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The Principals: A Satire on University Life

Product Description: “A droll, delightful, skillfully written piece of academic satire”Booklist Starred Review This sharply satirical novel concerns a battle royal between two academic institutions and their principals. England, 1987. It’s all-out war...read more

By Bill James

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9780727886422 | Severn House Pub Ltd, November 1, 2016, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: “A droll, delightful, skillfully written piece of academic satire”Booklist Starred Review This sharply satirical novel concerns a battle royal between two academic institutions and their principals.

Blaze Away: A British Police Procedural

By Bill James

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9780727870667 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, January 30, 2016), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealing Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer.

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9781780295558 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, August 1, 2016), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealing Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer.

First Fix Your Alibi: British Police Procedural

Product Description: When a major drugs dealer seeks vengeance for the death of his family, policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent a bloodbathFollowing the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance – and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him...read more

By Bill James

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9781780290829 | Sew edition (Creme De LA Crime, April 1, 2016), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When a major drugs dealer seeks vengeance for the death of his family, policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent a bloodbathFollowing the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance – and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him.

Disclosures

Product Description: Panicking Ralph is a big-time villain – but he’s a local villain – and when his life is threatened, policemen Harpur and Iles are straight on the caseDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph...read more

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9780727872463 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, July 31, 2015), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Panicking Ralph is a big-time villain – but he’s a local villain – and when his life is threatened, policemen Harpur and Iles are straight on the caseDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph.

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9781780295480 | Severn House Pub Ltd, January 1, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Panicking Ralph is a big-time villain – but he’s a local villain – and when his life is threatened, policemen Harpur and Iles are straight on the caseDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph.

The Bill James Handbook 2016: Baseball Info Solutions

By Bill James

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9780879465452 | Acta Pubns, October 31, 2015, cover price $28.95

Blaze Away: A Harpur & Isles British Police Procedural

Product Description: Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealingDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with – might be the greatest informant any police officer has ever dealt with – and although Jack ended this arrangement some time ago, Harpur still feels indebted to him...read more

By Bill James

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9781780290720 | Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2015, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealingDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer.

Snatched: A British Black Comedy

By Bill James

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9780727897640 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, February 27, 2015), cover price $32.95

9780727883797 | Sew edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, July 1, 2014), cover price $28.95

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9781847515117 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2015), cover price $17.95

Noose

Product Description: The past is an inescapable noose around a young man’s neck, in this blackly comic, satirical novel from renowned crime writer Bill JamesBritain, 1956. A young actress seemingly tries to commit suicide over a tangled love affair, but is taken to hospital and her life saved...read more

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9780727896858 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 30, 2014), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The past is an inescapable noose around a young man’s neck, in this blackly comic, satirical novel from renowned crime writer Bill JamesBritain, 1956.

9780727883186 | Severn House Pub Ltd, December 1, 2013, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The past is an inescapable noose around a young man’s neck, in this blackly comic, satirical novel from renowned crime writer Bill JamesBritain, 1956.

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9781847514899 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, December 1, 2014), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The past is an inescapable noose around a young man’s neck, in this blackly comic, satirical novel from renowned crime writer Bill JamesBritain, 1956.

Disclosures: A Harpur & Isles British Police Procedural

By Bill James

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9781780290652 | Creme De LA Crime, December 1, 2014, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Panicking Ralph is a big-time villain – but he’s a local villain – and when his life is threatened, policemen Harpur and Iles are straight on the caseDetective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, worry about the safety of one of the big-time crooks on their ground, Ralph Ember, sometimes known as Panicking Ralph.

The Bill James Handbook 2015: Baseball Info Solutions

By Bill James

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9780879465261 | Acta Pubns, November 1, 2014, cover price $28.95

9780385314411, titled "Gmat All-In-One Test Prep Plus Business School Admissions/95-96/Book and Disk" | Pap/dis edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | also contains Gmat All-In-One Test Prep Plus Business School Admissions/95-96/Book and Disk

Play Dead

Product Description: Good detective work allowed the pair to arrest and charge a fellow policeman, who murdered an undercover officer in an attempt to keep a crook–police racket secret. But their work is not yet done. Who ordered the execution? Why? Just how high did the conspiracy go? And – and most importantly – does the crooked power group behind the assassin still flourish?There are questions that remain to be answered – so when the home office decides to reopen the case, it is Harpur and Iles to whom the investigation is once more handed...read more

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9781780290430 | Sew edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2013), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Good detective work allowed the pair to arrest and charge a fellow policeman, who murdered an undercover officer in an attempt to keep a crook–police racket secret.

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9781780295381 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2014), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Good detective work allowed the pair to arrest and charge a fellow policeman, who murdered an undercover officer in an attempt to keep a crook–police racket secret.

Undercover

Product Description: After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force’s ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings. Harpur can imagine the pressure the officer would have been under...read more

By Bill James

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9780727896575 | Sew lrg edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, January 31, 2014), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force’s ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings.

9781780290287 | Severn House Pub Ltd, October 1, 2012, cover price $27.95

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9781780295312 | Severn House Pub Ltd, May 1, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force’s ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings.

The Bill James Handbook 2014

By Bill James

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9780879465131 | Acta Pubns, November 1, 2013, cover price $26.95

Vacuum

Product Description: A Harpur and Iles police procedural from master crime writer Bill JamesAfter the dreadful business when his son and wife were shot, Mansel Shale has turned to God – leaving DCS Colin Harpur with a potential problem. Instead of keeping a grip on his profitable drugs empire, Shale has abandoned that sphere of commerce, leaving his business in the hands of an inexperienced assistant who is reputed to occasionally hallucinate about the Spanish Civil War...read more

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9780727899750 | Lrg rep edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, March 28, 2013), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A Harpur and Iles police procedural from master crime writer Bill JamesAfter the dreadful business when his son and wife were shot, Mansel Shale has turned to God – leaving DCS Colin Harpur with a potential problem.

9781780290126 | Severn House Pub Ltd, November 1, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The brand-new Harpur and Iles police procedural from master crime writer Bill James - After the dreadful business when his son and wife were shot, Mansel Shale has turned to God – leaving DCS Colin Harpur with a potential problem.

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9781780295121 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The brand-new Harpur and Iles police procedural from master crime writer Bill James - After the dreadful business when his son and wife were shot, Mansel Shale has turned to God – leaving DCS Colin Harpur with a potential problem.

The Bill James Handbook 2013

By Bill James (contributor)

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9780879464967 | Acta Pubns, November 1, 2012, cover price $26.95

By Bill James

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9781410439666 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 24, 2011), cover price $31.99

9781416552734 | Scribner, May 3, 2011, cover price $30.00

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9781416552741 | Scribner, May 8, 2012, cover price $18.00

Miscellaneous:

9781439182727 | Scribner, May 3, 2011, cover price $14.99

World War Two Will Not Take Place

Product Description: Set during an alternative version of 1938 with Bill James’ trademark satirical take on events - England,1938. War looms, but the Prime minister’s talks with Hitler in Munich seem to result in a pact of peace. Now Mount, a secret service officer, is sent on an undercover mission to Berlin...read more

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9780727898289 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, May 31, 2012), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Set during an alternative version of 1938 with Bill James’ trademark satirical take on events - England,1938.

9780727880031 | Severn House Pub Ltd, May 1, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Set during an alternative version of 1938 with Bill James’ trademark satirical take on events - England,1938.

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9781847513304 | Severn House Pub Ltd, October 1, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Set during an alternative version of 1938 with Bill James’ trademark satirical take on events - England,1938.

Full of Money

Product Description: Part social satire, part police procedural, Bill James returns with the stunning prequel to Tip Top - In the drug-ridden Whitsun and Temperate housing estates a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble. Trouble for the journalist whose investigation into the estates leads to his murder; trouble for policewoman Esther Davidson, whose job it is to arrest the killer; and trouble for TV producer Larry Edgehill, who becomes more involved with a Romeo and Juliet-esque cross-estate romance than he ever would have wanted ...read more

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9780727879509 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, September 29, 2011), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Part social satire, part police procedural, Bill James returns with the stunning prequel to Tip Top - In the drug-ridden Whitsun and Temperate housing estates a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble.

9780727868138 | Severn House Pub Ltd, December 1, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Part social satire, part police procedural, Bill James returns with the stunning prequel to Tip Top - In the drug-ridden Whitsun and Temperate housing estates a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble.

