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SPY AND MYSTERY STORIES

SPY AND MYSTERY STORIES

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SPY AND MYSTERY STORIES

by Allen, Kenneth (editor) (Geoffrey Palmer; Alastair Scott; Avis Murton Carter; Charles Dickens; Noel Lloyd; K. Alan Macdonald; Michael Hardwick; Mollie Hardwick; Alan Stuart; Leopold Lewis; Samuel Epstein; Beryl Williams; Elizabeth Bennett; John Agee)

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  • Hardcover
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Condition
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ISBN 10
0706407636
ISBN 13
9780706407631
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London: Octopus Books, 1978. Book. Illus. by Sam Dwyer; David Godfrey; Bob Harvey; Nigel Hewetson; Andre Leonard; Lee Noel; David John Roe; Geoff Taylor; Mark Wilkinson; Phil Stevenson;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 399 pp. Cream-coloured boards with a small black illustration on the front panel; lettered in black on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with line drawings by: Sam Dwyer; David Godfrey; Bob Harvey; Nigel Hewetson; Andre Leonard; Lee Noel; David John Roe; Geoff Taylor; Mark Wilkinson; and Phil Stevenson. This anthology contains: From Spy Catcher to Spy by Geoffrey Palmer; The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe; George Blake Double Agent by Alastair Scott; The Veiled Lady by Agatha Christie; The Queen's Super Spy by Avis Murton Carter; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The German Who Succeeded by John Bulloch; The Spy Who Never Was by Noel Lloyd; Annemarie The Lady Doctor by K. Alan Macdonald; The Thirteenth Man by Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto; Captain Roberton's Secret by Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick; The Eye of the Dawn by Alan Stuart; A Dreadful Bell by Leopold Lewis; Young Saboteurs of the Churchill Club by Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams; Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes by Elizabeth Bennett; History's First Spies by Alastair Scott; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch; The Krogers of Ruislip by Betty Grant-Sutherland; Eileen a Quiet English Miss by Joseph Hutton; The Fatal Six Cables by Kenneth Allen; Operation Cicero by Geoffrey Palmer; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson; The Death of Edith Cavell by H. R. Berndorff; Gunpowder Treason and Plot by Avis Murton Carter; A Thing on the Ground by Ivan T. Sanderson; Dark Rendezvous by John Agee; The Hoodoo Ship by K. Alan Macdonald; The American Colonel by Edwin T. Woodhall; A Third Man by Alan Stuart; The Alibi by Anonymous; Hitler's Spies by Bernard Newman; The Haunting of U-Boat 65 by Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick; The Night of 6 September by John Baker White; The Sea's Greatest Mystery by K. Alan Macdonald; The Spy in the Barrel by Robert Louis Stephenson; The Bermuda Triangle by David S. Allen; and The Campden Wonder by Noel Lloyd..

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W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
223161
Title
SPY AND MYSTERY STORIES
Author
Allen, Kenneth (editor) (Geoffrey Palmer; Alastair Scott; Avis Murton Carter; Charles Dickens; Noel Lloyd; K. Alan Macdonald; Michael Hardwick; Mollie Hardwick; Alan Stuart; Leopold Lewis; Samuel Epstein; Beryl Williams; Elizabeth Bennett; John Agee)
Illustrator
Sam Dwyer; David Godfrey; Bob Harvey; Nigel Hewetson; Andre Leonard; Lee Noel; David John Roe; Geoff Taylor; Mark Wilkinson; Phi
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0706407636
ISBN 13
9780706407631
Publisher
Octopus Books
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1978
Size
8vo
Keywords
gaslight; noir; pulp; hard boiled; police; whodunit; whodunnit; detection; investigation; intrigue; private investigator; p.i.; criminals; sleuth; suspense; thriller; murder; homicide; robbery; shooting; killing; guns; secrets; weird tales;
Bookseller catalogs
Mystery and Detective; Action Adventure;

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