH, WITH NO HINT OF FOUL PLAY. ONLY AFTER THE AST GUEST HAS DEPARTED AND FAITH BEGINS HER LATE NIGHT CLEAN-UP DOES SHE DISCOVER THE BODY IN THE VESTIBULE. WHEN THE BODY MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS BEFORE THE LOCAL GENDARMES ARRIVE, THEY CONCLUDE THAT LA BELLE AMERICAINE HAS TAKEN LEAVE OF HER SENSES. BUT AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS TAKING FAITH VERY SERIOUSLY… AND PLANNING TO DISH UP A FINAL COURSE THAT COULD MAKE THIS FRENCH DINNER PARTY HER LAST. AN AVON PAPERBACK EDITION. 211 PAGES. S/H.

104719 PAGE, KATHERINE HALL THE BODY IN THE BOUILLON Ł 3.00

MINISTER'S WIFE, SOMETIME SLEUTH AND CULINARY ARTIST FAITH SIBLEY FAIRCHILD IS INTRIGUED BY RUMORS OF MYSTERIOUS DOINGS AT HUBBARD HOUSE - AN ELEGANT, SECLUDED RETIREMENT HOME FOR THE WELL-HEELED YANKEES OF ALEFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. DETERMINED TO DO SOME SURREPTITIOUS SNOOPING, SHE JOINS THE PRICEY RETREAT'S FLU-DEPLETED KITCHEN STAFF - ONLY TO WITNESS AN AGING RESIDENT COLLAPSE FACE-FIRST INTO A BOWL OF FAITH'S HOT AND SAVORY BOUILLON. AND WHEN A BLACKMAILING DRUG DEALER TURNS UP DEAD IN HER BEDROOM, THE AMATEUR INVESTIGATOR REALIZES THAT MURDER IS THE SPECIALTY OF THE HOUSE - AND HER OWN UNTIMELY DEMISE MIGHT BE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE MENU. AN AVON PAPERBACK EDITION. 210 PAGES. S/H.

104722 PATTERSON, HARRY THE VALHALLA EXCHANGE Ł 1.00

FACT: DAWN APRIL 30TH 1945. RUSSIAN RADAR REPORTS A LIGHT AIRCRAFT LEAVING ONE OF THE LAST NAZI STRONGHOLDS IN BESIEGED BERLIN - PASSENGERS AND DESTINATION UNKNOWN. FICTION: IN A CONCRETE BUNKER BENEATH THE BURNING CITY REICHSLEITER MARTIN BORMANN ASSEMBLES A CRACK TEAM TO FLY HIM OUT OF THE TIGHTENING SOVIET RING AROUND THE CAPITAL. OBJECTIVE: THE MEDIEVAL FORTRESS OF ARLBERG WHERE A GROUP OF VIP PRISONERS ARE TO BE USED AS BARGAINING COUNTERS IN THE EPIC STRUGGLE TO COME. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104723 PATTERSON, JAMES THE LAKE HOUSE Ł 3.00

FRANNIE O'NEILL'S LIFE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN WHEN SIX INCREDIBLE CHILDREN BLEW IN ON THE WIND. RESCUING THEM FROM THE SCHOOL THAT CREATED THEM TOOK ALL HER COURAGE AND CUNNING BUT THE CHILDREN CAPTURED HER HEART. NOW, THE YOUNG FLOCK WANTS TO GO BACK TO THE COUPLE IT REGARDS AS PARENTS AND FRANNIE AND FBI MAVERICK KIT BRENNAN ARE SUING FOR CUSTODY. BUT WHEN THE CASE INVOLVES THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY CREATURES EVER TO LAND ON THIS EARTH, SOMEONE WILL ENSURE THERE IS NO HAPPY ENDING. ONLY MAX, THE OLDEST AND MOST REMARKABLE OF THE WINGED CHILDREN, KNOWS THAT ANOTHER, TERRIFYING BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT IS TAKING PLACE. SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA, A BRILLIANT BUT EVIL SURGEON IS SECRETLY RESEARCHING, PERFORMING A CRUEL TRAVESTY OF AN OPERATION AS HE SCOOPS THE LIFE FROM PEOPLE HOPING FOR A BETTER FUTURE. BUT TO COMPLETE THE EXPERIMENT HE NEEDS THE ULTIMATE PRIZE - MAX HERSELF. AND AS THE CHILDREN DREAM OF RETURNING TO THE HAPPY SAFETY OF THE LAKE HOUSE, WHERE FOR A FEW PRECIOUS MONTHS THEY FLEW FREE, DANGER MOVES EVER CLOSER. NOT SO MUCH CRIME AS AN UNUSUAL THRILLER BUT WRITTEN BY JAMES PATTERSON SO IT MAY WELL BE OF INTEREST TO HIS FANS. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 401 PAGES. S/H.

104724 PATTERSON, JAMES POP GOES THE WEASEL Ł 5.00

GEOFFREY SHAFER, A MAN WHO NEVER LOSES, IS PREPARED TO PLAY THE GAME OF GAMES FOR THE HIGHEST STAKES OF ALL. ALEX CROSS, SENIOR HOMICIDE DETECTIVE, IS DETERMINED, WHATEVER THE CONSEQUENCES, TO UNMASK THE MAN HE HAS NICKNAMED THE WEASEL, THE PRIME SUSPECT FOR A SPATE OF KILLINGS CROSS HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN TO INVESTIGATE. NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 500 PAGES. S/H.

104725 PERRY, ANNE HIGHGATE RISE Ł 3.00

A THOMAS AND CHARLOTTE PITT MYSTERY, SET IN VICTORIAN TIMES. A DOCTOR'S HOUSE IN PEACEFUL HIGHGATE IS BURNED TO THE GROUND, AND THE BODY OF THE DOCTOR'S WIFE IS FOUND IN THE ASHES. THE FIRE WAS DELIBERATELY SET, BUT WAS IT MEANT FOR THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, OR SOMEONE ELSE? BOTH THOMAS AND CHARLOTTE INVESTIGATE IT IN THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS. EXCELLENT. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 336 PAGES. S/H.

104726 PETERS, ELIZABETH THE SNAKE, THE CROCODILE AND THE DOG Ł 4.00

THE SEVENTH PEABODY/EMERSON MYSTERY. HAVING LEFT RAMSES IN ENGLAND, THE MIGHT HAVE A SECOND HONEYMOON ON THEIR BOAT TRIP UP THE NILE, BUT AS USUAL MURDER INTERVENES, NOT TO MENTION KIDNAPPING, AMNESIA AND GENERAL MAYHEM. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 432 PAGES. S/H.

104750 PETERS, ELLIS BROTHER CADFAEL'S BOOK OF DAYS Ł 8.00

WRITTEN BY ROBIN WHITEMAN BASED ON THE BOOKS BY ELLIS PETERS. BOOKS OF DAYS HAVE BEEN TREASURED SINCE MEDIEVAL TIMES AS A WAY OF PROVIDING INSPIRING THOUGHTS AND WISDOM TO CONTEMPLATE IN QUIET MOMENTS. THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLE, WITH A TELLING QUOTATION FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR, IS DISTILLED FROM ELLIS PETERS' CADFAEL CHRONICLES IN WHICH HER WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT WAS RECORDED THROUGH THE VOICE OF HER FAMOUS CREATION, BROTHER CADFAEL. A HEADLINE HARDBACK EDITION. 180 PAGES. S/H.

104727 PETERS, ELLIS DEATH MASK Ł 3.00

WHEN ARCHAEOLOGIST BRUCE ALMOND IS TRAGICALLY KILLED ON A DIG IN GREECE, HIS SON CRISPIN RETURNS TO SOMERSET AND TO A MOTHER HE BARELY KNOWS. CRISPIN HAS GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE HIS FATHER'S DEATH WAS NO ACCIDENT AND IN HIS GRIEF AND CONFUSION, EVEN HIS MOTHER IS NOT FREE FROM SUSPICION - PARTICULARLY WHEN SHE SEEMS OVER-FRIENDLY WITH TWO OF ALMOND'S EX-COLLEAGUES: MEN WHO HAD OPPORTUNITY, IF NOT MOTIVE, FOR FOUL PLAY. THE TRUTH LIES BURIED ALONG WITH SOME PRICELESS GREEK TREASURES, SO CRISPIN BAITS A CLEVER TRAP THAT IS DESIGNED TO LURE THE MURDERER OUT OF HIDING, FULLY REALISING HOW DANGEROUS A GAME HE IS EMBARKED UPON. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104735 PETERS, ELLIS THE PIPER ON THE MOUNTAIN Ł 1.00

A DOMINIC FELSE MYSTERY. WHEN HERBERT TERRELL FALLS OFF A MOUNTAIN DURING HIS ANNUAL CLIMBING HOLIDAY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ACCIDENTAL DEATH SEEMS THE INEVITABLE VERDICT. BUT TERRELL'S YOUNG STEP-DAUGHTER, TOSSA, IS NOT THE TYPE TO BOW TO THE INEVITABLE. SHE'D BEEN PLANNING TO SPEND HER SUMMER VACATION IN EUROPE IN ANY CASE, SO WHAT COULD BE SIMPLER THAN TO PERSUADE HER COMPANIONS TO MAKE A MINOR DETOUR TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME? NOT A LITTLE BEWITCHED BY TOSSA'S BROWN EYES, DOMINIC FELSE IS GAME FOR A CHANGE OF PLAN, THOUGH HE DOESN'T AT FIRST SUSPECT HER REAL MOTIVE. AND HE'S CERTAINLY NOT PREPARED FOR THEIR INNOCENT TOURING HOLIDAY TO BECOME A DEADLY GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE, WITH TOSSA HERSELF THE UNLIKELY VICTIM. A FRAGMENT OF AN ENGLISH FOLK SONG, THE PLAINTIVE LAMENT OF A PIPE, AN UNEXPECTED CORPSE - THESE ARE THE CLUES THAT THE AMATEUR SLEUTHS MUST SOLVE TO DISCOVER THE RIDDLE OF THE PIPER ON THE MOUNTAIN. A HEADLINE PAPERBACIK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104733 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 1: A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES Ł 2.50

THE FIRST TITLE IN THE CHRONICLES OF BROTHER CADFAEL. IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY BENEDICTINE MONASTERY OF SHREWSBURY, BROTHER CADFAEL HAS FORSAKEN HIS ADVENTUROUS PAST AND SETTLED DOWN TO A QUIET LIFE. WHEN THE ABBEY DETERMINES TO ACQUIRE THE BONES OF A WELSH SAINT, CADFAEL'S WORDLY EXPERIENCE COMES INTO ITS OWN, SINCE THE OBSTACLES TO THE EXPEDITION INCLUDE MURDER. A WARNER TV TIE-IN PAPERBACK EDITION. 250 PAGES. S/H.

104729 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 2: ONE CORPSE TOO MANY Ł 2.00

WHEN FIGHTING ENGULFS SHREWSBURY AS KING STEPHEN BATTLES FOR THE THRONE OF ENGLAND, BROTHER CADFAEL IS CALLED UPON TO ADMINISTER RITES TO 94 HANGED PRISONERS - BUT HIS COUNT REVEALS 95 CORPSES. THIS IS THE SECOND IN THE SERIES, AND THE FIRST TO FEATURE HUGH BERINGAR. A WARNER FUTURA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104732 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 3: MONKS-HOOD Ł 3.00

GERVASE BONEL, WHO HAD PLANNED TO LEAVE HIS VALUABLE MANOR HOUSE TO SHREWSBURY ABBEY, IS POISONED WITH ONE OF BROTHER CADFAEL'S OWN CONCOCTIONS. INVESTIGATING, CADFAEL FINDS A WEB OF FAMILY INTRIGUE, WITH SUSPICION FALLING ON SOMEONE HE IS SURE IS INNOCENT. THIRD IN THE SERIES. TV TIE-IN JACKET. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 268 PAGES. S/H.

104736 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 4: SAINT PETERS FAIR Ł 2.00

IN THIS FOURTH CHRONICLE, A QUARREL BREAKS OUT BETWEEN THE BURGHERS OF SHREWSBURY AND THE BENEDICTINE MONKS AS TO WHO SHOULD BENEFIT FROM THE LEVIES RAISED BY THE FAIR OF ST PETER. A RIOT ENSUES, A MERCHANT IS FOUND DEAD, AND BROTHER CADFAEL IS SUMMONED FROM HIS HERB GARDENS TO PLAY DETECTIVE AGAIN. A FUTURA PAPERBACK EDITION. 220 PAGES. S/H.

104730 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 10: THE PILGRIM OF HATE Ł 3.00

IN WINCHESTER A SUPPORTER OF THE EMPRESS MAUD HAS BEEN MURDERED. IN SHREWSBURY, PILGRIMS ARE GATHERING FROM FAR AND WIDE TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANSLATION OF ST WINIFRED'S BONES TO THE ABBEY. AS THE STORY UNFOLDS, IT BECOMES CLEAR TO BROTHER CADFAEL THAT THE MURDER IS A MUCH LESS REMOTE AFFAIR THAN IT FIRST SEEMED. BOOK TEN IN THE SERIES. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 271 PAGES. S/H.

104728 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 11: AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY Ł 3.00

ELEVENTH IN THE SERIES. TWO BROTHERS FROM THE DESTROYED ABBEY OF HYDE MEAD SEEK REFUGE IN SHREWSBURY: BROTHER HUMILIS, WHO HAS ABANDONED HIS INTENDED MARRIAGE AFTER RECEIVING CRIPPLING INJURIES ON CRUSADE, AND HIS ATTENDANT, FIDELIS. ALL IS WELL UNTIL HUMILIS' ONE-TIME SQUIRE COMES TO ASK HIS FORMER LORD'S BLESSING ON HIS PAYING COURT TO THE WOMAN TO WHOM HUMILIS WAS FORMERLY AFFIANCED - AND TRAGEDY FOLLOWS. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104734 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 13: THE ROSE RENT Ł 3.00

A YOUNG WIDOW BESTOWS ONE OF HER PROPERTIES ON THE ABBEY OF SHREWSBURY. THE ONLY RENT: A SINGLE WHITE ROSE, TO BE DELIVERED EACH YEAR. BUT IN THE SUMMER OF 1142 THE ROSE IS VIOLENTLY HACKED DOWN, AND LYING BESIDE IT A MURDERED MAN IS DISCOVERED. BOOK THIRTEEN IN THE SERIES. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 265 PAGES. S/H.

104731 PETERS, ELLIS CADFAEL 17: THE POTTERS FIELD Ł 2.99

DURING THE PLOUGHING OF THE POTTER'S FIELD OUTSIDE SHREWSBURY ABBEY, THE REMAINS OF A WOMAN'S BODY ARE UNEARTHED. THE DISCOVERY OF THE CORPSE ON ABBEY LAND RAISES ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS, IMPELLING BROTHER CADFAEL TO LEAVE HIS HERBIARY ONCE AGAIN. BOOK SEVENTEEN IN THE SERIES. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 229 PAGES. S/H.

104217 PIERCY, ROHASE MY DEAREST HOLMES Ł 4.95

ALTHOUGH DR WATSON IS KNOWN FOR RECORDING SOME SIXTY OF HIS ADVENTURES WITH THE CELEBRATED SHERLOCK HOLMES, HE ALSO WROTE OTHER REMINISCENCES OF THEIR LONG FRIENDSHIP WHICH WERE NEVER INTENDED FOR PUBLICATION DURING THEIR LIFETIMES. RESCUED FROM OBLIVION BY ROHASE PIERCY, HERE ARE TWO PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN STORIES ABOUT THE GREAT DETECTIVE AND HIS COMPANION, THROWING A FRESH LIGHT UPON THEIR FAMOUS PARTNERSHIP AND HELPING TO EXPLAIN MUCH WHICH HAS PUZZLED THEIR DEVOTEES. TOGETHER HOLMES AND WATSON FACE DISTURBING REVELATIONS AS THEY INVESTIGATE THE CASE OF THE QUEEN BEE; AND WE FINALLY LEARN WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT THE REICHENBACH FALLS AND THE REAL REASONS WHICH LAY BEHIND HOLMES' FAKED DEATH AND HIS SUBSEQUENT RETURN. A GMP PAPERBACK EDITION. 142 PAGES. S/H.

104737 PRICE, ANTHONY GUNNER KELLY Ł 4.00

OFFICIALLY DR AUDLEY IS ON HOLIDAY IN THE WEST COUNTRY. BUT IT CANNOT BE PURE COINCIDENCE THAT THE FORMIDABLE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER IS STAYING AT DUNTISBURY MANOR AS THE GUEST OF GENERAL MAXWELL'S GRAND-DAUGHTER. BECAUSE GENERAL MAXWELL HAS RECENTLY BEEN MURDERED BY TERRORISTS USING A CAR BOMB. AND AUDLEY HAS NOT SEEN FIT TO TELL COLONEL BUTLER WHAT HE IS UP TO: IF HE HAS A LEAD ON THE ASSASSINATION HE IS KEEPING IT TO HIMSELF. SO COLONEL BUTLER HAS TO SEND IN AN AGENT TO SPY ON AUDLEY - SOMEONE HE WON'T KNOW. A GRANADA PAPERBACK EDITION. 237 PAGES. S/H.

