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THE RIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILE
Edition: First printing.
London: Macmillan, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th title in the Inspector Morse series, and increasingly hard to find. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a clean tight copy, but with the usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77378More details Price: $300.00 -
AN ANCIENT EVIL: The Knight's Tale of Mystery and Murder As He Goes on Pilgrimage from London to Canterbury.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical mystery which takes place in 14th century Oxford, with its roots going back 200 years to a legend of a "sinister cult in the wilds of Oxfordshire." The first book in a series using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-31211740X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82679More details Price: $18.50 -
FALCONER'S CRUSADE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel, set in 1264 Oxford and introducing Regent Master William Falconer of Aristotle College, Oxford University, who calls himself a "deductionist." It is a time of turmoil with Prince Edward, King Henry III's son, being wooed by robber barons, but are the slaying of a servant girl in Oxford and the murders of three students related? 190 pp. ISBN: 0-312117841.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 78487More details Price: $21.50 -
AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam), 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Pears' massive, complex and highly praised mystery set at 17th century Oxford. ISBN: 1-57322-0825.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38559More details Price: $25.00 -
INFANTS OF THE SPRING: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in his autobiographical series "To Keep the Ball Rolling." Powell who is best known for his landmark 12 volume series of novels, 'Dance to the Music of Time, ' was an Eton classmate of George Orwell and Cyril Connolly and a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and many others. Although this first volume of the memoirs only takes Powell to the age of 20 when he left Oxford for London, his commentary covers other periods and this book is notable for its 'memorials' to Orwell, Maurice Bowra and Connelly. llustrated with photographs. Index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-030209919.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 47577More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PROBLEM OF THE SURLY SERVANT: A Charles Dodgson / Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the fourth in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-312266383.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77525More details Price: $28.50 -
THE PROBLEM OF THE EVIL EDITOR: A Charles Dodgson / Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the third in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-312209037.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77526More details Price: $30.00 -
THE PROBLEM OF THE SPITEFUL SPIRITUALIST: A Charles Dodgson / Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set at Oxford, this is the second in this series of mysteries featuring the Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as the writer Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, a would-be writer. SIGNED on the title page. Historical notes. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-312205708.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 78059More details Price: $30.00 -
WHY AREN'T THEY SCREAMING?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd mystery featuring Loretta Lawson, scholar and feminist, set in Oxford. . British reviews called her first book in the series "a suberb first, intelligent & literary...drily witty.... a real discovery." 200 pp. ISBN: 0-684-190281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 24514More details Price: $18.00 -
WHY AREN'T THEY SCREAMING?
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd mystery featuring Loretta Lawson, scholar and feminist, set in Oxford. . British reviews called her first book in the series "a suberb first, intelligent & literary...drily witty.... a real discovery." 200 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-684-190281.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63983More details Price: $21.50 -
THE POISON TREE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Oxford, where Terry Williams has returned, after her divorce, to finish her doctorate in detective fiction - but the house which she purchases was the scene of a horrifying murder and she finds herself swept up in events tied to that murder. SIGNED on the title page. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-385408722.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 90790More details Price: $40.00