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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987-1990; all 8vo, in colorful leather bindings with raised bands, gilt or silver decoration, gilt or silver edges, and pictorial endpapers, (14) volumes to include: Frederick Forsyth's
The Day of the Jackal; Dashiell Hammett's
The Maltese Falcon; Edgar Allan Poe's
Tales of Mystery and Imagination; W. Somerset Maugham's
Ashenden or the British Agent; James M. Cain's
The Postman Always Rings Twice &
Double Indemnity; Daphne du Maurier's
Rebecca; Charles Dickens's
The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Michael Innes's
The Man from the Sea; Earl Derr Biggers's
The House Without a Key; Vera Caspary's
Laura; John le Carré's
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Ira Levin's
A Kiss Before Dying; Nicholas Blake's
The Beast Must Die; Marie Belloc Lowndes's
The Lodger.
Largest 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.; smallest 8 x 5 3/4 in.
All in near fine condition with occasional minor mark or scuff,
Rebecca spine very slightly cocked; pristine interiors.