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The Makeover Murders – Jennifer Rowe

First edition published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Octavo, 258 pages in fine condition. Plan of “Deepdene” the Makeover Mansion to assist in the various goings on.

The author, Jennifer Rowe, Australia’s very own Agatha Christie. Women pay thousands to experience the delights of the make-over … but all is not what it seems to be …

Murder and make-over at the Mansion.

$25.00

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The Short Stories of John Steinbeck – Steinbeck

A 1958 edition of Stenbeck’s collection of his very best short stories.

Published by Heinemann, London, Octavo 568 pages in all. Very good condition bar the jacket spine is light faded as usual

The jacket gives a clue … includes these delights … Tortilla Flat; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony; The Moon is Down; Cannery Row and The Pearl.

Steinbeck Feast – six of the best.

$35.00

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The Doomed Oasis (A Novel of Arabia) – Hammond Innes

Hammond Innes a master of the thriller.

First published 1960, this is the 1962 Readers Book Club edition which we prefer for its more evocative dust jacket.

Octavo, 286 pages, very good condition.

Set in Arabia a ex British Army Colonel has taken to Arab life. His son a wayward lad from Cardiff flees trouble to the same locale to be a geologist. Accused of murdering his father things get a bit hot under the Arabian Sun. Packed with action among the sand dunes.

Hammond Innes and Adventure and Thrills in the Desert

$25.00

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Maigret Victorious – Georges Simenon – First Collection 1975

Published by the Book Club with arrangement with Hamish Hamilton, a first of type 1975.

Octavo, 281 pages all in excellent condition.

Three on a plate – Maigret’s Memoirs (better than most); the Headless Corpse (A Voyager favourite) and Maigret and the Saturday Caller.

Maigret trifecta – get your pipe lit!

$30.00

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Three Beds in Manhattan – Georges Simenon – First English Edition

Published by Hamish Hamilton London, a first English edition 1976. Translated from the French by Lawrence G. Blochman.

Octavo, 186 pages, fine dust jacket, all in super condition.

Two lonely people meet in Greenwich Village and a night filled with drink propels them into intimacy but they may be too afraid to believe a new life might have begun. Reality that is Simenon.

The sensitive side of Simenon

$30.00

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The Man Who Was Murdered Twice – Leitfred – First Edition 1932

Published by Green Circle books, New York first edition 1932.

Octavo, 255 pages in excellent condition bar some dust jacket chips. Classic period dust jacket design …. Well better than that!

Author Robert Leitfred had also penned “The Corpse that Spoke” so this is not the first time he has tackled life after death.

A wealthy playboy returns home to find he has been swindled out of his inheritance. The swindler dies in a car crash … but has he? … fast moving drama 1930’s style

Double the suspense with “twice murdered”

$60.00

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