Kelly, Susan B.
Cold blood / Susan Kelly
Kelly, Susan B.
- Publisher: London : Allison & Busby
- Date published: 2003
- Format: Hardcover
Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; A Superintendent Gregory Summers mystery. Physical description: 276 p. ; 22 cm. Summary: The eminent defence lawyer Sir John Hathaway has decided to retire after the successful conclusion of his most high profile case to date. Newsreader Devon Bliss was murdered in the prime of her life; it was a crime that shocked the nation. Despite the police and the tabloid press' conviction that loner Graham Scobie was the guilty party, Hathaway persuades the court that the evidence is purely circumstantial and Scobie walks away from the trial a free man. His career behind him, Hathaway and his family settle in the small village of Lambourn near Newbury. Soon the family becomes the target of vandalism and Sir John starts receiving death threats, so DI Gregory Summers is called in to investigate. He discovers that Scobie has also recently moved to the area, but would he really threaten the man who saved him from prison? And why is the infamous tabloid journalist Reuben ap Morgan sniffing around the area? The latest in a series featuring Newbury CID's Gregory Summers, Cold Blood is a fascinating exploration of justice, punishment and redemption. Genre: Fiction -- Detective and mystery stories. 1 Kg.
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Kelly, Susan B.
Cold blood / Susan Kelly
Kelly, Susan B.
- Publisher: London : Allison & Busby
- Date published: 2003
- Format: Hardcover
Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; A Superintendent Gregory Summers mystery. Physical description: 276 p. ; 22 cm. Summary: The eminent defence lawyer Sir John Hathaway has decided to retire after the successful conclusion of his most high profile case to date. Newsreader Devon Bliss was murdered in the prime of her life; it was a crime that shocked the nation. Despite the police and the tabloid press' conviction that loner Graham Scobie was the guilty party, Hathaway persuades the court that the evidence is purely circumstantial and Scobie walks away from the trial a free man. His career behind him, Hathaway and his family settle in the small village of Lambourn near Newbury. Soon the family becomes the target of vandalism and Sir John starts receiving death threats, so DI Gregory Summers is called in to investigate. He discovers that Scobie has also recently moved to the area, but would he really threaten the man who saved him from prison? And why is the infamous tabloid journalist Reuben ap Morgan sniffing around the area? The latest in a series featuring Newbury CID's Gregory Summers, Cold Blood is a fascinating exploration of justice, punishment and redemption. Genre: Fiction -- Detective and mystery stories. 1 Kg.
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ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1952 ALL 12 ISSUES; THE CURRENTS OF SPACE, THAT SHARE OF GLORY & GUNNER CADE, TELEK, FIREWATER, DUMB WAITER & BLOOD BANK & COLD AWAKENING & NO MOON FOR ME & THE BIG HUNGER, NOISE LEVEL, BLOOD'S A ROVER & STARDUST
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION / John W. Campbell, Asimov, Isaac, Cyril Kornbluth, Jack Vance, Damon Knight, Lester Del Rey, William Tenn, James Blish, Gordon Dickson, Judith Merril, Jack Williamson, Walter M. Miller, Raymond F. Jones, Chad Oliver, Eric Frank Russell, Mark Clifton, Donald Kingsbury, Willy Ley, Michael Shaara, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Frank Kelly Freas, Ed Emshwiler, H.R. van Dongen
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1952 ALL 12 ISSUES; THE CURRENTS OF SPACE, THAT SHARE OF GLORY & GUNNER CADE, TELEK, FIREWATER, DUMB WAITER & BLOOD BANK & COLD AWAKENING & NO MOON FOR ME & THE BIG HUNGER, NOISE LEVEL, BLOOD'S A ROVER & STARDUST
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION / John W. Campbell, Asimov, Isaac, Cyril Kornbluth, Jack Vance, Damon Knight, Lester Del Rey, William Tenn, James Blish, Gordon Dickson, Judith Merril, Jack Williamson, Walter M. Miller, Raymond F. Jones, Chad Oliver, Eric Frank Russell, Mark Clifton, Donald Kingsbury, Willy Ley, Michael Shaara, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Frank Kelly Freas, Ed Emshwiler, H.R. van Dongen
- Publisher: Astounding / Street & Smith
- Date published: 1952
- Format: Softcover
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1952 ALL 12 ISSUES, Street & Smith, first edition, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: Isaac Asimov (THE CURRENTS OF SPACE), Cyril Kornbluth (THAT SHARE OF GLORY & GUNNER CADE), Jack Vance (TELEK), Damon Knight, Lester Del Rey, William Tenn (FIREWATER), James Blish, Gordon Dickson, Judith Merril, Jack Williamson (MAN DOWN), Walter M. Miller (DUMB WAITER & BLOOD BANK & COLD AWAKENING & NO MOON FOR ME & THE BIG HUNGER), Raymond F. Jones (NOISE LEVEL), Chad Oliver (BLOOD'S A ROVER & STARDUST), Eric Frank Russell (LAST BLAST), Mark Clifton, Donald Kingsbury (his first professional appearance), Willy Ley, Michael Shaara, A. Bertram Chandler, Robert Sheckley, Fredric Brown, Frank Kelly Freas, Ed Emshwiler, H.R. van Dongen, et. al.
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