2303. Doherty, Paul: The Anubis Slayings
Published by Headline, London. 2000
1st edition hardback. The book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. The third book in the series of dynamic Ancient Egyptian thrillers. Hatusu, the young widow of Tuthmosis II, has forced Egyptian society to accept her as Pharaoh, but two hideous murders in the temple and the theft of the glory of Anubis seriously undermine the stability of her rule.
1115. Donald, Anabel: The Loop
Published by Macmillan, 1996
1st edition hardback vg, fine with mark to end of book. Notting Hill Mysteries. The fourth in Anabel Donald's witty and fast-paced series takes Alex Tanner, TV researcher and occasional PI, backwards and forwards across the Atlantic in search of a missing young man. Alex Tanner jumps at the chance of a short assignment in Chicago. The only problem is that Barty, TV producer and occasional boyfriend, wants to come too. In the Windy City matters become even more complicated when a beautiful young model begs Alex to find her missing lover. Her boyfriend, she says, had been having a personal crisis and, by way of explanation, had kept saying over and over again that the answer lay `in the loop'... The trail leads Alex from Chicago back to England, where the problems - both professional and romantic - really begin...
1116. Douglas, Arthur: Last Rights
Published by Macmillan, 1986
1st edition hardback fine d/w, slight browning to papers, nice copy. Major Jonathan Craythorne's sister is blinded with contaminated contact lens solution as a protest against animal experiments. Using his military training and contacts he assists the local hunt in preventing their sport being disrupted, exposes a raid on a laboratory and in a tense finale helps reveal a murderer.
1117. Dunant, Sarah: Fatlands
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1993
1st edition hardback fine wrapper with slight edge-worn corners, fine book. It's not the most glamorous job in the security world, chaperoning rebellious teenager Mattie. But Hannah is being paid a lot to do it: more than it's worth, until, that is she discovers that Mattie's father is on the hit list of the Animal Liberation Front.
1118. Eberhart, Mignon G.: Deadly Is the Diamond
Published by Ian Henry, 1981
1st thus, hardback very good d/w slightly scuffed to rear, near fine book. Three novellas of sudden death by Mignon Good Eberhart: Deadly is the Diamond, Bermuda Grapevine and The Crimson Paw, first published between 1938 and 1958.
1608. Edwards, Martin (editor): Northern Blood
Published by Didsbury Press, Manchester. 1985
1st edition paperback, very slightly curl at the front top corner otherwise fine. An anthology of crime with a Northern theme. This is the very first collection of fact and fiction to be compiled exclusively by crime writers living and working in the North of England. Authors include: Robert Barnard, Ann Cleeves, Eileen Dewhurst, Reginald Hill and others, 15 in all.
1119. Ellin, Stanley: The Blessington Method
Published by Macdonald, 1965
Hardback 1st edition. Very good slightly edgeworn d/w. Fine book. 10 Grand Guignol masterpieces with a foreword by Julian Symons
1120. Estleman, Loren D.: Roses Are Dead
Published by Mysterious Press, 1987
1st edition hardback slightly cocked but generally very good book & wrapper. Publishers price stickers to wrapper & half title page. Outstanding crime thriller with the unusual premise of former mob hitman as the hero - a cynical, tired, laconic killer attempting to retire but finding it difficult. Action-packed, terse dialogue and a gritty, realistic style, this is top notch crime fiction.
1121. Evanovich, Janet: Three to Get Deadly
Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1997
Hardback 1st edition. 1/2 inch tear to top of d/w front otherwise nr fine and unclipped. Book is fine but has remainder mark at the bottom page edges. Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job of tracking down Uncle Mo, everybody's favourite candy store owner. Cursed with a disastrous new hair colour and an increasing sense that it's time to get a new job, the world's favourite bounty hunter sets off on her latest adventure, with a little 'help' for her new sidekick, hooker turned file clerk Lula, who's just itching to get a felon in the back of her racy red firebird ...
1123. Fairlie, Gerard: Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Hardback reprint, no d/w but in good condition. Despite his understandable trepidation, Fairlie was on safe ground with `Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor'. Firstly, he had Sapper's blessing to carry on with his prize asset. Secondly, the novel was to be based upon a play - `Bulldog Drummond Hits Out' - which had been written by both men. Publishers Hodder & Stoughton were keen to emphasise this point by printing "Originated by Sapper / Told by Gerard Fairlie" on the novel's spine. Thirdly, `Bulldog Drummond on Dartmoor' reproduces a series of familiar elements from earlier stories in the series, bearing more than a passing resemblance to the 7th Sapper novel, `The Return Of Bulldog Drummond'. Therefore, if the public wanted more of the same, they were guaranteed to get it.
