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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes
Book Number: 28509
Octopus Bks, 1986 4to hardcover 318pp indcolour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Price: $18.00 |
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Haining, Peter: Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook
Book Number: 28517
Treasure Press 1986 4to hardcover 128pp index, b/w illus. very good, covered in clear adhesive plastic / very good d/w.
Keywords: Address Books Journals More Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook Haining Peter
Price: $18.00 |
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Block, Lawrence: The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
Book Number: 28592
Penguin USA, 1995 8vo hardcover 291pp. very good / very good d/w. From Booklist: "Justice gets served last, and usually winds up with leftovers." Yes, it's witty, but what really makes this line work is that the man speaking it, bookstore owner and master burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, finds not just irony but opportunity in its meaning. That's the thing about the Rhodenbarr mysteries: Bernie keeps you on your toes. He has a heart of gold, but he loves to steal, both for the thrill and the profit. Sentimental, yes, but selfish, too, thank God--sort of like Bogart, which leads us to the just-plain-fun plot of Bernie's latest caper. Out of all the bookstores in all the towns in all the world, this girl named Ilona happens to walk into Bernie's: they get to talking, she buys a book on Bogart, and before you can say, "Here's looking at you, kid," they've made a date to see two Bogey flicks at a New York film festival. After that, it gets complicated fast: they keep going to the Bogey festival every night; Bernie steals some documents; his sort-of-partner is killed; an enigmatic fat man appears, lusting after the documents; Ilona disappears, leaving Bernie holding the popcorn; and, inevitably, Ilona takes the midnight plane, dedicating her life to helping another man achieve an idealistic political dream, but not before Bernie has a chance to mutter, "We'll always have Twenty-fifth Street." What does it all mean? Not much, but if you're a film fan, who cares? It's funny, it's silly, it's stupendously clever, it's drop-dead romantic. Play it again, Bernie. Bill Ott nnIngramn A new Bernie Rhodenbarr adventure finds the beloved burglar hounded by his old nemesis, Detective Kirchmann, when Bernie becomes the fall guy in a murder frame-up--and is distracted by beautiful and dangerous dame named Ilona.
Keywords: Fiction Crime Thrillers Mystery The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart Block Lawrence
Price: $25.00 |
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Jonathan Latimer: Sinners and Shrouds
Book Number: 28946
Pan Books 1958 Paperback. A bit worn around the edges. Chip at bottom of spine. 189pp. Foxing on page edges.'
Keywords: detective novel, crime
Price: $15.00 |
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Mortimer, John; Illustrations by Paul Cox.: Rumpole Selected and introduced by the author.
Book Number: 29124
The Folio Society, London, 1994 8vo. grey cloth hardcover. 362pp. b/w illus. very good.'
Keywords: rumpole of bailey fiction crime
Price: $22.00 |
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Cleary, Jon: Dilemma
Book Number: 29798
London HarperCollins 1999 first edition 8vo hardcover 261pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a new novel featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. The routine arrest of a fugitive leads to disturbing allegations against a Crown Prosecutor, and the abduction of a child model reveals an ugly side to the world of fashion. When Scobie Malone returns to the bush town of Collamundra to apprehend a husband who disappeared after the murder of his wife four years earlier, it seems a cut-and-dried case. But as the trial begins, a key witness recognizes a face in the courtroom, and Scobie finds himself investigating the Crown Prosecutor -- an individual revered by colleagues as the perfect family man and a pillar of the community. Meanwhile, Sydney is agog at the abduction of a child model whose freckled face has launched a thousand products. Malone, like everyone else, finds it hard to take the threat seriously -- until a body is found. As a devoted father, Scobie is shaken by the murder of a child, but his inquiries reveal that the family life little Lucybelle experienced was a million miles from the settled existence of the Malones. Suddenly Malone is embroiled in two cases where, the deeper he probes, the more he wishes he hadn't. And, having uncovered the truth, he must decide whether to proceed -- knowing that if he does, a family will be destroyed.
Keywords: Detective and mystery stories Malone Scobie (Fictitious character) Fiction Police Fiction Australia Fiction Dilemma Cleary Jon
Price: $28.00 |
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McCoy, Horace: Thrillers
Book Number: 29901
Zomba Bks, 1983 8vo softcover 574pp very good, foxinf to edges.
Keywords: Thrillers McCoy Horace
Price: $25.00 |
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Murdoch, Iris: Something Special
Book Number: 30002
Chatto and Windus, 1999 first edition Small 8vo hardcover 41pp, b/w illus. fine / near fine d/w. Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas in a bar. Sam's idea of "something special" meanwhile is to take her to St Stephen's Green later that night to show her a ghostly tree!
Keywords: Fiction Crime Thrillers Mystery Something Special Murdoch Iris
Price: $15.00 |
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Hornung, E W: Raffles, a Thief in the Night (Fingerprint Bks.)
Book Number: 30303
London H Hamilton, 1976 8vo hardcover 184pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: 1890s Raffles a Thief in the Night (Fingerprint Bks ) Hornung E W
Price: $18.00 |
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Cousins, E G: Death By Treble Chance
Book Number: 30458
London: John Gifford, 1959. 8vo. hardcover. 204pp. very good, small owner''s signature on dedication page. / good+ d/w.' '
Keywords: Death By Treble Chance novel crime thriller
Price: $25.00 |
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