[a very nice copy, minor shelfwear, light smudge on front endpaper, previous owner's name and date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed behind rear jacket flap); jacket is nice and bright, with just a teensy bit of wear to the upper right corner of the front panel]. (The Crime Club) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Big Al, / with greetings / from / Bob Barnard." Sussex-set mystery novel about an illegitimate daughter of the protagonist's elderly father, the result of his long-ago fling with a famous actress, who's purportedly resea... View More...
[no discernible wear to book, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is lightly scuffed, and has a 2-inch closed tear (internally tape-repaired) at top of spine, with some associated creasing across the upper section of the front panel]. Murder at an Anglican church, high on the Yorkshire moors, during a symposium on the role of the Church in the modern world, the attendees at which are an international gaggle of ecclestiastical guests-cum-suspects: "a bishop who was a well-known TV p... View More...
[nice clean book with no significant wear, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a minor wrinkle at the top of the rear panel]. Murder mystery centering around an eccentric family in which the murder of the father -- "on a Spanish Inquisition-style torture machine" -- is investigated by his estranged son, a young police inspector. First published in England as "Sheer Torture." View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase are written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket is flawless except for long horizontal surface-scratch across the rear panel]. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, a famous author of detective novels, collapses and dies at his birthday party. Unexpectedly, his "elder son, who openly hated his father, inherits most of the estate." However, "the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to [the author's] wife -- a posthumous 'last case' that might be worth millions -- has disappeared. And Sir Olive... View More...
[nice clean tight copy with no discernible wear, former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by jacket flap); the jacket itself is flawless]. Mystery novel about a woman investigating a liaison in her mother's past, an inquiry triggered by a mysterious anonymous letter received just after the mother's death. View More...
[no significant wear to book, but the former owner's name plus date & place of purchase is written in ink at the top of the front endpaper; the jacket has some very minor wrinkling at the top of the front panel]. The third of the author's Inspector Perry Trethowan mysteries, this tale is set in motion by the discovery in an old trunk, by an elderly retired schoolteacher, of a previously unknown Emily Brontë manuscript. View More...
[book is flawless except for the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself IS flawless, no "except for"]. Detective Inspector Charlie Pierce looks into the death (murder?) of a TV soap opera star who had been universally disliked by his fellow performers -- and who was replaced on the show, after his demise, by an equally unpleasant former member of the cast. View More...
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