murder basement roger sheringham case de berkeley anthony (7 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

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.

Very Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Trade paperback, published by House of Stratus in 2001. A lovely bright copy throughout, with unmarked contents.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Light wear to the backstrip and edges. Covers lightly soled. Endpapers browned with embossed seal from previous owner. Pages browned. Signature crack at pages 182/183. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 308 pages.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A very good plus copy in the scarce original dust jacket. Handsomely bound in finely woven black cloth stamped brightly in orange lettering on the front boards and on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout. Slight spine slant. With a name stamped on the front paste-down. In well worn dust jacket featuring a photograph of the girl in the basement with heavy chipping at the top and bottom of the spine ends; chips at the corners and one v-shaped chip at the top of the rear panel. Uncommon in dust jacket. Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. His first novel, The Layton Court Mystery, was published anonymously in 1925. It introduced Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective who features in many of the author's novels including the classic Poisoned Chocolates Case. In 1930, Berkeley founded the Detection Club in London along with Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts and other established mystery writers. His 1932 novel (as "Francis Iles"), Before the Fact was adapted into the 1941 classic film Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Trial and Error was turned into the unusual 1941 film Flight from Destiny starring Thomas Mitchell. He was a friend of E.M. Delafield and they each dedicated a book to the other (Jill and The Wychford Poisoning Case). She gently ragged him in her Provincial Lady Goes Further by having people tell her that "Francis Iles" is really Aldous Huxley or Edith Sitwell. The opening sentence of Malice Aforethought has been described as "immortal":[7] "It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Doctor Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter."In 1938, he took up book reviewing for John O'London's Weekly and The Daily Telegraph, writing under his pen name Francis Iles. He also wrote for the Sunday Times in the 1940s and for the Manchester Guardian, later The Guardian, from the mid-1950s until 1970. A key figure in the development of crime fiction, he died in 1971 in St John's Wood, London. His estate was valued at £196,917 (£2,321,878 in 2023). (Wikipedia) First edition with matching dates of 1928 on the title and copyright pages; and the "First Edition" slug on the copyright page.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Roger Sheringham investigates when the body of a woman is found buried under a basement floor, nude but for a pair of gloves. First edition stated. Bumped with light wear at the corners and spine ends, spine very slightly sunned. Previous owner's name and address stamped on the front pastedown, binding square and solid. Jacket lightly rubbed with small chips and tears, price intact, in Brodart.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Some age toning to the endpapers, 3 finger marks to rear cover cloth, VERY GOOD, clean and free of any former owner marking. Dust wrapper with paper tape reinforcements to both flap folds on verso, separation along front flap, shallow chipping at spine ends. Presents well in supplied archival protector. Photos on request.