Cooper-Clark, Diana. (P.D. James, Jean Stubbs, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Millar, Ross Macdonald, Howard Engle, Ruth Rnedell, Patricia Highsmith, Julian Symons, Amanda Cross, Anne Perry, Dick Francis, Janwillem Van De Wetering.) Listings

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	1 Cooper-Clark, Diana. (P.D. James, Jean Stubbs, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Millar, Ross Macdonald, Howard Engle, Ruth Rnedell, Patricia Highsmith, Julian Symons, Amanda Cross, Anne Perry, Dick Francis, Janwillem van de Wetering.) DESIGNS OF DARKNESS: INTERVIEWS WITH DETECTIVE NOVELISTS. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, (1983).  239 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w photos of authors interviewed. Interior - tiny faint stain to fore edge of first three pages and inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edgewear/rubbing, tw o small areas of surface paper scuffing at top/bottom of front cover at spine, spine is flat and uncreased. VG-  Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Francis, Dick. TRIAL RUN. Michael Joseph, London, 1978, first edition.  239 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 071811714X Map endpapers. "This time (Francis's) hero Randall Drew penetrates the Iron Curtain into Soviet Russia. He emerges, of course, victorious after a series of hair-raising adventure s. Randall Drew is prevented from carrying on his career in steeplechasing by poor eyesight. Restless and unsure of his future but pursuing an ardent love affair, he does not welcome an invitation to go to Moscow on a delicate investigation, b u t a lmost irresistible pressures are brought to bear. A mysterious entity 'Aloysha' is threatening a royally connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games; the candidate may be vulnerable to scandal which could set off intolerable diplomat i c co nf l ic ts. The brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high..." Tiny shallow bump at bottom edge of front board. Dust jacket has light browning on spine/flap-folds and at some edges, light edge wrinkling, minor e dg e w ear , min or rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart