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The Blackheath Poisonings
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Product Description: The Collard and Vandervent families for decades have shared a large estate in the elegant London suburb of Blackheath. It's the 1890s and the families' near-incestuous entanglement has grown into a toxic web of lies and bitterness...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781933397160 | Felony & Mayhem, December 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Collard and Vandervent families for decades have shared a large estate in the elegant London suburb of Blackheath.

The Gigantic Shadow
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Product Description: Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions. But when the tables were turned and he found himself being asked about his own rather murky past, he wasn’t quite so sure of himself...read more
By Julian Symons
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9780745164380 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1993), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions.
9780862207298 | Large print edition (Prescott Pr, June 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions.

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9781842329207 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions.

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
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Product Description: Over 400,000 copies sold!If you are a mystery buff, an Agatha Christie fan, an occasional Christie reader or an acquaintance of any of the above, this book is for you and all your fortunate friendsThe Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, on the 25th anniversary of Agatha Christie's death, continues as a grand salute to the queen of mysteries...read more
By Pam McAllister (editor), Dick Riley (editor) and Julian Symons (editor)
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9781567315622 | 2 edition (Mjf Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Over 400,000 copies sold!

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9780826413758 | 2 revised edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Over 400,000 copies sold!

Horatio Bottomley
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Product Description: Horatio Bottomley was one of the most flamboyant characters of the twentieth century. From his inauspicious beginnings as a child in an orphanage, he made a series of extremely shrewd financial investments, went on to achieve Parliamentary success, and was reputed to have a mind to equal the finest legal brains in the country...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329337 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Horatio Bottomley was one of the most flamboyant characters of the twentieth century.

The Immaterial Murder Case
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Product Description: American-born John Wilson and his troop of distinguished friends were well known in the fashionable parts of London. And at their social gatherings the very latest fad was ‘Immaterialism’, and the quest for the perfect immaterial work of art – but what they hadn’t expected to find was the perfect immaterial murder...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329122 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: American-born John Wilson and his troop of distinguished friends were well known in the fashionable parts of London.

Colour of Murder
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Product Description: John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life. So when he met a beautiful, irresistible girl his world was turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turned red before his eyes – the colour of murder...read more
By Julian Symons
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9780708917503 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, November 1, 1978), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life.

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9781842329191, titled "The Colour of Murder" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life.

Bland Beginning
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Product Description: A purchase at a second-hand bookshop seems an innocent enough event. Tony Shelton hadn’t expected it to be anything but that – and he certainly hadn’t expected it to throw him head first into the world of violence, blackmail and robbery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Julian Symons
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9781842329146 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A purchase at a second-hand bookshop seems an innocent enough event.
9780881843378 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Tony Shelton buys a rare book of poems at an auction as a gift for his fiance but finds himself caught in a tangle of forgery claims, robbery, and murder

The Paper Chase
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Product Description: Crime-writer Charles Applegate decided to set his second novel in a progressive school. Taking a job at Bramley Hall to see what such a school was like ‘from the inside,’ Applegate found to his dismay that he was expected to do rather more than just people-watch...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329184 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Crime-writer Charles Applegate decided to set his second novel in a progressive school.

The Progress of a Crime
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By Julian Symons
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9781842329214 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95

The Belting Inheritance
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Product Description: When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house. Claiming his so-called ‘rightful inheritance’ the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems amongst the family – but why were so many of them turning up dead...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329276 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When a stranger arrives at Belting, he is met with a very mixed reception by the occupants of the old house.

England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition
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Product Description: General Gordon, charged with the task of defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death on 26 January 1885 when the Mahdi’s forces took the town by storm. Two days later, the Expeditionary force arrived to relieve Gordon but found the town firmly in the hands of the Mahdi...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329375 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: General Gordon, charged with the task of defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death on 26 January 1885 when the Mahdi’s forces took the town by storm.

The Thirties: A Dream Revolved
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Product Description: Julian Symons here presents a unique view of the 1930s. Rejecting the standard historical line, he instead examines the decade as an artistic movement using sources as diverse as the 'Communist Daily Worker' and the 'Fascist Action', together with a wealth of contemporary prose and poetry...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329320 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Julian Symons here presents a unique view of the 1930s.

The Man Who Lost His Wife
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Product Description: Gilbert Welton’s life changed one breakfast time – his wife, Virginia, announced she was leaving him. Perhaps not the expected beginning of a comedy, but Symons employs his customary skill and brilliant wit to reveal the funny side of the tale...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781850893721 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A book publisher's search for his missing wife leads him to Yugoslavia

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9781842329269 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Gilbert Welton’s life changed one breakfast time – his wife, Virginia, announced she was leaving him.

The Broken Penny
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Product Description: An Eastern-block country, shaped like a broken penny, was being torn apart by warring resistance movements. Only one man could unite the hostile factions – Professor Jacob Arbitzer. Arbitzer, smuggled into the country by Charles Garden during the Second World War, has risen to become president, only to have to be smuggled out again when the communists gained control...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329160 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An Eastern-block country, shaped like a broken penny, was being torn apart by warring resistance movements.
9780881843880 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Charles Garden, a young British agent, is selected to spirit behind the Iron Curtain the one leader who can bring stability to Rurtania, a nation beset by revolutionary forces

The Man Whose Dream Came True
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Product Description: A likeable but rather hapless young man decides he’s tired of small-time games and attempts to break into the big league. However, he finds himself woefully out of his depth and ends up caught out in an ingenious back-firing murder conspiracy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Julian Symons
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9781842329252 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A likeable but rather hapless young man decides he’s tired of small-time games and attempts to break into the big league.

The 31st of February
A British advertising executive is smug and secure in the knowledge that his murder of his wife has been ruled accidental--until frightening reminders of his act begin to appear in his office
By Julian Symons
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9781842329153 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95
9780881843170 | Reissue edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A British advertising executive is smug and secure in the knowledge that his murder of his wife has been ruled accidental--until frightening reminders of his act begin to appear in his office

Thomas Carlyle: The Life and Ideas of a Prophet
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By Julian Symons
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9780836954883 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1952, cover price $20.95

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9781842329368 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95

The Narrowing Circle
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Product Description: Dave Nelson was fiercely ambitious. First in line for the top job on a magazine, he had every right to feel lucky. So when Willie Strayte was offered the job instead, and then turned up dead twenty-four hours later and everyone pointed the finger at Dave, he felt his luck had run out...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329177 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dave Nelson was fiercely ambitious.
9780140093643 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1987, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When Willie Strayte is murdered the day after he was made editor of a crime magazine, the police suspect Dave Nelson, who was passed over for the job and must now try to prove he's not the killer

Buller's Campaign
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Product Description: Buller’s Campaign is a powerful and invaluable reassessment of the life of General Buller and of the part he played in British military history. Beginning with his struggle for the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army in 1895, it goes on to portray his role in the Boer War, and on its path, reveals many of the Victorian Imperialist attitudes of the day...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329344, titled "Buller's Campaign" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Buller’s Campaign is a powerful and invaluable reassessment of the life of General Buller and of the part he played in British military history.

The Man Who Killed Himself
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Product Description: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Whatever he does, it always seems to go more than a little awry. The same could be said for the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds...read more
By Julian Symons
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9780754037415 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 1999), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right.
9780745186849 | Black Dagger Crime, June 1, 1997, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right.

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9781842329245 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right.
9780783885865 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1999), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right.
9780754037422 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 1999), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right.
9780140041439 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: After meeting young and attractive Patricia Parker, Arthur Brownjohn, having been long-suffering long enough, decides to kill his domineering life

The General Strike
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Product Description: In May 1926, Britain was gripped by what became known as the General Strike. This downing of tools lasted for nine days, during which time it divided the people, threatened the survival of the government of the day and brought the country nearer to revolution that it perhaps had ever been...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329313 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In May 1926, Britain was gripped by what became known as the General Strike.

The Players and the Game
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Product Description: ‘Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker. What will they do together? The vampire you’d hate to love, sinister and debonair, sinks those eye teeth into Bonnie’s succulent throat.’ Is this the beginning of a sadistic relationship or simply an extract from a psychopath’s diary? Either way it marks the beginning of a dangerous game that is destined to end in chilling terror and bloody murder...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329283 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: ‘Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker.
9780140038088 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Exposes the follies of human nature in this crime tale about a man caught up in the pressures of the business world

The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allen Poe
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Product Description: This biography strips away the myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, and provides a completely fresh assessment of both the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him - a man struggling to make a living out of hack journalism and striving to find a backer for his new magazine, and a man whose life was beset by so many tragedies that he was often driven to excessive drinking and a string of unhealthy relationships...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329351 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This biography strips away the myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, and provides a completely fresh assessment of both the man and his work.

The End of Solomon Grundy
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Product Description: When a girl turns up dead in a Mayfair mews, the police want to write it off as just another murdered prostitute, but Superintendent Manners isn’t quite so sure. He is convinced that the key to the crime lies in 'The Dell' – an affluent suburban housing estate...read more
By Julian Symons
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9780754085218 | Unabridged edition (Black Dagger Crime, July 1, 1998), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: When a girl turns up dead in a Mayfair mews, the police want to write it off as just another murdered prostitute, but Superintendent Manners isn’t quite so sure.

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9781842329238 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When a girl turns up dead in a Mayfair mews, the police want to write it off as just another murdered prostitute, but Superintendent Manners isn’t quite so sure.

The Plot Against Rodger Rider
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Product Description: Roger Rider and Geoffrey Paradine had known each other since childhood. Roger was the intelligent, good-looking, successful one and Geoffrey was the one everyone else picked on. When years of suppressed anger, jealousy and frustration finally surfaced, Geoffrey took his revenge by sleeping with Roger’s beautiful wife...read more
By Julian Symons
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9781842329290 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Roger Rider and Geoffrey Paradine had known each other since childhood.

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