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DEATH IN THE GREENHOUSE.

By: Anderson, J.R.L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1978

Seller ID: 27356

ISBN: 0575025263

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 8"H. "Old Mr Quenenden has retired to a cottage in Berkshire, where he devotes himself to the selective breeding of tropical plants. Why, when he has lived there quietly for years, should someone shoot him dead in his greenhouse? Why should he leave his little fortune - a quarter of a million pounds - to a North of England schoolmistress whom he seem to have known only slightly? And how do these events link up with an extraordinary blackmail demand received by the new Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Meredith Boscombe: a demand for one million pounds in used notes. ...
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THE CLIMATE OF POWER.

By: Baird, Irene.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, (1971), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 13845

255 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "George McKenna's long career as a senior civil servant in the Canadian corridors of power is drawing to a close and he is fighting desperately to stay in power...(trouble arises) in Parliament over a fake rumour of trouble in a remote Arctic village, and one way or another this puts McKenna on the spot. The story moves to the far north where the smouldering conflict betwen McKenna and (the younger, ambitious) Wragge reaches crisis point. Only his young wife, with whom McKenna is very much in love but who makes no secret of her infideli...
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THE RELUCTANT GUNMAN. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 506. 4TH SERIES.

By: Baker, W. Howard. Cover art by Stefan Barany and Bruno Elettori.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (August, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10876

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "He didn't want to kill...but the pressure was overwhelming..." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling and tiny chip at bottom. VG
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MURDER IN CAMERA. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 522. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (1963], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 16442

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Interior - pages browning, tow pages with very small stain, light rusting to staple. Exterior - light edge wear - a little more on spine with tiny pieces missing at top/bottom and middle, spine has light wrink ling, small soft wrinkles on covers, tiny light stain on rear cover, # 6 overwrtten with # 4 in crayon on front cover. Reading copy.
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A CORPSE FOR CHRISTMAS. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 514. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Fleetway: 1962

Seller ID: 10865

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 7 1/4" H. "Sexton Blake went to Dedleigh Abbey, his intention to spend a peaceful Yuletide holiday away from trouble and crime. But Blake's quiet Christmas soon gave way to a deadly, ruthless struggle to expose a criminal mastermind. Behind London's baffling wave of motiveless, mystery killings were the blood-stained hands of a compassionless team of professional killers - the cold, sadistic murderers of Lifetakers Ltd." Interior - pages browned, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edgewear - a little more on spine, minor marks...
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STUDIO ONE MURDER. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 504. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Henry Fox.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (July, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10863

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "Strange goings-on at a film studio...murder and mystery among the cameras, the bright lights, the glamorous girls..." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling. VG
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SAVAGE VENTURE. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 512. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Stefan Barany.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (November, 1962], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10864

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "They sought out the men who conducted a vile trade in human lives...the slavers of Lubanda." Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling and small tears at top/bottom. VG-
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THIS MAN MUST DIE! SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 447. 4TH SERIES.

By: Ballinger, W.A. Cover art by Symeoni & Hugh Pratt. Sketches for novel by D.J. Gold

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (March, 1960], Ist printing..:

Seller ID: 10862

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "He was trapped between a girl he couldn't trust and a war he couldn't fight!" Interior - pages browning lightly, staple rusting, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, soft wrinkling to covers, front cover has two large soft creases, rear cover has minor browning/soiling and a few foxing marks, spine has light wrinkling. G+
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THE ENDLESS CHAIN.

By: Bell, Neil.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London / Folkestone, Alvin Redman / Bailey Bros. & Swinfen: 1968

Seller ID: 12612

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

255 pp, 8vo (8" H). "A novel of tension and suspense. In the first chapter John Ferrers is found guilty of murder, but who has been murdered is not disclosed until the end of the story. The book is the slow unravelling of all the threads which make up the fabric of the crime. Why does a man commit murder or any other crime? What are the causes leading up to that culminating moment when control gives way, when the breaking point is reached?" Previous owners name in ink on free front endpaper, tiny bump to corners of boards, very light wrinkling at top of spine, the publisher i...
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THE CHINESE PARROT.

By: Biggers, Earl Derr.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, c1926, first Canadian edition.:

Seller ID: 18127

316 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (green cloth with orange/red lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. Charlie Chan escorts a valuable necklace from Honolulu. Slight discoloration on endpapers at gutter, tiny tear with creases at bottom edge of pages 31/32 - archivally taped, light browning to edges of textblock, and few tiny dints and tiny light stain on top of textblock, minor edge wear, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Very Good
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DEADLY APPEARANCES. A JOANNE KILBOURN MYSTERY.

