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London : Robert Hale, (1953). First edition. Famous movie actress June Arnot brutally murdered by racket boss – but no witness has ever lived to give evidence against him. Can out-of-work movie extra Frances Coleman be persuaded to testify?
Crown 8vo (20cm). 255,[i]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in red; one corner slightly bruised; a few pale edge-spots; endpapers faintly tanned, but still overall a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket a little worn, torn, nicked and creased, with some old repairs – but complete and not unattractive.

£25

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London : Robert Hale, (1953). First edition. Famous movie actress June Arnot brutally murdered by racket boss – but no witness has ever lived to give evidence against him. Can out-of-work movie extra Frances Coleman be persuaded to testify?
Crown 8vo (20cm). 255,[i]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in red; a touch bruised; a few slight marks; endpapers faintly tanned, but still overall a good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket a little worn and creased, with some repaired nicks and chips, with one larger repaired chip just affecting the lettering at head of spine.

£20

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London : Robert Hale, (1958). First edition. Four desperate men and a girl plan to rob an armoured truck.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 191,[i]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in red; a few faint spots to top edge, but a very good copy indeed, bright and sharp in the original Holt dust-jacket – just faintly sunned, but also very good indeed.

£40

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London : Robert Hale, (1958). First edition. Starlet strangled to death in a hotel lift at the Cannes Film Festival.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 204,[iv]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in red; a few slight marks; edges faintly tanned, but a very good and sound copy in the Val Biro dust-jacket – the jacket a little worn, with some nicks and short tears, but complete and attractive still.

£25

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London : Robert Hale, (1961). First edition. “The woman was in a Rolls Royce and she had that expensive look that wives of millionaires usually have” – ex-con made a highly profitable offer. Filmed as “Palmetto” in 1998, with Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, etc.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 190,[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in red; top edge a touch dusty, but a very good copy in the Val Biro dust-jacket – the jacket a little marked and sunned, but complete and with only minor wear.

£30

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London : Robert Hale, (1965). First edition. “Ira Marsh, a provocative blond teenager, arrives at Paradise City, Florida’s crime-free, millionaires’ playground. Her arrival sparks off a cunningly devised plan to rob the Florida Safe Deposit bank, an impregnable fortress, acclaimed as the safest bank in the world”.
Post 8vo (21cm). 192pp. Original black boards, lettered in silver; a very good copy in the Barbara Walton dust-jacket – the jacket with some mild wear at extremities and a few slight marks, but also very good. Ownership inscription of S. Hill.

£30

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London : Robert Hale, (1976). First edition. “Keith Deverey, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast ... It is when he meets Beth Marshall whose husband is to inherit a million dollars that his thoughts turn to murder”.
Post 8vo (21cm). (190),[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered in silver; a touch bruised; slight production flaw to lower board; small patches of faint damp-staining to endpapers, but otherwise a very good and sound copy – the jacket with minor wear and similar patches of damp-staining to verso, but complete and attractive still.

£25

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London : Robert Hale, (1977). First edition. President of the National Californian bank builds a new bank with all the latest technology – the safest bank in the world. He has forgotten an implacable enemy from forty years earlier.
Post 8vo (21cm). 190,[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered in silver; tiny bruise at foot; a few faint edge-spots; slight mark to front endpaper; tape mark to rear endpaper, but still a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£40

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