1124. Farris, John: The Captors
Published by New English Library, 1970
1st edition hardback very good pc d/w, foxed edge book but very nice copy. The story concerns the abduction of Carol Watterson. The police thought it was a clear-cut case of kidnapping for ransom. But the captors never called for their money, and a few days later a bedraggled girl wandered into a highway café with a dog collar and chain hanging from her neck. It was Carol Watterson - or was it?
1125. Ferrars, Elizabeth: In At the Kill
Published by Collins (Crime Club), London. 1978
1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a tidy previous owner address at the front endpaper and some pen marks to the first three rows of text at the half title page. The unclipped dust wrapper is only very slightly sunned at the spine, hardly noticeable.
1126. Fleming, Ian: You Only Live Twice
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1964
1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a previous owner name and address at the front endpaper. The unclipped dust wrapper has a small amount of wear at the edges with a couple of small nicks and chips lost at the tips but generally very good. A small scuff mark to back cover & also a small ink mark. Gilt Japanese lettering to upper board and silver titles at the spine, slightly grubby at the page edges otherwise very good. Doctor Guntram Shatterhand's Garden of Death is a magnet for suicides from all over Japan. James Bond - grief-stricken and erratic - must kill him to save his career in the Service. But as Shatterhand's true identity is revealed, Bond is forced to confront his past, in Ian Fleming's twelfth 007 adventure.
1132. Fleming, Ian: The Spy Who Loved Me
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1965
Hardback, 7th impression. Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper. Red endpapers, very tidy. Vivienne Michel is running away - from pain, from rejection, from humiliation. When she stumbles into a criminal plot, her life seems over... until a chance encounter with James Bond turns her world upside down. Ian Fleming's tenth 007 novel is a unique view of Bond, through the eyes of a woman who loves him.
1131. Fleming, Ian: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1964
Hardback, eighth impression, no dust wrapper but generally very good. A little dusty to top page edges but clean and sharp at the corners wear minimal. There is a small book dealers (Foyles) sticker at the front end paper. James Bond has had enough. Enough of Service life, of fruitless manhunts, of taking orders. But Blofeld is back - older, leaner and more dangerous than ever, with a deadly secret at the heart of his luxury ski resort. Bond must rediscover his passion for what he does best, in this, Fleming's eleventh 007 novel.
1130. Fleming, Ian: Goldfinger
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1959
Hardback no d/w, 2nd impression. Slight lean to the book which has been bumped at the bottom corner and showing signs of wear to the bottom edge. Previous owner name at the front endpaper and very light foxing at the page edges otherwise very good. Embossed skull to the upper board. Auric Goldfinger is the kind of man Bond loves to hate: cruel, clever, and frustratingly careful - a cheat and a crook. So Bond relishes his mission to discover what this man - the richest in the country - intends to do with his ill-gotten gains, and what his connection is with SMERSH, the feared Soviet spy-killing corps. Bond soon discovers that Goldfinger's schemes are not only more grandiose, but also more lethal, than even he could have imagined. The seventh James Bond 007 adventure.
1127. Fleming, Ian: You Only Live Twice
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1965
Hardback, third impression March '65. Only very slight wear to edges of unclipped Richard Chopping d/w, near fine book and wrapper. The twelfth James Bond 007 Adventure.
1128. Fleming, Ian: You Only Live Twice
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1964
1st edition hardback, no d/w. Very little wear to the black boards with gilt & silver titles & decoration to upper & spine, corners sharp. Slight foxing at the page edges otherwise very good. Bleached wood grain effect endpapers clean and unmarked. Ian Fleming's twelfth 007 adventure.
1129. Fleming, Ian: Dr No
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1958
1st edition hardback in a later dust wrapper. Black boards with silhouette to upper, Book leans slightly and there is a previous owner's inscription to the front endpaper and very light foxing at the page edges otherwise very good in condition. The jacket advertising the James Bond Dossier on the back is not clipped but has a strip of old tape residue down each end flap. Small chips lost at the tips otherwise very good. Dr No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Dr No's secluded Caribbean island. Intent on protecting his clandestine operations from the British secret service, Dr No sees an opportunity to dispose of an enemy and further his diabolical research. Soon, Bond and Rider are fighting for their lives in a murderous game of Dr No's choosing . . .