104738 PRICE, ANTHONY OUR MAN IN CAMELOT Ł 5.00

WHEN A US AIR FORCE PLANE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS ON A FLIGHT FROM A BRITISH BASE, TAKING ITS ACE PILOT WITH IT, THE CIA HASTEN TO INVESTIGATE. BUT THEY MAKE SOME ODD FINDINGS. DR AUDLEY'S OWN RESEARCHES TAKE HIM BACK TO THE 6TH CENTURY AS HE IS DRAWN INTO AN ABSORBING BATTLE OF WITS WITH THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE. A FUTURA PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104481 PRICE, ANTHONY SOLDIER NO MORE Ł 2.00

THE YEAR IS 1957. THE REVERBERATIONS FROM SUEZ AND HUNGARY ARE STILL ECHOING IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER. FOR CAPTAIN DAVID ROCHE - A KGB MOLE WORKING IN BRITISH INTELLIGENCE - TIME IS RUNNING OUT. THEN THE BRITISH GIVE HIM A NEW ASSIGNMENT: GO TO THE DORDOGNE REGION OF FRANCE AND PERSUADE DR DAVID AUDLEY TO WORK FOR THEM AGAIN. ROCHE SOON REALIZES THAT HIS MISSION IS A MATTER OF VITAL URGENCY BOTH FOR THE BRITISH AND FOR THE RUSSIANS. AND HE KNOWS HE HAS TO WORK OUT WHY. A GRANADA PAPERBACK EDITION. 416 PAGES. S/H.

104740 PROCTER, MAURICE DEVIL'S DUE Ł 5.00

A BANK ROBBERY; A DOUBLE MURDER IN A BACK-ALLEY; AN ANONYMOUS TELEPHONE CALL; AND NEXT DAY AN ADVERTISEMENT APPEARS IN THE LOCAL PAPER SAYING THAT Ł10,000 IN NOTES HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE STREET. WHAT IS THE LINK BEHIND THIS MYSTERIOUS CHAIN OF EVENTS? CHIEF INSPECTOR MARTINEAU RECKONS THAT MOBSTER DIXIE COSTELLO IS SOMEHOW MIXED UP IN THE BUSINESS - AND IS DETERMINED TO PROVE HIS HUNCH. A PANTHER PAPERBACK EDITION. 156 PAGES. S/H.

104742 QUEEN, ELLERY CALAMITY TOWN Ł 3.00

THE SCENE IS LAID IN THE SMALL, AMERICAN TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE, ALREADY WELL-KNOWN TO READERS AS THE SETTING OF MR. QUEEN'S NOVEL "THE MURDERER IS A FOX". MOST OF THE CHARACTERS SPRING FROM NONE OTHER THAN THE WRIGHT FAMILY, DESCENDANTS OF THE FOUNDER OF WRIGHTSVILLE AND A NAME HITHERTO IMMUNE FROM ALL BREATH OF SCANDAL. THEN, OUT OF THE BLUE, CALAMITY SHATTERS THE SERENITY OF THE TOWN'S "FIRST FAMILY". IT STARTS WITH A WEDDING. THE "HOUSE" HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. DISCORD GIVES RISE TO FEAR AND FEAR BREEDS CRIME. NORA, THE YOUNG WIFE, IS POISONED BY ARSENIC BUT IT IS ROSEMARY HAIGHT, AND NOT NORA, WHO DIES ON NEW YEAR'S EVE. BY WHOSE HAND? ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE GUILT OF JIM, NORA'S HUSBAND, JIM WHO SULKS AND REFUSES TO TALK, JIM WHO HAS BEEN DRINKING, GAMBLING, CURSING. AND YET…? A PHOENIX PAPERBACK EDITION. 244 PAGES. S/H.

104743 QUEEN, ELLERY Q.B.I. Ł 3.00

IN THE CLOSELY-GUARDED RECORD ROOM OF THE Q.B.I. IS A TOP-SECRET FILE MARKED SPECIAL. THIS FILE CONTAINS THE MOST UNUSUAL CASES I HAVE EVER WORKED ON - CASES THAT ARE MEMORABLE BECAUSE OF AN UNUSUAL CLUE, A UNIQUE CRIMINAL, A SURPRISING SITUATION OR A SHOCKING CRIME. FROM THESE SPECIAL CASES OF MURDER, BLACKMAIL, KIDNAPPING AND NARCOTICS, I HAVE CHOSEN EIGHTEEN THAT POSED THE MOST MYSTIFYING PROBLEMS I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED. A MAYFLOWER PAPERBACK EDITION. 140 PAGES. S/H.

104745 RADLEY, SHEILA A TALENT FOR DESTRUCTION Ł 3.00

FROM THE DAY A SKELETON IS DISCOVERED IN THE RECTORY MEADOW, DETECTIVE INSPECTOR QUANTRILL FOCUSES HIS INQUIRY ON THE RECTORY ITSELF. TRUE, ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE RECTOR AND A POSSIBLE CRIME IS TENUOUS. ROBIN AINGER IS HANDSOME AND PLAUSIBLE ENOUGH - ALMOST TOO HANDSOME AND PLAUSIBLE FOR HIS SUSCEPTIBLE LITTLE FLOCK IN BRECKHAM MARKET. BUT MRS AINGER IS A BUNDLE OF NERVES AND HER TIRESOME OLD FATHER KEEPS HINTING AT DARK SECRETS BELOW THE TRANQUIL SURFACE OF THEI CONVENTIONAL LIVES. EVERY CLUE SEEMS TO DISSOLVE INTO THIN AIR UNTIL QUANTRILL HITS BY CHANCE ON A LEAD THAT REVIVES THE SHARP PASSIONS OF THE PREVIOUS SUMMER. AND AS HE LEARNS THE REAL SECRET OF THE RECTORY, HE IS FORCED TO CONSIDER WHETHER IT IS THE MURDERED OR THE MURDERER WHO IS THE TRUE VICTIM. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 157 PAGES. S/H.

104489 RAYNER, CLAIRE FOURTH ATTEMPT Ł 2.00

A DR GEORGE BARNABAS MYSTERY. THE GOSSIPMONGERS AT LONDON'S ROYAL EASTERN HOSPITAL - AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS OLD EAST - ARE WORKING OVERTIME. THREE DEATHS IN AS MANY DAYS AMONG THE STAFF? WORSE, THREE SUICIDES? SOMETHING MUST BE VERY WRONG. DR GEORGE BARNABAS, FEMALE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST AND NOT ONE TO STAND FOR ANY NONSENSE, COULD HAVE TOLD THEM THE TRUTH - THAT THE DEATHS TOOK PLACE OVER A LONGER PERIOS AND WERE CERTAINLY NOT ALL SUICIDES. BUT ACCIDENTAL DEATH IS SO MUCH LESS INTERESTING FOR THE RUMOUR MILL… YET WHEN A FOURTH PERSON NEARLY DIES, ONE OF GEORGE'S OWN LAB STAFF, NOT EVEN SHE CAN CALM THINGS DOWN. FOR THIS DOES NOT EVEN LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT: IT'S ATTEMPTED MURDER AND GEORGE HERSELF, UNBELIEVABLY, COMES UNDER SUSPICION. SHE HAS NEVER NEEDED MUCH INCENTIVE TO DO SOME SLEUTHING; THIS TIME SHE HAS THE STRONGEST REASON OF ALL. QUITE APART FROM CLEARING HER NAME, IT WILL DISTRACT HER FROM THE CHAOS IN HER LOVE LIFE. SHE AND HER POLICE DETECTIVE FIANCE GUS, NEWLY PROMOTED TO SUPERINTENDENT AND BUSIER THAN EVER, HAVE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS, WHILE THE HOSPITAL'S NEW RESEARCH FELLOW IN NEUROLOGY, ZACK ZACHARIUS, IS SHOWING DEFINITE SIGNS OF BEING INTERESTED IN HER. AND HE IS VERY ATTRACTIVE. JUGGLING HER WORK, HER RELATIONSHIPS (OLD AND NEW) AND HER INVESTIGATION PLUNGES GEORGE INTO A WHIRLWIND OF INTRIGUE, FOR THE CASE, AS IT RACES TOWARDS ITS WHOLLY SURPRISING CONCLUSION, TURNS OUT TO BE FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN SHE EVER IMAGINED. A MICHAEL JOSEPH HARDBACK EDITION. 371 PAGES. S/H.

104803 REICHS, KATHY DEADLY DECISIONS Ł 3.00

A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL DIES ON HER WAY TO BALLET CLASS, CAUGHT IN OUTLAW BIKERS CROSSFIRE. VIOLENCE IS SPILLING ONTO THE STREETS OF MONTREAL, AND DR TEMPERANCE BRENNAN, FORENSIC ANTHROPLOGIST FOR THE STATE, HAS TO PICK UP THE PIECES. ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 382 PAGES. SECOND HAND. SPINE CREASED, OTHERWISE NEAR FINE. 104492 REICHS, KATHY DEJA DEAD Ł 4.00

THIS IS THE FIRST OF A NEW SERIES, SET IN THE FRENCH-CANADIAN PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN IS DIRECTOR OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, AND SHE IS BUSY WITH THE BONES OF A WOMAN DISCOVERED IN AN ABANDONED MONASTERY. HER RESEARCH INTO RECENT DISAPPEARANCES IN THE CITY CONVINCES HER THAT THERE IS A SERIAL KILLER ABROAD, BUT DETECTIVE CLAUDEL, IN CHARGE OF THE CASE, DOES NOT BELIEVE HER AT FIRST. BUT THEN THE BODY COUNT GOES UP. ORIGINAL AND EXCELLENT NOVEL. ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 409 PAGES. 104746 RENDELL, RUTH SOME LIE AND SOME DIE Ł 0.50

FOR A WHILE THE POP FESTIVAL AT AT 'SUNDAY' WENT WELL. THE SUN SHONE, THE GROUPS PLAYED AND EVERYONE - EXCEPT A FEW ANGRY NEIGHBOURS - SEEMED TO ENJOY THEMSELVES. THEN THE WEATHER CHANGED. AND IN A NEARBY QUARRY TWO LOVERS FOUND A BODY THAT MADE EVEN INSPECTOR WEXFORD'S STOMACH LURCH. DAWN STONOR HAD BEEN A LOCAL GIRL, BACK FROM LONDON ON A FLYING VISIT THAT NOT EVEN HER MOTHER COULD EXPLAIN - AND THE ONLY CLUE THAT WEXFORD HAD WAS HER STRANGE CONNECTION WITH THE STAR OF THE FESTIVAL. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104491 RENDELL, RUTH WEXFORD: AN OMNIBUS Ł 5.00

THREE COMPLETE WEXFORD MYSTERIES IN ONE BOOK. "FROM DOON WITH DEATH" - MARGARET PARSONS WAS A PREDICTABLE, ORDINARY WOMAN, BUT NOW SHE HAD MET A DEATH OF PASSION AND VIOLENCE FOR WHICH THERE SEEMED NO MOTIVE OR CLUE. "A NEW LEASE OF DEATH" - THERE WAS NO DOUBT IN CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD'S MIND… PAINTER HAD DONE IT AND HE'D BEEN HANGED FOR IT. BUT NOW, 15 YEARS LATER, SOMEONE WANTS HISTORY CHANGED AND WEXFORD PROVED WRONG. "THE BEST MAN TO DIE" - WAS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT CHARLIE HATTON, A COCKY LITTLE LORRY DRIVER, HAD BEEN KILLED ON THE DAY FOLLOWING THAT OF MRS FANSHAWE'S REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS? AND WAS IT MURDER OR NOT? A MYSTERIOUS PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION. 508 PAGES. S/H.

104493 RENDELL, RUTH THE THIRD WEXFORD OMNIBUS Ł 5.00

THREE COMPLETE WEXFORD MYSTERIES IN ONE BOOK. "SOME LIE AND SOME DIE" - FOR A WHILE THE ROCK FESTIVAL AT "SUNDAYS" WENT WELL. THE SUN SHONE, THE GROUPS PLAYED AND EVERYONE - EXCEPT A FEW ANGRY NEIGHBOURS - SEEMED TO ENJOY THEMSELVES. THEN THE WEATHER CHANGED. AND IN A NEARBY QUARRY TWO LOVERS FOUND A BODY THAT MADE EVEN INSPECTOR WEXFORD'S STOMACH LURCH. "SHAKE HANDS FOREVER" - MOST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE SCREAMED. MRS HATHALL MADE NO SOUND. SHE HAD SEEN DEATH MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT SHE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN A DEATH OF VIOLENCE. HEAVILY, SHE PLODDED ACROSS THE ROOM AND DESCENDED THE STAIRS TO WHERE HER SON WAITED. 'THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT,' SHE SAID, 'YOUR WIFE'S DEAD.' "A SLEEPING LIFE" - THE BODY FOUND UNDER THE HEDGE WAS THAT OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN, BIGGISH AND GAUNT. THE GREY EYES WERE WIDE AND STARING. THERE WAS NOTHING TO GIVE HIM HER ADDRESS, HER OCCUPATION OR EVEN HER IDENTITY - LET ALONE ANY CLUES TO HER KILLER. BUT AS WEXFORD KNEW ONLY TOO WELL, DEATH BY MURDER IS, IN A WAY, NOT AN END BUT A BEGINNING… AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 541 PAGES. S/H.

104494 RENDELL, RUTH THE FOURTH WEXFORD OMNIBUS Ł 3.00

THREE COMPLETE WEXFORD MYSTERIES IN ONE BOOK. "WOLF TO THE SLAUGHTER" - A WOMAN VANISHES. NO BODY, NO CRIME. JUST AN ANONYMOUS LETTER. BURDEN RECKONS IT'S AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE - BUT WEXFORD HAS OTHER IDEAS. "PUT ON BY CUNNING" - WEXFORD'S INSTINCT LEADS HIM TO UNRAVEL AN APPARENT DEATH BY MISADVENTURE. NIGGLING DOUBTS ABOUT THE RETURN OF A DEAD FLAUTIST'S DAUGHTER TO CLAIM AN INHERITANCE AROUSE WEXFORD'S SUSPICIONS. "THE SPEAKER OF MANDARIN" - AFTER A TRIP TO CHINA, WEXFORD FINDS HIMSELF HAUNTED BY THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN WITH BOUND FEET AND SURPRISED TO BE INVESTIGATING THE MURDER OF ONE OF HIS FELLOW TOURISTS. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 590 PAGES. S/H.

104496 RICHARDSON, ROBERT BELLRINGER STREET Ł 4.00

PLAYWRIGHT AND NOVELIST AUGUSTUS MALTRAVERS AND HIS ACTRESS GIRLFRIEND TESS DAVY HAVE PLANNED A RELAXING WEEK STAYING WITH FRIENDS IN BELLRINGER STREET, AN HISTORIC THOROUGHFARE NEAR THE GROUNDS OF EDENBRIDGE HOUSE, STATELY HOME OF THE EARLS OF PEMBURY. THE ONLY FORESEEABLE DISRUPTION LOOKS TO BE THE IMMINENT ARRIVAL OF THEIR HOSTS' BABY - QUITE DISRUPTIVE ENOUGH AS FAR AS MALTRAVERS IS CONCERNED. BUT MORE DISTURBING DRAMAS BEGIN TO UNFOLD WHEN A SKELETON IS STOLEN FROM THE CELLARS OF THE HOUSE. AT FIRST IT SEEMS NO MORE THAN A BIZARRE JOKE BUT, SUDDENLY, MALTRAVERS AND TESS FINDS THEMSELVES CAUGHT UP IN A TERRIFYING CYCLE OF VENGEANCE, MURDER AND SHOCKING SEXUAL TRAUMA. A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 183 PAGES. S/H.

104497 RICHARDSON, ROBERT SIGNIFICANT OTHERS Ł 5.00

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, KATRINA DARCY HASN'T FILED HER COPY. TOP COLUMNIST ON THE SUNDAY REGISTER, TV PERSONALITY AND TRASH NOVELIST, KATRINA IS OPINIONATED, BOSSY AND HARD TO WORK WITH, BUT SHE'S NEVER MISSED A DEADLINE YET. AND NOW SHE'S MET THE LAST ONE OF ALL. FOR KATRINA IS LYING ALL ALONE ON THE FLOOR OF HER CORNISH COTTAGE, HER LIFE SEEPING AWAY THROUGH A VICIOUS HEADWOUND. KATRINA DARCY DID NOT LACK ENEMIES. OR FRIENDS. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS ALL - BUT WHICH ONE HATED HER ENOUGH TO KILL HER? A VISTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104498 RICHARDSON, ROBERT SLEEPING IN THE BLOOD Ł 4.00

PLAYWRIGHT, JOURNALIST AND AMATEUR SLEUTH GUS MALTRAVERS, ASSISTED BY HIS THESPIAN GIRLFRIEND, UNWITTINGLY AWAKENS A PACK OF SLEEPING DOGS WHEN HE UNDERTAKES A NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW OF BOYHOOD IDOL JENNI HILTON, POP SINGER TURNED ACTRESS, WHO FLED AT THE HEIGHT OF HER FAME IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND IS NOW BACK IN LONDON. LINKS WITH THE 1968 JUMP-FROM-BALCONY DEATH OF A UNIVERSALLY HATED POP PROMOTER RATTLE IN GUS'S ELEGANT EARS… A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104500 RIGGS, JOHN R. THE LAST LAUGH Ł 2.00

A GARTH RYLAND MYSTERY. IT SEEMED SOMEHOW FITTING TO BURY OAKELLA'S #1 PRACTICAL JOKER ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY… DOC BALDWIN SAYS SI BUCKLES DIED OF A HEART ATTACK. BUT GARTH RYLAND HAS A THEORY THAT'S DEAD SERIOUS: SOMEONE TURNED THE TABLES ON THE TOWN CLOWN - AND SCARED HIM TO DEATH. A JOVE MYSTERY PAPERBACK EDITION. 186 PAGES. S/H.

