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The Slip Carriage Mystery - Lynn Brock
1928 British hardcover 1st edition, SECOND impression published by Collins A VG+ book in VG+ (3/6) unclipped jacket Book is without names, inscriptions etc, solid text block, clean pages and cloth The dust cover shows a short closed tear and minor rubs to edges The book is true 1st issue, the wrapper is as the first just priced 3/6 A lovely copy of an extremely scarce book, the 4th Col Gore mystery For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
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Murder on the Bridge - Lynn Brock
1930 American hardcover stated 1st edition, published by Harper - A Harper Sealed Mystery A VG book sadly no longer with it's dust jacket Small neat name and 1932 date to pastedown, text block is tight with no lean The cloth is clean, very light rubs and lightened slightly to spine Published in the UK as QED I believe Dr. Sidney Melhuish was, as nearly always at mealtimes, a little abstracted. The long day's work which had begun before nine that morning had ended but five minutes before he had entered his dining-room at a quarter to eight. He was tired, preoccupied with reminiscences of an unusually large number of unusually serious cases, a little worried by incipient earache—with him a chronic trouble in wintertime. A solid copy of an uncommon book and a Colonel Gore story For Sale at £12 (approx $24) *B7 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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THE PERSON TO WHOM THAT LETTER had been begun sat just then at a table at the Ritz, smiling across the debris of dessert at—as no doubt she was perfectly aware—the prettiest and smartest young woman in a roomful of decorative femininity. Through the smoke of his cigarette he noted the fact with entire satisfaction, if without the least admixture of self-complacency. Pickles was thirty-five—more than half-way towards thirty-six. She looked . . . what? Not a day older than twenty, despite seven years of matrimony . . . and Simon Wyckham. Not a line, not a wrinkle In that delicious skin. No sign of tarnish in the gold of that imperious little head. No tiniest possible suspicion of that double chin which ... as he had known since her pigtail days—had always been the most dreaded of all possible evil chances that life might hold for her. And, best of all, no dulling of the keen tempered spirit that was 'Pickles.' Still the little witch of— Lord, how many years ago since he had first, fallen in love with her—in the very first vacation of his Harrow days. Still one eyebrow a little higher than the other when she smiled. |
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