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After the Fine Weather: A Perennial British Mystery

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1988

Seller ID: 006657

ISBN: 0060809353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

173 pp. Gray cloth boards with violet gilt lettering. Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear, corners a little bumped. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ shows a little soiling, minor edgewear and a 1 1/2" tear. Text is clean and unmarked.

"The headstrong young student Laura Hart is visiting her brother Charles, British vice-consul of Lienz in the Tyrol, when she sees something she shouldn't. There has been increasing tension between the Italian locals and the Austrians who control the region, and it looks as through Hofrat Humbold, the leader of the government in...
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Blood and Judgment

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: London, Arrow: 1987

Seller ID: 006207

ISBN: 0060804467

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Top corner a little bumped. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

"Detective Sergeant Petrella of the London police is called in when a woman's partially buried body is found near the reservoir. She has been murdered. She also turns out to be the wife of a criminal who has escaped from prison."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Blood and Judgment

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $5.50

Publisher: New York, Perennial Library: 1978

Seller ID: 006401

ISBN: 0060804467

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine slightly slanted, a little edge wear, pages tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Blood and Judgment

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Perennial Library: 1978

Seller ID: 003909

ISBN: 0060804467

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine somewhat slanted/creased, some edgewear/bumping/scuffing, PO name inside, text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

Death Has Deep Roots

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $9.00

Publisher: London, Hamlyn Paperbacks: 1985

Seller ID: 006210

ISBN: 0099404109

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Spine very slightly slanted. Text stanting to yellow, but clean aand unamrked.

"The girl was young, French, and on trial for murdering a man said to be her ex-lover and the father of her dead child: an English major who had been one of the great heroes of the French Underground Resistance."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Dust and the Heat

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $12.95

Publisher: London, Mysterious Press: 1989

Seller ID: 006213

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

0099598205 Corners slightly bumped. A bright, tight attractive copy.

"The year is 1945. The man is Oliver Nugent, a young Armoured Corps officer seeking a new outlet for his aggressive talents. Soon, he finds a suitable target. On his rise from battlefield to boardroom, Nugent discovers that the tactics for success are remarkably similar. In fifteen years he heads a powerful group of companies. But someone is about to turn the tables - Nugent becomes the victim. And this time the weapon is blackmail."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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End-Game

By: Gilbert, Michael Francis

Price: $4.75

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1983

Seller ID: 004428

ISBN: 0140067493

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners a little bumped; text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

"Financial double-dealings and a sinister network of drug dealers involve Scotland Yard in a most devious and deadly game. Scotland Yard calls its investigation of Randall Blackett's vast financial empire 'Operation Snakes and Ladders,' after the popular children's game. The players here are hardly innocent children, however, and the risks include blackmail, thuggery, fraud - and murder."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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End-Game

By: Gilbert, Michael Francis

Price: $5.50

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1983

Seller ID: 007606

ISBN: 0140067493

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine slightly rolled, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light reading crease. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Fear to Tread

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1978

Seller ID: 003914

ISBN: 0060804580

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spime somewhat slanted/creased, very minor bumping/edgewear, PO name inside. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

"Once you start to follow Mr. Wetherall, headmaster of a London high school, in his one-man war on rime and the black-market, you will find it hard to leave him until victory is his."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Flash Point

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $4.70

Publisher: London, Penguin: 1976

Seller ID: 006403

ISBN: 0140041265

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

First Penguin UK paperback, 206 pp. Spine slanted, a little edge wear and some rubbing to covers. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked.

"Decent but obsessive solicitor tries o expose irregular past of rising politico during run-p to General Election...Security Service plays Dirty Tricks to save Government's face.. Sheer pleasure"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Flash Point

By: Gilbert, Michael Francis

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1974

Seller ID: 006490

ISBN: 0060115181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good+ dust jacket

Ex-library with usual stamps, markings, and pocket. Slight spine slant, minor edge wear, text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in protective wraps, taped to boards, a little edge wear and soiling.

