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Sara Paretsky · 2003 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.75 | $44.91 | ¥7,173)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart first American edition of Sara Paretsky's twelfth crime thriller in her A V. I. Warshawski series. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Sara Paretsky is best known for her detective novels a...

Risking It All

Ann Granger · 2001 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.56 | $36.98 | ¥5,907)

London, Headline Book Publishing, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Ann Granger's 'Risking It All&apos. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Signed by the author. A nice clean copy. Patricia Ann Granger (b.1...

A Sense of Reality

Graham Greene · 1963 · Rooke Books

£246.00 (€294.91 | $325.05 | ¥51,913)

London, The Bodley Head, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A scarce uncorrected proof copy of this collection of Graham Green's short stories. This is a first edition softcover with dustwrapper. These stories are the first time Greene departs from his usual material of moral an...

A River Town

Thomas Keneally · 1995 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Sceptre, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this Thomas Keneally novel. Signed by the author to the title page. 'This is the tale of a reluctant hero, an endearing, if flawed, man whose stubborn conveying is nearly his undoing.' Thomas Mich...

The Bee&Apos;S Kiss

Barbara Cleverly · 2006 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,218)

New York, Carroll and Graf, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling mystery novel set in 1926 by Barbara Cleverly. Signed by the author to the title page. First US edition. With 'Bee's Kiss' cocktail bookmark inserted to rear. In a red cloth binding with origina...

Rumours of War

Allan Mallinson · 2004 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Bantam Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. This is a signed first edition of this work by Allan Mallinson. Allan Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army. He is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the fictional life of Matt...

A Homecoming for Murder a Sheriff Grover Bramlett Mystery

John Armistead · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

New York, Caroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1995. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of 'A Homecoming for Murder' by John Armistead. Armistead's highly enjoyable Sherriff Grover Bramlet revists the fictional town of Sheffield, Mississippi, where the col...

The Best of Friends

Joanna Trollope · 1995 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Bloomsbury, 1995. First edition. Cloth. The first signed edition of this novel by Joanna Trollope. First edition. Held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Joanna Trollope is an English writer. Her novel Parson Harding's Daugh...

Cuddy - Plus One

Jeremiah Healy · 2003 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

Norfolk, Crippen & Landru, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed, limited edition of Healy's short story collection Cuddy - Plus One. With separate pamphlet of 'The Safest Little Town in Texas' by Jeremiah Healy. Signed by the author. Limited edition of 250, numb...

Desert Noir

Betty Webb · 2001 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

Scottsdale , Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Lena Jones mystery novel by Betty Webb. Signed by the author to the title page. Betty Webb is a former journalist and the author of a series of detective stories set in Arizona. She has stat...

The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Rennie Airth · 2004 · Rooke Books

£32.99 (€39.55 | $43.59 | ¥6,962)

London, Macmillan, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this detective novel from Rennie Airth. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Rennie Airth is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy. Airth has also worked as ...

The Walkaway

Scott Phillips · 2002 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Tuscon , Dennis McMillan, 2002. First edition. Cloth. An as new copy of this limited edition novel from Scott Phillips. Signed and numbered by the author. Scott Phillips is an American writer primarily of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and...

The Sunday Macaroni Club

Steve Lopez · 1998 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.91 | $85.88 | ¥13,715)

Harpenden , No Exit Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A numbered, signed first edition furiously energetic American crime novel. With the assistance of a jaded ex-FBI agent who managed it once before, Assistant DA Lisa Savitch is determined to nail the Sunday Macaroni Club - ...

Holy Fools

Joanne Harris · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of this novel set in seventeenth-century France from Joanne Harris. In 2012 Harris became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have ac...

Trial by Fury

Elizabeth Ferrars · 1989 · Rooke Books

£18.99 (€22.77 | $25.09 | ¥4,007)

London, Collins Crime Club, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this work of espionage, from author Elizabeth Ferrars. First edition thus, published with the Collins Crime Club, Collins' intention was to publish three new crime books on the first Monday of every m...

Eaves Dropper

James Macgregor and John Francome · 1986 · Rooke Books

£57.99 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,238)

London & Sydney, Macdonald & Co. 1986. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Francome and Macgregor's Eavesdropper. First edition. Signed by John Francome. John Francome (born 1952) is a former National Hunt Champion Jockey. After retiring Francome was awarded t...

Nice People

Clare Curzon · 1995 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A signed, scarce first US edition by this thriller writer. Signed by the author to the title page. "With her customary deftness, Clare Curzon has produced a multifaceted mystery that Yeadings and his team unravel wit...

Making Love a Conspiracy of the Heart

Marius Brill · 2003 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this comic murder mystery novel by Marius Brill. Signed by the author to the title page. 'When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd"s Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and ...

Rotten Apples Fault Lines Prey to All out of the Dark Keep Me Alive

Natasha Cooper · 1995 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, Sydney, New York & Toronto, Simon & Schuster, 1995-2004. First edition. Cloth. Five signed first editions by Natasha Cooper Natasha Cooper (born 1951) was Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 1999/2000. She broadcasts, reviews, writes features and short s...

A Cat Affair

Derek Tangye · 1974 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Michael Joseph, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this cat novel from Derek Tangye. Signed by the author to the title page. Derek Tangye wrote nineteen books during his life which were part of 'The Minack Chronicles', and his life in Cornwall. In...