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MURDER COMES TO CALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the lean years following World War I, this is the fourth Beryl and Edwina Mystery, featuring world-renowned American adventuress Beryl Helliwell who has come to live in the quiet English village of Walmsley Parva with her former schoolmate proper Brit Edwina Davenport. Together the two have set up a private inquiry agency and they are hired to looking into a rash of burglaries and the suspicious death of the local magistrate. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "Happy Reading." 282 pp. ISBN: 978-1496724847.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88961More details Price: $25.00 -
THERE GOES THE BRIDE: An Agatha Raisin Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 20th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds - "you think she would have learned by now not to keep making the same mistakes. Alas, no". This series is the basis for the televison series "Agatha Raisin" 275 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312387006.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (date on front endpaper).
Book ID: 83360More details Price: $16.50 -
A SPOONFUL OF POISON: An Agatha Raisin Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 18th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds - "you think she would have learned by now not to keep making the same mistakes. Alas, no". This series is the basis for the televison series "Agatha Raisin" 275 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312349127.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77187More details Price: $16.50 -
AS THE PIG TURNS: An Agatha Raisin Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 22nd mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. This series is the basis for the televison series "Agatha Raisin" 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0-312387020.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75058More details Price: $15.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WITCH OF WYCKHADDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 9th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, an amateur and very prickly sleuth, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the television series. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312-20449.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 74722More details Price: $40.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE LOVE FROM HELL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 11th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. This series is the basis for the televison series "Agatha Raisin" 229 pp. ISBN: 0-312-207662.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71180More details Price: $15.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE DAY THE FLOODS CAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 12th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. This series is the basis for the televison series "Agatha Raisin" 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-207670.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71179More details Price: $15.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CURATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 13th mystery featuring eccentic and prickly Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswald.. Basis for the television series. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-207689.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70746More details Price: $17.50 -
SUMMER FLIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Robert Hale, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - Very uncommon first edition of the first novel by this prolific British suspense writer - as Tim Heald commented her "novels were robust and uncompromising, and displayed sympathy for the underdog." This story of a man on the run from the police who winds up in a peaceful English village exemplifies that. 190 pp.
Condition: Good overall in a good dust jacket (bookplate of a lending library mostly hidden by the dj flap, discoloration to the reverse of the lower edge of the dj, with some to the endpapers, spine slant, and other signs of wear.)
Book ID: 61773More details Price: $150.00 -
A LITTLE LOCAL MURDER
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Inspector George Parrish is called on to investigate when social infighting in the tiny village of Twythching - just when Radio Broadwich is going to film a documentary on the town - leads to poison pen letters and a murder. SIGNED on the front endpaper. An early mystery of Barnard, originally published in the UK in 1976, but not in the US until this book. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-684178826.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68577More details Price: $60.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WIZARD OF EVESHAM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 8th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198221.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (binding flaw to front endpapers, remainder dot) .
Book ID: 62409More details Price: $14.50 -
SKATING OVER THE LINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second humorous mystery set in small town Indian Falls, where Rebecca Robbins has inherited a skating rink. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 9780312606626.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61994More details Price: $25.00 -
MURDER UNDER THE MISTLETOE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring the Vaughns, set at a small country hotel. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-812-023545.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 51363More details Price: $15.00 -
AGATHA RAISIN AND THE DAY THE FLOODS CAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 12th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-207670.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (very short tear and crease to upper edge of back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 38866More details Price: $12.50 -
HUBERT AND LIL: Partners in Crime.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book: introduces two senior sleuths, retired personnel manager (from a prestigious private bank) T.S. Hubbert and "his feisty, irrepressible 84-year-old Aunt Lil." 250 pp. ISBN: 1-556113080.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36412More details Price: $15.00 -
BOOK EARLY FOR MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery set in the middle of a murder mystery weekend in the Cotswalds.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2390More details Price: $15.00
