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London : Windward, (1982). First edition. Essays on Crime Fiction and its Categories by Michael Gilbert, Reginald Hill, Keating himself, Jessica Mann, Hillary Waugh and others – on How I Write My Books by Eric Ambler, Len Deighton, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, P. D. James, Keating again, and others, with a consumers’ guide, etc.
Medium 8vo (24cm). 320pp. Numerous illustrations. Original ivory boards, lettered in red; very good in the original Roger Pring dust-jacket – a little sunned at spine.

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London : Eyre Methuen, (1979). Second edition : a slightly revised version of Watson’s interesting 1971 study of the crime story as the mirror of its times and social attitudes.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 256pp. Illustrations. Original mauve boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good in the original Norman Mansbridge dust-jacket – a design in cream, red, yellow, black and white, complete with fake dirt – very good and unworn.

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