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THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS: An Henri Bencolin Mystery **Popular Library # 282
by Carr, John Dickson
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Printing
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- 1950
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- Paperback
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Popular Library, 1950. 1st printing, October 1950, so stated. V intage Paperback. Popular Library # 282 [no cover price]. Reading crease, spine edge lightly rubbed, a couple of cover creases else very good copy. Rudolph Belarski cover. London lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firm’s senior partners… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MYSTERIOUS MICKEY FINN; or, Murder at the Cafe du Dome
by Paul, Elliot
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- Later Edition
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- 1940
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 230.03
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N.Y.: Modern Age Books, 1940. 4th printing, September 1940 (1st printing was September, 1939). Covers and page edges lightly spotted else very good in dust jacket, chipped at head and foot of spine, small piece out at lower front, lightly soiled, not price clipped, $1.00 price intact at front flap, now in protective mylar cover. Very scarce.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 230.03
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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SGD 13.14
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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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THE CORPSE IN THE WAXWORKS: A Paris Mystery
by Carr, John Dickson
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- New
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- Reprint
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- 2021
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- Paperback
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- 9781464215438
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Naperville, IL, U.S.A.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2021. 5th printing. A fine, brand new book, unread. "Last night, Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw… 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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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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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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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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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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SGD 10.52
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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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DEAD LOSS: A Detective Inspector Best Victorian Mystery
by Lock, Joan
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- 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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SGD 26.29
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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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The Stiff Upper Lip: A Novel
by Israel, Peter
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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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- Hardcover
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- 9780690014129
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- 1
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Crowell, 1978. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $8.95 price intact, with protective mylar cover.The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Item Price
SGD 19.72
THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT : A Novel **AWARD FINALIST**
by Furst, Alan
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9781400060191
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 24.32
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N.Y.: Random House, 2006. 1st ed. Very light soiling at page edges else near fine in fine dust jacket. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Thriller. It's Paris, 1938 and hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers, journalists, and professors and scientists had escaped Mussolini's fascist Italy and taken refuge in France. There they have … Read more about this item Item Price
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BERTIE AND THE CRIME OF PASSION **SIGNED COPY**
by Lovesey, Peter
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9780892965502
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 39.43
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N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st US edition, January 1995, so stated.. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by Lovesey at title page. "Lovesey's third spirited mystery to feature Edward VII, Prince of Wales, as a dogged, often fatuous but ever-successful amateur sleuth (Bertie and the Tinman) finds the royal in Paris in 1891. There, Bertie is discreetly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sheet Music
by Rose, M. J.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
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- 9780345451064
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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NY ,NY: Ballantine Books, 2003. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Justine Pagett, a journalist flees to Paris to save her declining career. She soon finds a friend has gone missing and delves into the seemy side of the music world.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Day After Tomorrow
by Folsom, Allan
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780316288293
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1994. 1st. ed. FINE/FINE. A DEBUT novel. 596 pages. "Touted as a blockbuster, this assured debut thriller delivers in full--and then some. A young American doctor haunted by his father's murder stumbles into a chilling international conspiracy and crosses paths with, among others, a weary L.A. cop investigating a series… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CHINKS IN THE CURTAIN: The Story of a Most Unlikely Spy
by Porter, Joyce
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 26.29
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N.Y.: Scribners, 1968. 1st American edition, so stated. light wear at extremities, else near fine in dust jacket, unclipped, $3.95 price intact, has some minor rubbing and soiling, a few small nicks along edges. "The Chinks in the Curtain" features the return of that most reluctant spy Edmund Brown, first met in SOUR CREAM WITH… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kingdom of Shadows ***HAMMETT AWARD WINNER***
by Furst, Alan
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780375503375
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New York: Random House Inc, 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Winner of the HAMMETT AWARD for Best Novel. Paris, 1938. As Europe edges toward war, Nicholas Morath arrives in Paris on the night express from Budapest. Morath, urbane and handsome at forty-four, a lieutenant of the Hungarian cavalry in the First World War, spends his days… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURMURS IN THE RUE MORGUE : A Saturnin Dax Mystery
by Cumberland, Martin
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 46.01
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London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1959. 1st ed. Slight spine slant else near fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges, a couple of small nicks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
SGD 46.01
THE MAN WHO COVERED MIRRORS: A Saturnin Dax Mystery
by Cumberland, Martin
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1949
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 36.15
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Garden City: NY: Crime Club Doubleday, 1949. 1st ed. Light rubbing at bottom edges, browning to page edges else near fine in dust jacket, lightly chipped at spine, fold at front cover. A Commissaire Dax title. Paris setting.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Item Price
SGD 36.15
APRIL THIRTIETH
by St. James, Bernard
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1978
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- Hardcover
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- 9780060137076
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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N.Y.: Harper, 1978. 1st ed. top of page edges soiled, else about fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Paris in the time of Napolean with murder in very high society--very high French society. She had been the most beautiful woman in Paris. Suddenly she was lovely no longer, her body… Read more about this item Item Price
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MURDER AT THE FLEA CLUB
by Head, Matthew (John Canaday)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
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SGD 46.01
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N.Y.: Simon, 1955. 1st edition. Pages are age toned, light wear else about fine in ldust jacket, ightly chipped at head and foot, small piece out at rear and soiled at rear , not price clipped ($2.75 price is still intact) Dr. Mary Finney in Paris. Catoluge Of Crime #1112. Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John… Read more about this item Item Price
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