Search Results: FICTION / THRILLER from Chilton Books

Lymington: Nautical,1977.. 1st ed. "In 'Captain Incognito', his second novel, George Gibson portrays the authentic atmosphere of life at sea in a modern freighter, and he builds up drama and suspense in a plot as plausible as his characters are convincing and astutely drawn." Pp.207, scuffed spot to fep. Orange cloth has minor creasing to boards, d/w slightly rubbed - design by Keith Blount LSIA. VG/VG.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937.. New-At-Ninepence Illustrated Thriller. 21cms x 14cms x 1.5cms. Pp.128, 2 double page black & white 'pulp fiction' illustrations, creases to corner tips, closed tear to inner margin of pp.119-128, cracking to inner front hinge but holding Yellow and blue illustrated paperback, slightly cocked, spine creased with edge tears, corner tips creased, 2cm tear to rear cover at spine. Scarce. Good.** Charles Bryson 1877-1963. A graduate of Queen's University Belfast , he served in World War I as a Secret Service agent. In 1916, he went to Russia with the official intention of learning the language and was there when the Russian Revolution of 1917 broke out. In the mid-1920s he began writing, publishing his first detective novel. During the Second World War he became a spy again for British Intelligence.

London: Michael Joseph, 1987.. 1st ed. Hardback. "Finely written, taut and atmospheric, 'A Choice of Nightmares' is a gripping psychological thriller which marks the debut of a writer of extraordinary power." Pp.266, slight toning to pages. Blue cloth, d/w illustration by Alun Hood. VG/VG.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, nd.(c.1924).. 5th printing. Being Some Further Adventures of Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service. "Clubfoot, the sinister and masterful German secret agent, is again on the warpath to wreak his vengeance on the men in the British secret service, who have thwarted his plans. Chief of his enemies are the brothers Francis and Desmond Okewood, who crop up at every turn of this truculent agent's career." Pp.312/8(ads for other publications), spotting to closed page edges. Orange cloth with black title and illustrations to front and spine, slight sunning to spine, slightly cocked. G+.

London: Panther / Granada, 1977.. Rep. "A mysterious voice from the telephone; a beautiful Chinese girl shot dead; a rich old man with a troubled conscience; a private investigator involved in a murder; a Chinese prostitute who talked too much; and a coffin..." Pp.128, toning to pages. Paperback, minor edge wear. VG.

London: Wright & Brown Ltd, nd.(c.1952).. Ex Boots Bookseller's Library. "Penelope Damer meeting Carl Hewetson on a journey to Ireland, falls headlong in love and marries him. It is only when they have been married for some months that she hears her husband was suspected of murdering a former wife, and that he is not by any means all he professes to be..." Pp.256, owner's name to front free endpaper, tidy repair to front inner hinge, black mark to base of closed page edge. Red cloth, slightly cocked. Boots Booklover's Library shield printed to front board has black mark, spine has small library hanging ring to top, spine slightly sunned with edge wear, wear to corner tips. Scarce. Good.** Kathleen Mary Lindsay(1903-1973), was an English writer of historical romance novels. For some years she held the record as the most prolific novelist in history. She was married at least three times, and wrote under all three, as well as eight other pen names, using names of both sexes. These included Mary… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979.. 1st edition. "He was called Ross Callum and in the Tangier straits he was a legend. A flamboyant hell-raising womaniser who, until he disappeared, had owned the fastest launch on the coast and made a fortune running guns to the Sahel rebels and contraband to anyone who would buy it....At least that was what people believed..." Pp.233, owner's armorial bookplate (H.C.D.Laing) to inside front board. Black cloth, dustwrapper slightly sunned to spine. VG/VG.

London: Ward, Lock & Co.Ltd, 1945.. 1st edition. A Uranium Bomb Sttory. "Peter Gayleigh's old antagonist and friend, Chief Inspector Herrington of Scotland Yard, sets Gayleigh the task of frustrating the famous Nazi spy's attempts to obtain details of the extraordinary new explosive which Government scientists are perfecting. The result is almost as shattering as that astonishing bomb which brought the war in the Far East so quickly to an end." Pp.224, top edge dusty. Orange cloth, dustwrapper has edge chips. G+/G+.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.. 1st ed. "Duff Hart-Davis builds his story to a crescendo of suspense and excitement among the great peaks of Knoydart, on the West Coast...The claustrophobia which threatens to destroy a man on the run is brilliantly contrasted with the barren immensity of the Scottish hills." P.287, maps of Scottish hills to endpapers. Green cloth, d/w designed by Bill Botten. VG/VG.

Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1987.. 1st ed. "Who needs the kind of nuclear material which could, correctly processed, make a nuclear bomb?..Richard Holbrook stumbles on the link between his now obsessive search, and the valuable item of antique porcelain purchased by a Hong Kong bank..." Pp.271, slight toning to pages. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.. Sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps. "Richard Hannay is dispatched on an undercover mission in pursuit of the mysterious and elusive 'Greenmantle' through occupied Europe into Constantinople." Pp.267, toning to pages. Paperback, minor creasing to edges next to spine. VG.

London: Century, 1986.. 1st ed. Seventh spy novel featuring Blackford Oates. Pp.216. Red cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

London: The Featherstone Press Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. A New Kind of Thriller". A werewolf prowls the vicinity of an isolated English country estate. Pp.140, has worm damage to lower inner margins occasionally touching edge of text, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, title to front and spine. Scarce. Fair.** E.T.Portwin (1912-2006) UK publisher and author, born Portwine (name changed legally), who sometimes wrote as by Elizabeth Portwin, his wife's name; as he normally signed his books E T Portwin, some confusion ensued". (SFE).

Brighton: Angus & Robertson, 1978.. 1st Angus & Robertson ed. Fiction. "A compelling revelation of international power play, where, in a new kind of war, the world's resources of food, oil and minerals are the weapons and unimaginable wealth the prize". Pp. 198, slight toning to pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w, slight rubbing to edges. G/G+.

Kibworth Beauchamp: Matador, 2018.. Two men successfully gatecrash the closed conference at Munich as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is about to sign an agreement giving Adolf Hitler everything he wants in Czechoslovakia. One of the men is an American radio correspondent aghast at Chamberlain�s gullibility at surrendering to Nazi demands. He�s determined to stop the deal by bursting into the conference with a telling protest. As he makes a loud declaration to the assembled national leaders � Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler � his Czech partner pulls a gun.... Pp.viii/500, inscribed to half-title page. Paperback, creasing to spine. G+.

London: Vawser & Wiles Ltd, nd. (c.1946).. A Thrilling Secret Service Story. "Tony Baxter, a member of the British Intelligence Service, is plunged into an incredible adventure in Occupied France. The date is late summer, 1943, the keynote of the plot is Hitler's much vaunted secret weapon..." Pp.123, 8 black & white illustrations, minor spotting to endpapers. Dark red cloth. VG.

London: Robert Hale, 1983.. 1st ed. "An explosive mixture of vice, avarice, chicanery and lust set among Bankok's bars, brothels and restaurants." Pp.224. Black cloth, dustwrapper is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

London: John Long, nd.. 211th thousand. A John Long Four-Square Racing Thriller, originally published in 1917. Pp144, slight toning to pages. Paperback, slightly rubbed with small chip to lower front fore-edge. G+.**Nat Gould (1857-1919) was possibly one of the most prolific of writers on horses and horse racing. Although born in Manchester, he lived and worked in Australia for many years. "Because his books were so widely read, his descriptions of Australian life, based on the eleven years that he spent in Australia, deeply etched themselves in the minds of his readers. Indeed it has been asserted that they were responsible for the impression of Australia held in other countries." (Australia Brought to Book by Kaye Harman).

London: Secker & Warburg,1976.. 1st edition. "Underground cells of men and women, heroes, traitors, patriots and criminals, running a wartime network that spanned Europe from Belgium to the Spanish border. That was the Orion Line. But the Orion Line had been penetrated and smashed by the Germans in 1944. Why then was Gareth Owen now being asked to return to the field and trace the Line back to its end?" Pp.217, owner's armorial bookplate (H.C.D.Laing) to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has some sunning to spine and a 3cm tear to top edge and a couple of other smaller tears but now has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G.

Australia: Macdonald Futura, 1985.. 1st ed. ""Eddie Lee Webster is a loud-mouthed drunkard, a bully and a boor. Worse, he is the brother of the President of the United States. That he is an embarrassment to the Administration is no secret. But as the cheif suspect in the brutal murder of four black women, he has suddenly become a political liability that can no longer be tolerated..." Pp.210. Blue boards, d/w designed by Adrian Young. VG/VG.