104501 RIGGS, JOHN R. WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING Ł 2.00

THERE'S A HEAT WAVE OVER OAKELLA - BUT GARTH RYLAND IS CHILLED TO THE CORE WHEN HIS FORMER LOVER DISAPPEARS. BEAUTIFUL DIANA BALDWIN WENT UP NORTH WITH HER NEW BEAU, A COLLEGE PROF, AND NEITHER WAS HEARD FROM AGAIN. TRACKING A MURDER SUSPECT, GARTH RESOLVES TO PUT HIS PAST REGRETS BEHIND HIM. BUT OLD LOVES NEVER REALLY DIE AND HIS HEART - AND HIS LIFE - ARE UP FOR GRABS. GARTH MAKES HEADLINES AND MEETS DEADLINES EVERY DAY, REPORTING LIFE ON MAIN STREET, USA. AND WHEN HIS FLAIR FOR DETECTION TAKES HIM BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SMALL TOWN SERENITY, HE FINDS PLENTY THAT'S NEWSWORTHY - ALONG THE LINES OF MURDER. A JOVE PAPERBACK EDITION. 186 PAGES. S/H.

104503 RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE Ł 3.00

AN UNUSUAL MYSTERY STORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ELDERLY SPINSTER RENTS A COUNTRY HOUSE IN WHICH TO SPEND A QUIET HOLIDAY. THE HOUSE SEEMS A PLEASANT PLACE WITH EVERY AMENITY - EXCEPT SERVANTS, WHO HAD LEFT FOR NO APPARENT REASON. UNFORTUNATELY THE MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS ARE THEIR EXCUSE, AND THE NOISES AND THE SHADOWY FIGURES, FOOTPRINTS AND SHOTS AROUSE THE CURIOSITY AND DETERMINATION OF THE TENANT TO DISCOVER THE CAUSE, THOUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE POLICE ARE OF NO AVAIL AND TO HER BEWILDERMENT HER OWN FAMILY ARE INVOLVED WITH THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE, IN WHOSE BUSINESS THERE IS A FINANCIAL SCANDAL. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 211 PAGES. S/H.

104504 ROBB, CANDACE THE NUN'S TALE Ł 3.00

THE THIRD OWEN ARCHER MYSTERY - SET IN YORK IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. A PALE YOUNG WOMAN CLAIMS TO BE THE RESURRECTED JOANNA CALVERLEY, A NUN WHO DIED OF A FEVER SOME MONTHS BEFORE. DAME JOANNA IS HYSTERICAL, AND THE NUN'S KEEPERS ASK THE PREGNANT LUCIE, OWEN'S WIFE, TO USE HER HEALING SKILLS ON JOANNA'S BEHALF, WHICH PLACES THE ARCHER FAMILY IN DANGER. A MANDARIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 402 PAGES. S/H.

104509 ROBINSON, LYNDA S MURDER AT THE GODS GATE Ł 4.00

WHEN A PRIEST DIES IN A MYSTERIOUS FALL FROM ATOP A STATUE OF TUTANKHAMUN, MANY CONSIDER THE DEATH A FATEFUL ONE FOR THE FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD PHARAOH AND HIS REIGN. INDEED, THE HITTITES ARE ALREADY AT EGYPT'S BORDERS, AND THE ENEMIES OF THE LATE HERETIC PHARAOH AKHENATEN HAVE TRANSFERRED THEIR IMPLACABLE HATRED TO THE YOUNG PHARAOH. CONCEALED BY THE LUXURY OF THE COURT AT THEBES LIE VICIOUSNESS, EVIL AND MURDER. NOT EVEN LORD MEREN - THE CONFIDENTIAL INQUIRY AGENT WHO MUST SEE TO THE BOY KING'S SAFETY - CAN NAME THE MASTER PLOTTERS. BUT UNTIL THE ENEMIES OF THE LIVING GOD ARE DESTROYED, NEITHER HIS BODY NOR HIS SOUL IS SAFE FROM THEIR DEADLY POISON. A BALLANTINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 279 PAGES. S/H.

104510 ROE, C F BAD BLOOD Ł 3.00

A DOCTOR JEAN MONTROSE MYSTERY. WHEN GRAEME FERGUSON'S OVERTURNED RED PORSCHE IS FOUND OFF A LONELY COUNTRY LANE NEAR STRATHALMOND CASTLE, EVEN HIS MOTHER SUSPECTS IT IS NO ACCIDENT. HE WAS SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AT CLOSE RANGE AND INSPECTOR DOUGLAS NIVEN FINDS HIMSELF IN CHARGE OF A MURDER INVESTIGATION. FERGUSON, AN APPARENTLY SUCCESSFUL AND AFFLUENT BACHELOR, HAD BEEN ENGAGED TO THE EARL OF STRATHALMOND'S DAUGHTER AND HAD MORE THAN HIS FAIR SHARE OF ENEMIES: BUSINESS RIVALS, ENVIOUS COLLEAGUES AND SOME VERY JEALOUS WOMEN. NIVEN SOON FINDS HIMSELF OUT OF HIS DEPTH BUT EVEN AFTER DR JEAN MONTROSE GETS INVOLVED, IT TAKES ALL HER COURAGE, MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND HER PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MURDER BEFORE THE CASE IS FINALLY AND CHILLINGLY SOLVED. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 248 PAGES. S/H.

104512 ROOME, ANNETTE A REAL SHOT IN THE ARM Ł 2.50

CHRIS MARTIN - HOUSEWIFE - WAS DEAD FROM THE NECK UP UNTIL SHE JOINED THE STAFF AT THE TIPPING HERALD AND DEAD FROM THE NECK DOWN UNTIL PETE SCHIAVO TOUCHED HER. THE CORPSE SHE DISCOVERS ON HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT, HANGING FROM A FIRE ESCAPE, DOESN'T LOOK TO HER LIKE SUICIDE-HEROIN ADDICTS DON'T OD AND THEN STRING THEMSELVES UP. AND WHAT'S THE CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT IN THE MOST RUN-DOWN PART OF TOWN? EVERY ONE OF HER NOVICE STEPS TO FIND THE TRUTH LEADS CHRIS FURTHER INTO A WEB OF POLICE CORRUPTION, BLACKMAIL AND CIVIC DISOBEDIENCE. STRANGE THOUGH, THAT IT TOOK DEATH TO DRAG HER OUT OF DOMESTIC DESOLATION AND BACK-SMACK HER INTO LIFE AGAIN, LIKE A MURDEROUS MIDWIFE. A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104209 SAFFRON, ROBERT THE DEMON DEVICE Ł 3.00

THE TIME IS WORLD WAR I. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DISCOVERS THE GERMANS ARE DEVELOPING A DEADLY NEW SECRET WEAPON. SOMEONE MUST BE SENT TO FIND AND DESTROY IT AND WHO WOULD BE A BETTER CANDIDATE THAN ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. DOYLE IS A SIX-FOOT-TWO, TWO-HUNDRED-POUND GIANT, AN EXPERT BALLOONIST, BOXER AND AIRPLANE PILOT. AND HE CERTAINLY CAN SOLVE A RIDDLE AS WELL AS HIS FICTIONAL HERO. BUT HIS ABILITIES ARE SORELY TESTED BY THE DIZZYING KALEIDOSCOPE OF PERILS HE FINDS BEHIND ENEMY LINES. AND HIS PRUDISH VICTORIAN MORALITY IS STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT BY THE TEMPESTUOUS I.A. - A MYSTERIOUS, DAZZLING BEAUTY WITH VERY CLEAR IDEAS ON HOW SHE CAN HELP THE EMBATTLED DOYLE. A CHARTER MYSTERY PAPERBACK EDITION. 287 PAGES. S/H.

104514 "SAPPER" THE RETURN OF BULLDOG DRUMMOND Ł 2.00

WRITTEN BY HERMAN CYRIL MCNEILE UNDER THE PEN NAME OF SAPPER. EAGER FOR NEW ADVENTURES, BULLDOG DRUMMOND IS DETERMINED TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE TERRIFIED YOUNG MAN WHO SEEKS REFUGE AT MERRIDALE HALL. THE TRAIL LEADS TO A GRUESOME MURDER, FOR WHICH AN ESCAPED CONVICT IS BLAMED, BUT CAPTAIN DRUMMOND'S SUSPICIONS ARE CONFIRMED WHEN HE ENCOUNTERS ONCE AGAIN THE WICKED IRMA PETERSON. MISTRESS OF DRUMMOND'S FORMER ENEMY CARL PETERSON, WHO IS NOW DEAD AND FOILED BY DRUMMOND IN THE PAST, IRMA IS DETERMINED TO SETTLE THE SCORE. SHE AND HER FELLOW CONSPIRATORS HAVE DEVISED AN INGENIOUS PLAN TO DEFRAUD A LEADING FINANCIER OF HIS FORTUNE. PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT ARE CUNNINGLY INTERWOVEN IN THIS MARVELLOUS THRILLER IN WHICH CAPTAIN DRUMMOND COMES UP AGAINST THE MOST TESTING CHALLENGE OF HIS CAREER. A CLASSIC THRILLERS PAPERBACK EDITION. 317 PAGES. S/H.

104517 SAYERS, DOROTHY L HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY Ł 3.00

LORD PETER WIMSEY IS THE DELIGHTFUL DETECTIVE WHO APPEARS IN 'THE INCREDIBLE ELOPEMENT' AND OTHER STORIES. THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SAYERS' STORIES - AN INTERESTING BLEND OF NEW AND OLD. INCLUDES "THE IMAGE IN THE MIRROR", "THE INCREDIBLE ELOPEMENT OF LORD PETER WIMSEY", "THE QUEEN'S SQUARE", "THE NECKLACE OF PEARLS", "THE POISONED DOW '08", "SLEUTHS ON THE SCENT", "MURDER IN THE MORNING", "ONE TOO MANY", "MURDER IN THE MORNING", "ONE TOO MANY", "MURDER AT PENTECOST", "MAHER-SHALAL-HASHBAZ", "THE MAN WHO KNEW HOW" AND "THE FOUNTAIN PLAYS". A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDITION. 188 PAGES. S/H.

104516 SAYERS, DOROTHY L HAVE HIS CARCASE Ł 3.00

A YOUNG WOMAN IS TAKING A SOLITARY WALK ALONG THE SEA-SHORE ON A WARM SUMMER'S AFTERNOON. SHE ENJOYS A QUIET DOZE ON THE ROCKS - THAT IS, UNTIL SHE SEES THE BODY SPREADEAGLED BELOW HER. A YOUNG MAN WHOSE THROAT HAS BEEN SLASHED FROM EAR TO EAR. IT IS AGAIN THE FATE OF MISS HARRIET VANE, AS MUCH A MASTER OF DETECTIVE FICTION AS HER CREATOR, TO BE DRAWN INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION IN WHICH HER OWN NAME COULD EASILY BECOME SUSPECT. LORD PETER WIMSEY IS ONLY TOO EAGER TO HELP, BUT HIS ENTHUSIASM DOESN'T BRING THE WISHED-FOR RESPONSE IN THE WOMAN HE LOVES. THAT VERY SPECIAL COMBINATION OF TALENTS WOVEN TO PERFECTION BY MISS SAYERS INTO THE CHARACTERS OF LORD PETER AND HIS LOVING HARRIET PRODUCES AN INGENIOUS STORY THAT MAY SURPRISE EVEN HER MOST DEVOTED FOLLOWERS. A NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDITION. 444 PAGES. S/H.

104520 SAYERS, DOROTHY L MURDER MUST ADVERTISE Ł 3.00

VOLUME 10 IN THE COLLECTED EDITION OF NOVELS AND STORIES BY DOROTHY L. SAYERS. DOROTHY SAYERS WORKED IN BENSON'S ADVERTISING AGENCY FOR YEARS, AND PRODUCED THIS DELIGHTFUL TALE. I MYSELF WORKED IN A PR AGENCY FOR SOME TIME, AND CAN VOUCH FOR THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE BACKGROUND, AND I GATHER FROM CUSTOMERS, THAT THE AMBIENCE IS UNCHANGED, 70 YEARS AFTER IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN. VICTOR DEAN FALLS TO HIS DEATH ON THE STAIRS WHERE HE WORKS AT PYM'S ADVERTISING AGENCY, AND LORD PETER WIMSEY IS ASKED TO INVESTIGATE, SO HE PROCEEDS TO JOIN THE AGENCY UNDER ANOTHER NAME, AND PERSUADES PEOPLE TO TALK TO HIM. VERY EXCITING WITH DRUGS, STRANGE PARTIES AND PEOPLE. A GOLLANCZ HARDBACK EDITION. 352 PAGES. AN EX-LIBRARY BOOK. S/H.

104519 SAYERS, DOROTHY L THE NINE TAILORS Ł 3.00

ANOTHER LORD PETER WIMSEY TALE, SET IN THE NORFOLK COUNTRYSIDE, RATHER LIKE A JANE AUSTEN NOVEL, WITH A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE, BUT INCLUDING DEATH AND THEFT, FEAR AND TERROR, WITH THE GREAT CHURCH DOMINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE, AND ITS MAGNIFICENT PEAL OF BELLS, AND THE SWEEPING POWER OF THE UNLEASHED WATERS POURING OVER THE SHRINKING LAND. THE PEOPLE ALL RING TRUE, THE VILLAGE IDIOT, OLD HEZEKIAH WHO HAS TOLLED THE PASSING BELL FOR THE DEAD FOR SIXTY YEARS, THE VICAR AND HIS WIFE, AND THE STORY WEAVES IN AND OUT OF THE CHARACTERS. THIS IS A DETECTIVE NOVEL, NOT JUST AN INTELLECTUAL PUZZLE OR A RIPPING YARN. GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 237 PAGES. 104518 SAYERS, DOROTHY L STRONG POISON Ł 3.00

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1930, THIS IS THE NEW ADULT WIMSEY, WHO ADMITS THAT HE IS NOT PLAYING AT DETECTION, BUT WORKING FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY, AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS FALL IN LOVE, AS MOST OF US DO. BEING LORD PETER. HE FALLS FOR THE PRISONER IN THE DOCK, ACCUSED OF THE POISONING OF HER LOVER, AND THE EVIDENCE IS STRONGLY AGAINST HER. LORD PETER HAS A MONTH BEFORE THE RETRIAL TO FIND THE REAL MURDERER. EXCELLENT STORY, WITH LOTS OF OLD CHARACTERS POPPING UP. INCIDENTLY, THERE IS AN EXCELLENT DOUBLE CASSATTE VIDEO, STARRING EDWARD PETHERIDGE AND HARRIET WALTER, OF THIS. NEL PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104515 SAYERS, DOROTHY L & EUSTACE, ROBERT THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE Ł 3.00

WRITTEN BY DOROTHY L. SAYERS & ROBERT EUSTACE. WHAT STRANGE HAPPENINGS DID THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE REVEAL WHEN GEORGE HARRISON WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS LONELY SHACK IN THE DEVONSHIRE WOODS? HOW WAS IT THAT HARRISON, AN EXPERT ON DEADLY FUNGI, ATE A LARGE QUANTITY OF THE DEATH-DEALING MUSCARINE? WAS IT HATRED OF HIS FATHER'S SECOND WIFE, MARGARET HARRISON, THAT CAUSED PAUL TO SEND THE INCRIMINATING LETTERS TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS AND SO REVEAL THE STRANGE HAPPENINGS IN THE HOUSE IN BAYSWATER? A FOUR SQUARE PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104521 SAYLOR, STEVEN RUBICON Ł 4.89

CAESAR AND HIS TROOPS HAVE CROSSED THE RUBICON AND ARE MARCHING ON ROME. POMPEY, HIS RIVAL, IS PREPARING TO FLEE SOUTH WITH HIS LOYAL TROOPS, BUT BEFORE HE LEAVES ROME HIS COUSIN AND PROTEGE IS FOUND DEAD, GAROTTED IN GORDIANUS'S GARDEN. POMPEY DEMANDS THAT THE FINDER DISCOVER AND NAME THE KILLER, AND TAKES HIS SON-IN-LAW AS HOSTAGE. EXCELLENT THRILLER, AS USUAL. ROBINSON PAPERBACK EDITION. 273 PAGES. S/H.

104522 SEDLEY, KATE THE BROTHERS OF GLASTONBURY Ł 4.19

ANOTHER ROGER THE CHAPMAN MEDIEVAL MYSTERY. IT IS AUGUST 1476 AND ROGER HAS BEEN ASKED BY THE DUKE PF CLARENCE TO ESCORT A YOUNG BRIDE TRAVELLING TO MEET HER BETROTHED. BUT PETER AND HIS BROTHER HAVE VANISHED, AND THE ONLY CLUE IS A ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN A STRANGE LANGUAGE. THIS IS THE SEVENTH ROGER MYSTERY, AND EXCELLENT. HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 279 PAGES. S/H.

104525 SEIFERT, ADELE THREE BLIND MICE Ł 3.00

IN THIS THRILLING AND UNCANNY MYSTERY, CONFLICT BEHIND THE SCENES IS THE DOMINATING NOTE UNDER THE PLEASANT SURFACE OF LIFE IN A WEALTHY SUBURB. IT CULMINATE IN SUDDEN AND BRUTAL DEATH. THERE IS SELFISH LINDA DOUGLASS, HER FIRST HUSBAND WILL SHARPE AND HER LATEST ONE MEREDITH DOUGLASS, WHOSE FIRST WIFE JOYCE STILL LOVES HIM. LINDA VENTS HER SPITE ON HER STEP-SISTER AND HER OWN BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER BARBARA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANTAGONISM BETWEEN HER MOTHER AND PHELIM HOLLAN. LASTLY THERE IS GEORGE HOLLAN - THE MYSTERY MAN OF THE STORY. ONE OF THESE CHARACTERS IS A MURDERER - BUT WHICH ONE? A FIRST EDITION UK PAPERBACK. S/H.

