Thrillers And Crime from Ariadne Books

London: Hutchinson, 2004. First edition, signed and dated by the author on the title page. Hardback. 314pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number thirteen and has always felt dogged by ill-luck. Where he lives, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span in… Read more about this item

London: William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1977. First edition, signed " Best Wishes, Sandy Gall, Leicester, '79" to the ffep. Hardback. Light brown boards with gilt to spine. Dust jacket in protective sleeve. Debut novel from Sandy Gall who was probably best known at the time as ITN's newsreader. Alastair Playfair arrives in Africa to cover a coup… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 2001. Advance reading copy, 2001. Signed by the author on the title page. Soft cover. 414pp. No jacket (as issued). The story begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets. There, a slight man stands up to tell an astonishing story of a childhood… Read more about this item

Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 2010. First edition 2010, with a signed dedication by the author to the ffep. 201pp. Illustrated boards with design repeated on the dust jacket. When a young girl's body is found on a stretch of Devon wasteland, the finger of suspicion pints at local man Angus Dillon. Five years later, when a… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First edition, 1999. Signed and dated by the author to "Simon with all good wishes" on the title page. Hardback. 385pp. Red paper boards with black cloth spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This is the second full-length appearance of V.I. Warshawski following her debut in Tunnel Vision. A dark and emotionally shattering… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. Advance reading copy, 1998, signed by the author on the title page. Softcover. 386pp. No jacket - as issued. Three troubled characters' lives converge beneath Chicago's shadowy streets. Under Chicago's famous Loop, a homeless woman believes that the blood of the Virgin Mary is seeping through a crack in a concrete wall. When this… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 2004. First edition, signed and dated by the author on the title page. Hardback. 314pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number thirteen and has always felt dogged by ill-luck. Where he lives, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span in… Read more about this item