CRIME FOR CHRISTMAS.
by DALBY**, RICHARD - ed by:
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- ISBN 10
- 1860191479
- ISBN 13
- 9781860191473
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial art-work illustrated dw/dj by William Geldart (design repeated to glossy laminated bds,with immaculate,plain white eps.); with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges,one tiny nick to rear,top edge towards head of spine/backstrip with reciprocal split to board.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,no bumping to corners.Top+fore- edges lightly aged but clean and unmarked; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+1-280pp includes half+title pages,contents list/table,a foreword by Peter Cushing,16 stories - includes solution to one of them. Christmas may be the season of goodwill,but judging from the stories in this book,it is also a time of considerable danger,when it is advisable to lock up valuables and beware of strangers. Christmas Eve in these stories is as likely to be disturbed by the arrival of a malevolent intruder as by the jolly figure of Santa Claus.Luckily,some of the most celebrated sleuths in English literature are on hand to help solve these Christmas crimes.Only Sherlock Holmes could discover the connection between a missing Christmas goose and a jewellery robbery; only Miss Marple could have solved a murder so clever as the one which baffled the police at the Keston Spa Hydro; only H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune could have uncovered the murderer who so brutally disrupted the Christmas party at the Children's Home. 'Crime for Christmas' brings together Christmas stories by the very best crime and mystery writers of the last 150 years.There are contributions from Victorian writers such as Thomas Hardy and Arthur Conan Doyle,murder mysteries from Agatha Christie and H.C. Bailey,and more modern tales by Ellis Peters and H.R.F.Keating,two of the most popular authors writing in this genre today.Of particular note is a story by the celebrated Victorian author Wilkie Collins,which is reprinted here for the first time since it was published in 1852.The stories vary greatly in their age, setting and circumstances,but they all combine to make you wonder - who really is beneath the red suit and white stick-on beard? See also rja2214,and rja2215 for other Christmas anthologies by this editor. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- CRIME FOR CHRISTMAS.
- Author
- DALBY**, RICHARD - ed by:
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Book Condition
- Used - NFINE.
- Jacket Condition
- NFINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860191479
- ISBN 13
- 9781860191473
- Publisher
- LONDON.MICHAEL O'MARA,1991.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1991
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- q52.MODERN FIRSTS.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 1860191479.MODERN FICTION.MICHAEL O'MARA.SANTA CLAUS.CHRISTMAS FICTION.CHRISTMAS EVE.CRIME+MYSTERY FICTION+WRITERS.ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.AGATHA CHRISTIE+MISS MARPLES.THOMAS HARDY.ELLIS PETERS.Books new,used,sign
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