104527 SEYMOUR, GERALD A SONG IN THE MORNING Ł 3.00

JEEZ CURWEN, A BRITISH UNDERCOVER AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA REPORTING ON THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, HAS RECEIVED THE DEATH PENALTY FOR HIS PART IN A JOB IN WHICH HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. HE IS INCARCERATED IN THE MAXIMUM SECURITY JAIL OUTSIDE PRETORIA, AWAITING EXCUTION. BY THE TIME HIS SON JACK, ABANDONED BY JEEZ 25 YEARS AGO, DISCOVERS THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS WASHED ITS HANDS OF HIS FATHER'S CASE, JEEZ HAS ONLY THREE WEEKS TO LIVE. BUT JACK, THOUGH YOUNG AND UNTRIED, IS DETERMINED TO SEE THE FATHER HE HAS NEVER KNOWN - AND TO SET HIM FREE. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 364 PAGES. S/H.

104529 SHELDON, CHARLIE FAT CHANCE Ł 3.00

EVERYONE WANTS SOMETHING FROM SOMEBODY. WENTWORTH WANTS TO EMBEZZLE HIS COMPANY'S TOP-SECRET FORMULA FOR CHOICE, A WONDER DRUG THAT FLUSHES FAT FROM ARTERIES, AND SELL IT TO A RIVAL FIRM. JEAN NEWMAN, WHOSE HUSBAND HAS ACCESS TO THE CHOICE FORMULA, WANT'S THE BLACKMAILER'S PHOTOS THAT CAUGHT HER AND HER PAL FRANK BOOZED UP IN A BALTIMORE HOTEL IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO. THE BLACKMAILER, CASHIERED COP HENRY FALLON, WANTS A PIECE OF EVERYBODY'S ACTION. IT'S A SCAM WORTH MILLIONS IN HOT CASH AND COLD BLOOD. AND IT'S GETTING DIRTY AND DANGEROUS WHEN JEAN CALLS HER LOVER BOY FRANK AND THE ONE-NIGHT-STAND GANG REFUSES TO TAKE IT LYING DOWN… A POCKET PAPERBACK EDITION. 259 PAGES. S/H.

104530 SIMENON, GEORGES IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Ł 3.00

THIS BOOK IS THE SELF-PORTRAIT OF A FRENCH DEFENCE COUNSEL WHOSE GILT-EDGED SUCCESS HAS BEEN BASED ON A SERIES OF DUBIOUS CASES AND WHO NOW MOVES IN A WORLD OF POLITICIANS, AMBASSADORS, BUSINESSMEN AND FASHIONABLE WOMEN. MAITRE GOBILLOT IS SUDDENLY IMPELLED, NEVERTHELESS, TO EMBARK ON A SECRET DIARY TO OPEN A DOSSIER ON HIMSELF. YVETTE, THE PROSTITUTE WHOSE DEFENCE HE HAD RIGGED, WHO BRAZENLY OFFERED TO PAY WITH HER BODY AND AFTERWARDS BECAME HIS MISTRESS, PROVIDES THE IMPULSE. BUT GOBILLOT KNOWS HIS CONFESSION MUST GO DEEPER THAN A RECENT OBSESSION WITH A GIRL. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THE INSPECTOR MAIGRET. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 157 PAGES. S/H.

104537 SIMPSON, DOROTHY ELEMENT OF DOUBT Ł 10.00

AN INSPECTOR THANET MYSTERY. MRS NERINE TARRANT HAD EVERYTHING A WOMAN COULD WISH FOR: BEAUTY, HEALTH, A FAMOUS SURGEON FOR A HUSBAND, A HANDSOME, INTELLIGENT SON, EVERY LUXURY THAT MONEY COULD BUY - EVEN AN EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPER TO PROVIDE HER WITH A LIFE OF EASE AND COMFORT. WHEN HER BODY IS DISCOVERED BELOW THE BALCONY OF HER PALATIAL COUNTRY HOME, INSPECTOR THANET IS CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE. AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO SHORTAGE OF SUSPECTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY - OR MOTIVE - TO KILL NERINE TARRANT. THE COMPLICATED FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SHEER NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN AND AROUND THE HOUSE MEAN THAT THANET AND HIS FAITHFUL SERGEANT LINEHAM ARE FACED WITH THEIR MOST PERPLEXING INVESTIGATION YET. NOR HAS ANYTHING PREPARED THEM FOR THE DARKER SIDE OF THE TARRANTS' LAVISH LIFESTYLE. A MICHAEL JOSEPH HARDBACK EDITION. 265 PAGES. S/H.

104541 SMITH, JOAN CAPRICCIO Ł 2.00

CASSIE NEWTON LANDED AN IDYLLIC SUMMER JOB - WORKING IN A CASTLE AND LIVING WITH HER CELEBRITY UNCLE, THE VIOLINIST VICTOR MAZZINI. BUT HER DREAM OF MEETING THE RICH AND FAMOUS TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE THE DAY HER UNCLE VICTOR DISAPPEARED. NO-ONE KNEW WHY THE GREAT MAESTRO VANISHED BEFORE HIS TORONTO CONCERT… AND CASSIE KNEW ONLY THAT THE AMERICAN TOURIST WHO OFFERED HIS HELP WAS FASCINATING HER, WINNING HER OVER AND CONCEALING SOMETHING THAT COULD ENDANGER HER LIFE. BUT DID THE MYSTERY OF HER UNCLE'S DISAPPEARANCE LIE IN HIS EMPTY VIOLIN CASE? WAS THE CHARMING STRANGER LYING ABOUT HIS REAL IDENTITY? AND, IF SHE TRUSTED THE WRONG MAN, WOULD CASSIE BE LED DOWN A TWISTED ROAD OF FEAR AND DESIRE… AND LURED TO A VERY DEADLY END? A JOVE PAPERBACK EDITION. SUFFERED TWO PUNCH HOLES ON FRONT COVER. 185 PAGES. S/H.

104543 STAYNES & STOREY GOODBYE, NANNY GRAY Ł 7.00

WHEN THE BODY OF RETIRED NANNY PHOEBE GRAY IS FOUND DECOMPOSING IN THE WOODS NEAR HER HOME, THE POLICE SOON REALISE THAT SHE DIDN'T DIE OF NATURAL CAUSES. YET WHO WOULD MURDER AN OLD LADY, LOVED BY HER FORMER CHARGES - SO MUCH, IN FACT, THAT ONE HAD RECENTLY LEFT HER HIS FAMILY FORTUNE? BUT THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF SUSPECTS. SIR VALENTINE HERNE, FOR INSTANCE, WHO INHERITED THE TITLE AND ESTATE BUT NOT THE MONEY WHEN HIS BROTHER DIED. OR CAREY SIDGWICK, NANNY GRAY'S NIECE AND HEIR, WHO IS VERY QUICK OFF THE MARK WITH HER SPENDING PLANS. AND AS SUPERINTENDENT ROBERT BONE GETS TO KNOW THE VILLAGERS OF SECRETIVE SAXHURST BETTER, OTHER SUSPECTS START TO EMERGE. A HEADLINE PAPERBACK EDITION. 218 PAGES. S/H.

104539 STEWART, MARY MADAM, WILL YOU TALK? Ł 4.00

A UNIFORM EDITION. THE AFFAIR BEGAN SO VERY QUIETLY. CHARITY SELBORNE AND HER FRIEND LOUISE ARRIVED AT THE ENCHANTING WALLED CITY OF AVIGNON ANTICIPATING THEIR SUMMER HOLIDAY WITH PLEASURE. THERE WAS NO CLOUD IN THE SKY; NO SOMBRE SHADOW ON THE MACHICOLATED WALLS; NO PIERCING GLANCE FROM AN ENIGMATIC STRANGER AS THEY DREW UP IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL TISTET-VEDENE. HOW WAS CHARITY TO KNOW, THAT LOVELY QUIET AFTERNOON, THAT MOST OF THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY WERE AT THAT MOMENT ASSEMBLED IN THE NEAT, UNPRETENTIOUS PROVENCAL HOTEL? ALL BUT ONE, THAT WAS, AND HE, WITH MURDER ON HIS MIND, WAS NOT VERY FAR AWAY, MOVING, UNDER THAT BLAZING SOUTHERN SUN, IN THE DARK CIRCLE OF HIS OWN PERSONAL HELL. A CIRCLE THAT NARROWED, GRADUALLY, UPON THE HOTEL TISTET-VEDENE, AVIGNON. A HODDER & STOUGHTON HARDBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104544 STEWART, MARY MY BROTHER MICHAEL Ł 2.00

ONLY A MOMENT BEFORE CAMILLA HAVEN HAD BEEN SITTING QUIETLY IN A CROWDED ATHENS CAFÉ WRITING TO A FRIEND, "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO ME…". THEN, WITHOUT WARNING, A STRANGER APPROACHED, THRUST A SET OF CAR KEYS AT HER AND POINTED TO A HUGE BLACK TOURING CAR PARKED AT THE CURB. "THE CAR FOR DELPHI, MADEMOISELLE. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH," HE WHISPERED AND DISAPPEARED. FROM THAT MOMENT CAMILLA EMBARKED ON A NIGHTMARE OF INTRIGUE AND TERROR BEYOND HER WILDEST DAYDREAMS. A CREST PAPERBACK EDITION. 240 PAGES. S/H.

104545 STEWART, MARY THORNYHOLD Ł 3.00

TO GILLY, THE HOUSE, DEEP IN THE WILD WOOD, WAS AN ENCHANTMENT. HER VERY OWN ENCHANTMENT, LEFT TO HER BY THE COUSIN WHOSE OCCASIONAL, MAGICAL VISITS HAD BRIGHTENED HER CHILDHOOD. AND AS SHE EXPLORED, SHE DISCOVERED MORE ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO HAD COME TO SEEM LIKE A FAIRY GODMOTHER TO HER: HER HERBALIST'S SKILLS, HER STILL ROOM, HER ABILITIES TO FORESEE AND TO HEAL. SHE DISCOVERED ALSO THAT THE LOCAL PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT GILLY HAD INHERITED NOT JUST THE HOUSE BUT THE MAGICAL SPELL-WEAVING POWERS THAT LIVED ON IN THE HOUSE AND GARDEN. SLOWLY, QUIETLY, SHE CAME TO REALISE THAT THEY WERE RIGHT. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104547 STEWART, MARY THUNDER ON THE RIGHT Ł 2.00

A STRANGE, TENSE AND FAST-MOVING NOVEL SET IN THE PYRENEES. JENNY SILVER SETS OUT FOR THE PYRENEES NOT MERELY TO ENJOY HER HOLIDAY BUT IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER WHY HER COUSIN GILLIAN HAS ENTERED A CONVENT. BUT ON HER ARRIVAL SHE FINDS HERSELF CAUGHT UP IN A MESH OF INTRIGUE. HER COUSIN HAS VANISHED AND THERE SEEMS TO BE EVIDENCE THAT SHE IS DEAD. BUT JENNY REFUSES TO BELIEVE IT AND THE RESULTANT SEARCH THROWS HER HEADLONG INTO A DRAMATIC ADVENTURE, FULL OF DOUBLE-DEALING AND MYSTERY. A HODDER PAPERBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104546 STEWART, MARY THUNDER ON THE RIGHT Ł 1.00

104548 STEWART, MARY TOUCH NOT THE CAT Ł 3.00

AFTER THE TRAGIC DEATH OF HER FATHER, BRYONY ASHLEY RETURNED FROM ABROAD TO FIND THAT HIS ESTATE WOULD BECOME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HER COUSIN EMORY. ASHLEY COURT WITH ITS LOAD OF DEBT WAS NO LONGER HER WORRY. BUT THERE HAD BEEN SOMETHING ODD ABOUT HER FATHER'S SUDDEN DEATH. BRYONY HAD INHERITED THE ASHLEY 'SIGHT' AND SO, SHE KNEW, HAD ONE OF THE MALE ASHLEYS. SINCE CHILDHOOD THE TWO HAD COMMUNICATED THROUGH THOUGHT PATTERNS, THOUGH BRYONY HAD NO IDEA OF HIS IDENTITY. NOW SHE WAS DETERMINED TO FIND HIM. BUT DANGER AS WELL AS ROMANCE WAITED FOR HER IN THE OLD MOATED HOUSE, WITH ITS CURIOUS GARDEN MAZE AND ITS TRAGIC MEMORIES. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 285 PAGES. S/H.

104550 STEWART, MARY WILDFIRE AT MIDNIGHT Ł 3.00

SHE WAS THERE, ALL RIGHT. SHE WAS LYING IN A LITTLE CURLED HUDDLE, HER BACK AGAINST THE WALL OF THE CAVE. HER EYES WERE SHUT AND THE BRIGHT FACE THAT I REMEMBERED WAS A FRIGHTENING GREY-WHITE, WITH A FILM OF SWEAT OVER IT LIKE CELLOPHANE. I THRUST A SHAKING HAND INSIDE THE BRAVE RED JACKET AND TRIED TO FIND HER HEART. A MAN'S SHADOW FELL ACROSS THE FLOOR OF THE CAVE. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104549 STEWART, MARY WILDFIRE AT MIDNIGHT Ł 3.00

104557 STOUT, REX IF DEATH EVER SLEPT Ł 3.00

A REX STOUT MYSTERY. EVEN FROM THE PERFUMED SANCTUARY OF HIS ORCHID ROOM, NERO WOLFE CAN STILL SMELL A RAT - SUPER-RAT OTIS JARRELL, WHO OFFERS WOLFE A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR ADVANCE TO SEND ARCHIE GOODWIN ON A SNAKE HUNT. THE SNAKE IN QUESTION IS SUSAN JARRELL'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW - BUT THE SNAKE TURNS CHARMER AND ARCHIE GETS LANDED IN A BASKET OF TROUBLE. THEN SOMEONE SHOOTS JARRELL'S EX-SECRETARY AND FORKED STICKS GO OUT OF FASHION. FAST. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104554 STOUT, REX THE SILENT SPEAKER Ł 3.00

A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY. WHO KILLED CHEYNEY BOONE? WHO STOLE A MONKEY WRENCH AT THE CIVIC BANQUET AND BATTERED TO DEATH THE MAIN SPEAKER? CHEYNEY BOONE, A PROMINENT INDUSTRIALIST, WAS NOT WITHOUT ENEMIES - A POWERFUL ONES AT THAT. AND WHEN NERO WOLFE IS CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE, HE FINDS LITTLE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. AFTER ALL, AS HIS ASSISTANT, ARCHIE GOODWIN, PUTS IT - 'EVEN AN OLD FEMALE BRIDGE PLAYER CAN SWING A MONKEY WRENCH!'. THE FBI ARE BAFFLED AND WOLFE, TRUE TO FORM, DECIDES TO HOLD A PARTY. HE INVITES ALL THE SUSPECTS - BUT ONE OF THE GUESTS DOESN'T TURN UP. A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104552 STOUT, REX TOO MANY CLIENTS Ł 3.00

A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY. WHEN NERO WOLFE'S BANK BALANCE THREATENS TO DIP BELOW SEA LEVEL, ARCHIE GOES IN SEARCH OF A CLIENT… AND STUMBLES ACROSS A SECRET LOVE NEST AND A MURDER MYSTERY THAT WILL EITHER EARN THE GREAT DETECTIVE A VERY LARGE FEE - OR A VERY LONG STRETCH IN JAIL. STEP INTO THE UNASSUMING THIRTY-FIFTH STREET BROWNSTONE AND JOIN IN THE ASTOUNDING EXPLOITS OF NERO WOLFE. MARVEL AT HIS DAILY BEER CONSUMPTION, HIS UNSURPASSED APPETITE, THE INCREDIBLE EXPANSE OF HIS YELLOW SILK PYJAMAS. BEAR WITNESS TO HIS UNWAVERING, OFTEN INFURIATING ADDICTION TO FINEE FOOD, GOOD BOOKS, BEAUTIFUL ORCHIDS AND CUSTOM-MADE CHAIRS. EMPATHIZE WITH HIS CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT ARCHIE GOODWIN, ARCHETYPAL PRIVATE EYE AND MAN OF ACTION, WHOSE PRIMARY FUNCTION IS PRODDING HIS IMMENSE EMPLOYER INTO MOTION. SEE FOR YOURSELF WHY, THROUGH A HUNDRED MILLION COPIES AND SEVENTY-TWO CASES, THE ADVENTURES OF AMERICA'S LARGEST PRIVATE DETECTIVE AND HIS EXTENDED FAMILY CONTINUE TO CAPTIVATE AND ENTHRALL READERS AROUND THE WORLD. DISCOVER NERO WOLFE - THE GREATEST DETECTIVE OF THEM ALL. A BANTAM PAPERBACK EDITION. 188 PAGES. S/H.

104559 TAYLOR, ANDREW LOVER OF THE GRAVE Ł 4.00

ANOTHER LYDMOUTH TALE WITH DETECTIVE INSPECTOR THORNHILL AND SERGEANT KIRBY. A DEAD MAN IS FOUND SUSPENDED FROM THE HAMGING TREE IN A SMALL VILLAGE. REPORTER JILL FRANCIS IS ALSO INVOLVED WITH THE SCHOOL WHERE THE DEAD MAN TAUGHT, AND ALSO WITH THE PEEPING TOM SEEN LOCALLY. NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY PAPERBACK EDEITION. 309 PAGES. S/H.

