Search Results: Titles starting with X from Murder By The Book

London: UK: Collins Crime Club, 1936. Eight Impression, March 1936. Vintage Paperback in scarce dust jacket. Book is fine, dust jacket is rubbed at folds, small pirce out at head and foot of spine, piece out at rear with tape reinforcement at blind side else a very good dust jacket in protective mylar cover. " X, symbol of the unknown, against Rex, the symbol of Law and Order and the People. For the perpetrator of a series of appalling murders in the greatest city of the world to defy capture and remain at large, killing, is a blow at the very structure of society; how much more is this so when the victims of his knife are the guardians of the Law themselves? A policeman is killed in amazing circumstances, in a country town near London – and the hunt is up! Another and still another murder is committed until the apparently never-ending series of diabolical crimes engages the serious attention of the whole Cabinet. Distinguished by clever characterisation and good dialogue, X v. Rex is a murder story… Read More

N.Y.: Knopf, 1981. 1st ed. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. June 11, 1940 -- where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain’s most closely guarded secret. Anyone who learns of them must die -- with their file stamped: XPD -- expedient demise. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.