1598. Fleming, Ian: From Russia with Love
Published by Heron Books/Edito-Service SA, Geneva, 1981
Red faux leather hardback. Wear to gilt cover decoration only on the upper board otherwise very good, the spine is still nice and bright. Internally clean no names or marks, very good condition. Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul and seduce him while her superiors handle the rest. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double cross ensues - with Bond both the stakes and the prize …
1133. Fleming, Ian: Live and Let Die
Published by The Reprint Society, 1956
Hardback, book club edition in very good condition. Black cloth boards with red leather label with gilt titles at the spine. Boards only very slightly marked. Top page edges stained red, no previous owner names or marks. The original dust wrapper is a little grubby and stained, darkened slightly at the spine. Small chips lost at the tips otherwise very good. Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Mr Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end . . .
1134. Fleming, Ian: Thunderball
Published by The Book Club, 1961
Hardback, book club edition in very good condition. Pale blue cloth boards with black titles at the spine. Corners knocked but nothing nasty, no previous owner names or marks. Very slightly foxed at the page edges. The original dust wrapper is a little worn at the edges, darkened slightly at the spine and has some foxing on the reverse. Small chips lost at the tips otherwise pretty good. Blofeld holds the world to ransom, having hatched a staggeringly audacious plot to steal British atomic weapons. The book that introduced the most imitated and parodied of all the Bond villains, Thunderball also has one of Fleming's most deranged plots and a spectacularly described Caribbean setting. Bond's efforts to defeat SPECTRE lead modern readers through an amazing, baroque series of set-pieces and a treasure-trove of 1950s attitudes.
1135. Fowler, Christopher: Full Dark House
Published by Doubleday, 2003 Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition, the jacket being only very slightly rubbed. In a war-shaken city of myths, rumours and fear, Bryant & May discover that a house is not always a home; nothing is as it appears, the most cunning criminals hide in plain sight, and the devil has all the best tunes. Dark drama and black comedy combine as Bryant & May take centre stage in their first great case.
1136. Franklin, Charles: Storm in an Ink-Pot
Published by Collins c1940
Hardback, cheap edition 2/- reprint. Date unknown. Near very good in a pretty good slightly edge worn dust wrapper. Pages browned. Those looking for an exciting, fast-paced adventure yarn which captures an unfashionable but fascinating era in 20th century English history, should find 'Storm in an Ink Pot' a rewarding read. As part of a series of novels, it generates a desire to read more Grant Garfield adventures and to put Charles Franklin onto more even terms with thriller writers from earlier and later eras.
1137. Fraser, Antonia: Oxford Blood
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper with 2 small tears to bottom edge. A Jemima Shore mystery. The glamorous investigator discovers that the handsome young Lord Saffron, one of the young bloods at the centre of Oxford society, with his expensive pranks, lavish dances and weekend parties, is not all he seems. Then an attempt is made on his life - and on Jemima's.
1138. French, Nicci: Killing Me Softly
Published by Mysterious Press, 1999
Hardback 1st us edition. A fine book and unclipped d/w. There is, what I think may be a remainder mark, to the bottom page edges. Otherwise mint and unread. Alice Loudon couldn't resist abandoning her old, safe life for a wild affair. And in Adam Tallis, a rugged mountaineer with a murky past, she finds a man who can teach her things about herself that she never even suspected. But sexual obsession has its dark side and so does Adam. Soon both are threatening all that Alice has left. First her sanity. Then her life.
1139. French, Nicci: Land of the Living
Published by Michael Joseph, London. 2002
1st edition hardback. Corners slightly bumped and the unclipped jacket edges are very slightly rubbed and chipped but otherwise very good. Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees his only promise is that eventually he will kill her - like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life - the land of the living. Grasping at memories, Abbie recalls snatches of her identity, her career, and her disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend. Is there a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?
1140. Frost, David: The Deeds Creature
Published by Aquila Books Ltd, 1990
1st edition hardback slightly bumped d/w, ¾" closed tear to rear fold otherwise very good. Sex, mystery and religion combine in this powerful novel. Set in outer London of the mid-1960's, at the beginning of the sexual revolution, the plot concerns a police officer investigating the murder of his own mistress, and two clergymen who find that his attitudes threaten their beliefs. Hoping that he will face the consequences of his casual involvement, they collude in a revenge action that leads to a surprising and terrifying denouement. The novel has been described as 'what might have emerged if Dorothy L Sayers and Charles Williams had combined'; or again, as 'a blend of Dostoyevsky with Graham Greene' -- comparisons that do justice to the book's narrative verve and psychological depth, yet miss its macabre humour.