Before the Fact
by Iles, Francis
Before the Fact is a novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under the pen name "Francis Iles". Iles' novel is experimental in that it is not a whodunit: It does not take long to determine the identity of the villain and his motives. According to Colin Dexter, Before the Fact is a "crime novel" rather than a "detective novel", with Iles being "the father of the psychological suspense novel as we know it today" for his authorship of Malice Aforethought (1931) and Before the Fact (1932).
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First UK edition published by Victor Gollancz and first US edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, both 1932. First UK edition dust jacket, which like most 1930s books is scarce, featured a list of the possible identities of "Francis Iles", including E. M. Forster, R. Austin Freeman, Patrick Hamilton, Aldous Huxley, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Eden Phillpotts, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole and H. G. Wells.
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Before the Fact. ( Movie Tie-in; "Suspicion" Starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine)
by Iles, Francis
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Canada: Perennial Library Book., 1980. Book. Illus. by Irving Freeman Painted Cover.. FINE+, Near New. Soft cover. Second Edition.. 310 pages. "The Story on which the movie - SUSPICION was based on. "Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband fo rnearly 8 years before she realized that she… Read more about this item Item Price
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BEFORE THE FACT.
by ILES, FRANCIS.
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932., 1932. First edition. First U. S. edition. Former owner's name label at top of front pastedown sheet and inked name at top of front fly leaf, else a fine, bright copy with red top edges bright in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners, and extremities, and a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before the Fact
by Francis Iles
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Before the Fact
by Iles, Francis (Anthony Berkeley)
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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Pocket Book 419. First paperback publication. Basis for the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock movie featuring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. First leaf was cut a bit short. A bright, near fine copy. ; Small octavo.
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Before the Fact (Pocket Book 419) (Complete & Unabridged)
by Iles, Francis [Berkeley, Anthony]
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New York: Pocket Books, 1947. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First printing. Edges rubbed, half inch tear along top edge of front cover. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. 278 pp. Before the Fact is a ground-breaking psychological drama of immense power, described as 'one of the finest studies of murder ever written'. Inspiring Hitchcock's classic film… Read more about this item Item Price
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NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. The cloth/top edge has mild scattered dampstains, spine sunned, corners bumped. A small blurb is glued to the ffep from The New Yorker, Feb 4, 1933. PO info pencilled to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before the Fact
by Francis Iles
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Before the Fact
by Francis Iles
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London: Victor Gollanc Ltd., 1932. The book that formed the basis for the Hitchcock film " Suspicion". Black cloth with pale green lettering on the spine. 352 pages. 5.25 X 7.5 inches. Externally the book is a rubbed with a lean to the spine, and wear to the cloth at the corners. The lettering on the spine is dullled, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before the Fact (Dell Great Mystery Library, Number 11 D215).
by Iles, Francis.
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New York:: Dell Publishing,, 1958.. First printing. Paperback. Collectable, very good. First printing of the Dell mass market paperback D215. Very nice condition. No hinge creases. Very slight wear at corners, very small gouge along front edge of spine. Surface of cover is not quite as new but extremely close. Sound binding. No… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before the Fact
by Iles, Francis
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U.S.: Dell D215, 1958. Solid with a crease on the spine and the covers show wear from rubbing.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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Before the Fact
by Francis Iles
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Before the Fact: a novel of murder
by Francis Iles
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Doubleday Doran: NY, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Sold as a nice reading copy only of this scarce edition. Octavo, 7 3/4†tall, 310 pages, black titles on red cloth. A very good minus over all, internally clean, hard cover with moderate shelf wear, but cloth color significantly faded at the fore-edge margin of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before the Fact
by Francis Iles
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Before the Fact (Crime classics)
by Iles, Francis
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Before the Fact (Dell Great Mystery Library, Number 11)
by Francis Iles
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BEFORE THE FACT (Novelization of Film / Cary Grant)
by ILES, FRANCIS
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Before the Fact
by Iles Francis
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