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N.Y.: Ballantine, 1999. First edition, April 1999, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe himfor in the dead mans pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the generals study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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BEDFORD SQUARE (Thomas & Charlotte Pitt)
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A CASE OF SPIRITS
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London: UK: Macmillan, 1975. 1st ed. Pages a bit browned, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Sixth Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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THE DETECTIVE AND MR. DICKENS: Being an Account of the Macbeth Murders and the Strange Events Surrounding Them: A Secret Victorian Journal attributed to Wilkie Collins, discovered and edited" by Palmer.
by Palmer, William J.
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N.Y.: St Martins Press, 1990. 1ST ED., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket. First book in the series. A novel written in the form of a secret Victorian journel, attributed to Wilkie Collins, having been discovered and edited by the author. Setting 1851 London and the relationship between Dickens and Inspector William Field, who solve a brutal murder together. Publishers letter laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Ivenitsky, Mikhail. Book.
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PAINFUL DETAILS: TWELVE VICTORIAN SCANDALS
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London: UK: Max Parrish & Co., 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, small tear along head, light wear along edges, else near fine. Not only were the Victorians as capable of folly as we are, but they were just as capable of reporting it to their newspapers and journals. They hinted at what could not be described by the use of a standard expression which is the title of this book. This selection includes the stories of Lady Twiss, Lord Ferrers; Lady Colin Campbell; The Prince of Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill; Lily Langtry; Lady Mordaunt; Sir John Dean Paul; The Earl of Euston; Colonel Valentine Baker; Lord Frankfort and T.C. Druce and the Portland Case. Bibliography and Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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London: UK: Max Parrish & Co., 1962. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, small tear along head, light wear along edges else near fine. Not only were the Victorians as capable of folly as we are, but they were just as capable of reporting it to their newspapers and journals. They hinted at what could not be described by the use of a standard expression which is the title of this book. This selection includes the stories of Lady Twiss, Lord Ferrers; Lady Colin Campbell; The Prince of Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill; Lily Langtry; Lady Mordaunt; Sir John Dean Paul; The Earl of Euston; Colonel Valentine Baker; Lord Frankfort and T.C. Druce and the Portland Case. Bibliography and Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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The Passenger from Scotland Yard: A Victorian Detective Novel
by Wood, H. F. With a New Introduction By E.F. Bleiler
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N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. This 1st Dover Edition, first published in 1977, is an unabridged an altered republication of the second edition of the work as published by Chatto and Windus , Piccadilly, London in 1888, E.F. Bleiler has written a new introduction for the Dover edition. Two illustrations have been added to the Dover Edition. Very light wear else a near fine copy of the trade paperback. Dover reprint of this Victorian Detective Novel with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler written for this edition. Five men sat in a railroad compartment on the mail train from London to Dover, sharing the discomforts and amenities of a train ride in the 1880's. The same five men boarded the Channel steamer and crossed to Calais, where they entrained for Paris. When the train reached Paris, however, it was revealed that one man was a detective from Scotland Yard, on the trail of a fortune in stolen gems; one man (identity unknown) was a murderer; and another was a corpse! This strong…
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Swing, Swing, Together: A Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray Mystery
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U.S.A.: Dodd, Mead, 1976. 1st ed, light wear along extremities, else near fine in moderately rubbed dust jacket, a few small nicks at edges. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.
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TRAITORS GATE
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N.Y.: Fawcett, 1995. First edition, March 1995, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Page edges very lightly soiled else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Charlotte & Thomas Pitt. Victorian England. "To fans of the historical mystery, she's one of the masters of the genre. Her latest story, set as usual in turn-of-the-century London, has Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigating the mysterious death of Thomas' mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond. The death has been ruled a suicide, but Sir Arthur's son is convinced his father was murdered for attempting to expose treason in the Colonial Office. Thomas and Charlotte begin to suspect that the nefarious Inner Circle, a group of highly influential but dangerously corrupt men, may be responsible for the killing. Perry's fascinating details of Victorian social customs, dress, language, politics, and behavior plus her usual engrossing plot virtually guarantee the…
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THE TWISTED ROOT
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London: UK: Headline, 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Paper starting to age tone, as usual. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A William Monk title. For Miriam Gardiner, attending a small party at the London home of her fiance, Lucius Stourbridge, to celebrate their forthcoming marriage, it should hae been one of the happiest days of her life. But, after making a sudden exit from the party, Miriam disappears without a trace. William Monk is called in to investigate, his only lead is that the coachman Treadwell, a man of dubious character, is also missing along with one of the family's coaches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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