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The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin

Brian Freemantle · 1979 · Rooke Books

£74.99 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,825)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the hugely popular Brian Freemantle's Charlie Muffin series. The far East beckons the hapless hero Charlie Muffin as the floating 'University of Freedom' is set alight with the American and Br...

The Twelve Deaths of Christmas

Marian Babson · 1979 · Rooke Books

£21.99 (€26.36 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

London, Collins Crime Club, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first Crime Club edition of this mystery novel by Marian Babson. Marian Babson is a pseudonym for Ruth Stenstreem. She is a mystery author with a large body of work that rotates in and out of print. In a red cloth bin...

Randle in Springtime

Geoffrey Cotterell · 1949 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949. First edition. Cloth. An exciting post-war novel following the adventures of Howard Randle as he is sent to Hamburg, gets involved with black market trading and embarks on a love affair with Hilde Nahler, a wealthy German girl. First editio...

The Rival Queens a Countess Ashby de la Zouch Mystery

Fidelis Morgan · 2001 · Rooke Books

£16.99 (€20.37 | $22.45 | ¥3,585)

London, Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Cloth. 'The Rival Queens A Countess Ashby de la Zouch Mystery' by Fidelis Morgan in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition, first impression. A historical tale of artifice, gunpowder and murder in 17th Century London. In a c...

A Flight of Birds

Cecil Roberts · 1965 · Rooke Books

£28.99 (€34.75 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel from Cecil Roberts, which tells six interweaving stories from England, Italy, France, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico. Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892 – 20 December 1976) was a...

The Babes in the Wood

Ruth Rendell · 2002 · Rooke Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Hutchinson, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A novel from the Inspector Wexford Series. First edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Numberline is 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 The novel is set, as usual for the Wexford novels, in Kingsmarkham. It was selected by 'The New Yo...

Daughters of the House

Michele Roberts · 1992 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London, Virago Press, 1992. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Michele Roberts. 'Daughters of the House' was short listed for the 1992 Man Booker Prize. Michele Roberts is a British writer, novelist and poet. This work is set in an old Normandy ...

Wycliffe and the Beales

W. J. Burley · 1983 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel featuring W. J. Burley's popular character, Charles Wycliffe. "The Beales, a strange, reclusive family living on the edge of Dartmoor in Ashill House, consist of Simon, an old man...

The Raphael Affair

Iain Pears · 1990 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this Jonathan Argyll art history mystery. Iain Pears (born in 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though int...

The Genocides

Thomas M. Disch · 1967 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Ronald Whiting and Wheaton, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of Disch's first novel, being a truly powerful work of science fiction. First English edition. With the original illustrated dustwrapper by Penny Carey. In original cloth covered binding with or...

Jungle of Steel and Stone

George C. Chesbro · 1988 · Rooke Books

£28.99 (€34.75 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

New York, The Mysterious Press, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of this adventure novel by George C. Chesbro. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the front free-endpaper. In a cloth binding with paper-covered boards and original unclipped du...

Pick Up Sticks

Emma Lathen · 1971 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling work of crime fiction being Emma Lathen's eleventh thriller. First English edition. With original dustwrapper. In original cloth binding with the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, cloth is ...

The Lies of Fair Ladies a Lovejoy Novel

Jonathan Gash · 1992 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Random Century Group, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A charming, signed first edition of this Lovejoy adventure. That scruffiest of antiques dealers has a new apprentice - the debonair Mrs. Luna Carstairs - but as he guides his charge through the minefield world of antiqu...

The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction 1909-1959

Raymond Chandler; Tom Hiney; Frank MacShane · 2000 · Rooke Books

£28.99 (€34.75 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 2000. First edition. Cloth. An anthology of essays and letters from renowned detective fiction author, Raymond Chandler. Being "both an ideal companion of Chandler's work and an intriguing account of the man himself." First edition. Featuring the ...

The Heel of Achilles

Gerald Verner · 1947 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Wright and Brown Ltd. 1947. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this thriller novel by Gerald Verner. First edition, second reprint. Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was a prolific writer of thrillers and wrote more than 120 novels translated into over 35 languages. I...

Saviours of Society

Stephen McKenna · 1926 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Thornton Butterworth, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of Stephen McKenna's 'Saviours of Society&apos. With a general focus on English upper-class society, McKenna wrote forty six novels and six works of non fiction, including a biography...

The Strawberry Marten

Pauline Glen Winslow · 1973 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London, Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of The Strawberry Marten by Pauline Glen Winslow. "A first novel that is strange and compulsive." "We believe that this book, gripping and deeply moving, introduces a new novelist of a most unusual talent." In a na...

The Witch Hill Murder

Pauline Glen Winslow · 1977 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

London, Collins, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel from Pauline Glen Winslow. Featuring the recurring character, Superintendent Capricorn. In a red cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with only some slight bumping. ...

The Kindly Vision

Florence Lawford · 1931 · Rooke Books

£174.00 (€208.60 | $229.92 | ¥36,719)

London, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of one of Florence Lawford's novels. Bound in cloth with an unclipped dustwrapper Dated from COPAC. Little is known about the author, Florence Lawford. She wrote many other novels, includin...

When We Were Romans

Matthew Kneale · 2007 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Picador, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Matthew Kneale's 2007 novel When We Were Romans. The title page includes a personalised dedication from the author in black ink. Matthew Kneale is a bestselling author, whose previous work includes Eng...