FICTION / THRILLER from Chilton Books

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937.. New-At-Ninepence Illustrated Thriller. 21cms x 14cms x 1.5cms. Pp.128, 2 double page black & white 'pulp fiction' illustrations, creases to corner tips, closed tear to inner margin of pp.119-128, cracking to inner front hinge but holding Yellow and blue illustrated paperback, slightly cocked, spine creased with edge tears, corner tips creased, 2cm… Read more about this item

London: The Featherstone Press Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. A New Kind of Thriller". A werewolf prowls the vicinity of an isolated English country estate. Pp.140, has worm damage to lower inner margins occasionally touching edge of text, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, title to front and spine. Scarce. Fair.** E.T.Portwin (1912-2006) UK publisher and author, born Portwine… Read more about this item

London: Wright & Brown Ltd, nd.(c.1952).. Ex Boots Bookseller's Library. "Penelope Damer meeting Carl Hewetson on a journey to Ireland, falls headlong in love and marries him. It is only when they have been married for some months that she hears her husband was suspected of murdering a former wife, and that he is not by any… Read more about this item

London: Vawser & Wiles Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. A Thrilling Secret Service Story. "Tony Baxter, a member of the British Intelligence Service, is plunged into an incredible adventure in Occupied France. The date is late summer, 1943, the keynote of the plot is Hitler's much vaunted secret weapon..." Pp.123, 8 black & white illustrations, minor spotting to endpapers.… Read more about this item

London: Panther / Granada, 1977.. Rep. "A mysterious voice from the telephone; a beautiful Chinese girl shot dead; a rich old man with a troubled conscience; a private investigator involved in a murder; a Chinese prostitute who talked too much; and a coffin..." Pp.128, toning to pages. Paperback, minor edge wear. VG.

Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, 2018.. Two men successfully gatecrash the closed conference at Munich as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is about to sign an agreement giving Adolf Hitler everything he wants in Czechoslovakia. One of the men is an American radio correspondent aghast at Chamberlain�s gullibility at surrendering to Nazi demands. He�s determined to stop the deal by bursting… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.. Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps. "Richard Hannay is dispatched on an undercover mission in pursuit of the mysterious and elusive 'Greenmantle' through occupied Europe into Constantinople." Pp.267, toning to pages. Paperback, minor creasing to edges next to spine. VG.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, nd.(c.1924).. 5th printing. Being Some Further Adventures of Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service. "Clubfoot, the sinister and masterful German secret agent, is again on the warpath to wreak his vengeance on the men in the British secret service, who have thwarted his plans. Chief of his enemies are the brothers Francis and Desmond… Read more about this item

London: John Long, nd.. 211th thousand. A John Long Four-Square Racing Thriller, originally published in 1917. Pp144, slight toning to pages. Paperback, slightly rubbed with small chip to lower front fore-edge. G+.**Nat Gould (1857-1919) was possibly one of the most prolific of writers on horses and horse racing. Although born in Manchester, he lived and worked in Australia for… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Co.Ltd, 1945.. 1st edition. A Uranium Bomb Sttory. "Peter Gayleigh's old antagonist and friend, Chief Inspector Herrington of Scotland Yard, sets Gayleigh the task of frustrating the famous Nazi spy's attempts to obtain details of the extraordinary new explosive which Government scientists are perfecting. The result is almost as shattering as that astonishing bomb which… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1972.. 1st edition. "The slow, timeless rhythm of the Western Isles is beautifully evoked to form the backgrounde to this story of suspense as it deftly builds up to a pitch of excitement and expectancy." Pp.233. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has chip to top of spine. VG/VG.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979.. 1st edition. "He was called Ross Callum and in the Tangier straits he was a legend. A flamboyant hell-raising womaniser who, until he disappeared, had owned the fastest launch on the coast and made a fortune running guns to the Sahel rebels and contraband to anyone who would buy it....At least that was what… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg,1976.. 1st edition. "Underground cells of men and women, heroes, traitors, patriots and criminals, running a wartime network that spanned Europe from Belgium to the Spanish border. That was the Orion Line. But the Orion Line had been penetrated and smashed by the Germans in 1944. Why then was Gareth Owen now being asked to return… Read more about this item

London: Brown, Watson Ltd (Digit Books), nd.. The author's third book, but the first in "The Saint" series featuring Simon Templar. Pp.160, repaired tear to top of half-title page, pages browning. Paperback, illustration of a ship piled with gold and the familiar cartoon figure of "The Saint" with his halo standing on the prow. spine edge scuffed, some… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.. 1st ed. "Duff Hart-Davis builds his story to a crescendo of suspense and excitement among the great peaks of Knoydart, on the West Coast...The claustrophobia which threatens to destroy a man on the run is brilliantly contrasted with the barren immensity of the Scottish hills." P.287, maps of Scottish hills to endpapers. … Read more about this item

Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1987.. 1st ed. "Who needs the kind of nuclear material which could, correctly processed, make a nuclear bomb?..Richard Holbrook stumbles on the link between his now obsessive search, and the valuable item of antique porcelain purchased by a Hong Kong bank..." Pp.271, slight toning to pages. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975.. 1st ed. "For Ben and Charity it was their most exciting case, a case which involved money, beautiful women, and human killers as savage as the requiem shark and much more dangerously cunning." Pp.212. Red cloth, d/w design by Roger King. VG/VG.

Lymington: Nautical,1977.. 1st ed. "In 'Captain Incognito', his second novel, George Gibson portrays the authentic atmosphere of life at sea in a modern freighter, and he builds up drama and suspense in a plot as plausible as his characters are convincing and astutely drawn." Pp.207, scuffed spot to fep. Orange cloth has minor creasing to boards,… Read more about this item

Australia: Macdonald Futura, 1985.. 1st ed. ""Eddie Lee Webster is a loud-mouthed drunkard, a bully and a boor. Worse, he is the brother of the President of the United States. That he is an embarrassment to the Administration is no secret. But as the cheif suspect in the brutal murder of four black women, he… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale, 1983.. 1st ed. "An explosive mixture of vice, avarice, chicanery and lust set among Bankok's bars, brothels and restaurants." Pp.224. Black cloth, dustwrapper is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.