104553 TAYLOR, ANDREW CAROLINE MINUSCULE Ł 3.00

CAROLINE MINUSCULE IS NOT A NOTORIOUS FEMME FATALE - IT IS THE NAME OF A STYLE OF MEDIEVAL SCRIPT. BUT WHEN A LEADING AUTHORITY ON THE SCRIPT IS MURDERED, IT'S APPARENT THAT MORE THAN SCHOLARLY INTEREST IS AT STAKE HERE. FOR CENTURIES, THE CAROLINE HAS HELD A SECRET: THE WHEREABOUTS OF AN EXTREMELY VALUABLE CACHE OF DIAMONDS. WILLIAM DOUGAL, A CHARMING, UNPRINCIPLED GRADUATE STUDENT SEDUCED BY THE PROSPECT OF EASY MONEY, INNOCENTLY EMBARKS ON A TREASURE HUNT. OTHER TREASURE SEEKERS, HOWEVER, HAVE A DIFFERENT SET OF CLUES AND PLAY A FAR MORE DANGEROUS GAME. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 234 PAGES. S/H.

104558 TAYLOR, ANDREW SUFFOCATING NIGHT Ł 2.00

ANOTHER LYDMOUTH MYSTERY WITH DETECTIVE INSPECTOR RICHARD THORNHILL AND REPORTER JILL FRANCIS. SQUATTERS MOVE INTO A DISUSED MILITARY CAMP NEAR LYDMOUTH, AND PROVOKE VARYING REACTIONS, ONE OF THEM BEING MURDER. NEL PAPERBACK EDITION. 372 PAGES. S/H.

104560 TEY, JOSEPHINE BRAT FARRAR Ł 4.00

IT WAS EIGHT YEARS SINCE PATRICK HAD VANISHED LEAVING HIS PITIFUL NOTE: 'I'M SORRY BUT I CAN'T BEAR IT ANY LONGER. DON'T BE ANGRY WITH ME, PATRICK.' NOW, IT SEEMED, HE HAD RETURNED - JUST IN TIME TO CLAIM THE FAMILY INHERITANCE. BUT, IF PATRICK REALLY HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE, WHO WAS THIS MYSTERIOUS YOUNG MAN CLAIMING TO BE HIM AND CALLING HIMSELF BRAT FARRAR? A HEINEMANN HARDBACK EDITION. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH STAMPS. 275 PAGES. S/H.

104561 TEY, JOSEPHINE THE DAUGHTER OF TIME Ł 10.00

JOSEPHINE TEY WAS A PLAYWRIGHT AS WELL AS DETECTIVE STORY WRITER WHO WROTE SEVERAL POWERFUL NOVELS. THIS IS DIFFERENT. IT IS A LOOK AT RICHARD THE THIRD FROM THIS CENTURY. INSPECTOR GRANT HAS A BROKEN LEG, AND TO BEGUILE THE TIME IN HOSPITAL HE TAKES UP THE STUDY OF THE MURDER OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER. EXCELLENT STORY. A FIRST EDITION PENGUIN PAPERBACK IN FINE CONDITION. S/H.

104562 TEY, JOSEPHINE THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR Ł 3.00

ANOTHER JOSEPHINE TEY TOUR DE FORCE.AN INNOCENT YOUNG GIRL HAS BEEN MISSING FOR SOME TIME, AND WHEN SHE TURNS UP TO EXPLAIN THAT SHE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED BY TWO WOMEN AND HELD PRISONER, STARVED AND BEATEN, FOR SOME TIME, SHE IS BELIEVED. THE TWO WOMEN WHO INHABIT THE HOUSE ARE ACCUSED AND PUT ON TRIAL. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 253 PAGES. S/H.

104563 TEY, JOSEPHINE MISS PYM DISPOSES Ł 3.00

LEYS PHYSICAL TRAINING COLLEGE WAS FAMOUS FOR ITS EXCELLENT DISCIPLINE, AND MISS LUCY PYM IS PLEASED AND FLATTERED TO BE INVITED BY HER OLD SCHOOL FRIEND HENRIETTA, NOW ITS HEAD, TO LECTURE ON PSYCHOLOGY TO THE STUDENTS. BUT WHILE SHE IS THERE A DEATH OCCURS, AND MISS PYM IS FORCED TO CONFRONT THE FACT THAT SOMEONE THERE HAS A VERY SICK MIND. EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN, AND HAS ALL THE VIVIDNESS OF A NIGHTMARE. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104564 TEY, JOSEPHINE TO LOVE AND BE WISE Ł 3.00

AN UNUSUAL BOOK, AS ALL THE BOOKS BY MISS TEY ARE, BUT SUPERFICIALLY SIMPLE. LESLIE SEARLE IN A BRILLIANTLY TALENTED AND ULTRA-FASHIONABLE PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO GOES TO SPEND A FEW DAYS IN A QUIET ENGLISH VILLAGE, AND IS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. HAS THERE BEEN A MURDER COMITTED, IF SO BY WHOM, IF NOT, WHERE HAS HE GONE?. DETECTIVE INSPECTOR GRANT AND SERGEANT WILLIAMS ARE GIVEN THE TASK OF FINDING THE TRUTH. A PAN PAPERBACK EDITION. 191 PAGES. S/H.

104565 THOMAS, DONALD JEKYLL, ALIAS HYDE Ł 2.50

THE DARK REALITY OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE LAID BARE IN THE CASEBOOK OF INSPECTOR SWAIN. THE 'PARLIAMENTARY MURDER' OF 1884 LEADS THE INSPECTOR AND HIS PORTLY SERGEANT LUMLEY FROM PLUSH DRAWING-ROOM TO MADHOUSE CELL IN SEARCH OF THE LINK BETWEEN A COWARD IN THE RED-COATED RANKS AT ISANDHLWANA, A KILLER IN CHEYNE WALK AND THE SATANIC PERSONA OF EDWARD HYDE. A PAPERMAC PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104567 TIMLIN, MARK ASHES BY NOW Ł 3.49

A NICK SHARMAN MYSTERY. GRITTY BRITISH CRIME TALE OF A COP GONE BAD WITH PLENTY OF SLEAZE AND INTERESTING CHARACTERS. A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 291 PAGES. S/H.

104568 TIMLIN, MARK PAINT IT BLACK Ł 2.00

A NICK SHARMAN MYSTERY. SHARMAN'S SETTLED DOWN. THE BOOZE AND THE GUNS AND THE DRUGS ARE JUST A HAPPY MEMORY AND THE BAD BOY'S LIVING IN WEDDED BLISS WITH DAWN THE EX-STRIPPER NOW NICK'S NEW PARTNER. BUT THE OLD SKILLS ARE ATILL THERE. WHEN SHARMAN'S FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER GOES MISSING HE FINDS HIMSELF CATAPULTED BACK INTO THE WORLD HE SHOULD HAVE LEFT BEHIND. AND WHEN HE STARTS RIGHTING WRONGS IN HIS OWN WAY SHARMAN, ONCE AGAIN, FINDS HIMSELF PLAYING FOR KEEPS. A VISTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104569 TIMLIN, MARK SHARMAN AND OTHER FILTH Ł 2.00

A SHARMAN MYSTERY. AT THE END THEY HAD SO MUCH ON HIM HE COULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT THEIR SAY-SO. NOT JUST WHAT HE'D DONE FOR THEM AS WELL. HIS NAME WAS SHIT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE. SO THEY CAME UP WITH ONE MORE JOB, THE BIG ONE. BUT THEY SNARED HIM WITH A HONEY TRAP AND WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE WAS MAD AND ARMED AND READY TO KILL… A VISTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 320 PAGES. S/H.

104570 TIMLIN, MARK A STREET THAT RHYMED AT 3AM Ł 4.19

A SHARMAN MYSTERY. SHARMAN'S CHRISTMAS WITH HIS DAUGHTER JUDITH STARTS WITH THE WORST OF GIFTS: NEWS THAT HIS EX-WIFE, LAURA, AND HER FAMILY HAVE BEEN KILLED IN A BOMB EXPLOSION ON AN AEROPLANE. SHARMAN AND JUDITH SEEK CONSOLATION FROM EACH OTHER - BUT SHARMAN NEEDS TO TAKE HIS MIND OFF THINGS. PUSHED BY JUDITH, HE ACCEPTS A SEEMINGLY STRAIGHTFORWARD, IF UNLOVELY, JOB BABYSITTING A BIG-TIME AMERICAN DEALER WHO'S IN CUSTODY BUT DOING ONE LAST DEAL - ONLY THIS TIME ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LAW. BUT WHEN SHARMAN'S AROUND, BABYSITTING'S ONE STEP AWAY FROM CARNAGE AND DISASTER; WANTED BY THE POLICE, HE TURNS FOR HELP FROM THE MOST UNLIKELY OF SOURCES - THE YARDIE GANGS THAT INFEST THE ESTATES OF BRIXTON IN SOUTH LONDON. AND WHAT BEGAN AS WORK TURNS TO VENGEANCE FOR HIS EX-WIFE'S MURDER AND ENDS UP A FULLY AUTOMATIC AND CASUALTY-STREWN BATTLE TO SAVE THE INNOCENCE - AND THE LIFE - OF HIS DAUGHTER. A VISTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104572 TRENHAILE, JOHN AGAINST ALL REASON Ł 3.49

CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST THELMA VESTREY INHERITS A NUMBER OF SERIOUSLY DISTURBED TEENAGE PATIENTS WHEN SHE TAKES UP A NEW POST IN PARADISE BAY, CALIFORNIA. THE MOST DIFFICULT OF THESE, SPOILT RICH KID RICHO DELACROIX, SEEMS BEYOND HER HELP. IT IS NOT UNTIL HIS MOTHER, AURELIA, BEGS THELMA TO HELP PROTECT HER SON FROM HIS OWN FATHER THAT SHE BEGINS TO SUSPECT THAT RICHO MAY BE IN GREAT DANGER. THERE IS SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG IN HIS FAMILY. THELMA'S WORST FEARS SEEMS TO BE CONFIRMED WHEN AURELIA'S BODY IS FOUND. IT LOOKS LIKE SUICIDE; THELMA REALIZES THAT IT COULD BE MURDER. JOINING FORCES WITH FBI AGENT DANIEL KROZGROW, SHE SOON FINDS HERSELF CAUGHT UP IN A CASE WAY BEYOND HER EXPERIENCE: A MACABRE AND HIDEOUSLY DANGEROUS JOURNEY THROUGH THE GRIM RECESSES OF AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY HISTORY. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 304 PAGES. S/H.

104574 TURNBULL, PETER EMBRACING SKELETONS Ł 4.19

WHEN THE BODY OF A CHILD IS FOUND - PART INCINERATED, HALF STARVED AND WORSE - THE DETECTIVES OF YORK CID ARE SICKENED: THEY HAVE SEEN SOME SHOCKING DEATHS IN THEIR CAREERS BUT THIS MURDER IS DIFFERENT. DISTURBING UNDERCURRENTS UNDERLIE THE INVESTIGATION ALMOST FROM THE START. AN EYEWITNESS OFFERS EVIDENCE AS TO WHO DUMPED THE BODY BUT SOON THE INVESTIGATING OFFICERS SENSE A MORE WIDESPREAD EVIL THAN THE MURDER OF A SINGLE CHILD. A YOUNG BURGLAR, A LOCAL LANDOWNER, A CONVICTED PORNOGRAPHER, A SUPPOSED SCHIZOPHRENIC - ALL APPEAR TO BE INVOLVED - BUT IN WHAT? IT'S CLEAR THAT THE ANSWERS WILL ROCK THE FORCE TO ITS CORE AND THE POLICE ARE FACED WITH AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TASK - ONE GIVEN AN ADDED EDGE WHEN THE SUSPICION ARISES THAT THERE IS A TRAITOR IN THEIR MIDST. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 203 PAGES. S/H.

104575 TURNBULL, PETER TWO WAY CUT Ł 2.50

IT WAS PC PHIL HAMILTON OF GLASGOW'S P DIVISION WHO FOUND THE CORPSE, ON A STRETCH OF RAIN-SODDEN WASTE GROUND, ITS SEVERED HEAD RESTING NEATLY ON ITS CHEST. FORENSIC EVIDENCE REVEALED THAT THE MURDERED MAN, A METICULOUS, HARD-WORKING ACCOUNTANT, HAD BEEN KILLED ELSEWHERE AND HIS BODY WASHED AND LAID OUT IN IMMACULATE NEW CLOTHING. THIS RITUAL WAS ONLY ONE OF THE PUZZLES P DIVISION FACED IN NAILING THE MURDERER. WHO WAS THE ORIENTAL LADY THE VICTIM HAD STAYED WITH IN A SALTCOATS HOTEL? HOW WAS HE INVOLVED WITH THE ZAMBESI CLUB? AND WHAT WAS HIS CONNECTION WITH THE CHINESE RESTAURANT WHICH WAS BURNT DOWN ON THE NIGHT FOLLOWING HIS DEATH? A FONTANA PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104579 VALENTINE, DEBORAH UNORTHODOX METHODS Ł 2.50

THE ARTY COMMUNITY AROUND LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA, IS SHAKEN BY A SERIES OF PICTURE THEFTS, THEN BY MURDER. A COMMUNITY AESTHETE ADMITS TO THE THEFTS - BUT WHERE ARE THE PICTURES AND IS HE ALSO A MURDERER? A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 189 PAGES. S/H.

104578 VALENTINE, DEBORAH FINE DISTINCTIONS Ł 2.99

EX-COP TURNED AUTHOR KEVIN BRYCE AND SCULPTRESS KATHARINE CRAIG NOW LIVE IN RURAL IRELAND. AFTER A ROW KATHARINE DISAPPEARS AND THE NEXT BRYCE HEARS IS THAT HER CAR HAS BEEN FOUND, WITH BLOODSTAINS ON THE SEAT. WITH A PSYCHOPATHIC IRA RENEGADE ON THE LOOSE IN THE VICINITY, BRYCE AND THE GARDAI EMBARK ON A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING WOMAN. MEANWHILE, IN DUBLIN, MICK CRONIN PONDERS THE MISERIES OF HIS EXISTENCE. EMBITTERED BY LIFE AND LOVE, HE IS AN UNSTABLE MAN WITH A GRUDGE AGAINST WOMEN… A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104581 VINE, BARBARA A FATAL INVERSION Ł 3.49

RUTH RENDELL WRITING AS BARBARA VINE. IN THE LONG HOT SUMMER OF 1976, A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CAMPING IN WYVIS HALL. ADAM, RUFUS, SHIVA, VIVIEN AND ZOSIE HARDLY ASK WHY THEY ARE THERE, WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR HOW THEY ARE TO LIVE: THEY SCAVENGE, STEAL AND SELL THE FAMILY HEIRLOOMS. IN SHORT, THEY EXIST. TEN YEARS LATER, THE BODIES OF A WOMAN AND CHILD ARE DISCOVERED IN THE HALL'S ANIMAL CEMETERY. WHICH WOMAN? WHOSE CHILD? A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 317 PAGES. S/H.

104582 VINE, BARBARA GALLOWGLASS Ł 2.79

RUTH RENDELL WRITING AS BARBARA VINE. WHEN SANDOR SAVES LITTLE JOE FROM THE PATH OF A LONDON TUBE TRAIN HE CLAIMS HIS LIFE FOR HIMSELF. IN ADORATION AND GRATITUDE, JOE WILLINGLY OFFERS HIMSELF TO HIM, BECOMING SANDOR'S GALLOWGLASS, SERVANT TO THE CHIEF. A WEAVER OF MAGICAL STORIES, SANDOR ENTRANCES JOE WITH TALES OF A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS, ONCE KIDNAPPED, NOW HELD PRISONER IN A HUGE SUFFOLK MANSION, AWAITING RELEASE. AND SO SANDOR PLANS THE RESCUE OF THE PRINCESS AND FANTASY EDGES DANGEROUSLY TOWARDS FULFILMENT, DRAWING BOTH MASTER AND SLAVE INTO A MAELSTROM OF LOVE AND FEAR. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 296 PAGES. S/H.

104580 VINE, BARBARA GALLOWGLASS Ł 3.49

104584 WAINWRIGHT, JOHN CUL-DE-SAC Ł 5.00

JOHN DUXBURY'S DIARY DESCRIBED THE LAST MONTH OF A LONG MARRIAGE THAT ENDED IN DEATH AND TRAGEDY. THE WIFE DIED - AN ACCIDENT. BUT WAS IT? ONE 'WITNESS' THOUGHT OTHERWISE, THOUGH HE WAS KNOWN TO BE UNRELIABLE. NOTHING WAS CERTAIN OR FINAL. ON TO THIS SCENE CAME POLICE SERGEANT HARRY HARKER, AN INQUISITIVE AND RUTHLESS MAN, A MAN ANSWERABLE TO TWO AUTHORITIES - AND THEREFORE ANSWERABLE TO NO-ONE. HARKER TOOK A VIEW AND SET OUT TO PROVE IT. WAS MAUDE DUXBURY MURDERED OR WASN'T SHE? IF SHE HAD BEEN, THERE WAS ONLY ONE SUSPECT. A BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES HARDBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104586 WALLACE, ROBERT PAINT OUT Ł 2.50

ESSINGTON HOLT, UNSUCCESSFUL ART HUSTLER TURNED MILLIONAIRE, IS INTRIGUED WHEN AN OLD FRIEND FROM HIS OUTBACK DAYS SUGGESTS A MEETING IN PARIS. ROBERT CARBENTUS'S EXOTIC PAST AND CLAIM TO OWN A VAN GOGH HAVE ALWAYS FASCINATED ESSINGTON. UNFORTUNATELY THE MEETING IS POSTPONED - INDEFINITELY - COURTESY OF A TERRORIST BOMB. CURIOUS AS TO WHY ROBERT HAD BROKEN A THIRTY YEAR SILENCE, ESSINGTON VISITS THE CARBENTUS FAMILY HOME IN AMSTERDAM AND STEPS STRAIGHT INTO DANGER. A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104587 WATSON, COLIN MURDER MOST ENGLISH: HOPJOY WAS HERE Ł 4.00

A FLAXBOROUGH CHRONICLE. WHY WERE FOUR POLICEMEN SEEN CARRYING A BATH OUT OF MR PERIAM'S HOUSE IN BEATRICE AVENUE? WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE LODGER, BRIAN HOPJOY? WAS IT POSSIBLE THAT HE HAD BEEN HAMMERED TO DEATH AND HIS BODY DISSOLVED IN ACID? WHEN TWO HIGH-POWERED MI5 AGENTS DESCEND ON FLAXBOROUGH IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT HOPJOY, ALIAS F-7, WAS ONE OF THEIR MEN. NOT ONLY THEIR STYLE BUT ALSO THEIR THEORIES STRIKE INSPECTOR PURBRIGHT AS SOMEWHAT OVER-DRAMATIC. AS HE CONTINUES INVESTIGATIONS A NEW PICTURE BEGINS TO EMERGE. A MAGNUM PAPERBACK EDITION. 157 PAGES. S/H.

