Appleby talking (16 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Etat : good. Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in Good condition! Any other included accessories are also in Good condition showing use. Use can include some highlighting and writing, page and cover creases as well as other types visible wear.

Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Good condition paperback pictorial cover, no DJ. 201 pages good and clean, lightly tanned in the margins. No foxing, no previous names. Top edge of front cover rubbed a little.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. paperback, pages browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0140034234.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Some detectives brood. Some punch walls. Some stare moodily into rain and announce they?re ?not good with people.? And then there?s Inspector Appleby , who does something far more unsettling: he talks . Politely. Persistently. With that smooth, reasonable manner that makes you forget you?re being dismantled until you?re already agreeing to things you never meant to admit. Appleby Talking (Michael Innes; House of Stratus , 2001) is exactly the sort of title that feels like a gentle warning. Because yes, Appleby is talking ? and in Michael Innes?s world, conversation is not small talk. It?s a scalpel. It?s a trapdoor. It?s an elegant social dance where the wrong step means you?ve accidentally revealed your entire motive while reaching for the sherry. Michael Innes (a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart) writes detective fiction with a literary twinkle and a quietly wicked sense of humour. The murders may be grim, but the sentences remain impeccably dressed. Expect cleverness, a touch of theatricality, and that particularly British flavour of crime story where everyone is civilized right up until they aren?t. It?s the golden-age tradition with a bit more brain behind the eyebrows: less ?bang, bang? and more ?ah, but consider the implications.? This is a book for readers who like their mysteries talky in the best way ? layered with inference, social nuance, and the sense that language itself is part of the evidence. Appleby is the sort of detective who can make a drawing-room exchange feel like a high-stakes interrogation, purely by letting silence sit in exactly the right place. If you?ve ever suspected that the most dangerous weapon in a room is a well-aimed question, you?re in safe hands. Or? not safe, exactly. But entertained. As a 2001 House of Stratus edition, it?s also a small act of resurrection: bringing back a classic voice for modern readers who still enjoy their crime with elegance, wit, and a faint air of academic mischief. Think: country-house atmosphere without necessarily staying in the country, clever plotting without shouting about it, and characters who sound like they?ve read books ? because they have. Condition: Good ? sturdy, readable, and ready to be enjoyed without white gloves or solemn reverence. ISBN: 9781842327227 . Perfect for lovers of classic British detective fiction, dialogue-driven mysteries, and anyone who prefers their crimes solved with manners, intelligence, and the slow, terrifying power of a man who simply keeps talking. Sold by Crappy Old Books , where the paperbacks are civilised, the suspects are articulate, and the conversation may be your undoing.…

VERY GOOD condition.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, As Issued. 1st Edition. First edition, trade softcover. Published North Yorkshire: House of Stratus, 2001, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 201pp. Fine. Arbuthnot is paying for a rash decision - he recently married a beautiful but slightly amoral girl whose crazy antics caught his rather cynical professional interest. His wife has taken a lover, Rupert Slade, and Arbuthnot wants nothing more than to see him dead - but the last thing he expected was that he'd walk into his living room and find just that! Inspector Appleby shares the details of this and many other fascinating crimes in this un-missable collection.…

First Edition. Short story collection. 1st paperback edition. Pages a little tanned otherwise VG.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Thus. 157 pages 3/6d original price on cover & 1st paperback in this format, light handling otherwise VG. *A mysterious death of Arbuthnot's wife's lover, diamonds missing, all the servants slept, and seem innocent. is it a conspiracy? *Postage will be reduced when ordering.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Four Square Crime paperback first edition 1965 New English Library, good+ copy, very slight tan to edges.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a touch toned to the spine tips and with light marks to the joints. The contents, with a couple of isolated marks to the fore-edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, that is a little toned to the spine and flap edges. Not price-clipped (10/6 net to the lower front flap). Scarce. The author's first detective short fiction collection, comprising 23 stories, all of which feature Detective Inspector John Appleby. (Hubin, p.213). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…