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Taylor Andrew An Old School Tie - **Signed**
London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Price Clipped. 0 575 03832 2 Signed Without Inscription Authors rare fourth novel. Hanbury, the outrageous villain of Andrew Taylor's earlier thrillers, is now a reformed character and plans to marry the respectable Molly who is rich and from a good family. Unfortunately on the day they return from honeymoon Molly is electrocuted by a faulty lamp standard. The villagers of Charleston Parva believe that it's murder and local feelings grow tense forcing Hanbury to get help from his old friend and Adversary Dougal. (Book ref. 001904) £50.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersTaylor Andrew Our Fathers' Lies - **Signed**
London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 575 03664 8 Signed Without Inscription Authors rare third novel. A heap of clothes on a lonely beach; a half empty bottle of gin; a copy of Schopenhauer's essay on suicide; and the drowned corpse of Richard Prentisse. The police believe it's suicide, his daughter Celia thinks it's murder. She begins to investigate, and enlists the help of her godfather Major Dougal and his son William. Odd clues and old crimes come together to point to a lethal cover-up by someone very highly placed in the Ministry of Defence. (Book ref. 001903) £90.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersTaylor Andrew The Judgement of Strangers - **Signed**
London: Harper Collins, 1998. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 00 232558 6 Signed Without Inscription Book two of the Roth trilogy is the story of David Byfield, a widowed priest with a dark past and a darker future. Roth is a village where the past clings and still has the power to affect the present. Audrey Oliphant, churchwarden and spinster, nurses a hopeless passion for Byfield. Lady Youlgreave slides towards death and the big house has been sold to a pair of hippies who have their own secrets. Then the murders begin, and the mutilations, and the echoes of past crimes and blasphemies. (Book ref. 001721) £18.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersTaylor Andrew A Stain on the Silence - **Signed**
London: Michael Joseph, 2006. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Not Price Clipped. 0 718 14749 9 Signed Without Inscription The last person James wants to meet is Lily, but now she is dying of cancer and has something to tell him. Twenty-four years ago, Lily gave birth to a daughter - and James is the girls father. James was just a teenager when he and Lilly - stepmother of his best friend Carlo - had their brief affair. He would spend his summer holidays at their sprawling house in Chipping Weston, but those days came to a terrible end. An end that James has been trying to forget ever since. Yet Lily has one more secret to reveal. Their daughter is now a wanted woman. She's on the run for murder. Soon James is compelled to reach back into the past and discover the other bitter fruits of his and Lily's unfortunate union. (Book ref. 001590) £15.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersTaylor Andrew Freelance Death - **Signed**
London: Gollancz, 1987. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Price clipped. 0 575 04120 x Signed Without Inscription The authors fifth novel. Ivor and Georgina Newley run a public relations agency where Celia Prentisse, Dougal's girlfriend, works. Second in command is Rod Lorton, married to Arabella, and it is evident that there is much ill-feeling between Arabella and Georgina. When Arabella is found dead and Lorton discovers that she was carrying Newley's child he entices Dougal into a plot to blackmail him in revenge. They plan to rob Newley of a James III Jacobite Guinea from his valuable coin collection, but when Dougal arrives to pick up the £10,000 ransom things do not turn out as expected... (Book ref. 001329) £50.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersTaylor Andrew Waiting for the End of the World - **Signed**
London: Gollancz, 1984. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 575 03450 5 Signed Without Inscription Authors rare second novel. When Dougal's friend Zelda is kidnapped by his arch enemy Hanbury and held prisoner in Castle Elmney what can he do but follow in hot pursuit and storm the castle. But it's not that simple. Dougal finds he is becoming implicated in Hanbury's nefarious projects: gun-running, drug-smuggling etc. He also has to cope with the ancient and batty Lady Graver and her ineffectual son Thomas, owners of the castle; and the devious Dr. Vertag. And Zelda isn't just what she seems. It's all a high-spirited frolic, thoroughly amoral and thoroughly entertaining. (Book ref. 001327) £90.00
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