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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

Agatha Christie: The Art of Her Crime

Product Description: Everest House, 1981, As new., Bright, clean, tight, in dust jacket. Color illustrations. [Art, Tom Adams, Cover Paintings, Agatha Christie] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

By Julian Symons

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9780896961449 | Everest House, November 1, 1981, cover price $5.98 | About this edition: Everest House, 1981, As new.

A.J.A. Symons, His Life and Speculations

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By Julian Symons

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9780192819161 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $5.70 | About this edition: VERY-GOOD TRADE-PAPERBACK

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

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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Hardcover:

9781567315622 | 2 edition (Mjf Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Over 400,000 copies sold!

Paperback:

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

The Belting Inheritance

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 ârightful inheritanceâ the stranger makes plans to take up residence at once. Such a thing was bound to cause problems amongst the family â 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.

The Blackheath Poisonings

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 Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery

Product Description: A novel written by the author of "The Plot against Roger Rider" and "Death's Darkest Face".

By Julian Symons

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9780060142117 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A sinister web of blackmail, adultery, and poisoning is uncovered after Beatrice's husband suddenly becomes sick and dies and her mother, the heiress of Albert House, develops the same mysterious symptoms

Paperback:

9780140051711 | Penguin USA, March 27, 1980, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A novel written by the author of "The Plot against Roger Rider" and "Death's Darkest Face".

9780140230666 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1980), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The descendants of Charles Mortimer, the Collards and the Vandervents, share two mansions on Blackheath.

Bland Beginning

Product Description: A purchase at a second-hand bookshop seems an innocent enough event. Tony Shelton hadnât expected it to be anything but that â and he certainly hadnât 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

Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel

A look at the genre of detective fiction features reviews of every sort of book within the genre--from detective work to thriller to psychological crime novel--letting readers know what is good, commonplace, and poor.

By Julian Symons

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9780892964963 | 3 rev sub edition (Mysterious Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: Reviews every sort of book within the genre of detective fiction, from detective work to thriller to psychological crime novel, letting readers know what is good, commonplace, and poor

Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel : A History

This history of the various forms and masters of the mystery genre follows the trail through the first pinnacle of detection in the Master Detective stories of the 1930s up to the present

By Julian Symons

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9780670800964 | Upd rev su edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1985), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This history of the various forms and masters of the mystery genre follows the trail through the first pinnacle of detection in the Master Detective stories of the 1930s up to the present

Bogue's Fortune

Product Description: To research a new detective story, Charles Applegate takes a post in a progressive school of misfits, set deep in the English countryside. The game turns serious when a fellow teacher is murdered and a weird variety of criminals seem convinced that Charles has something they want...read more

By Julian Symons

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9780881844238 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, February 14, 1993), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: To research a new detective story, Charles Applegate takes a post in a progressive school of misfits, set deep in the English countryside.

The Broken Penny

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 â 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

Buller's Campaign

Product Description: Bullerâs 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: Bullerâs Campaign is a powerful and invaluable reassessment of the life of General Buller and of the part he played in British military history.

Charles Dickens

Product Description: The romance of Charles Dickens's novels.

By Julian Symons

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Hardcover:

9780838319796 | Haskell House Pub Ltd, June 1, 1974, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The romance of Charles Dickens's novels.

Color of Murder

Product Description: This two-part dissection is first focussed on the accused as he reveals himself to the consulting psychiatrist, then on his trial and its ramifications

By Julian Symons

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9780060804619 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1978, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: This two-part dissection is first focussed on the accused as he reveals himself to the consulting psychiatrist, then on his trial and its ramifications

Colour for Murder

Product Description: Book by Symons, Julian

By Julian Symons

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9780754085041 | Black Dagger Crime, October 1, 1997, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Book by Symons, Julian

Colour of Murder

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 â 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.

Paperback:

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.

Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist

Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Julian Symons

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9780892962471 | Mysterious Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780892969265 | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Criminal Comedy

Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder

By Julian Symons

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9780670808274 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder

Paperback:

9780140096217 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, October 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | also contains Parking Lot Picker's Songbook: Fiddle Edition | About this edition: Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder

Dashiell Hammett

Depicts the life of Dashiell Hammett, discusses the development of his literary career, and analyzes his detective novels and stories

By Julian Symons

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9780151239504 | Harcourt, March 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Depicts the life of Dashiell Hammett, discusses the development of his literary career, and analyzes his detective novels and stories

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9780156239561 | Harcourt, March 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Depicts the life of Dashiell Hammett, discusses the development of his literary career, and analyzes his detective novels and stories

Death's Darkest Face

Product Description: Geoffrey Elder sets out to uncover the truth about his father, who may have been a murderer and adulterer. His investigations lead him to reconsider his past, in particular a horrific incident from his idealistic youth back in the 1930s...read more

By Julian Symons

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9780816152001, titled "Death's Darkest Face" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Geoffrey Elder, a successful actor, asks for the author's help in clearing up his father's name by solving a decades-old murder

9780670832866, titled "Death's Darkest Face" | Viking Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Geoffrey Elder begs Julian Symons to help clear the name of his father, who was accused of murdering poet Hugo Headley at a summer resort in the Thirties

Paperback:

9780140132632, titled "Death's Darkest Face" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Geoffrey Elder sets out to uncover the truth about his father, who may have been a murderer and adulterer.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816195749, titled "Death's Darkest Face" | Unabridged edition (G K Hall Audio Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $70.95 | About this edition: In 1936 the poet, Hugo Headley, disappeared.

The Detling Murders

By Julian Symons

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9780708910634 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $15.95

The Detling Secret

Rising Liberal M.P. Bernard Ross marries Dolly Detling, against her crusty Tory father's objections, and two sudden deaths and a startling Christmas tragedy shock many a Victorian sensibility

By Julian Symons

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9780670270637 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Rising Liberal M.

9780899190969 | Ticknor & Fields, May 1, 1982, cover price $11.95

Paperback:

9780140064674 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Rising Liberal M.

The End of Solomon Grundy

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 isnât quite so sure. He is convinced that the key to the crime lies in 'The Dell' â 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 isnât quite so sure.

Paperback:

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 isnât quite so sure.

England's Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition

Product Description: General Gordon, charged with the task of defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death on 26 January 1885 when the Mahdiâs 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 Mahdiâs forces took the town by storm.

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