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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the quintessential tradition of the golden age of detective fiction, Night at the Mocking Widow presents a baffling murder mystery set...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, chipped and worn with some minor damage, edge wear visible; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Remainder markCaptain Cut-Throat plunges readers into a historical mystery, constructing a suspenseful...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedA killer with a taste for matrimony and a talent for vanishing acts meets his match in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerSet against the tense backdrop of Napoleon's army encamped at Boulogne in...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsSet against the sultry, gaslit backdrop of nineteenth-century New Orleans, Papa Là-Bas is a historical...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsSet against the fog-drenched backdrop of Victorian England, this atmospheric mystery novel chronicles the investigation into...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: prelims clipped.A masterwork of the classic locked-room...

Author: Carter DicksonBinding: HardbackPublished: Tom Stacey, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson is a classic mystery novel that plunges readers into a perplexing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew pleasures rival the company of the genre's finest minds gathered between a single set of covers —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen the most brilliant minds in crime fiction gather under one cover, the result is nothing short of...

A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years, Worlds Elsewhere is...

Author: Roger S. Durham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach...

'Paul Halter is France's answer to John Dickson Carr' Martin Edwards The ultimate locked-room mystery. In Paul Halter's The Fourth Door , the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An...

Author: Helen Dickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 0

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. In June 1944, the vast expanse of the Pacific...

'Paul Halter is France's answer to John Dickson Carr' Martin Edwards The ultimate locked-room mystery. In Paul Halter's The Fourth Door , the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Long before the publishing world became the corporate behemoth it is today,...

After selling his business, rich middle-aged merchant Dickson McCunn decides to set out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a young English poet, and both...

The Art of Daryl Dickson is a celebration of her diverse style and beautiful work. From black-winged stilts to brushtail possums, see the variety and colour of Australian wildlife contained...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingHe was a young man who stared death in the face and wrote about it with the clarity of someone who had nothing left...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...

Author: Dr David Dickson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea,...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt thirty thousand feet, murder has nowhere to hide — Obelists Fly High by C. Daly King is a masterwork of golden age detective fiction,...

'Vividly written, compellingly argued, [ Christians ] will captivate believers and non-believers alike ... Jesus jumps from the pages of this book.' Richard Glover, ABC broadcaster 'You feel like you...

Secondhand Vintage IF, Amazing & Astounding Science Fiction Magazine Box SP3054 Three of the great pulp SF titles in a single box — Worlds of IF, Amazing Stories, and Astounding...

My Life in Christ has been read by millions, making it one of the most beloved modern works of Orthodox Christian spirituality. In this new edition, the English translation has...

'So great ... it's criminal' SAGA'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' DAILY MAILFrom beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing,...

By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride...

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Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - faded. DJ - chipped with some loss. Internally sound. A...

The holiday season is here, and for most of us, our minds are on carefree days in the sunshine. But for every trip to the seaside or sultry afternoon on...

Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The holiday season is here, and for most of us, our minds are on carefree days in the sunshine. But for every...