Blimey! Dare I say there's been a murder! Fortunately, a clever investigator is ever near to take up the case!

Freeman Wills Crofts

Martin Edwards

Purchased new and never read. Book is in excellent condition with no stickers, wear, or writing.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living with its execution. Seen from the criminal s perspective, a mild-mannered Inspector by the name of French is simply another character who needs to be dealt with. This is an unconventional yet gripping story of intrigue, betrayal, obsession, justification and self-delusion. And will the killer get away with it?"

The 12:30 from Croydon

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#paperback #britishclassics #wintermysteries

California

Winter Mysteries

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"Edwards's second winter-themed anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series is a standout. As in the most successful of such volumes, the editor's expertise results in a selection of unusual suspects, expanding readers' knowledge." --Publishers Weekly STARRED review

Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow, and some very unpleasant carol singers. There's no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction.

On a cold night, it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery. And more than that, claustrophobic house parties, with people cooped up with long-estranged relatives, can provide plenty of motives for murder.

Including forgotten stories by major writers such as Margery Allingham, as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists, each story in this selection is introduced by the leading expert on classic crime, Martin Edwards. The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights.

Crimson Snow

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John Bude

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

"Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm on the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister-- connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother's wife? Superintendent Meredith is called to investigate and begins to suspect the worst when human bones are discovered on Chalklands farmland"--P. [4] of cover.

The Sussex Downs Murder

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British Library Crime Classics

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Written by Jack Schiff, Bill Finger and others Art by Dick Sprang, BobKane, Jack Burnley, Jerry Robinson and others Cover by Dick Sprang In this newhardcover collecting BATMAN #21-25 (1944), The Dynamic Duo face the evil ofvillains including The Penguin, The Ghost Gang, The Joker, Tweedle-Dee andTweedle-Dum and others, with the help of would-be detective Alfred.


The Dark Knight Archives

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Roy Thomas

Stan Lee

Good condition paperback with some visible shwlf and usage wear. Few creased corners and rubbing on the cover are present. Otherwise very clean and crisp inside. Please see photos.

New Jersey

The Complete Collection

Rarely before and rarely since has comics seen a talent as innovative as Jim Steranko. Blending together influences from Pop Art to Salvador Dali and Will Eisner to Wally Wood, Steranko's boundary-breaking style is an incomparable visual language that continues influence and inspire storytellers decades later. Now, for the first time ever, Marvel is proud to offer the complete Steranko Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in one volume! COLLECTING: STRAN GE TALES (1951) 151-168 & NICK FURY, AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (1968) 1-3, 5

S. H. I. E. L. D. by Jim Steranko

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#hardcover #willeisner #pirates #comicbook #darkhorse Brand new never read

Writing and illustrating an action-packed weekly serial called Hawks of the Seas' a pirate adventure series set in the 18th-century Caribbean the artist created one dynamic strip after. That artist was none other than comics' grand master Will Eisner! Eisner's 'Hawks of the Seas' weekly stories were translated into several different languages and distributed all over the world, and now they're collected here in this handsome hardcover edition. The stories themselves stand the test of time, as thrilling and exciting as they were almost 70 years ago.'

Hawks of the Sea

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Comic Classics

Johnny Rogan

Kansas

A guide to the music of The Smiths. The book examines every recorded song in the band's catalogue to date, and acts as a consumer's critical guide to the music. Shaped like a CD box, it is designed to sit alongside the reader's existing CD collection.

The Smiths

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Sean Albiez

Smoke-free pet-free home. Several pages are folded over, scratch on the back but it's never been read. 

New York

Music Non-Stop

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream - and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history of popular music without them. Today, Kraftwerk are considered to be an essential part of pop's DNA, alongside artists like the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, and Little Richard. Kraftwerk's immediate influence might have been on a generation of synth-based bands (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Human League, Depeche Mode, Yello, et al), but their influence on the emerging dance culture in urban America has proved longer lasting and more decisive. This collection of original essays looks at Kraftwerk - their legacy and influence - from a variety of angles, and demonstrates persuasively and coherently that however you choose to define their art, it's impossible to underestimate the ways in which it predicted and shaped the future.

