Murder Matchlight by E C R Lorac (50 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Tatty paperback, spine creased with splits at the ends, card covers creased and worn, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 192 pages. Canadian White Circle Pocket Edition No. 283.

1st ed. thus pictorial wrappers Near Fine octavo 160pp., Originally published 1945.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Thus. A white cricle pocket novel. Some general ageing, inculding shelf weat, rubbing to corners, edges and spine, 2" of loss to bottom of spine, and some creasing to covers, with a tear to leading edge of front cover. Tanned pages. A good reading copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. A White Circle Pocket Novel 195c. Undated but published in March 1951. First UK paperback edition - there was a Canadian White Circle edition in 1946. Originally published in hardcovers by Collins in 1945. The spine has one inch closed tears at either side at the top and bottom and a one inch piece missing from the surface at the bottom. Trace of a price in pencil on the white circle on the front cover. The covers have some light browning in places but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Pages browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 160 pgs., pages clean and tight, bound in blue paper over hard boards, gold lettering on spine, very good and wrapped in Rare dust jacket. Missing 1 1/2" of jacket at base of spine, some top edge spine wear, very light staining on a few spots on front jacket otherwise a good copy in scarce dust jacket. In protective mylar.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. The boards have fading to the spine and to a half inch strip along the right side of the rear panel next to the spine. The front and rear panels have three inch triangular patches of damp staining to the bottom corners where there is a little fraying to the tips. Light rubbing to the edges of the boards. The page edges are a little browned with scattered light spotting. The endpapers are slightly discoloured in places with the traces of some prices in pencil to the top right corner of the front free endpaper. There is a small brown stain at the bottom of the final page of the text and the pages are a little browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.

Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine; 288 pp. A rare first edition issued in the United States. "On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an approaching stranger suddenly disappears beneath a footbridge. Seconds later another figure appears on the same overpass, stops to smoke and discard a cigarette, and strikes a match that briefly illuminates a face beyond his own. Through the succeeding darkness come the sounds of a thud and a falling body - then silence. Thus begins this chilling mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Murder by Matchlight features Scotland Yard's imperturbable Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is tasked with finding the killer of the man on the bridge. His only evidence: a set of bicycle tracks that come to an abrupt end. His suspects: a colorful cast that includes the shy, soft-spoken witness, a respected London physician, a screenwriter, an unemployed laborer, and a vaudevillian specializing in illusions - a lively group whose questionable activities will keep readers guessing until the final twist and turn of this deftly plotted whodunit."- website description. VG- (soiling and wear to boards, age toning to pages but text is clear. No dust jacket).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition. 288 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in navy blue. Near Fine, slight lean, in an unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with some foxing, else Near Fine, lightly shelf wear. A lovely example of the scarce jacket. A novel from the golden age of British mysteries named to the British Library Crime Classics in 2019, even more rare in its American edition.