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Double Cross Purposes - Ronald A Knox
1938 UK hardback later edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London A near VG book sadly without dust jacket The book has boarding school inscription and number to endpaper, but no stamps etc Tightly bound and square, light occassional spotting A classic Golden Age English mystery story A solid copy but more for the reader than collector For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide ! |
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Still Dead
1952 UK Pan paperback 1st edition, London A VG book with clean covers and contents, small pull to frint cover No names or inscriptions etc Tightly bound and square A mystery set in Scotland A solid copy For Sale at £5.50 (approx $10) *df1 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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The Three Taps - Ronald Knox
1960 English Penguin paperback first edition, London A VG book sadly with clean covers and contents Inscription to title page Tightly bound and square, couple of marks to covers Miles Bredon and the police look into the death of someone who was heavily insured A solid copy For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) *B9 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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The Footsteps at the Lock - Ronald Knox
1964 UK Penguin paperback edition, London A VG book with clean covers and contents No names or inscriptions etc Tightly bound and square Miles Bredon, the detctive from The Three Taps, looks into a mysterious disappearance A solid copy For Sale at £5.50 (approx $10) *P12 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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THAT'S THE ISLAND." It seemed an eternity since they had left the main road. Main roads, in whatever part of the world you follow them, are much of a muchness, and carry with them at least the illusion of speed. Your landmarks are far apart - hills, rivers, towns, signposts, petrol stations, and the beastlier kind of hotels. The scenery is for your subconsciousness ; all that immediately concerns you is the white ribbon of the road itself, and the milestones clicking past. But these lesser tracks, in the Highlands of Scotland especially, were too full of incident, for all their loneliness, to lull you with the opiate of monotony. Now you would be perched over the steep side of a loch, now buried in a gloom of trees, now diving under unexpected railway-bridges ; droves of sheep interfered with you, and droves of school-children, hardly less inextricable, and still more inexplicable in this lonely country-side. There seemed to be a kirk for every mile, a school for every three miles ; nor did the estate of any landed gentleman let you off without at least three inconspicuous lodges, at each of which a trim notice warned you to make allowances for the owner's habit of sudden egress. The low stone wall which seemed, on either side, to be their unremitting companion gave them glimpses, now of standing crops achieving a late maturity, now of sheep browsing on |
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