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BURLEIGH, Hilary : MURDER AT MAISON MANCHE. London : Mellifont Press, [1958]. Second edition. Murder and mannequins in a grand Paris fashion house. First published by Hurst & Blackett in 1948. Mellifont M49. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42962 – or simply click on the button
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CLEVELY, Hugh (Hugh Desmond) 1897-1964 : THE GANG SMASHER AGAIN [COVER TITLE]. London & Dublin : Mellifont Press, [1954]. Second edition. “Tortoni and the blind hunchback sat waiting ...” – waiting for revenge on John Martinson, the gang-smasher. Meanwhile prominent men are being murdered by old lags who then commit suicide. First published in 1938. Mellifont M15. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42953 – or simply click on the button
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“GILMOUR, R.” : THE KUKRI KILLER. London : Mellifont Press, [1957]. Second edition. “The papyrus taken from the tomb of Ra-Men, Prophet of Osiris, and said to be some original chapters from the Book of the Dead” has been stolen. First published in 1945. Mellifont M41. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42954 – or simply click on the button
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LAMBERT, Rosa, 1891-1957 & LAMBERT, Dudley, 1880-1955 : MONSIEUR FAUX-PAS. London : Mellifont Press, [1943]. [Fourth edition]. The first of the four Glyn Morgan mysteries written by Rosa Anstruther Graeme and Dudley Davies Lambert, who married in London in 1911. Originally published by Wishart & Co. in 1928, and subsequently reprinted under the title “Death Goes to Brussels”. It was apparently published in France as “Mr. Misstep”. SOLD |
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LE QUEUX, William (William Tufnell), 1864-1927 : MYSTERIES OF A GREAT CITY. London : Mellifont Press, [1934]. Second edition. Five Parisian mysteries – The Affair of the Blue Scarabs; The Clue of the Newspaper Paragraph; The Secret of the Gieboff Emerald; The Affair of the Avenue Malakoff, and The Holes in the Wall. Originally published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1920. Mellifont 252. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42944 – or simply click on the button
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“REEVE, Christopher” – [WEBB, Dorothy Anna Maria, 1875-1957] : THE GINGER CAT. London : Mellifont Press, [1955]. First paperback edition. The mystery of a savage jewel theft and murder in Paris unravels in the quiet of the cathedral close in Carchester – home of the “Ginger Cat” – the lissom redhead Judith Trevenna – one of the Red Trevennas. Originally published by Collins in 1929. Mellifont M21. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42949 – or simply click on the button
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SHARP, L.G. : LILAC LADY : A ROMANCE. London : Mellifont Press, [1935]. First edition. Historical romance set at the time of the Civil War – Anthony St. Cloude aspires to the hand of the lovely Enid Derrer, the “Lilac Lady” of Essex. Mellifont 3129. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43210 – or simply click on the button
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“VERNER, Gerald” – [PRINGLE, John Robert Stuart, 1897-1980] : THE ANGEL. London : Mellifont Press, [1952]. Third edition. Jimmy Holland, son of a wealthy member of the cabinet, shocks his father by becoming “a common policeman” (or at least a detective inspector). Originally published by Wright & Brown in 1939 and by Mellifont in 1943. Mellifont 4300. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30852 – or simply click on the button
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“VERNER, Gerald” – [PRINGLE, John Robert Stuart, 1897-1980] : THE CLUE OF THE GREEN CANDLE. London : Mellifont Press, [1957]. Third edition. Successful crime writer needs 40,000 words by Saturday morning and it’s already Wednesday – and his feckless brother desperately needs £2,000. Originally published by Wright & Brown in 1938, with an earlier Mellifont edition in 1944. Mellifont M44. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42946 – or simply click on the button
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WOOD, Andrew, 1890-1967 : MURDER AT THE WISHING WELL. London : Mellifont Press, [1944]. First edition. Advocate Adam Napier – “Hanging Adam” – interrogates a frightened farmer on a forgery charge in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh. Mellifont 4320. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30872 – or simply click on the button
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