104532 WATSON, COLIN COFFIN, SCARCELY USED Ł 4.00

DOZENS OF LITTLE PORTS IN ENGLAND BOAST LEADING CITIZENS LIKE COUNCILLOR HAROLD CAROBLEAT, J.P., THE SHIP BROKER; OR MR MARCUS GWILL, OWNER OF THE FLAXBOROUGH CITIZEN; OR DR RUPERT HILLYARD; OR MR RODNEY GLOSS, THE LAWYER; OR EVEN THE AMIABLE UNDERTAKER NAB BRADLAW. TO THE TRAVELLER FROM THE SOUTH - OR INDEED, TO THE CHIEF CONSTABLE - ALL MIGHT SEEM TO BERIGHT AND COSY IN FLAXBOROUGH, EVEN WHEN GWILL WAS FOUND ELECTROCUTED UNDER A PYLON JUST SIX MONTHS AFTER HELPING TO COMMIT THE MORTAL REMAINS OF CAROBLEAT TO THE GRAVE. AFTER ALL, ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN, EVEN AMONG CLOSE FRIENDS. BUT INSPECTOR PURBRIGHT WAS LESS COMPLACENT. FOR GWILL'S MOUTH HAD, AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH, BEEN CRAMMED WITH MARSHMALLOW AND THAT DIDN'T SEEM NATURAL. BY THE TIME PURBRIGHT HAD TAKEN THE LID OFF THE COFFIN AND THE LID OFF THE TOWN, QUIET LITTLE FLAXBOROUGH WAS BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE PORT SAID. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 204 PAGES. S/H.

104590 WENTWORTH, PATRICIA THE LISTENING EYE Ł 3.00

A MISS SILVER MYSTERY. NO-ONE COULD HAVE GUESSED THAT PAULINA PAINE WAS STONE-DEAF. HER ABILITY TO LIP-READ WAS ASTONISHING. SO THE TWO MEN WHO MET THAT DAY DURING THE SHOWING OF A NEW ART EXHIBITION DID NOT REALISE UNTIL TOO LATE THAT THE MIDDLE-AGED TWEEDY FIGURE SITTING QUIETLY OUT OF EARSHOT HAD UNDERSTOOD EVERY WORD THEY SAID. AND IT HAD BEEN NO ORDINARY CONVERSATION. IN FACT PAULINA WAS SO SHAKEN BY ITS IMPLICATIONS THAT SHE WENT TO SEE MISS SILVER. IT WAS THE LAST THING SHE DID. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS SOON INVOLVED MISS SILVER IN MURDER AND ROBBERY. AND A VERY TENSE HOUSE-PARTY, WHERE ALL THE MEMBERS WERE LINKED IN SOME WAY TO PAULINA - AND ONE WAS A KILLER. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104591 WENTWORTH, PATRICIA THE WATERSPLASH Ł 3.00

A MISS SILVER MYSTERY. THE COUNTRY VILLAGE OF THE GREENINGS ENJOYED A YEAR-ROUND TRANQUILLITY WHICH WAS ONLY OCCASIONALLY BROKEN BY THE RATTLE OF CUP ON SAUCER AT VICARAGE TEA-PARTIES. BUT UNDERNEATH THIS SURFACE ATMOSPHERE LURKED A TINDER-DRY PASSION WHICH OWED ITS ORIGIN TO EVENTS IN THE RECENT PAST. WHEN THE SPARK WAS APPLIED - ALBEIT ACCIDENTALLY - THE RESULTANT BLAZE SWEPT HUNGRILY THROUGH THE VILLAGE. IT WAS A SITUATION IN WHICH MISS SILVER QUIETLY REVELLED AND IN THE HUNT FOR A BLOOD-THIRSTY KILLER HER WELL-KNOWN ASTUTENESS IN SUCH MATTERS WAS TAXED TO THE FULL. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 254 PAGES. S/H.

104593 WHITE, MARK J AN IDOL KILLING Ł 5.56

IT'S 2046. BRITAIN TEETERS ON THE BRINK OF TOTAL ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE. TONIGHT, EMPTI VEE, ROCKSTAR CELEBRITY, ECO-ACTIVIST AND LEADER OF THE ONE TRIBE TERRORIST COLLECTIVE, IS GOING TO PERFORM HIS LAST GIG IN FRONT OF A DYING WORLD. SOMEONE HAS BEEN SENT TO KILL HIM. MARY IS A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GROUPIE, GENETICALLY ALTERED AND ON SERIOUS DRUGS - SHE'S COME TO WATCH. MAX, DWAIN AND DILLON ARE INTERNAL SECURITY. THEY'RE ARMED TO THE TEETH - AND ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS. JOHNNY IS A THERM-SURFER AND RELUCTANT CONSCRIPT, ON THE WRONG SIDE OF A CLASS WAR. HE DOESN'T KNOW IF HE'S LOST HIS MEMORY - OR JUST HIS MIND. AN A K PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION. 222 PAGES. S/H.

104594 WHITNEY, PHYLLIS BLUE FIRE Ł 1.00

SUSAN VAN PELT, STILL MOURNING THE RECENT DEATH OF HER MOTHER, WAS HAPPY TO ACCEPT DIRK HOHENFIELD'S OFFER OF MARRIAGE. SHE HAD LAST SEEN HIM WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD AND HE WAS HER HERO, A BOY WITH BRIGHT FAIR HAIR AND BLUE EYES. TOGETHER THEY RETURNED TO SOUTH AFRICA - A COUNTRY SHE HAD LEFT SIXTEEN YEARS BEFORE WHEN HER PARENTS SEPARATED. BUT ON ARRIVAL IN CAPE TOWN SUSAN FOUND THAT HER ELDERLY FATHER WAS QUITE UNLIKE THE OGRE HER MOTHER HAD MADE HIM OUT TO BE. DETERMINED TO UNRAVEL THE PAST, SHE FOUND HERSELF CAUGHT UP IN THE PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT. UNKNOWN TO HIM, HER FATHER WAS BEING USED IN A DIAMOND SMUGGLING RACKET. HER FEAR DEEPENED AS THE NET OF TERROR CLOSED IN. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 255 PAGES. S/H.

104595 WHITNEY, PHYLLIS LISTEN FOR THE WHISPERER Ł 1.00

LEIGH HAD NEVER SEEN HER MOTHER LAURA, A FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS OF THE PAST. HER CAREER HAD ENDED ABRUPTLY WHEN A FILM DIRECTOR WAS FOUND DEAD ON THE SET. LAURA HAD RETIRED TO NORWAY TO LIVE AS A RECLUSE. WHEN HER FATHER DIED LEIGH DECIDED TO SEEK OUT THE MOTHER SHE HAD NEVER SEEN. LITTLE DID SHE IMAGINE THAT SHE WAS TO FIND HERSELF IN A HOUSE TAUT WITH SUSPICION AND LIVING IN DREAD OF THE WHISPERER'S EVIL PLOTS. A CORONET PAPERBACK EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104598 WILLIAMS, DAVID DEATH OF A PRODIGAL Ł 3.49

MERVYN DAVIES LEFT SOUTH WALES UNDER A CLOUD FORTY YEARS AGO BUT NOW HE'S BACK TO COLLECT A VAST INHERITANCE LEFT TO HIM BY HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND EDWIN EDWORTH. SOME PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED, OTHERS ARE DISGUSTED AT HIS GOOD FORTUNE - PARTICULARLY EDWORTH'S RELATIVES WHO ARE LEFT NOTHING IN HIS WILL. SO WHEN DAVIES' SEVERED HEAD IS DISCOVERED IN A TESCO BAG AND OTHER BITS OF HIM START APPEARING ELSEWHERE, IT'S THE RELATIVES WHO HAVE THE OBVIOUS MOTIVE FOR HIS MURDER. BUT DCI MERLIN PARRY AND DS GOMER LLOYD HAVE TO DIG A LOT DEEPER MENTALLY TO IDENTIFY SOME LESS OBVIOUS SUSPECTS, NOT TO MENTION RELATIVES, AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY TO LOCATE THE REMAINDER OF THE BODY BEFORE EVENTUALLY CORNERING THE KILLER. A HARPER COLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104600 WILLIAMS, NIGEL STALKING FIONA Ł 4.19

IT IS TUESDAY APRIL 13TH AND 23-YEAR-OLD FIONA MCMILLAN WAKES TO THE SOUND OF A PACKAGE BEING DELIVERED. THE VARIOUS DOCUMENTS IT CONTAINS PRESENT FIONA'S STORY TOLD BY MORE THAN ONE PERSON: IN A LETTER, A DIARY, A JOURNAL AND ON A COMPUTER DISK. BUT WHICH VOICE IS TELLING THE TRUTH - AND HOW CAN SHE BE SURE OF EACH AUTHOR'S IDENTITY? FIONA HAS ONLY ONE DAY TO DECIPHER WHICH OF THE THREE MEN SHE WORKS FOR IS A MURDERER. A GRANTA PAPERBACK EDITION. 266 PAGES. S/H.

104602 WILLIAMS, TIMOTHY BLACK AUGUST Ł 3.50

CALLED TO THE SCENE OF A BRUTAL MURDER, COMMISSARIO TROTTI OF ITALY'S POLIZIA DI STATO FINDS THAT AN OLD FRIEND, SCHOOLTEACHER ROSANNA BELLONI, IS THE VICTIM. WARNED OFF THE CASE BY HIS SUPERIORS, TROTTI CONTINUES HIS ENQUIRIES - UNOFFICIALLY. FIRST HE MUST TRACE ROSANNA'S MISSING DRUG-ADDICTED SISTER AND BEFORE LONG FINDS HIMSELF INVOLVED IN THE MOST COMPLEX AND PUZZLING INVESTIGATION OF HIS CAREER. A GOLLANCZ PAPERBAKC EDITION. 256 PAGES. S/H.

104603 WILLIAMS, TIMOTHY PERSONA NON GRATA Ł 3.50

IN A SEEDY APARTMENT IN A NORTHERN ITALIAN CITY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD LAURA VARDIN HAS BEEN BRUTALLY STABBED BY AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT. A WOMAN LIVING NEAR THE BARRACKS CLAIMS THAT SHE HAS BEEN RAPED. IS THERE A SEX MANIAC AT LARGE IN THE CITY? COMMISSARIO TROTTI SETS OUT TO INVESTIGATE BUT HIS PROGRESS IS HAMPERED BY THOUGHTS OF ANOTHER UNSOLVED CRIME - THE MURDER OF HIS BROTHER FORTY YEARS BEFORE. A GOLLANCZ PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104605 WILSON, KAREN ANN COPY CAT CRIMES Ł 3.25

WORKING AS A VET'S TECHNICIAN IN PARADISE CAY, FLORIDA, SAMANTHA HOLT IS USED TO DEALING WITH ANIMAL IN NEED - AND SOMETIMES THE HUMANS WHO BRING THEM IN AREN'T IN SUCH GREAT SHAPE EITHER. BUT WHEN A BASKET OF WET, UNDERNOURISHED KITTENS TURNS UP AT THE BACK DOOR - ON THE VERY SAME NIGHT THAT ONE OF THE CLINIC'S CLIENTS TURNS UP DEAD ON A NEARBY CANAL - SAMANTHA WONDERS IF THERE'S A CONNECTION. AND WHEN IT'S DISCOVERED THAT THE BASKET ALSO CONTAINS THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN COUNTERFEIT MONEY SAMANTHA'S EVER INQUISITIVE BOSS, DR LOUIS AUGUSTIN, DECIDES A LITTLE INVESTIGATION IS IN ORDER. WITH SAMANTHA ASSISTING, OF COURSE. A BERKLEY PAPERBACK EDITION. 248 PAGES. S/H.

104596 WISHART, DAVID OLD BONES Ł 4.19

A MARCUS CORVINUS MYSTERY. MARCUS CORVINUS DOESN'T SERIOUSLY THINK THAT HIS STEPFATHER IS A MURDERER. PRISCUS WOULDN'T HURT A FLY. BUT HE DID DISCOVER THE CORPSE AND WAS CAUGHT CLUTCHING THE MURDER WEAPON, SO PROVING THE OLD MAN'S INNOCENCE PRESENTS QUITE A CHALLENGE. NOT AT ALL MARCUS'S IDEA OF A HOLIDAY. THE VICTIM HAD ENEMIES ENOUGH, A CUCKOLDED HUSBAND AMONG THEM. AS USUAL, MARCUS NEEDS THE BRAINS OF HIS LOVELY WIFE PERILLA TO UNTANGLE THE MORE COMPLEX THREADS OF THE INVESTIGATION; BUT EVEN SO, HE CATCHES MANY A RED HERRING BEFORE HOOKING THE MURDERER. A NEL PAPERBACK EDITION. 356 PAGES. S/H.

104607 WOODS, SARA ENTER A GENTLEWOMAN Ł 2.00

ELIZABETH COKE IS NOT PREPARED TO WAIT THREE YEARS TO OBTAIN A DIVORCE FROM HER HUSBAND, A SOLICITOR NAMED EDWARD COKE. SHE CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH 'EXCEPTIONAL DEPRAVITY' AND TO PROVE THIS IN THE DIVORCE COURTS SHE HAS ENLISTED THE SERVICES OF NO LESS A PERSON THAN SIR NICHOLAS HARDING, Q.C. MEANWHILE COKE HIMSELF IS READY FOR LITIGATION AGAINST HIS WIFE, IN THE FORM OF A LIBEL CASE. SHE HAS WRITTEN A LETTER TO A FRIEND IN WHICH SHE DESCRIBES THE 'EXCEPTIONAL DEPRAVITY' OF WHICH SHE COMPLAINS; THE LETTER HAS BEEN SHOWN TO FRIENDS AND THEREFORE - TECHNICALLY - PUBLISHED. THE BARRISTER OF COKE'S CHOICE IS ANTHONY MAITLAND, Q.C., SIR NICHOLAS HARDING'S NEPHEW. THE LIABEL CASE IS LIKELY TO BE HEARD BEFORE THE DIVORCE CASE AND THUS THE OUTCOME WILL BE DECISIVE FOR BOTH. THEREFORE SIR NICHOLAS HAS TO DEFEND THE LIBEL CASE AGAINST HIS NEPHEW AND THIS REMARKABLE CONFRONTATION DOES IN FACT OCCUR - WITH SENSATIONAL RESULTS. A MACMILLAN HARDBACK EDITION. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH STAMPS. 218 PAGES. S/H.

104608 WOODS, SARA PROCEED TO JUDGEMENT Ł 2.00

KEVIN O'BRIEN, Q.C. HAS BEEN BRIEFED TO DEFEND A WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDERING HER HUSBAND. ALSO CHARGED WITH HER IS THE DOCTOR, ASSISTANT TO THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN, WHO GENERALLY TREATED HER CHILDREN WITH WHOM - THE PROSECUTION CLAIM - SHE HAD BEEN HAVING A LOVE AFFAIR. O'BRIEN EMBARKS ON AN UNUSUAL AND ADVENTUROUS COURSE WHEN HE COMES TO PERSUADE ANTHONY MAITLAND TO ACT AS COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE DOCTOR. 'I WANT COLLINGWOOD TO HAVE THE BEST REPRESENTATION,' SAYS O'BRIEN, NOT ENTIRELY CONVINCINGLY. PERHAPS WHAT O'BRIEN REALLY WANTED WAS THE BENEFIT OF MAITLAND'S INSATIABLE DETECTIVE ENERGIES. THE CASE IS BOTH SOMBRE AND COMPLICATED: THE ALLEGATION THAT A DOCTOR HAS MADE LOVE TO A MARRIED WOMAN AND THEN CONSPIRED TO MURDER HER HUSBAND IS SENSATIONAL ENOUGH IN ITSELF. AND TO COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION AT LEAST, PROOF OF ADULTERY IS ALMOST TANTAMOUNT TO PROOF OF MURDER. MAITLAND FORMS THE VIEW THAT IF HIS CLIENT IS INNOCENT HE CAN BE FULLY CLEARED IN ONLY ONE WAY - BY DEMONSTRATING WHO IS GUILTY. THIS IS THE OBJECT OF HIS INVESTIGATIONS. A MACMILLAN HARDBACK EDITION. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH STAMPS. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104747 YATES, DORNFORD ADELE AND CO. Ł 4.00

IF ONE'S WOMEN HAVE BEEN ROBBED IN A PARTICULARLY DIRTY WAY, ONE'S BURNING DESIRE IS NOT ONLY TO RECOVER THEIR JEWELS BUT TO AFFLICT THE THIEF. AT LEAST, THAT IS HOW THE PLEYDELLS SEE IT. AND SO THEY GO TO WORK. THEY ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS WHEN A NOTORIOUS, INTERNATIONAL CROOK DETERMINES TO INTERVENE - ON HIS OWN BEHALF. THIS IS EMBARRASSING BUT THE PLEYDELLS REFUSE TO BE DISMAYED. JONATHAN MANSEL IS NATURALLY THEIR LEADER - BUT BERRY PLAYS MORE THAN HIS PART, SOMETIMES AGAINST HIS WILL. AFTER ALL, FEW WOULD ENJOY LYING IN THE BED OF A RILL, IN PAINFULLY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO A WASPS' NEST, IN THE HOPE OF OVERHEARING THE ENEMY'S PLANS. A BERRY BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 223 PAGES. S/H.