"Decent but obsessive solicitor tries to expose irregular past of rising politico during run-up to General Election...Security Service plays Dirty Tricks to save Government's face.. Sheer pleasure"; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Petrella at Q

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1977

Seller ID: 007765

ISBN: 0060115394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket

Black cloth with gold lettering, 222 pp. A little edge wear and rubbing, spine cracked completely through at pp 92/93. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear and chipping especially at base of spine, price sticker on upper right corner, sunning and darkening. Reading copy.

Patrick Petrella's father was Spanish (so was Patrick's temperament) and his mother was English, but he studied at the American University in Beirut. And on his 21st birthday Patrick joined the Metropolitan Police in London, as a constable, where he rose in the ranks to become Detective Chief Inspector of the South Londo...
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Smallbone Deceased

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1950

Seller ID: 005392

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with all the expected stamps, labels, and pocket. Spine slanted, moderate edge wear and chipping, especially to top and base of spine. Front free end paper (with library pocket) has been taped to pastedown, hinges somewhat weak, some tape residue where jacket was taped to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket is in new Brodart and has moderate edge wear, a little chipping, small paper square with call letters taped to base of spine, some darkening and tape residue. There is a horizontal, nearly closed slit across front cover. A very serviceable copy of this uncommon title.

Smallbone Deceased

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1950

Seller ID: 006573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Corners bumped, a little edge wear, spine slightly cocked, owner's name on front end paper. Pages slightly tanned but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart with minor edge wear and a few small nearly closed tears, spine and back panel sunned, some rubbing. An attractive copy.

"At eleven o'clock this mornng a partner in this firm of solicitors - what's their name - Horniman, Birley an Craine, opened one of their deed boxes. The box was supposed to contain certain papers relating to a trust. What they found was one of the trustees. Name of Smallbone - Marcus Smallbone - ver...
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Smallbone Deceased

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $32.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1950

Seller ID: 006578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

245 pp. Blue boards with red lettering. Ex-library with all the expected stamps, labels, and pocket. Rear free endpaper removed. Spine slightly slanted, moderate edge wear and chipping, especially to top and base of spine and corners. Text has a few light smudges, but is basically light and unmarked. Pastedowns show dampstaining around edges.

Smallbone Deceased

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1988

Seller ID: 006803

ISBN: 0140110771

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Slight spine slant, a little edge wear, light reading crease, owner's inscrip. on front end paper. There is a 1/2" tear from the spine onto the front cover which intrudes well into the text block. Pages lightly tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy except for the tear.

The Black Seraphim

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1985

Seller ID: 007604

ISBN: 0140075631

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, a little edge wear, small crimp inside cover near top of spine (likely from binding). Interior clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

"James Scotland, a young pathologist, has come to Melchester on a much-needed vacation. But amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries. . . and murder. When one of the community's most influential figures dies suddenly (and very publicly), Scotland uncovers some curious alliances among church, state, and big business. Modern forensic pathology, the age-old myst...
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The Crack in the Teacup

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1966

Seller ID: 007764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good+ dust jacket

Ex library with typical stamps, pocket, and markings. Spine cocked, some edge wear and chipping, tape residue. Jacket in protective wraps taped to boards, a little edge wear and rubbing. Pages lightly tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy.

"Anthony Brydon, an appealing young solicitor of somewhat limited experience in respect to both politics and women, first senses something wrong in his pleasant home town in Kent when he sees two teen-aged boys brutally ejected from the town's new recreation center. One boy is hurled into the gutter; the second is held by one m...
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The Danger Within

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $5.25

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1978

Seller ID: 006880

ISBN: 0060804483

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slightly creased and scuffed, corners bumped, minor edge wear, readiing crease, paper lifts at top edge around spine, some rubbing and darkening, store stamps inside cover. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A good reading copy.

"British officers in an Italian POW camp are determined to break out-with the Allied invasion near they may be turned over to the Germans. It is at this point they discover that there is a traitor in their midst..."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Empty House

By: Gilbert, Michael

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1980

Seller ID: 8601

ISBN: 0140051422

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine a bit slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear and scuffing, crease across lower front corner, light reading crease. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. Overall a nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 220 pages;

"A top genetic scientist, his life recently insured for £100,000, plunges over a Devon cliff. Body and car are never recovered.
"Peter Manciple, of the cautious firm of Phelps, King & Troyte, is sent down to Exmoor to investigate"
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