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… this is a new feature on Scorpion Press each month we will create a new page here highlighting the many unsolved crimes and keep you in suspense. We intend to feature a sub genre of crime fiction and comment on the scene of the scene as best we can ....
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Truman Capote In Cold Blood – 1/13 lettered rebinding – classic crime
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood - 1/13 lettered rebinding in leather with hand made marbled sides, two page introduction about the book and films. Photo of Hoffman as Capote. Recently, critics and social commentators have revived an interest in Truman ...
£225.00
John Connolly The White Road 1/12 rebound in leather
John Connolly, The White Road 1/12 lettered rebound in leather with marble sides, new intro and signed by the author. This is the fourth novel in the detective series set in the Deep South of the US. The mystery novel ...
£190.00
T E Lawrence classic , Seven Pillars of Wisdom – leather rebinding
T E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, First edition (trade) published in 1935. A masterpiece in many senses – use of the language, military tactics, foresight, history etc. During his time Lawrence was the most famous Englishman. This is a ...
£250.00
Tana French, The Likeness – 1/12 rebinding
Tana French, The Likeness, first edition rebound in 2020 in green leather with five raised bands, signed by the author on a new introduction limitation page. Issued with a photo from the successful television adaptation. French has been labelled the ...
£190.00
Peter Lovesey, Waxwork – rebinding signed by author and Cribb
Peter Lovesey's Waxwork, first edition, leather rebinding is one of 12 copies with and comes with additional intro page setting the scene signed by Peter Lovesey and Alan Dobie (the actor that played DS Cribb). A photo of the ...
£200.00
Val McDermid, The Distant Echo 1st deluxe rebinding signed
Val McDermid, The Distant Echo (2003) 1st edition 1/12 deluxe lettered rebound in grey leather with marbled paper sides over boards in 2019 with a signed page with the following text: From English graduate to journalist, to novelist and critic, ...
£195.00
Jack Higgins, Dark Justice
Jack Higgins has sold 250 million copies with his suspense adventure yarns which he began to write in 1959. He wrote under various pseudonyms, but it was with The Eagle Has Landed (1975), latter a popular film with ...
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- Crime Writers as hoarders of Knowledge
When I joined the Crime Writers’ Association and attended social functions I perceived that many writers led interesting lives as people other than writers. Aside from the obvious fact that crime writers convey in there …
- Robert Richardson – tribute to the writer and exponent of crime
It was during the mid eighties – the period when the newspaper headlines were full of stories of Britain on strike – that broadsheet journalist Robert Richardson chanced upon writing his first detective novel. It …
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The Collectibilty of Leather Rebinds
In Centuries past libraries in great houses were lined with leather bound volumes. They provided accessibility to knowledge, exuded learning and gave satisfaction to the owner – who had given time … - McDermid’s ‘Distant Echo’ dramatised
Val McDermid’s first DC Karen Pirie novel is to be dramatised in a new ITV drama series. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will play the lead character – the young fearless Scottish detective – to be …
- Reginald Hill (1936 – 2012) Prolific literary crime writer
Reginald Hill, prolific British author best known for his 24 idiosyncratic, but highly elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, is perhaps one of the most admired and influential …
- George Blake: Epitaph for a Spy
George Blake (1922 – 2020) was one of the most enigmatic of the unmasked spies. Could he have been an unlikely perfect spy with a conscience; a man of principle or a blatant schemer? Accounts …
- R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon – spy thriller – rebinding
Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction …
- Spy Fiction Collectables
The first book in the Scorpion Press series of Signed Leather bound editions was a spy thriller – The Year of the Scorpion by Michael Hartland. Nine books with a war-time or Cold War espionage …
- 20th Century Classic 1/1 Leather French Lieutenant … by John Fowles
To mark 50th years since the original publication of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) this is a rebinding run of 12 lettered copies with additional material and the facsimile autographs of Fowles and …
- G MacDonald Fraser, Flashman Omnibus leather rebinding
George Macdonald Fraser created one of the great English fictional characters with Flashy or Harry Flashman. This is the original first edition issued by Barrie & Jenkins entitled Flashman’s First Omnibus (1979). Forty years on …