104610 YORKE, MARGARET CRIME IN QUESTION Ł 4.19

DENIS IS LIVING ON THE EDGE OF SOCIETY: NEGLECTED AND UNWANTED, HE SCRAPES BY ON HIS EARNINGS AS AN ODD-JOBBER. HIS IS THE SORT OF DESPERATION THAT WILL TIP INTO LAWLESSNESS AT THE DROP OF A MONKEY WRENCH. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH LEN, INMATE OF THE LOCAL OPEN PRISON, ENABLES DENIS TO PROVE HIMSELF AS THE ACCESSORY TO A CUNNINGLY CONTRIVED CRIME… WHICH ENDS IN MURDER AND HAS DENIS RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 234 PAGES. S/H.

104611 YORKE, MARGARET DANGEROUS TO KNOW Ł 3.49

FOR YEARS HERMIONE HAD BEEN OPPRESSED BY HUSBAND, WALTER. BEFORE THEY MARRIED, HE HAD SEEMED LOVING AND PROTECTIVE. NOW HE WAS DEMANDING AND BRUTAL. AND HERMIONE HAD ALLOWED HERSELF TO BECOME HIS DOMESTIC SLAVE. IF SHE WENT SHOPPING, SHE WAS OBLIGED TO ACCOUNT FOR EVERY PENNY OF HER MEAGRE ALLOWANCE. IF THERE WAS A SMEAR OF GREASE OR A SPECK OF DUST ANYWHERE IN THE HOUSE, WALTER WOULD FLY INTO A RAGE. SHY AND VULNERABLE, HERMIONE BLAMED HERSELF. BUT WALTER IS A MAN WHOSE EMOTIONS ARE RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL. AND AS HERMIONE TENTATIVELY TRIES TO ACQUIRE SOME INDEPENDENCE, HER HUSBAND'S DESIRE TO DOMINATE WOMEN IS BECOMING PATHOLOGICALLY DANGEROUS. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 214 PAGES. S/H.

104612 YORKE, MARGARET PIECES OF JUSTICE Ł 4.19

A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES BY MARGARET YORKE. AN IDYLLIC CRUISE, A LONGED-FOR HOLIDAY TO THE GREEK ISLANDS, A CAREFULLY PLANNED SCHOOL REUNION… IN HER FIRST EVER COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION, INCLUDING SEVERAL PIECES AS YET UNSEEN IN PRINT AND A NEW PATRICK GRANT STORY, MARGARET YORKE PROVIDES A VIRTUOSO DISPLAY OF HER ABILITY TO EXTRACT FEAR AND EVIL FROM EVERYDAY SITUATIONS. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 304 PAGES. S/H.

104613 YORKE, MARGARET THE POINT OF MURDER Ł 1.00

SHE WENT ON MAKING SOUNDS IN HER THROAT, HER EYES ROLLING FRANTICALLY. BREATHING HEAVILY, HE HELD HER DOWN. SHE FREED A HAND AND POUNDED AT HIM BUT HE DIDN'T FEEL HER BLOWS; THEN SHE SCRATCHED HIS FACE AND HE RELEASED HER MOUTH FOR A MOMENT. SANDRA SCREAMED VERY LOUDLY AND WENT ON SCREAMING. HE HAD TO STOP THE NOISE. IT HAD BEEN THE RESULT OF A CHANCE ENCOUNTER; GARY HAD NEVER INTENDED TO KILL THE GIRL. BUT AS HIS INITIAL PANIC SUBSIDED HE REALISED THAT THERE HAD BEEN A WITNESS, SOMEONE WHOSE DEATH HE WOULD NOW HAVE TO PLAN - IN A PREMEDITATED, COLD-BLOODED WAY. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 163 PAGES. S/H.

104614 YORKE, MARGARET THE POINT OF MURDER Ł 3.49

104615 YORKE, MARGARET A QUESTION OF BELIEF Ł 4.19

WHEN PHILIP WINTER WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE, HE WAS INNOCENT, A VICTIM OF HIS ACCUSER'S PARANOIA WHEN HE REJECTED HER ADVANCES. ALTHOUGH ACQUITTED, NEITHER PHILIP'S FAMILY NOR HIS EMPLOYERS ACCEPTED THE VERDICT. UNEMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYABLE, PHILIP DISAPPEARED, A SUSPECTED SUICIDE. BUT PHILIP HAS MERELY ABANDONED HIS ONCE ORDERED LIFE AND IS NOW PART OF THE ANONYMOUS HOMELESS, ADRIFT WITH OTHER INNOCENT AND NOT-SO-INNOCENT OUTCASTS. FORMING AN UNLIKELY ALLIANCE WITH DENIS SMITH, A NAĎVE, ILLITERATE YOUTH INVOLVED WITH A GROUP OF ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, PHILIP STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE. UNKNOWN TO BOTH PHILIP AND DENIS, THEIR IMMEDIATE DESTINIES ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY SOMEONE WHO IS USING THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT TO SETTLE A VERY PERSONAL SCORE AND WITH APPALLING INEVITABILITY PHILIP IS DRAWN INTO THE VIOLENT MACHINATIONS OF AN OBSESSED WOMAN. A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 376 PAGES. S/H.

104616 YORKE, MARGARET THE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING Ł 3.49

THE WATCHER SPIES LATE INTO THE NIGHT ON THE ENVIABLY COSY DOMESTICITY OF THE TITMUSS HOUSEHOLD. THE SEEMINGLY HAPPY COUPLE, THE LOVING CHILDREN, THE ORDERED NORMALITY OF IT ALL STRIKES A DEEP CHORD IN LORNA GIBSON, SO DIFFERENT IS IT FROM THE EMOTIONAL EMPTINESS OF HER OWN EXISTENCE. BUT, OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, THE WATCHER REALISES THAT MRS TITMUSS IS NO LONGER PLAYING BY THE RULES - AND THAT HER BEHAVIOUR, IF ALLOWED TO GO UNCHECKED, THREATENS TO SHATTER THE HARMONY OF HUSBAND CECIL'S LIFE. AND CECIL IS A DECENT MAN, AS LORNA WELL KNOWS. HE DOESN'T DESERVE SUCH AN IGNOMINIOUS FATE. SO THE WATCHER DECIDES TO TURN OBSERVATION INTO ACTION AND SAVE THE TITMUSS FAMILY FROM INEVITABLE HEARTBREAK. BUT JUST HOW FAR IS SHE PREPARED TO GO? A WARNER PAPERBACK EDITION. 221 PAGES. S/H.

CRIME ANTHOLOGIES

104622 ANTHOLOGY: CHASE, ELAINE RACO PARTNERS IN CRIME Ł 3.00

AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME STORIES INVOLVING PAIRS OF DETECTIVES EDITED BY ELAINE RACO CHASE. MURDER MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. MISMATCHED COPS, TEAMS OF ATTORNEYS, PROFESSIONAL PIS AND AMATEUR SNOOPERS JOIN FORCES IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE WHEN TODAY'S TOP RANKED MYSTERY AUTHORS DREAM UP TWO SLEUTHS FOR EACH TALE IN THIS COLLECTION. INCLUDES STORIES BY JAY BRANDON, BARBARA D'AMATO, SHARYN MCCRUMB, MICHAEL COLLINS, CAROLYN G. HART, ED GORMAN, MARGARET MARON AND SUSAN DUNLAP (WRITING TOGETHER), WILLIAM BERNHARDT, J.A. JANCE, BILL CRIDER AND JAN GRAPE. A SIGNET PAPERBACK EDITION. 269 PAGES. S/H.

104643 ANTHOLOGY: GREENBERG, MARTIN A TREASURY OF CAT MYSTERIES Ł 2.00

A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIES FEATURING CATS EDITED BY MARTIN H. GREENBERG. SWIFT AS THE WIND, SILENT AS THE GRAVE, FOR CENTURIES THE CAT HAS TEASED AND CAPTURED THE HUMAN IMAGINATION. ALOOF, MYSTERIOUS, PLAYFUL, SOMETIMES THE PET AND OFTEN THE MASTER, THE CAT THRIVES ON ITS OWN CONTRADICTIONS AND DEFIES PREDICTABILITY. AND THE CAT STALKS, CLAWS AND HAUNTS THE PAGES OF THIS STORY COLLECTION. FEATURES TWENTY-ONE MYSTERIES INCLUDING STORIES BY LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN, PETER LOVESEY, SHARYN MCCRUMB, BILL PRONZINI, JOAN HESS, BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS, BILL CRIDER, MAT COWARD, LARRY SEGRIFF, MICHAEL STOTTER, B.J. MULL, RICHARD CHIZMAR, JON L. BREEN, MARGARET MARON, PETER CROWTHER, BARBARA AND MAX ALLAN COLLINS, CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS, NANCY PICKARD, ED GORMAN AND RUTH RENDELL. A CARROLL & GRAFF HARDBACK EDITION. 354 PAGES. S/H.

104619 ANTHOLOGY: HAINING, PETER MURDER BY THE GLASS Ł 3.00

AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT MYSTERY STORIES EDITED BY PETER HAINING. THE EVILS OF DRINK, YOU MIGHT SAY, FAIRLY OVERFLOW IN THIS SPARKLING ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES. A HEADY BREW OF SPINE-CHILLING HORROR, TAUT DRAMA AND BAFFLING INTRIGUE BRINGING TOGETHER SOME OF THE GREATEST EXPONENTS OF CRIME FICTION IN A COCKTAIL OF STORIES THAT WILL TITILLATE THE MOST REFINED PALATE. INCLUDES STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE, ROALD DAHL, MICHAEL GILBERT, GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD, KINGSLEY AMIS, SOMERSET MAUGHAM, JOAN AIKEN, A.A. MILNE, MARGERY ALLINGHAM AND RUTH RENDELL. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 351 PAGES. S/H.

104618 ANTHOLOGY: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S: HAPPY DEATHDAY! Ł 3.00

14 SHORT STORIES SELECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK. MURDER DELIBERATE, MURDER BY MISTAKE, MURDER INGENIOUS AND MURDER CASUAL, MURDER UNSOLVED AND MURDER EXPOSED - ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS A FEAST OF DEADLY ENTERTAINMENT TO DELIGHT HIS FANS. A TANDEM PAPERBACK EDITION. 224 PAGES. S/H.

104620 ANTHOLOGY: HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MURDER UNDER THE MISTLETOE Ł 3.00

A SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS-BASED MURDER STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GATHER ROUND THE EGGNOG COMES THIS FRIGHTFULLY FESTIVE COLLECTION OF CHRISTMAS WHODUNNITS BY 15 MASTERS OF MYSTERY SELECTED FROM THE PAGES OF TWO HIGH-PROFILE MYSTERY MAGAZINES. INCLUDES STORIES BY JULIAN SYMONS, JOHN MORTIMER, PETER LOVESEY, MARGERY ALLINGHAM, JAMES POWELL, FRANCIS M. NEVINS JR., ENNIS DULING, JOSEPHINE BELL, CHARLES ARDAI, JOYCE PORTER, THOMASINA WEBER, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, MARTIN WERNER, BARRY PEROWNE AND EDWARD D. HOCH. A SEVERN HOUSE HARDBACK EDITION. EX-LIBRARY BOOK WITH STAMPS. 250 PAGES. S/H.

104644 ANTHOLOGY: VAN THAL, HERBERT THE THIRD BEDSIDE BOOK OF GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES Ł 3.00

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DETECTIVE STORIES EDITED BY HERBERT VAN THAL. ONCE AGAIN HERBERT VAN THAL HAS SELECTED TEN VARIED AND EXCITING STORIES FOR THIS, THE THIRD IN THE SERIES OF GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES. THEY VARY FROM THAT SET IN EDWARDIAN ENGLAND AS DESCRIBED BY FREEMAN WILLS CROFT TO PRE-WAR SAN FRANCISCO AS DEPICTED BY RAYMOND CHANDLER TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD OF GEORGES SIMENON. THE STORIES ARE SOMETIMES BRAIN-TEASERS AND SOMETIMES SPINE-CHILLING TALES BUT THEY ARE ALL QUITE GRIPPING IN THEIR SEPARATE WAYS. A BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES HARDBACK EDITION - NO OBVIOUS ISBN NUMBER. 208 PAGES. S/H.

TRUE CRIME

104752 LORD BIRKENHEAD FAMOUS TRIALS Ł 4.00

FAMOUS BOOK OF HISTORICAL TRIALS WRITTEN BY THE FIRST EARL OF BIRKENHEAD. BOOK PROBABLY A REPRINT THOUGH IT'S UNCERTAIN. NO DATE OF PUBLICATION GIVEN. A HUTCHINSON HARDBACK EDITION. 567 PAGES. S/H.

104754 CANNING, JOHN UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MYSTERIES Ł 3.00

A COLLECTION OF TRUE-LIFE UNSOLVED CRIME STORIES EDITED BY JOHN CANNING. THE CRIME OF MURDER - HORRIBLE AT THE BEST OF TIMES BUT DOUBLY CHILLING WHEN UNSOLVED. WHO COULD HAVE WANTED TO KILL JANICE WESTON, WEALTHY SOLICITOR, BATTERED TO DEATH IN AN EXPOSED LAY-BY ON THE A1? WHERE WAS WESTON GOING? THE CLASSIC WALLACE CASE - PERENNIALLY FASCINATING TO STUDENTS OF CRIME. RECENT EVIDENCE POINTS TO A SOLUTION YET IT RETAINS ITS TANTALIZING QUALITY OF MYSTERY. WHEN JOHN CARTLAND WAS AXED TO DEATH ON HOLIDAY IN FRANCE, HIS SON JEREMY FELL UNDER SUSPICION. YET COULD CARTLAND HAVE BEEN A DELAYED CASUALTY OF WORLD WAR II? THESE AND OTHER STORIES IN ONE BOOK. A FUTURA PAPERBACK EDITION. 249 PAGES. S/H.

104756 CHERRILL, FRED CHERRILL OF THE YARD Ł 7.50

THE INTERESTING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRED CHERRILL, EX-CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FINGERPRINT BUREAU OF NEW SCOTLAND YARD. A HARRAP HARDBACK EDITION. 248 PAGES. S/H.

104761 HALL-TOMKIN, BRIAN WEST COUNTRY CORONER Ł 5.00

'REMEMBER - A CORONER'S JOB IS TO INVESTIGATE SUDDEN OR UNEXPLAINED DEATHS AND ESTABLISH THE FACTS. AT NO TIME SHOULD HE APPORTION BLAME.' THIS WAS THE ADVICE GIVEN TO BRIAN HALL-TOMKIN WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED CORONER FOR NORTH DEVON IN 1967. AFTER OVER 30 YEARS IN THE POST HE HAS RECENTLY RETIRED. WEST COUNTRY CORONER TELLS THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING CASES HE HAS DEALT WITH OVER THE YEARS INCLUDING SUICIDE, MURDER, ACCIDENTAL DEATH, EUTHANASIA, DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODY AND TREASURE TROVE. ONE OF HIS MOST CELEBRATED CASES WAS THAT OF POLLY AND DEREK LEVON. IN DECEMBER 1996 THE COUPLE WERE MAKING PLANS TO VISIT THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS IN CYPRUS FOR CHRISTMAS. BUT FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE HOLIDAY DEREK TELEPHONED HIS DAUGHTERS TO SAY THEY WOULD HAVE TO CANCEL THE TRIP AS THEIR MOTHER HAD FOOD POISONING. POLLY WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN AND THREE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS DEREK PUT A LOADED SHOTGUN IN HIS MOUTH AND PULLED THE TRIGGER. THE LOCAL POLICE IMMEDIATELY BEGAN AN INVESTIGATION AND KEPT THE CORONER'S OFFICE CLOSELY INFORMED OF THEIR PROGRESS. AT THE SUBSEQUENT, INEVITABLE INQUEST, THE CORONER FOUND THAT, DESPITE THE LACK OF A BODY, POLLY HAD BEEN UNLAWFULLY KILLED AND DEREK HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE. A CLEVERLY WRITTEN BOOK TAKING THE READER THROUGH THE FACTS OF HIS CHOSEN CASES AND DEMONSTRATES HOW BRIAN HALL-TOMKIN REACHED HIS VERDICTS. A COUNTRYSIDE BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 128 PAGES. S/H.

104763 HAMILTON, JUDY SCOTTISH MURDERS Ł 3.00

THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY ONE PERSON MIGHT TAKE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER - ACTS OF INSANITY, MALEVOLENCE, HATRED, REVENGE, DESPERATION, GREED, PASSION OR A DESIRE FOR POWER. THERE ARE VIOLENT EVENTS AND MURDERS IN THE HISTORY OF EVERY COUNTRY AND SCOTLAND IS NO EXCEPTION. SCOTLAND HAS ITS SHARE OF NOTORIOUS AND NEFARIOUS CHARACTERS - FROM THE ALMOST MYTHOLOGICAL SAWNEY BEAN AND HIS CANNIBALISTIC FAMILY, BURKE AND HARE THE BODY SNATCHERS, JESSIE KING THE CHILD MURDERER, TO THE STILL AS YET UNINDENTIFIED 'BIBLE JOHN'. SCOTTISH MURDERS PRESENTS A CATALOGUE OF MURDERS AND MURDERERS - INSTANCES WHERE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE HAS FELT THAT DEATH WAS THE ONLY ANSWER - TO WHICH WE CAN ONLY ASK: 'WHY?'. A LOMOND BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 192 PAGES. S/H.

