Historical Mystery
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Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
The Robe
by Lloyd C Douglas
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, and four weeks later rose to No. 1. It held the position for nearly a year. The Robe remained on the list for another two years, returning several other times over the next several years including when the movie version was released in 1953.
Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of...
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1815. The story follows the life of Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and beautiful young woman who lives in the English countryside. Emma fancies herself as a matchmaker and sets out to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith. However, her attempts to play cupid lead to several misadventures, including a love triangle involving her own romantic interests. As the story unfolds, Emma learns important lessons about humility, love, and the consequences of...
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The Viceroy Of Ouidah
by Bruce Chatwin
In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St.
Historical Mystery Books & Ephemera
Silver Pigs
by Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
North Star Conspiracy
by Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Miriam Grace Monfredo, a former librarian and a historian, lives in Rochester, New York. This is the seventh Seneca Falls Mystery. A previous Seneca Falls Mystery, The Stalking-Horse, was chosen by the Voice of Youth Advocacy as one of 1998’s best adult mysteries for young adults and received a “best” review in Library Journal’s young adult section.
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Bantam, New York. 42nd paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight tear at bottom edge of spine, price sticker on rear cover.Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of...
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SGD 2.52
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Bantam, New York. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, small crease at top corner, spine has very light crease, price sticker and light creases on rear cover."My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "fanatic of the demonstrable fact," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid...
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SGD 2.52
Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
Signet, New York. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge wear, corner creasing, scuff marks on covers, spine creases, underlining, a well read book.Includes an introduction to the play by Sylvan Barnet, the full text with detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page keyed to the numbered lines, commentaries and a short biography.
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SGD 2.52
Holy Fools: A Novel
by Joanne Harris
Harper, New York, 2005. First edition. Condition: Very good, edge wear and bumps on corners, spine creasing, slight previous price sticker residue on front cover.From the publisher: From the bestselling author of Chocolat and Coastlines comes a novel of love and betrayal, friendship and revenge, set in 17th-century France.
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SGD 5.00
Henry IV, Part 2
by William Shakespeare
Signet, New York, 1988. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing, light crease at top left rear cover.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.
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SGD 2.98
Balfour and Meriwether in The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs
by Daniel Abraham
Subterranean Press, Burton MI, First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. The slightest of edge nicks on dust jacket else fine.From the publisher: When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor Sanitarium. The Earth itself will bare its...
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SGD 10.10
The Other Teddy Roosevelts
by Mike Resnick
Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very slight edge crease. Signed by the author in a limited editionTheodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.But how about vampire hunter? Or African king? Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis? Or World War 1 doughboy?
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SGD 38.36
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Signet, New York, 1987. 21st paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight spine nicks and crease, crease at top left rear cover corner.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.
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SGD 2.98
Elizabeth, Captive Princess
by Margaret Irwin
Allison and Busby, London, 1999. First printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and slight corner bumps.In this, the second of Margaret Irwin's great trilogy about the life of 'Good Queen Bess', Elizabeth I, the imperious, high spirited heroine of Young Bess finds herself the prey of her sister Mary's jealous suspicions. The death of her young brother, Edward IV; the accession of Bloody Mary; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; her own imprisonment in the Tower of London; and the...
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SGD 3.53
The Tragedies
by William Shakespeare
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1950 edition. Condition: Good, Green boards with gold lettering, slight edge wear and corner bumps, spine has slight nicks and slight bowing, light scuffing on covers. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover.Includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and 7 others. Includes the original photogravures by E.J. Sullivan.
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SGD 12.11
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Signet, New York. 20th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, light fading on covers.For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too. Swift's bitter and devastating satire.
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SGD 2.98
The Christmas Box
by Richard Paul Evans
This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the dust jacket. There is no wear on the cover boards. The front end page is signed and dedicated to the previous owners. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "`It may be that I am growing old in this world and have used up more than my share of allotted words and eager audiences. Or maybe I am just growing weary of a skeptical age that pokes and prods at my story much the same as a middle-school biology student pokes and...
