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Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2024
ISBN 10: 1932859446ISBN 13: 9781932859447
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Harveys series about Charlie Resnick, the jazz-loving, melancholy cop in provincial Nottingham, England, has long been one of the finest police procedural series around.-Publishers WeeklyThe characters in John Harveys urban crime novels are so defiantly alive and unruly that they put these British police procedurals on a shelf by themselves.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewHarvey reminds me of Graham Greene, a stylist who tells you everything you need to know while keeping the prose clean and simple. Its a very realistic style that draws you into the story without the writer getting in the way.-Elmore LeonardCharlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction.-Sue GraftonThe first major case for Charlie Resnick and his team concerns a number of increasingly serious attacks on women who have been using the Lonely Hearts column of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Resnick becomes involved with Rachel Chaplin, the social worker assigned to a family caught up in allegations of child abuse.John Harveys Charlie Resnick is British crime fictions best-kept secret. In the ten novels Harvey wrote about Resnick before ending the series, he established his character as a believable ordinary policeman who investigated ordinary, everyday crime, rooted in the socioeconomic plight and drab lives of many people in the city of Nottingham.Bloody Brits Press will reissue the entire Inspector Charles Resnick series in the next three seasons.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2024
ISBN 10: 0915230704ISBN 13: 9780915230709
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: Good. Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train should want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes that the real intended victim is a self-made rich american woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping. Her husband ought to be the prime suspect but he seems devoted to her, although he was spotted giving cash to a pretty young redhead when he thought no one was looking. Then there were the two American fast buck artists who figured they could get rich buying up all the gasoline-powered generators in Mexico on the eve of a strike by utility workers. They looked especially guilty when their shady, double-crossing associate - a somewhat accomplished ladies man - becomes the second person to die. A blue banderilla, usually used to slow bulls down, is driven through his back during a Sunday afternoon bullfight in Mexico City. Miss Withers borrows a technique from Sherlock Holmes himself to show that a banderilla makes for a lousy murder weapon, a conclusion also reached by a rather odd young Mexican man whose English seems to come and go. First published in 1937, this lighthearted mystery displays all the charm that made Miss Withers Anthony Bouchers favorite female sleuth as well as a favorite of moviegoers during the early days of the talkies.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2024
ISBN 10: 1932859446ISBN 13: 9781932859447
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: new. Harveys series about Charlie Resnick, the jazz-loving, melancholy cop in provincial Nottingham, England, has long been one of the finest police procedural series around.-Publishers WeeklyThe characters in John Harveys urban crime novels are so defiantly alive and unruly that they put these British police procedurals on a shelf by themselves.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewHarvey reminds me of Graham Greene, a stylist who tells you everything you need to know while keeping the prose clean and simple. Its a very realistic style that draws you into the story without the writer getting in the way.-Elmore LeonardCharlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction.-Sue GraftonThe first major case for Charlie Resnick and his team concerns a number of increasingly serious attacks on women who have been using the Lonely Hearts column of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Resnick becomes involved with Rachel Chaplin, the social worker assigned to a family caught up in allegations of child abuse.John Harveys Charlie Resnick is British crime fictions best-kept secret. In the ten novels Harvey wrote about Resnick before ending the series, he established his character as a believable ordinary policeman who investigated ordinary, everyday crime, rooted in the socioeconomic plight and drab lives of many people in the city of Nottingham.Bloody Brits Press will reissue the entire Inspector Charles Resnick series in the next three seasons.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870019ISBN 13: 9781601870018
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870051ISBN 13: 9781601870056
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2024
ISBN 10: 0915230704ISBN 13: 9780915230709
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: New. Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally Miss Withers packs her bags and heads south of the border, figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train should want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes that the real intended victim is a self-made rich american woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping. Her husband ought to be the prime suspect but he seems devoted to her, although he was spotted giving cash to a pretty young redhead when he thought no one was looking. Then there were the two American fast buck artists who figured they could get rich buying up all the gasoline-powered generators in Mexico on the eve of a strike by utility workers. They looked especially guilty when their shady, double-crossing associate - a somewhat accomplished ladies man - becomes the second person to die. A blue banderilla, usually used to slow bulls down, is driven through his back during a Sunday afternoon bullfight in Mexico City. Miss Withers borrows a technique from Sherlock Holmes himself to show that a banderilla makes for a lousy murder weapon, a conclusion also reached by a rather odd young Mexican man whose English seems to come and go. First published in 1937, this lighthearted mystery displays all the charm that made Miss Withers Anthony Bouchers favorite female sleuth as well as a favorite of moviegoers during the early days of the talkies.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870019ISBN 13: 9781601870018
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2004
ISBN 10: 0915230704ISBN 13: 9780915230709
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2007
ISBN 10: 1601870051ISBN 13: 9781601870056
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2010
ISBN 10: 1601870469ISBN 13: 9781601870469
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.