104765 HARRISON, SHIRLEY THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER Ł 4.19

THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER IN 1993 CAUSED A SENSATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ITS PAGES REVEAL THE UNIMAGINABLE - THAT OVER A CENTURY AGO, THE LEGENDARY SERIAL KILLER AT WORK IN LONDON'S WHITECHAPEL HAD WRITTEN A CONFESSION OF HIS BESTIAL MUTILATIONS OF WOMEN. THE WRITER IS IDENTIFIABLE AS JAMES MAYBRICK, A 49-YEAR-OLD COTTON MERCHANT FROM LIVERPOOL, A PROVEN ADDICT OF STRYCHNINE AND ARSENIC WITH A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. HIS DIARY HAS NOW SURVIVED MORE RIGOROUS ANALYSIS THAN ANY PREVIOUS RIPPER DOCUMENT. IN THIS BOOK INVESTIGATIVE WRITER, SHIRLEY HARRISON, TELLS THE STORY OF HOW THE DIARY WAS TESTED AND EXAMINED. HER EXCITING NARRATIVE FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MAYBRICK THE RIPPER AND SUPPORTED BY A MASS OF NEW EVIDENCE, SHE EXPLAINS WHY SHE BECAME CONVINCED THAT THE DIARY IS GENUINE. HER BOOK TELLS TOO OF A SECOND CONFESSION SCRATCHED INSIDE THE CASE OF A VICTORIAN GOLD POCKET WATCH, ALSO DISCOVERED IN LIVERPOOL. EXPERTS, DR ROBERT WILD OF BRISTOL UNIVERSITY AND DR STEPHEN TURGOOSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGREE THAT THE SCRATCHED 'I AM JACK. J MAYBRICK' IS AT LEAST TENS OF YEARS OLD. TOGETHER THE DIARY AND THE WATCH PROVIDE POWERFUL JUSTIFICATION THAT MAYBRICK WAS JACK THE RIPPER. THIS NEW EDITION HAS BEEN UPDATED BY SHIRLEY HARRISON TO INCLUDE THE LATEST RESEARCH. THE DIARY ITSELF IS REPRODUCED IN FULL, SO THAT READERS CAN ASSESS FOR THEMSELVES THE DEEPLY DISTURBING AND CHILLING WORDS OF JACK THE RIPPER FROM ACROSS THE ABYSS OF MORE THAN A CENTURY. A SMITH GRYPHON PAPERBACK EDITION. 333 PAGES. S/H.

104767 HONEYCOMBE, GORDON THE MURDERS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM 1870 - 1970 Ł 2.00

THE BLACK MUSEUM IN NEW SCOTLAND YARD CONTAINS A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF EXHIBITS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER ITEMS CONNECTED WITH SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS CRIMES AND CRIMINALS OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS. FIFTY OF THESE CRIMES, ALL MURDERS, ARE DETAILED IN THIS BOOK. CASE HISTORIES PRESENT AN UTTERLY COMPELLING PICTURE OF A CENTURY OF MURDER, MANSLAUGHTER AND ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. THE CRIMES AND CHARACTERS OF SUCH NOTORIOUS MURDERERS AS JACK THE RIPPER, DR CRIPPEN, GEORGE SMITH, HEATH, HAIGH, CHRISTIE, THE KRAYS, THE HOSEINS AND MANY OTHERS ARE REVEALED FULLY AND FACTUALLY. AN ARROW PAPERBACK EDITION. 608 PAGES. S/H.

104769 IRVING, H.B. LAST STUDIES IN CRIMINOLOGY Ł 3.00

A BOOK LOOKING CLOSELY AT 4 FAMOUS CASES INVOLVING PROBABLY FALSE CONVICTIONS. AN EX-LIBRARY COLLINS HARDBACK EDITION. 281 PAGES. S/H.

104771 MANDER, CHARLES THE REVEREND PRINCE AND HIS ABODE OF LOVE Ł 8.00

'ALL HAIL, HOLY LOVE!' WAS THE WATCHWORD THAT THE REVEREND PRINCE GAVE TO HIS FOLLOWERS, A MOTTO WHICH ACCORDED WELL WITH HIS FAVOURITE PART OF THE BIBLE, THE SONG OF SOLOMON: 'OPEN TO ME MY SISTER, MY LOVE, MY DOVE, MY UNDEFILED'. AFTER A SHORT AND TURBULENT CAREER IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, DURING WHICH HE WAS EXPELLED FROM TWO DIOCESES, PRINCE SELECTED A SECLUDED VILLAGE IN THE HEART OF SOMERSET AND THERE CONSTRUCTED A SPIRITUAL OASIS CALLED THE AGAPEMONE - THE ABODE OF LOVE. COMPLETED IN 1846, THIS WAS A MASSIVELY BUILT HOUSE LINKED TO A PRIVATE CHURCH WHICH INCLUDED AMONG ITS LESS CHURCHLY CONTENTS A BILLIARD TABLE. THE ABODE WAS SHIELDED FROM PUBLIC VIEW BY HIGH WALLS AND SOLID GATES. TWO BLOODHOUNDS ROAMED THE GROUNDS, BOTH TO KEEP STRANGERS OUT AND TO KEEP THE HOUSEHOLD IN. STRANGE THAT ANYONE LIVING IN SUCH A SPIRITUAL OASIS SHOULD WANT TO ESCAPE. BUT THEN PRINCE'S MENAGE INCLUDED TWO MORE UNFROCKED CLERGYMEN, A NUMBER OF RICH WOMEN WHO HAD BEEN CAJOLED INTO FINANCING THE GROUP AND ALSO SOME BEAUTIFUL YOUNGER 'SISTERS'. LOCAL GOSSIP FINALLY BECAME NATIONAL SCANDAL WHEN IT WAS KNOWN THAT PRINCE - THE BELOVED - HAD TAKEN A VIRGIN PUBLICLY, CLAIMING THE ACT TO BE THE GREAT MANIFESTATION, THE MYSTIC UNION OF FLESH AND SPIRIT. EXAMINING PRINCE'S OWN WRITINGS AS WELL AS THE RECORDS LEFT BY THOSE WHO MET HIM, CHARLES MANDER RE-CREATES THE FASCINATING LIFE OF THIS HIGHLY ECCENTRIC AND RATHER FRIGHTENING VICTORIAN. AN E.P. PUBLISHING HARDBACK EDITION. 143 PAGES. S/H.

104773 MARKS, HOWARD MR NICE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Ł 3.00

DURING THE MID 1980S HOWARD MARKS HAD FORTY-THREE ALIASES, EIGHTY-NINE PHONE LINES AND OWNED TWENTY-FIVE COMPANIES TRADING TROUGHOUT THE WORLD. AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER HE WAS SMUGGLING CONSIGNMENTS OF UP TO THIRTY TONS OF MARIJUANA AND HAD CONTACT WITH ORGANISATIONS AS DIVERSE AS MI6, THE CIA, THE IRA AND THE MAFIA. FOLLOWING A WORLDWIDE OPERATION BY THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, HE WAS BUSTED AND SENTENCED TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AT TERRE HAUTE PENITENTIARY, INDIANA. HE WAS RELEASED IN APRIL 1995 AFTER SERVING SEVEN YEARS OF HIS SENTENCE. TOLD WITH HUMOUR, CHARM AND CANDOUR, MR NICE IS HIS OWN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. A MINERVA PAPERBACK EDITION. 466 PAGES. S/H.

104775 MULLOY, MIKE CHASING THE DRAGONS Ł 4.19

IN THE EARLY 1980S, DRUG ABUSE ON MERSEYSIDE HAD REACHED A CRISIS POINT. BIRKENHEAD HAD RAPIDLY BECOME KNOWN AS 'SMACK CITY' BY THE TABLOID PRESS. THE WIRRAL CRIME SQUAD, ED BY INSPECTOR MIKE MULLOY, WAS FORMED TO TACKLE THE DEALERS HEAD ON AND SMASH THE DRUG RINGS. WITH HUMOUR, HONESTY AND FRANKNESS, MIKE MULLOY VIVIDLY DESCRIBES THE BUSTS, THE ARRESTS AND THE COMPLEX NETWORK THAT SUPPLIED THE WIRRAL PENINSULA WITH THE DEADLIEST OF DRUGS. MIKE MULLOY JOINED THE LIVERPOOL CITY POLICE IN 1960 AND SAW ATTACHMENTS TO THE REGIONAL CRIME SQUAD, MURDER SQUADS, ROBBERY SQUAD AND SERIOUS CRIME SQUAD. SERVING FOR THIRTY YEARS, HE ATTAINED THE RANK OF CHIEF INSPECTOR, HEAD OF OPERATIONS, DRUG SQUAD. HE BECAME THE MOST COMMENDED OFFICER IN THE HISTORY OF HIS FORCE, MAINLY FOR HIS WORK IN THE DRUGS FIELD. HE IS MARRIED AND LIVES ON THE WIRRAL. A PHAROAH PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION. 285 PAGES. S/H.

104213 ROSS, THOMAS W. GOOD OLD INDEX: THE SHERLOCK HOLMES HANDBOOK Ł 7.00

WRITTEN BY THOMAS W. ROSS AS A GUIDE TO SHERLOCK HOLMES. A FASCINATING COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, HITHERTO UNAVAILABLE, ABOUT THE GREAT DETECTIVE AND HIS CREATOR, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE INDEX LISTS THE ASTONISHING VARIETY OF WEAPONS EMPLOYED IN THE STORIES - LIFE-PRESERVERS (BLACK JACKS), CHAIRS, POISON GAS AND AN ARSENAL OF KNIVES AND PISTOLS. READERS CAN STUDY HOLMES' GARB AND THE INDEX FACILITATES THE EVALUATION OF THE CHARACTER WATSON. IT ALSO PROVIDES ABUNDANT MATERIAL FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF DOYLE'S WRITING HABITS. HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST STORY-TELLERS IN ENGLISH BUT COULD BE POMPOUS AND CIRCUMLOQUACIOUS, AS WHEN HE CALLS A SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN A TRUNCATED FOWLING-PIECE. THE AUTHOR HAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK THOUSANDS OF SHERLOCKIAN FACTS INTO ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED CATEGORIES THAT ALLOW THE READER TO DIP INTO THE BOOK AND FIND OUT WHAT THEY WANT INSTANTLY. A CAMDEN HOUSE PAPERBAKC EDITION. 171 PAGES. S/H.

104777 STALKER, JOHN STALKER Ł 2.50

IN 1984 JOHN STALKER WAS ASKED TO SET UP AN INQUIRY INTO THE KILLINGS OF SIX MEN BY THE ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY. THEIR DEATHS HAD PROVOKED WIDESPREAD SPECULATION THAT THE RUC HAS A 'SHOOT TO KILL' POLICY AGAINST THE IRA. TWO YEARS LATER, JUST AS HE WAS COMPLETING HIS TASK, HE WAS ORDERED HOME, SUSPENDED FROM HIS DUTIES AND ACCUSED OF 'IMPROPRIETIES'. WHAT WENT WRONG? WHY DID JOHN STALKER RUN FOUL OF KEY PERSONALITIES AND VARIOUS VESTED INTERESTS? THE ANSWERS ARE REVEALED IN HIS DISTURBING, IMPORTANT AND BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN BOOK. A PENGUIN PAPERBACK EDITION. 295 PAGES. S/H.

104779 STOLL, CLIFF THE CUCKOO'S EGG Ł 3.00

CLIFF STOLL WAS AN ASTRONOMER TURNED SYSTEMS MANAGER AT LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB WHEN A 75-CENT ACCOUNTING ERROR ALERTED HIM TO THE PRESENCE OF AN UNAUTHORIZED USER ON HIS SYSTEM. THE HACKER'S CODE NAME WAS "HUNTER" - A MYSTERY INVADER HIDING INSIDE A TWISTING ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH, BREAKING INTO U.S. COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND STEALING SENSITIVE MILITARY AND SECURITY INFORMATION. STOLL BEGAN A ONE-MAN HUNT OF HIS OWN, SPYING ON THE SPY - AND PLUNGED INTO AN INCREDIBLE INTERNATIONAL PROBE THAT FINALLY GAINED THE ATTENTION OF TOP U.S. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE AGENTS. THIS BOOK COVERS THE WILD BUT VERY TRUE STORY - A YEAR OF DECEPTION, BROKEN CODES, SATELLITES, MISSILE BASES AND THE ULTIMATE STING OPERATION - AND HOW ONE INGENIOUS AMERICAN TRAPPED A SPY RING PAID IN CASH AND COCAINE AND REPORTING TO THE KGB. A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK EDITION. 356 PAGES. S/H.

104782 TIBBALLS, GEOFF THE MURDER GUIDE TO GREAT BRITAIN Ł 10.00

FROM THE HEBRIDES TO HAMPSHIRE AND CUMBRIA TO COUNTY CLARE, FROM THE DARK ALLEYS OF JACK THE RIPPER'S LONDON TO THE OPEN MOORLAND OF EXMOOR AND NORTHUMBERLAND, THIS, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE EVER TO THE MURDER SITES OF BRITAIN AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, FEATURES OVER 450 SETTINGS CONNECTED WITH THE ULTIMATE CRIME. SPANNING MORE THAN 200 YEARS OF MURDER, THE GUIDE COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF SETTINGS INCLUDING RAILWAY STATIONS, BEACHES, THEATRES AND EVEN THE GENTLE ACADEMIC WORLD OF OXFORD. OFTEN THE FOULEST OF MURDERS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN THE MOST PICTURESQUE PARTS OF BRITAIN - WITNESS THE PICNIC MASSACRE IN THE NEW FOREST, THE GRUESOME DISCOVERY IN THE GROUNDS OF ARUNDEL CASTLE, THE SLAYING IN THE LAKE DISTRICT AND THE HORRIFIC FIND WHICH MARRED THE 390TH SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. MURDER CAN STRIKE ANYWHERE: WHAT COULD BE MORE DIVERSE THAN A WARTIME BOMB SITE IN MANCHESTER AND LONDON'S SAVOY HOTEL? ILLUSTRATED WITH RARE ARCHIVE MATERIAL, THE MURDER GUIDE TO GREAT BRITAIN IS A MUST FOR ALL TRUE CRIME ENTHUSIASTS EVERYWHERE. A BOXTREE LARGE FORMAT HARDBACK EDITION. 127 PAGES. S/H.

104781 TULLETT, TOM CLUES TO MURDER Ł 2.50

PROFESSOR JAMES MALCOLM CAMERON IS ONE OF THE FOREMOST PATHOLOGISTS IN THE WORLD AND HAS HIS HEADQUARTERS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL IN WHITECHAPEL. FOR MANY YEARS HE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE HOME OFFICE EXPERTS WHO ADVISE ON CRIMINAL CASES AND, IN PARTICULAR, ON MURDER. IN ADDITION HE IS THE HON. CONSULTANT IN FORENSIC MEDICINE TO THE ARMY AND THE ROYAL NAVY. HIS CASES, IN IMMENSE VARIETY, HAVE TAKEN HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD. PROFESSOR CAMERON'S JOB IS TO DETERMINE THE EXACT CAUSE OF DEATH, THE TIME AND THE TYPE OF WEAPON USED. SOMETIMES, HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE A LEAD TO THE KILLER. IN THE FAMOUS DINGO BABY CASE IN AUSTRALIA, IT WAS HIS EVIDENCE WHICH LED TO A VERDICT OF GUILTY OF MURDER AGAINST THE MOTHER, LINDY CHAMBERLAIN, WHO CLAIMED A DINGO DOG HAD SNATCHED AND KILLED HER BABY, AZARIA. IN THE ONLY CASE OF ITS KIND IN THE HISTORY OF MURDER SIX PEOPLE WERE MURDERED AND THEIR BODIES DISPOSED OF WITHOUT A TRACE. IN FACT, THEY HAD ALL BEEN BURNED IN A KITCHEN GRATE. THE DETECTIVES THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE BUT CAMERON WAS ABLE TO PROVE IT WAS TRUE AND THE KILLERS WERE CONVICTED. A SKULL FOUND IN THE SEA OFF HONG KONG WAS SENT TO PROFESSOR CAMERON. HE WAS ABLE TO PROVE THAT THE MAN WAS KILLED BY A BLOW AND LATER - BY SUPERIMPOSITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS - TO PROVE HIS IDENTITY. IT LED TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF A NARCOTICS GANG WHO HAD FALLEN OUT OVER THE DIVISION OF SPOILS AND LED TO AN INTERPOL INVESTIGATION WHICH SPREAD ACROSS HALF THE WORLD. PROFESSOR CAMERON HAS EXAMINED THE BODIES IN QUITE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF CASES OF MURDER AND HAS OFTEN BEEN ABLE TO GUIDE THE INVESTIGATING DETECTIVES TO THE PROOF REQUIRED TO MAKE AN ARREST AND, USUALLY, OBTAIN A CONVICTION. THIS IS A CASE BOOK OF HIS MOST INTERESTING INVESTIGATIONS. A BODLEY HEAD HARDBACK EDITION. EX-LIBRARY WITH THE FRONT PAGE REMOVED. 227 PAGES. S/H.

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