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Francis Beeding

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The Norwich Victims - Francis Beeding
1950 UK hardback later edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London
A VG+ book in VG+ unclipped dust jacket
Name and address inscription to endpaper
Tightly bound and square, clean contents and cloth
The dustwrapper has a little shelf wear rubbing to edges
A classic tale steeped in the classic crime genre for one of its best authors, An Inspector George Martin mystery
A nice copy with great cover artwork, scarce in jacket
For Sale at £18 (approx $30) *PB1 - free delivery worldwide !

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The House of Dr Edwardes - Francis Beeding
1928 American hardcover 4th edition, Little Brown, New York
A VG book sadly lacking its dust jacket
Inscription to endpaper
Tightly bound and square
The basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound
A solid period reading copy (1 month after the 1st ed') and a scarce title
For Sale at £16 (approx $28) *DF7 - free delivery worldwide !
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He could Not Have Slipped - Francis Beeding
1939 English hardback first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London
A good only book sadly lacking dust jacket
Ex boots lending library, but no stamps or missing endpapers etc
Tightly bound and square, cloth is worn and rubbed
A copy more suited to reading than collecting
A scarce book
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There Are Thirteen - Francis Beeding
1946 British hardcover second edition, H&S, London
A good only book sadly lacking its dust jacket
Ex boots library with library binding, no stamps or missing endpapers etc
Tightly bound and square
A solid readers copy
For Sale at £6 (approx $10) *P12 - free delivery worldwide !
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Synopsis
A ring of tobacco smoke came spinning towards her from lips foolishly rounded. Why did John insist on smoking those cheap cigars? Perhaps they gave him a feeling of success. John Throgmorton, financier. Successful financiers usually smoked cigars. But not the kind that John smoked—a bit of good tobacco twisted up anyhow, as stated on the round drum in which they were packed. What had induced her to throw in her life with this nondescript? She looked at him with the question in her eyes as he stood before her in his short black coat, striped trousers and spotted, blue tie. There was no glamour in the man. The round, clean-shaven face with its broad expanse of forehead and double chin, carried no sort of force or persuasion. Its normal expression was one of simple kindness. It suggested a benevolent interest in men and things —a useful face, she thought bitterly, for the work he had to do. People trusted him and that was how he earned his money. For the moment, however, the face had ceased to be kind. Even propitiation was extinguished. It had become amorphous—inert and therefore mysterious; and behind the horn? rimmed spectacles, whose lenses were completely circular, were concealed a pair of blue eyes shaded with a pair of light eyebrows and flanking a considerable nose. Everything about him THE was strangely a palest yellow, : grey. His most remarkably whi to his mouth a contrast to the conveyed by th entirely empty, moved. She WE man delivered o and garnished, h devils worse tha There was a: Hermione crossi wrinkling her na John's hand, £ on her fingers. "You shouldr monished, the u face. "It's bad you know." He put a fore at her. She kn at her like that, without express He kissed h time it astonish lips so shockin mask. She found he: "Wdl/'hesai about it? Shall

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