Kraftwerk

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

Decades: Joy Division + New Order

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Heart of Song

A shelf for cryptids of every variety and the writers in search of them!

Cheryl Straffon

Vermont

Cornish Myth and Magic

In this exploration of the Cornish Celtic Otherworld, Cheryl Straffon expertly guides us through a realm of traditional tales, stories, myths, legends and folklore wherein we encounter supernatural beings, such as fairies, piskeys, mermaids, witches, giants and other strange creatures. Between the Realms examines the writings of the folklorist collectors, and oral traditions born from the prehistoric sacred landscape of Cornwall. Cheryl explains how, in this material, we find themes and narratives strikingly similar to those encountered within much earlier works that refer to beliefs and events that were current in the ancient past. In turn we find that Celtic sagas and mythic tales seem to exhibit the same way of interfacing with the world of magic and spirit as seen in the beliefs and practices of many native indigenous peoples from around the world. As Cheryl tells us in her introduction to this book, 'It is a realm that has some similarities to our own, but one that is also strangely unfamiliar. It is a dangerous world to enter, but nevertheless one that can give new insights and experiences that change our world view when we return to our mundane world.'

Between the Realms

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#Bigfoot #cryptids #mystery #unexplained 

Pennsylvania

Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies, and More

A noted investigator of the paranormal explores the historical, geographical, and cultural reaches of various "manimals" and other humanoid entities--among them such monster men as Gigantopithecus and Neanderthals; hairy man-beasts like Sasquatch and the elusive de Loys' Ape; supernatural beings, including werewolves, vampires, and devil men; and supposedly spaceship-borne entities like Mothman and the Roswell humanoids. This book takes the reader on expeditions into wilderness areas, explores historical contexts, and brings folkloric and iconographic evidence to bear on a category of mysteries as old as humanity.

Tracking the Man-Beasts

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John A. Keel

Texas

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a strategy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are seen moving across the sky. Domestic animals are found slaughtered and mutilated. And journalist John Keel, arriving to investigate the freakish events, soon finds himself an integral part of an eerie and unfathomable mystery...


The Mothman Prophecies

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High Strangeness

Edmund Blunden

North Carolina

Undertones of War

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Vasily Grossman

Robert Chandler

Very little shelf wear, spine is flawless 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.

Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.

Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.

This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.

Life and Fate

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Lindsey Fitzharris

Colorado

A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

"A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--

The Facemaker

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History Chimes

Illinois

Sea Room

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Louisiana

Shetland Folk Takes

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Scotland

A shelf for classic works of strange and supernatural fiction.

#CharlesDickens #ghoststories #classics #drama

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Mississippi

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Throughout his illustrious writing career, Charles Dickens often turned his hand to fashioning short pieces of ghostly fiction. Even in his first successful work, The Pickwick Papers, you will find five ghost stories, all of which are included in this collection. Dickens began the tradition of the ‘ghost story at Christmas’, and many of his tales in this genre are presented here including the brilliant novella, ‘The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain’, which deserves to be as well-known as A Christmas Carol. While all his supernatural tales aim to chill the spine, they are not without the usual traits of Dickens’ flamboyant style, his subtle wit, biting irony, humorous incidents and moral observations. It is a mixture which makes these stories fascinating and entertaining as well as unsettling. To paraphrase the Fat Boy in The Pickwick Papers: Charles Dickens ‘wants to make your flesh creep’. This collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales. Here are chilling histories of coincidence, insanity and revenge. Illustrated by various artists, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

Ghost Stories

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John Townsend

Massachusetts

Be scared--be very scared. These 10 spooky, creepy, and slightly gruesome tales will introduce children to the many pleasures of a ghost story. Kids will feel chills as they read about haunted houses, ghosts frightening and friendly, and one really terrifying clown. Featuring all manner of monsters and supernatural events, this book is perfect to read around the campfire or under the blanket with a flashlight!

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