Historical Mystery
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Top Sellers in Historical Mystery
Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia, and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1815. The story follows the life of Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and beautiful young woman who lives in the English countryside. Emma fancies herself as a matchmaker and sets out to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith. However, her attempts to play cupid lead to several misadventures, including a love triangle involving her own romantic interests. As the story unfolds, Emma learns important lessons about humility, love, and the consequences of...
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackery
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.
Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of...
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The Robe
by Lloyd C Douglas
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, and four weeks later rose to No. 1. It held the position for nearly a year. The Robe remained on the list for another two years, returning several other times over the next several years including when the movie version was released in 1953.
Historical Mystery Books & Ephemera
North Star Conspiracy
by Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Miriam Grace Monfredo, a former librarian and a historian, lives in Rochester, New York. This is the seventh Seneca Falls Mystery. A previous Seneca Falls Mystery, The Stalking-Horse, was chosen by the Voice of Youth Advocacy as one of 1998’s best adult mysteries for young adults and received a “best” review in Library Journal’s young adult section.
Silver Pigs
by Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
The Odyssey
by Homer
FSG, New York, 2000. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that skilled in all ways of contending.the wanderer, harried for years on end,after he plundered the strongholdon the proud height of Troy.So begins Robert Fitzgerlad's magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's...
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£5.90
The Yard
by Grecian, Alex
Berkley, 2013. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. BR-01 Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, Book 1 - Very Good: may show signs of shelf wear, may show signs of reading, may show signs of normal shelf aging.
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£7.28
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Bantam, New York. 42nd paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight tear at bottom edge of spine, price sticker on rear cover.Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of...
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£1.48
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Penguin, London. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to...
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£1.75
The Last Embrace
by Hamilton, Denise
New York: Scribner. Fine. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Hamilton. An Advance Reading Copy with publisher sheet laid in. A novel based on the actual disappearance of actress Jean Spangler in 1949. ; 386 pages; Signed by Author .
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£10.52
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Bantam Classic, New York. Later paperback printing. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, creasing, small triangular tear at top and rear corner, slight discoloration on covers.One of the most popular stories ever told, Dracula has been recreated for the stage and screen hundreds of times yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age.
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£1.75
Death in Holy Orders: An Adam Dalgliesh Novel
by James, P. D
New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc,, 2001. 419 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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£6.03
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Signet, New York. 20th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, light fading on covers.For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too. Swift's bitter and devastating satire.
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£1.75
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Warner, New York, 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing along spine, slight bowing, well read book.The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a...
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£1.48
Henry IV, Part 2
by William Shakespeare
Signet, New York, 1988. 14th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks and creasing, light crease at top left rear cover.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.
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£1.75
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Penguin, New York. 12th paperback printing. Condition: Good, light edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, light scuffing on covers, faint creasing at rear cover.This famous treatise on statecraft holds such power to shock men of goodwill that at one time Machiavelli was identified with Satan himself. In his own turbulent times, however, Machiavelli was concerned, not with lofty ideals, but with government that would last. He drew on his own experience of office under the Florentine Republic. Here he...
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Balfour and Meriwether in The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs
by Daniel Abraham
Subterranean Press, Burton MI, First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. The slightest of edge nicks on dust jacket else fine.From the publisher: When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor Sanitarium. The Earth itself will bare its...
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Picture Maker
by Penina Keen Spinka
Dutton, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has some edge wear,From the publisher: In a remarkable and completely stirring epic, Spinka unfolds a haunting and unforgettable novel and vividly brings to life a heroine whose journey across North America into Greenland brings her full circle wit a destiny she cannot avoid.A towering saga of adventure and survival, love and loss, Picture Maker brings the fourteenth century to life.from the Iroquois...
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£5.90
Rogue Herries
by Hugh Walpole
Condition: Good, edge wear and corner creases, spine has nicks, slight discoloration on rear cover, slight fading on interior pages and some underlining and notes from previous owner.The first in the Herries Chronicle saga by Hugh Walpole.The tale of Francis Herries, the "rogue" of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited love for gypsy Mirabell Starr are the two forces which drive him.
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£2.93
The Tragedies
by William Shakespeare
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1950 edition. Condition: Good, Green boards with gold lettering, slight edge wear and corner bumps, spine has slight nicks and slight bowing, light scuffing on covers. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover.Includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and 7 others. Includes the original photogravures by E.J. Sullivan.
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£7.11
The Holmes-Dracula File
by Fred Saberhagen
Ace, New York, 1978. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine creasing. Well read.1887 London, Queen Victoria's Jubilee approaches, a mad man of science prepares to unleash thousands of plague infected rats, a bizarre killer is leaving a trail of bloodless corpses. The Count joins the World's Greatest Detective in an effort to avert public disaster and avenge an enemy. The events are related by Watson and the Count. In his earlier tale, The Sussex Vampire, Watson referenced the...
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£1.75
The Toll Gate
by Heyer, Georgette
Melbourne: William Heinemann. 1954. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near very good condition but no dustjacket. Some faint foxing to endpapers and gilt spine titles a little rubbed. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 283 pages. . 1st Edition (Australia). Hardback.
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£10.58
Havana
by Hunter, Stephen
New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0743238087 . Briefly inscribed by Hunter. It's 1953, and ex-marine Earl Swagger has a new job: to head south and assassinate a charismatic young firebrand named Fidel. ; 403 pages; Signed by Author .
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£15.38
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Signet, New York, 1987. 21st paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight spine nicks and crease, crease at top left rear cover corner.The work of the world's greatest dramatist in authoritative texts edited and with commentary by outstanding scholars.
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£1.75
Elizabeth, Captive Princess
by Margaret Irwin
Allison and Busby, London, 1999. First printing in this edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear and slight corner bumps.In this, the second of Margaret Irwin's great trilogy about the life of 'Good Queen Bess', Elizabeth I, the imperious, high spirited heroine of Young Bess finds herself the prey of her sister Mary's jealous suspicions. The death of her young brother, Edward IV; the accession of Bloody Mary; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; her own imprisonment in the Tower of London; and the...
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£2.07
Holy Fools: A Novel
by Joanne Harris
Harper, New York, 2005. First edition. Condition: Very good, edge wear and bumps on corners, spine creasing, slight previous price sticker residue on front cover.From the publisher: From the bestselling author of Chocolat and Coastlines comes a novel of love and betrayal, friendship and revenge, set in 17th-century France.
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£2.93
Drood: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2009. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good minus dust jacket. DJ has small creases and slight tear near spine.Drood is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life. On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. When...
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£5.90
The Disappeared. The stories of 35 historical disappearances from the Mary Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa
by Crofton, Ian
London: Quercus. 2008. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Wraps. Black & white illustrations. Numbers neatly inked to half-title page. 171 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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£7.41
Field of Mars
by Stephen Miller
Viking, Toronto, 2005. First edition, signed by the author. Condition: Near fine, light edge wear, mild scuffing on dust jacket.From the publisher, synopsis: In St. Petersburg, beside the glittering court life of the Romanovs, the Russian people are seething. It is not only the Bolsheviks but also the new tycoons profiting from the booming economy and the more aggressively ambitious aristocrats who are impatient with the idle, incompetent Romanovs. Pyotr Ryzhkov, probing the murder of a child prostitute,...
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£12.45
A Question of Honor
by Todd, Charles
New York: William Morrow. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0062237152 . Signed by the mother and son writing team on the title page. The dust jacket is slightly creased. A World War One mystery featuring English nurse Bess Crawford.; 309 pages; Signed by Author .
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£23.48