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9781847511775 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, September 1, 2010), cover price $15.95

Hotbed: A Harpur & Iles Mystery

Product Description: Who gets hurt when the bad guys cross paths? For years drug baron Ralph Ember has run his crooked enterprises peacefully enough alongside those of his rival, Mansel Shale. Their empires have been tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets...read more

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9780881509502 | Countryman Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Who gets hurt when the bad guys cross paths?

Off-street Parking

Product Description: A new mystery from this bestselling author - DC Sharon Mayfield is on routine surveillance when she spots a dead man in a car. The cars locks are sealed with superglue and Claude Huddarts face has been mutilated. As with most murders, theres a puzzle to be solved, but the pieces dont fit...read more

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9780727878830 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, November 25, 2010), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A new mystery from this bestselling author - DC Sharon Mayfield is on routine surveillance when she spots a dead man in a car.

9780727866912 | Severn House Pub Ltd, March 1, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A new mystery from this bestselling author - DC Sharon Mayfield is on routine surveillance when she spots a dead man in a car.

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9781847511058 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, October 1, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new mystery from this bestselling author - DC Sharon Mayfield is on routine surveillance when she spots a dead man in a car.

I Am Gold

Product Description: The 27th installment in the popular Harpur & Iles series. A woman and her stepson are gunned down while driving to school on a quiet residential street. An former bodyguard kills himself by firing two pistols simultaneously. Was the killer really aft er the woman’s husband, the notorious drug baron Mansel Shale? And what possible connection could Shale’s collection of pre-Raphaelite works of art have to the killings? Nothing in Bill James’s latest Harpur & Iles thriller is as it seems...read more

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9780881509519 | 1 edition (Countryman Pr, December 5, 2011), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The 27th installment in the popular Harpur & Iles series.

9781849014915 | Gardners Books, November 2, 2010, cover price $29.55 | About this edition: A street shooting which leaves a mother and child dead on the school run.

The Care and Feeding of a Sucks.com: Build Your Own Personal Protest Website Legally

By Bill James

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9781456476830 | Rev exp edition (Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2010), cover price $5.95

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

An thoroughly revised and updated analysis of the history of baseball encompasses illuminating commentary on everything from spring training, to the seventh game of the World Series, to the key players and teams as it provides a decade-by-decade chronicle of baseball, record-breaking achievements, and rankings of the greatest managers and players in each position. 100,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Bill James

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9780684806976 | Free Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers a decade-by-decade look at baseball history, record-breaking achievements, rankings of the greatest players in each position, and essays on a host of baseball topics.

Letters from Carthage

Product Description: A fresh and original take on a mystery within a mystery - Fresh from the inner city, Vince and Kate are new to the suburbia of Tabbett Drive, delighted to have accessed this middle-class paradise. They’ve even found the neighbours remarkably friendly – Jill and Dennis Seagrave seem particularly affable...read more

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9780727878250 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, March 1, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A fresh and original take on a mystery within a mystery - Fresh from the inner city, Vince and Kate are new to the suburbia of Tabbett Drive, delighted to have accessed this middle-class paradise.

9780727864604 | Severn House Pub Ltd, March 1, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Moving from the city to the suburbs, Vince and Kate become enamored with their neighbors, Jill and Dennis Seagrave, but slowly begin to realize that their new friends may be harboring some dark secrets.

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9780727891921 | Severn House Pub Ltd, April 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A fresh and original take on a mystery within a mystery - Fresh from the inner city, Vince and Kate are new to the suburbia of Tabbett Drive, delighted to have accessed this middle-class paradise.

The Sixth Man and Other Stories

Product Description: An anthology featuring previously unpublished Harpur and Iles stories - All is not well in the underworld . . . With three entirely new Harpur and Iles stories, three more never before published together, plus a spicy little interlude with some crooks from the series and a fistful of other tales from the seamier side of life, this anthology is a must-read for fans of Bill Jamess dark, gritty thrillers...read more

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9780727877918 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, October 1, 2009), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: An anthology featuring previously unpublished Harpur and Iles stories - All is not well in the underworld .

9780727864383 | Severn House Pub Ltd, October 1, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: With two entirely new Harpur and Iles stories, three more never-before-published together, plus a spicy little interlude with some crooks from the series and a fistful of other tales from the seamier side of life, this anthology is a must-read for fans of Bill James's dark, gritty thrillers.

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9780727891815 | Severn House Pub Ltd, July 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology featuring previously unpublished Harpur and Iles stories.

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