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SGD 26.17SGD 13.08
The Doorbell Rang
by Rex Stout
This book is in good condition. The cover boards have some wear on the front and back and the spine. The edges are worn and the corners are bumped. There are markings on the front end cover page, but the rest of the pages are clean. The pages are tanned and yellowed. The binding is tight and solid. "One always feels that Mr. Stout is having fun with his Nero Wolfe and Archie, but never has it been more apparent than in this complicated but easily followed tale. Its a story of sleuthing, harassment,...
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SGD 70.56SGD 35.28
The Doorbell Rang
by Rex Stout
Near fine book condition with no dust jacket. First Edition Thus. Brown pictorial boards, 207 pages. Woweee! What a challenge: What a villain! What a book! A $100,000 retainer persuades Nero Wolfe to take on the most elusive opponent of his career--none other than the untouchables of the F.B.I. His sweet little old public-spirited rich lady client has sent ten thousand copies of FBI NOBODY KNOWS (kind of a Naked Society's G-string) to people in high places and now finds herself the victim of a...
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SGD 117.19SGD 58.59
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Warner, New York, 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing along spine, slight bowing, well read book.The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a...
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SGD 2.52
A Question of Honor
by Todd, Charles
New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0062237152 . Signed by the mother and son writing team on the title page. The dust jacket is slightly creased. A World War One mystery featuring English nurse Bess Crawford.; 309 pages; Signed by Author .
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SGD 39.98
The Toll Gate
by Heyer, Georgette
Melbourne: William Heinemann. 1954. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near very good condition but no dustjacket. Some faint foxing to endpapers and gilt spine titles a little rubbed. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 283 pages. . 1st Edition (Australia). Hardback.
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SGD 18.02
Field of Mars
by Stephen Miller
Viking, Toronto, 2005. First edition, signed by the author. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear, mild scuffing on dust jacket.From the publisher, synopsis: In St. Petersburg, beside the glittering court life of the Romanovs, the Russian people are seething. It is not only the Bolsheviks but also the new tycoons profiting from the booming economy and the more aggressively ambitious aristocrats who are impatient with the idle, incompetent Romanovs. Pyotr Ryzhkov, probing the murder of a child prostitute,...
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SGD 21.20
The Last Embrace
by Hamilton, Denise
New York: Scribner. Fine. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Hamilton. An Advance Reading Copy with publisher sheet laid in. A novel based on the actual disappearance of actress Jean Spangler in 1949. ; 386 pages; Signed by Author .
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SGD 17.92
Wayfaring Stranger
by Burke, James Lee
New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1476710791 . Signed by Burke on the title page. A tiny crimp to the top corner. An historical mystery featuring Weldon Holland, grandson of legendary lawman Hackberry Holland. ; 435 pages; Signed by Author .
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SGD 51.01
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Penguin, London. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to...
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SGD 2.98
The Holmes-Dracula File
by Fred Saberhagen
Ace, New York, 1978. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine creasing. Well read.1887 London, Queen Victoria's Jubilee approaches, a mad man of science prepares to unleash thousands of plague infected rats, a bizarre killer is leaving a trail of bloodless corpses. The Count joins the World's Greatest Detective in an effort to avert public disaster and avenge an enemy. The events are related by Watson and the Count. In his earlier tale, The Sussex Vampire, Watson referenced the...
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SGD 2.98
The Disappeared. The stories of 35 historical disappearances from the Mary Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa
by Crofton, Ian
London: Quercus. 2008. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wraps. Black & white illustrations. Numbers neatly inked to half-title page. 171 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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SGD 12.62
THE ROARING OF THE LABYRINTH
by Gray, Clio
United Kingdom: Headline Book Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 0755331060 . A near fine new 1st edition hardcover (full number line of "1") slightly bumped to the spine ends in a like dustwrapper very slightly creased to the edges, carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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SGD 21.56
Picture Maker
by Penina Keen Spinka
Dutton, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has some edge wear,From the publisher: In a remarkable and completely stirring epic, Spinka unfolds a haunting and unforgettable novel and vividly brings to life a heroine whose journey across North America into Greenland brings her full circle wit a destiny she cannot avoid.A towering saga of adventure and survival, love and loss, Picture Maker brings the fourteenth century to life.from the Iroquois...
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SGD 10.04
