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London: Faber and Faber, 1997. Both UK Firsts. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (1920 - 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh. These… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. 2nd US printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A quite scarce murder mystery novel written and set during the WWII London blitz.  The name, Nap Lombard, was a pseudonym for the married authors, Pamela Hansford Johnson, a British novelist and Gordon Neil Stewart, and Australian journalist.  Being published during the war, it is now… Read more about this item

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993. First. Softcover. Very Good +. Victor Juhasz. From the publisher: "Modeled on the work of Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, this serial cliffhanger follows Mason Devereaux, a once-great, hard-drinking British actor, who becomes involved in the case of an on-stage murder." Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013) was an American film critic, film… Read more about this item

London: Daily Mail. First. Newspaper. Very Good +. Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, often underdogs. The popularity of the TV series led to the stories… Read more about this item

Privately Published, 2020. First thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adam Croft is an English writer of crime fiction. He is a self-published author and is an advocate of independent publishing. He has written more than twenty books, including the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He appeared on the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1985. First. Softcover. Fine. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. It provides… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1975. First. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. From the publisher: "Collects over one hundred recipes from the fictional, but enviable notebooks of the wife of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret, providing full instructions, methods, accompaniments, and alternatives" Jules Maigret, or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire of the Paris… Read more about this item

London: Sphere, 2022. First UK (True 1st). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A brand new, unread copy of the 6th and latest Cormoran Strike thriller A first UK edition, 1st printing with complete number line As new condition in as new unclipped DJ 1012 [4] pp. WA.

Soundings, 2021. First Audiobook. Fine. From the publisher: In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes' upstairs neighbour, Mrs. Sibley… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. All are US first editions. Near Fine/Near Fine. Leonard Cyril Deighton (b. 1929) is a British author who has written a wide variety of books, including cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. These three volumes comprise the first trilogy of spy novels involving Bernard… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First. Fine/Fine. From the Publisher: "Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Great copy, fine in fine DJ Signed by author on title page Ruth Rendell first mystery under her pen name of Barbara Vine .

London: Peter Davies, 1953. 2nd Printing. Very Good/Poor. 1953 Second Printing Book Very Good with poor DJ Lower half of DJ missing.

New York: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Macmillan, 1957. First edition. Very Good. Good Solid binding with only a slight tilt. No dj. Black cloth embossed in blue in very good state. Previous owner bookplate on inside of front cover, but otherwise, no marks or damage at all. Minor age toning on inside covers.… Read more about this item