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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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Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye 1/12 1st rebinding
Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye is one of the highlights of detective fiction. This is a rebinding of the British first edition with a new introduction and photo from a film adaptation. It is one of only twelve lettered ...
£245.00
Nabokov, Lolita 1/12 Ltd rebinding
Nabokov's classic novel Lolita first edition has been rebound in a run of twelve lettered copies with a new introduction. It is offered with a photo from the film. The novel has been read and studied by the generations since ...
£245.00
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 ...
£210.00
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 ...
£210.00
Barry Maitland, The Malcontenta – Deluxe 1st ed rebinding signed
This is a 1st edition of THE MALCONTENTA, just one of 12 lettered rebound copies signed by the author Barry Maitland on a special page. Sumptuous leather with five raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers, Scorpion logo in gilt. ...
£185.00
Ian Rankin, Even Dogs in the Wild
The new Rankin has his most riveting characters in one enthralling story: Rebus as consulting tec', villain Big Ger Cafferty as attempted murder victim, detective Malcolm Fox is on another assignment and DI Siobhan Clarke holding the ruins. From the ...
£70.00
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith – Signed
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith. London, Virago, 2002. First edition, first printing. Demi 8 3/4 x 5 1/2. 548 pp. SIGNED by Waters. Wrap-around band present. Waters is a proven writer of historical novels, both critically acclaimed and popular; shortlisted for ...
£36.00
John Buchan, Courts of the Morning 1st
John Buchan: The Courts of the Morning. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929, First edition. 8vo. 405 pp, adverts to rear. Publisher's light blue cloth (also issued in green cloth), showing correct price of 7/6 nett to jacket spine with ...
£230.00
Henning Mankell, The White Lioness
Some of the most trenchant social reality novels have come from the Swede Henning Mankell. The deserved winner of the CWA Gold Dagger with Sidetracked, it was a turning-point in the reception of Scandinavian crime with both readers and ...
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- Tribute to Peter Lovesey
Peter Lovesey was one of a select band of crime writers who score highly with both crime fans and fellow peers. One of his admirers was the late Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher who was intrigued … - 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 …