Search Results: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery from Cocksparrow Books

Michael Joseph Ltd, 1997-09-04. First Edition, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG++/VG++/VG. 16.2 x 2.7 x 24.2 cm. Box X03 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997 * Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Rear corners very lightly bumped no rubs, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing dial of weighing scales. Price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top and fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 272 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: At nearly eighteen, easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven by powerful urges towards a life of… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 6th.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated, soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. Seems very lightly used if at all. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 410 pp. text. xviii pp. Sample advertising chapter at rear.* Product Description:- It's a strange kind of robbery: Nothing is missing and the only damage done is to the criminals. David Braun, star investigator for an exclusive insurance firm, discovers the truth that the crime was intended to conceal. Behind it all, a ruthless thief, who is intent on acquiring a priceless antique - an antique with a bloody history its owners would prefer to keep hidden. Susan Milton, an expert in… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1991* Publisher: Headline Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers (as shown). No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Single light crease to spine but not to hinge. Seems un-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 216 pp. text. ii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Two vintage tales of murder most foul from the best-selling pen of Ellis Peters, who is well known for her Brother Cadfael series. When Louis Stevenson is found guilty of murder, he leaves the dock loudly proclaiming his innocence. When there are two more unexpected deaths, a young couple, convinced that an innocent man has been wrongly condemned, determine to unmask the real murderer… Read More

SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON IN THIS EDITION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 21st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: PAN* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers (lighted torch laying on the tarmac). No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp tight & bright. Minimal sunning to top edge. FINE * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 229 pp. text. v pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The second book in the critically-acclaimed Kinsey Millhone series following the alphabet in their titles. Female, age thirty-two, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhouse, private investigator, only one thing stays the same. When a client sits down in a chair across the desk, she never knows what?s going to happen next?* This is a FINE copy with absolutely minimal ageing.*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2017* Publisher: Avon for Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 425 pp. text. XV pp. preview & advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- When a sniper leaves Ben Hope?s friend fighting for his life, the former SAS major declares war on the men responsible. But what begins as a straightforward revenge mission gets complicated when a mysterious letter reveals Ben to be the real target. And his isn?t the only name on a crazed killer?s list. Professor Anna Manzini has no idea she?s in grave danger from a man she?d thought dead. She?s on the cusp… Read More

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Orion.* Binding and cover condition: Askews Library Edition. Maroon cloth, no title to spine or face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper in clear library jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-Library copy with usual neat stamps and labels to prelims. Clean, crisp and tight with very light reading wear, no marks to text, slight ageing to page edges. VG* Illustrations: None* Pages: 305 pp. text.* Description: A missing shipment of honey, a freezing winter in Paris, 1942, and the deadliest case yet for St Cyr and Kohler, as they fall foul of dangerous forces that reach right to the top. The Gestapo don't care whose side the two detectives are on if they're going to be poking their noses where they… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: AuthorHouse* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Colour photo-illustrated soft stiff card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Minor dish and creases to spine but not to hinge. Seems very lightly used, VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Author?s signed dedication to fep. No annotations, or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. Very slight marks to fore edge. VG++* Illustrations: B/w line drawn illustrations within text and to frontis.* Pages: 403 pp. text. iii pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- Eleven-year-old Sandy Henderson lives a carefree life with her family in a quiet port on Scotland''s south-west coast, unaware that the parallel world of Sylvania lies beyond a huge hedge at the bottom of their overgrown garden hedge. When her beloved cat, Leo, tumbles headlong into this enchanted land,… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2013* Publisher: Bantam.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Slight reading creases to spine, not to hinge. Slight spine lean, seems lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: Several b/w line-drawn illustrations within text.* Pages: 284 pp. text. xvi pp. extract of next novel at rear.* Product Description:- There has been a road accident but this vehicular mishap is nothing compared to the much more distressing state of a mechanic discovered by Harry in a local repair shop: His head's been bashed in. Despite numerous warnings from her much-loved coterie of friends, human and otherwise, Mary Minor ?Harry? Haristeen quickly surmises that the time has come to pop the hood… Read More

SOFTBACK ?SIGNATURE SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 3rd. with number line.* Date of Publication: 2002 (1927)* Publisher: Harper-Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers with shadowy chess pieces (different to stock image). No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Single crease to spine, not to hinge. Slight creases to top front and rear corners. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some slight paper colouration to page margins and edges. No other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 272 pp. text.* Product Description:- A Russian grand master dies mysteriously during an international chess match. The case is related to a political intrigue involving the so-called Peace Party and its leaders Madame Olivier and Abe Ryland. Poirot investigates with his old friends Hastings, Japp and Lemon, helped by a reporter and a minor… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Corgi Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases to spine & hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 459 pp. text. v pp., acknowledgements & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Edward Hammond is a surgeon, living in London. However, his comfortable and well ordered life is fatally disrupted when he is contacted about a transplant operation which he conducted many years earlier. The patient was a Serbian warlord, Dragan Gazi, and Hammond was well paid for the operation. However, it all returns to haunt him and he is soon deeply and unwillingly involved. It is all like a… Read More

