Smith Shelley Nancy Bodington (11 results)

Hardcover textured. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VeryGood. 5.5"x8.5" 214 pgs. Gray textured boards. Black embossed letters to spine. Jacket design by Civia Snow. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not X-library, unmarked, unclipped (no price). DJ spine faded and has remnants from another DJ that was stuck to it. Secure ship w/track #. He had only been gone a few minutes. His life was supposed to have been the one that was under threat, his profession making him a target for many, but Edmund Burke returns to his car to find his young lover is the one to have been murdered. The affair will be revealed if he reports the death, so he turns to an old friend for help. The crime is discovered and suddenly it is more than just Burke's reputation at stake. Surely as a Member of the House of Commons he ought to be above suspicion? But a series of clues including with the discovery of the body all seem to point straight to Burke. As witnesses begin to emerge, eager to tell their stories, things start to look even worse for him. One particular man swears Burke is responsible. Is he guilty? He says not. Somebody is lying and the truth needs to be uncovered. A Grave Affair is a chilling thriller that leads you on a twisted path to the truth.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In faking his death it seems they can pull off the perfect crime, until an insurance investigator becomes suspicious. Basis for the 1963 movie The Running Man starring Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick and Alan Bates. Popular Library K48, movie tie in edition with movie stills on the covers. Light wear, pages tanned. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. An older woman takes in a lodger. They dislike each other intensely, but the lodger refuses to leave. "Harrods Library" stamped on the lower rear pastedown, no other library indications. Lightly bumped and rubbed, spine sunned. Binding square and solid. Ex-Library.

Soft cover. Condition: FAIR, Reading Copy. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 429). 192 pages. >>- Smith, Shelley (Pseudonym of Nancy Bodington) - The Woman in the Sea (Esoteric/Mystery; 1st paperback; Nice Woman-in-bed Painted Cover; 'A Woman who wanted everything!);>> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; spine slant; 1" piece missing from bottom of paper spine; 1" x 1/2" piece missing from lower right backcover. staining to interior covers & last page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Reading copy, an ex army library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers in a library binding, page edges marked. 192 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Inspector Trevor investigates the murder of the mother of four young children. Bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the edges, spine sunned. Front hinge a bit loose, pages tanned.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. Paperback, spine so tanned only the pan logo is visible, card covers rubbed, stain to top page fore edges, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 218 pages + 6 pages of publisher's adverts.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 519). 192 pages. >> Smith, Shelley (Pseudonym of Nancy Bodington) - Man with a Calico Face (Mystery; 1st paperback; RARE; Fantastic-violent-Good Girl Art-Painted cover of a beautiful Blonde who has been pushed down a staircase! "Some Women are born to die violently".);>> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; spine slant, spine wear; staining to backcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 429). 192 pages. >>- Smith, Shelley (Pseudonym of Nancy Bodington) - The Woman in the Sea (Esoteric/Mystery; 1st paperback; Nice Woman-in-bed Painted Cover; 'A Woman who wanted everything!);>> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; 1" paper split to bottom of front cover & paper spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 429). 192 pages. >>- Smith, Shelley (Pseudonym of Nancy Bodington) - The Woman in the Sea (Esoteric/Mystery; 1st paperback; Nice Woman-in-bed Painted Cover; 'A Woman who wanted everything!);>>Cover creasing & scuffing; 1/4" piece missing from bottom of paper spine; staining to backcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of thrilling crime novels from the Collins Crime Club. Seven volumes. The Crime Club. This set includes: Mystery at Olympia, 1935. First edition. Scarce. A novel featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who is quick to take up the case when a spectator falls dead with no clear reason at an annual motor show held at London's Olympia. Written by Cecil Street, under the pen name of John Rhode, an British crime fiction novelist and a major in the British Army. Fourfingers, 1939. First edition. Very Scarce. The second in the trilogy of Detective Sergeant Venn and Constable Kither novels. When the body of celebrated author Carla Waterlow is found in a car on Marton Common, it is clear she has been shot through the heart. Before long, two more bodies are discovered and the investigation grows more complex. Written by Alister McAllister, under the pen name of Lynn Brock, an Irish writer known for his mystery novels. Come and Be Killed!, 1946. First edition. Florence Brown was a shy women living close to her sister Phoebe, a confident and attractive actress. Suffering badly from depression, her doctor instructs her to take a "holiday" at a nursing home where she finds herself in the company of Mrs. Jolly. Weeks go by with no trace of Florence, so it is left to Phoebe, with the help of Inspector Johnson, to decipher who the mysterious woman her sister befriended really is. Written by Nancy Hermione Courlander Bodington, under the pen name of Shelley Smith, a British crime novelist. The Megstone Plot, 1956. First edition. Scarce. A gripping suspense novel following a man and his mistress as they weave an intricate plot to make a fortune. Later adapted for film and titled 'A Touch of Larceny.' Written by Paul Winterton, under the pen name Andrew Garve, an English journalist and crime novelist. End of Chapter, 1957. First edition. The twelfth in a series of novels featuring private detective Nigel Strangeways. Called in by a publishing house to investigate a retired general's wartime memoirs which controversially criticize public figures, Strangeways needs to work out which member of staff has tampered with the manuscripts. Written by Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name of Nicholas Blake, an Anglo-Irish poet who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972. He also wrote mystery stories many of which feature fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. Woman of Straw, 1957. When playboy Tony Richmond schemes to acquire the fortune of his tyrannical tycoon uncle with the help of his new maid, she becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigations. Adapted for film in 1964, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. Written by Pierrette Henriette Denise Marthe Pernot better known professionally as Catherine Arley, a French novelist and actress. Translated by Mervyn Savill, a British translator, writer, and editor. Kill or Cure, 1968. First edition. When a private detective and a health specialist accidentally solve a murder during their time at a charming resort, the last thing they expect is for there to be another murder. Written by Joan Fleming, a British author of crime and thriller novels who won the Gold Dagger award twice. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with further discolouration of the cloth to Mystery at Olympia, Four-Fingers, and Come and Be Killed. The odd mark to the boards with light fraying to the extremities of Mystery at Olympia and minor loss of the cloth to the extremities of Fourfingers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper or pastedown. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown of Mystery at Olympia. Very Good. book.