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MASTER- AT- ARMS **CHECKERBOOKS #7**
by Sabatini, Rafael
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- Used - Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$33.60
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N.Y.: Checkerbooks, Inc., 1949. 1st printing. A fine copy with one tiny nick at head of spine, paper is age toned, lightly soiled at rear cover. Checkerbooks #7. [.15 cover price]. Vintage paperback. Cover illustration by Leon H. Leiderman. Checkerbooks only published 12 titles and these slender volumes are very difficult to find in this nice shape. 94 pgs. When… Read more about this item Item Price
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EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE
by May, Peter
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- Used - Very Good-Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- Later Edition
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- 2006
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- Paperback
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- 9781681443652
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$9.60
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N.Y.: Quercus, 2006. 5th pbk printing. Very good-near fine copy. 382 pages. Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised… Read more about this item Item Price
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MAIGRET'S CHRISTMAS: Nine Stories
by Simenon, Georges
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1977
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- 9780151555512
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$24.00
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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1977. First edition, so stated. Page edges slightly dusty else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $8.95 intact, lightly rubbed, in protective mylar cover. A holiday-themed collection, each featuring Jules Maigret. Many of the stories feature observant and resourceful children, frightened yet resolute, who bring out… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ODILE
by Simenon, Georges
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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- 9780151257201
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1972. 1st American Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, page edges lightly dusty, not price clipped, $5.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. Translated by Lyn Moir. Simenon writes about an 18 year old girl who runs away from home to Paris leaving behind a letter to her brother informing him of her intention… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FAMILY LIE
by Simenon, Georges
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1978
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- 9780151562473
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1978. 1st American Edition, so stated. Stanislaw Zagorski (illustrator). Top of pages dusty, else Fine in fnear fine dust jacket, lightly soiled, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Zagorski, Stainislaw. Book. Item Price
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THIRTY HOURS WITH A CORPSE: and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol (Dover Horror Classics)
by Level, Maurice and S.T. Joshi
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- New
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- 2016
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- Paperback
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- 9780486802329
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$12.96
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Garden City, New York,: Dover Publications, Inc., 2016. New copy. Oversize Trade Paperback. Characterized by gratuitous acts of brutality and surprise endings, these tales of obsession and violence are the creations of a twentieth-century French writer whose works were staged by the legendary Théâtre du Grand-Guignol of Paris. The precursors of modern thrillers and slasher films, these stories… Read more about this item Item Price
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SEARCH FOR A SCIENTIST
by Leonard, Charles L. pseudonym of M. V. Heberden,
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1947
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$72.00
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Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1947. 1st edition, so stated. Surrealistic dust jacket by Ray Gordon. Pages age toned, covers very lightly rubbed, white lettering to spine is still very bright, a near fine copy in dust jacket, rubbed along spine edges and lightly rubbed at front panel, small chip out along top, … Read more about this item Item Price
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LESSON IN LOVE (aka: Pot-Bouille): A Young Frenchman in a Paris Boarding House
by Zola, Emile
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1953
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$14.40
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N.Y.: Pyramid Books, 1953. 1st paperback printing. Original title: "Pot-Bouille" [(Les Rougon-Macquart) (1882)]. Pyramid Books #105. A specially revised and edited edition of the Vizetelly translation from the French. Light reading crease else fine, tight copy. Cover by Jim Bentley. Vintage Paperback. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5… Read more about this item Item Price
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YOUNG MAN OF PARIS: She Taught Him the Facts of Love
by Calet, Henri
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Printing
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- 1956
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$7.68
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N.Y.: Berkley, 1956. 1st printing. Berkley #G-28 (.35¢ cover price) . Cover by Victor Kalin. Vintage Paperback. "...This follows the progress of a young rake who took readily to women, enjoyed many irregular relationships, hankered for but never achieved the luxuries of life, and held an undampened appreciation for life in this city, its shops, streets, cafes, subways,… Read more about this item Item Price
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PRISONER OF THE DEVIL: Sherlock Holmes & the Dreyfus Case
by Hardwick, Michael
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 9780906071113
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$9.60