HARDBACK ?FALKLANDS HISTORICAL NOVEL,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997* Publisher: Orion.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Corners very lightly bumped no rubs, seems un-used. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 240 pp. text. x pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Most of this story is true; the rest of it so easily could have been. This is the story of what would have happened if the SAS Boat Troop had carried out their daring mission to storm the main Argentine airbase before the Falklands war had ended.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st / 1st with no major faults reduced by dust jacket wear to VG*

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 14th.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: Bantam Books.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners, slight damage to lower front edge. Minor creases to spine & hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. VG+* Illustrations: None* Pages: 469 pp. text.* Product Description:- Detective Jane Rizzoli has the feeling that she is gazing at her doppelganger when she looks at the body of Boston pathologist Dr Maura Isles stretched out on the slab that was her own work surface. Maura Isles has Jane's physical appearance, birth date, and even blood type. And when tests reveal that the women are twin sisters, Jane is plunged into a dangerous mystery, travelling to Maine where she must investigate the identity of a mother she never… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: MIRA Books.* Binding and cover condition: Photo illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. No visible shelf wear to edges & corners, absolutely minimal creases to spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 250 pp. text. lxx pp. advertisements & preview of other works at rear.* Product Description:- A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newlywed Sarah Fountaine awake. Expecting her husband?s call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O?Hara from the US State Department is calling with devastating news. Geoffrey Fountaine, Sarah?s husband of two months, died in a hotel fire?.in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive. Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them crisscrossing Europe on a desperate… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2015* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Text & colour-illustrated soft card covers showing Engine pulling the Cambrian Coast Express. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un -used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 310 pp. text. xxxii pp. epilogue, appendices acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of the GWR, God's Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd. Full number line to 2.* Date of Publication: 2018 (1944)* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustration to soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Slight creases to spine, not to hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 246 pp. text.* Product Description:- The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest and best. A pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men?s lives is found dead in a college… Read More

QDP, 1992-01-01. First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.. Paperback. VG/VG+/ND. 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm. Box X21 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. full number line.* Date of Publication: 1992 * Publisher: QPD Direct.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers with woodland and inset of doll laying on cobbles. No bumps, minor rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, considerable browning to page margins & edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 239 pp. text. x pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In this astonishing novel, an entirely new development in her writing, P.D.James imagines a future England where human infertility has spread like a plague. By the year 2021 no babies have been born for a quarter of a century, not since Year Omega, not in the inhabited… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2016 (1940)* Publisher: Allison & Busby.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing well dressed gentleman lighting a cigarette. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. One page corner creased. No tanning or other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 255 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- Alexander Wilson was a writer, spy and secret service officer. He served in the First World War before moving to India to teach as a Professor of English Literature, and began writing spy novels whilst there. During WW2, Wallace worked as an intelligence agent. He enjoyed great success and notoriety for his writing in the 1940s, with reviews in… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Penguin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, minor paper colouration throughout. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 225 pp. text. vii pp. advertisements, & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In this Henri Castang mystery, the detective has just moved from the city to a provincial northern town. Still finding his feet in the unfamiliar surroundings, Castang is plunged into the very centre of Flanders society to investigate the death by asphyxiation of a tycoon's wife in her luxurious villa.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minimal age & shelf wear reducing it to VG++.*

HARDBACK, ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. (Stated)* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bump to top rear corner, no rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing horseshoes and flames, white and gold titles to face and to spine. Small price clipping, showing shelf price of $29.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. AUTHOR SIGNED & DEDICATED to half title, ?Hi Diane! Dick Francis. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top-edge, otherwise no other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 279 pp. text. iv pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: In this, his third adventure, Sid Halley is still in his mid-thirties, still troubled, courageous and unwilling… Read More

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Photo-illustrated soft card covers as shown in listing. Two strands of barbed wire. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Some reading creases to spine & hinge with minimal spine lean. Carefully used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, very small inscription to fep. No marks to text. No tanning. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 311 pp. text. i pp. advertisement at rear.* Product Description:- A Lindsay Gordon Mystery, second in the series of six novels. Unrest in the ranks of protesters at a women?s peace camp ends in murder. Journalist Lindsay Gordon is already on the scene when the trouble breaks out and as she peels back the layers of deception, she finds that no-one ? ratepayer or reporter, policeman or peace woman ? seems wholly above… Read More