By: Bowen, Gail.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre: 1990

Seller ID: 8099

ISBN: 0888947038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

222 pp, 9 1/4" H. "It's a hot August day at a political picnic on the Canadian prairies. Andy Boychuk, the newly elected leader of the province's opposition party, is preparing to speak. All of the key people in his life - family, friends, enemies - are waiting expectantly. He walks to the lectern, pours a glass of water, drinks, and collapses. Within seconds, he is dead. Joanne Kilbourn, Andy's speechwriter, is stunned, but she is no stranger to sudden death. In the hours after Andy's murder, she relives the anguish she felt years earlier when her husband was brutally killed by...
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THE WEED THAT STRINGS THE HANGMAN'S BAG.

By: Bradley, Alan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday Canada: 2010

Seller ID: 25516

ISBN: 0385665849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

348 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders finds herself untangling two deaths - separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads. Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over - and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who'd do such a thing, and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry ...
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McGRUBER'S FOLLY.

By: Braithwaite, Max.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1981

Seller ID: 28432

ISBN: 0771016131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

220 pp, 8 5/8" H. "McGruber is a retired detective with everything a man could want - a home in the Muskoka woods, a charming wife, good health and two grandchildren. But McGruber is restless - and stirred to dream of something more - of palm trees and surf, of yachts and fast cars, of young women with unlined faces and eager bodies. And then, in a flash, (he) realizes it doesn't have to be a dream. It can all be his - but only if he can pull of the Perfect Crime. This is the beginning of a rollicking, non-stop escapade that introduces the hapless McGruber to a world of deception ...
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THE CAT WHO KNEW A CARDINAL.

By: Braun, Lilian Jackson.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1991), uncorrected proof for limited distribution.:

Seller ID: 7720

240 pp, 8vo, soft cover. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF COPY. "Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum return for another adventure '400 miles north of everywhere' in the twelfth episode of the extraordinarily popular Cat Who...series." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear/rubbing, small scuff at top of spine, spine flat and uncreased. VG+
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WYCLIFFE AND THE SCHOOLGIRLS.

By: Burley, W.J.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1976

Seller ID: 29306

ISBN: 0575020482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

191 pp, 8" H. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. "Debbie Joyce, a young cabaret singer, is found strangled. A week later, in the same city, Elaine Bennett, a nurse, is similarly murdered. Immediately the press raise the alarm that a psychopathic killer is on the loose. But Chief Superintendent Wycliffe is not convinced that this is the answer. While police precautions are greatly increased, he quietly goes his own way, probing into the possibility, however remote, that there is some logical connection - logical at least to the murderer - between the two deaths. His absorbi...
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WYCLIFFE AND THE PEA-GREEN BOAT.

By: Burley, W.J.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1975

Seller ID: 29307

ISBN: 0575019689

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 8" H. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. "When Cedric Tremain is charged with murder-ing his father, by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals agree that this wouldn't be his sort of crime. But the case against him is strong: he has the motive, the opportunity, the know-how; and there's some hard circumstantial evidence against him. So he is arrested. But there are things about the case which Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doesn't like. So he keeps nosing around. And his investigations lead him into the details of another murder case, one that is now twenty ye...
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ACCORDING TO THE EVIDENCE.

By: Cecil, Henry.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London, 1954, Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10525

224 pp, small 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Would you - in peace time - kill a man to save innocent lives, if that was the only means by which those lives could be saved? And, if you did so, would it be murder? It certainly would be if, at the actual time you killed, you did not do so in immediate defence of yourself or someone else. (This book) deals with the trial for murder of Alec Morland, who is alleged to have been guilty of killing a man in circumstances of that kind..." Minor wrinkle at top of spine, bequest bookplate on free front endpaper, small bookstore label on rea...
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MOSCOW MANHUNT. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 508. 4TH SERIES.

By: Chambers, Philip. Cover art by Angel Badia Camps and Stefan Barany.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (September, 1962), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 10837

63 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "A nuclear physicist was engaged on research work vital to Europe's chances in the space race. But his wife, Svetlana, was in Moscow. So one man had to penetrate behind the Iron Curtain. But he soon became a man on the run, hounded by the dreaded MVD. Would he - could he - come out alive?" Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear - a little more on spine, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling. VG
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BULLETS TO BAGHDAD. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 450. 4TH SERIES.

By: Chambers, Philip. Cover art by Jacoby.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (April, 1960), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 10839

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "She was bait for a killer - and decoy to a monstrous plot!" Interior - pages browning lightly, staple lightly rusted, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - a little more on spine, soft wrinkling to covers, spine has light wrinkling. VG
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LOTUS LEAVES AND LARCENY. SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY NO. 521. 4TH SERIES.

By: Chambers, Philip. Cover art by Stefan Barany.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fleetway, London, (April, 1963), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 10838

64 pp, soft cover (stapled in wraps). "...if you are not a cat-lover, this tender tale of larceny is not for you. You would do better to forgo the jading spectacle of sultry-eyed beauties in split-skirted cheongsams - ignore the uninteresting circumstances of murder committed with a chrome-plated chopstick - and disregard the tedious details of how seven thousand bars of gold bullion were filched from the Bank of England...For this is the story of no ordinary cat. This is a seal- point saga - the story of Millie!" Interior - pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no...
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Category: Mysteries