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New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 175 pages; Former owner's name signed to titlepage in red ink -- "Kim Roosevelt / 1965 / Washington" ; two titles in list of author's books underlined, otherwise clean and secure in original binding in very edgeworn dustjacket. Interesting Cold War espionage novel. PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the…
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THE ASHES OF LODA
by Garve, Andrew ; [Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. ]
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Black Lake Manor
by Morpuss, Guy
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London: Viper. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2022. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. London: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2022. First Edition; First Printing. As New in very nice dustjacket. Agatha Christie meets The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August in this outstanding cross-genre locked room murder mystery. A LOCKED ROOM. A BRUTAL MURDER. AND A KILLER WHO CAN UNWIND TIME... In the former mining town of Black Lake, there is an old story about a shipwreck with only one survivor. His descendants have a unique ability: once in their lives - and only once - they can unwind the events of the previous six hours. More than two hundred years later, part-time police constable Ella Manning is attending a party at Black Lake Manor, the cliff-top mansion belonging to the local billionaire. When a raging storm sweeps in from the Pacific, she and several other guests find themselves trapped. And when their host is discovered brutally murdered in his study the next morning, the door locked from the…
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DARK FIRE
by Sansom, C. J. ; [SIGNED]
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New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 503 pages; Clean and tight, unmarked, appears unread. Signed by the author on the first blank page. Another in the fabulous series of Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries. Riveting, historically accurate, delightful reading. ; Signed by Author .
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