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Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci --The copyright page include the statement of "April 2003", "First Edition" with the full print line of "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". The top center of the front inside flap of the dust jacket is printed the original price in the middle of the flap : "U.S. $24.95/Canada $37.95". With "scotoma" misspelled as "skitoma" on page 243, not corrected before the 6th printing and with "Lyon" instead of "Lille" on page 152. Correct number line sequence, with no marks, underlining, or bookplates.Dust jacket is not price-clipped.I have 3 first Editions, with all issue points. One in near fine condition with inside front jacket slight crease line, $225.00. One… Read More

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower

"No superlatives are adequate,"' wrote Anthony Boucher ,reviewing The Daughter of Time for the New York Times in 1952, "simply mark this down as one of the best ,not of the year, but of all time." Considered to this time to be one of the true classics of the mystery genre, Josephine Tey's compelling novel continues to captivate readers with its thought-provoking and historical plot. And the murder happened only 500 years ago.
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Mystery Masterpieces, Pennsylvania, 1990. High quality paper. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. Very good condition, solid, clean and bright. Only minor flaw a very slight scratch on top of gold gilt, you really have to look to see it.A Classic to be treasured as a gift.

Masks off at Midnight- copyright by Valentine Williams 1933-1934 MA, The Spider's Touch- 1936 MA, The Clocks Ticks On- 1933 MA, Dead Man Manor- 1935-1936 MA, The Mystery of the Gold Box- 1932 MA, The Portcullis Room1933-1934 MA.
New York P. F. Collier & Son Corporation Publishers-Collier-Secret Service Series. All books in Very good condition, square, tight, no bumping, no soiling, colors vibrant, would be as new if not for yellowing of paper. GREAT GIFT, A GOOD SUGGESTION FOR GRANDPARENTS, they most likely read these as a child.

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it.
Near Fine condition, very slight pulling of spine at top (1/2 in.) some waving at top of body. Colors and text Vibrant. High quality paper, acid free paper is 60 pound Franklin Library 1854 Cream. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. A beautiful book to gift to someone special.

Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933. Wimsey accepts an offer from the highly respectable management of Pym's Publicity, Ltd. (a light disguise for S. H. Bensons, where Sayers worked) to investigate a mystery and avert a scandal. Copywriter Victor Dean has died in a fall down the office's spiral iron staircase, but he left a half-finished letter to the management hinting that something potentially scandalous is going on at Pym's.
Good condition, clean, colors vibrant. very slight pulling of spine (1/2 in. ) at top, Some waving in upper body of book, small spot on gold guilt at bottom and very small scratch on top. High quality paper, acid free paper is 70-pound Franklin Library Vellum Cream . Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. It remains a beautiful copy, good enough to be given as a treasured gift.

Music for Chameleons (1980) is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction by the American author Truman Capote. Capote's first collection of new material in fourteen years, Music for Chameleons spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, unprecedented for a collection of short works. The book is divided into three sections. Part one, titled "Music for Chameleons", includes the short story after which the section and book are named, as well as five other stories ("Mr. Jones", "A Lamp in a Window", "Mojave", "Hospitality" and "Dazzle"). Part two, the core of the book, consists...
Random House, Stated First Trade Edition . 07/12/1980, A limited edition has been printed. Bbeautiful copy, NEAR MINT, Both dj and book in Near Mint condition, clean, colors bibrant. DJ not clipped Price $10.95. Owner's inscription on frontendpaper"Irving"

Translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrations by Stefan Beltzig.The Patience of Maigret is a 1965 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret searches for evidence that an old nemesis of his is behind a series of jewel robberies. Maigret believes the ageing gangster is organising a gang from his apartment. However, when the gangster is found dead, Maigret investigates his criminal connections and his neighbours trying to find the murderer.
Genuine full leather bound, high quality paper. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides, attached silk page marker. . Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. The front panel design , suggesting Maigret's analytical powers of detection,was created by Douglas Smith in a scratchboard technique and was specially commissioned for this edition

After Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move into an old house, they disco Agatha Criestiever a message concerning the death of a woman who had once lived there

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain.The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. Fast-moving and brief (only about 100 pages long, depending on the edition), the novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston.
Double Indemnity is an influential 1943 crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in serial form in Liberty magazine in 1936 and then was one of "three...
Near Mint condition, clean and bright, no,fading, colors vibrant. High quality paper, acid free paper is 70-pound Franklin Library Vellum White Offset. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. This book is beautiful, gift it with pride.