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NY: Proteus, 1980. 1st edition, 2nd Printing September 1980. light edgewear, page edges lightly spotted else near fine in rubbed dust jacket, light wear at head and foot, not price clipped, ($9.95), in protective mylar cover. 1895 France. "The case is one of the most notorious in European history -that of the French Jew ,Alfred Dreyfus.In 1895 Dreyfus ,a… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEATH MEETS THE KING'S MESSENGER
by Collins, Gilbert
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1934
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$72.00
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Garden City, New York,: Doubleday Crime Club, 1934. 1st ed. Previous owner's name at fep, else a near fine copy with some minor soiling, a very nice skull embossed front board, with clear red lettering on spine. Dust jacket shows some wear along edges, with minor chipping at corners and spine head, lightly rubbed and soiled but overall very… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery
by Vargas, Fred
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st Prtg
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- 2013
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- Paperback
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- 9780143123125
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N.Y.: Penguin, 2013. 1st prtg. About fine, no markings, not ex-library or remindered. A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA s International Dagger Award. As the chief of police in Paris’s seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow’s plea. Her daughter Lina has… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURDER BELOW MONTPARNASSE: An Aimee Leduc Investigation
by Black, Cara
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2013
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- Paperback
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- 9781616952150
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st edition A fine , unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited edition. 336 pages. The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian… Read more about this item Item Price
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SISTER BENEATH THE SHEET
by Linscott, Gillian
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312064648
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$19.20
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N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A suffragette Nell Bray title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book. Item Price
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THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
by Freeling, Nicholas
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
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- 9780670143986
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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NY: Viking Press, 1983. First edition, fine in dust jacket. The seventh Henri Castang title. Inspector Henri Castang's investigation into a gruesome, cannibalistic murder leads him to a lovely young prostitute whose activities conceal sinister crimes and to ruthless political machinations, power ploys, and intrigue. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Item Price
$12.00
The Witch In The Well: A Catherin LeVendeur Mystery
by Newman, Sharan
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2004
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- Hardcover
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- 9780765308818
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$15.84
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2004. 1st Ed. Fine in dust jacket. - A Historical Mystery. Catherine LeVendeur is a unique spirit, a woman of twelfth-century France with a keen mind and curiosity that often puts her in peril and whose life reflects both the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEAD LOSS: A Detective Inspector Best Victorian Mystery
by Lock, Joan
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- As New
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- As New
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- First Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9780727863119
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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London, United Kingdom: Severn House Pub Ltd, 2006. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. London is in the grip of Irish fever after bombs explode in Whitehall on the underground railway. Detective Ins. Best is sent to Paris where these Irish Americans are plotting their next "outrage" and obtaining arms for an uprising.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As… Read more about this item Item Price
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WOLFNIGHT [3 Dust jackets]
by Freeling, Nicholas
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394522661
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$33.60
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NY: Pantheon, 1983. 1st American edition, so stated. Fine in 3 fine dust jackets, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Henri Castang title, Replete with the volatile tensions of a political thriller, Freeling introduces the reader to the nebulous, frightening world of conspiracy. Henri Castang, renowned police inspector, is called in to investigate a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Night Lords
by Freeling, Nicolas
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 9780394502816
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1978. 1st ed. Light soiling to cloth covers else near fine in fine dust jacket. When a high court judge holidaying in France with his family, finds a naked corpse in their Rolls Royce, Henri Castang is called to investigate. What transpires is mocking mayhem, as Castang weaves his way through deception… Read more about this item Item Price
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MADRIGAL **SIGNED COPY**
by Janes, J. Robert
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
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- First Edition
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780575067844
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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$28.80
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London, United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz (UK), 1999. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Bold, full signature at title page. A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery. Set in France during WWII. St-Cyr and Kohler are shipped hastily from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des… Read more about this item Item Price
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