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  • A Sour Apple Tree

    by John Blackburn ...
    A gruesome wave of murder--suicides is sweeping England, leaving the police baffled. But General Kirk of British Intelligence thinks the deaths may be connected to the one case he never solved, the one that's nagged at him for years: John Glyde, a traitor who vanished in the ruins of the Third Reich. With the help of his colleagues Mike Howard and Penny Wise, Kirk tries to get to the bottom of the ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • Broken Boy

    by John Blackburn ...
    "Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement"A real chiller. . . . The book moves rapidly from beginning to end and Hitchcock ought to be advised. It would make a heck of a movie." - Evening News"He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the ... Read more

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  • Our Lady of Pain

    by John Blackburn ...
    'Even on the warmest night of the year, Mr Blackburn knows how to chill our marrow.' - Scotsman'Blackburn quickly establishes the tone of urbane nastiness which pervades his new horror story . . . murders and much necrogenic excitement precede an extremely bloody climax.' - Times Literary Supplement'A tour de force . . . the grimmest [of] Blackburn's books.' - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and ... Read more

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  • A Scent of New-Mown Hay

    by John Blackburn ...
    With a plot featuring Cold War intrigue, Nazi mad scientists, and a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity by mutating people into fungoid monsters, it is not hard to see why A Scent of New-Mown Hay (1958) became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and an instant science-fiction classic. After a British ship's crew and a remote Russian village are wiped out in mysterious and horrible ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • For Fear of Little Men

    by John Blackburn ...
    'We daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men' - words from an old children's song, but to the residents of one Welsh village it's more than just a nursery rhyme. A legend has been handed down through the ages, telling of an ancient mountain people, dedicated to evil, who were massacred by the villagers' ancestors three thousand years ago. No animals ever graze on the northern slope of the ... Read more

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  • The Household Traitors

    by John Blackburn ...
    'Come back Paddy Reilly to me' - the words of an old Irish ballad provide a sinister theme for John Blackburn's sixteenth novel, The Household Traitors (1971). No one has seen or heard from Patricia Reilly in more than thirty years, so why are a ruthless industrial tycoon, a Soviet defector, and a deranged serial killer all so anxious to find her? The trail of mystery leads from a town terrorized ... Read more

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  • Children of the Night

    by John Blackburn ...
    For centuries, the small English village of Dunstonholme has been the scene of mysterious tragedies. Local lore traces these strange events back to the year 1300, when a sect of Christian heretics known as the Children of Paul were involved in a bloody massacre. Since that time, there have been railway disasters, mining accidents, shipwrecks, and other terrible happenings. Now a wave of suspicious ... Read more

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  • Blue Octavo

    by John Blackburn ...
    When bookseller James Roach is found dead after paying an exorbitant sum for Grey Boulders, a rare but apparently valueless volume on mountaineering, the police write it off as suicide. But his young colleague John Cain suspects foul play when he discovers the book is missing and that someone has been going to great lengths to obtain every copy of Grey Boulders in existence. Is it a case of some ... Read more

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  • Bury Him Darkly

    by John Blackburn ...
    For two centuries, the body of Sir Martin Railstone, poet, artist, and libertine, has lain undisturbed in its crypt, amidst rumours that important artistic works of genius are buried with him. The Church of England has refused to allow the opening of the tomb, believing that Railstone was a murderer and dabbler in the black arts and that anything buried with him must be diabolical in nature. But ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • The Flame and the Wind

    by John Blackburn ...
    The year is 37 A.D., and Rome faces a dangerous threat in the form of a new religion whose doctrines could undermine the entire foundation of the Empire. Sextus Marcellus Ennius, one of Rome's top spies, is dispatched to Jerusalem to investigate this cult and discredit its founder, a criminal named Jesus-bar-Joseph, who was rumoured to possess supernatural powers and reputedly rose from the dead ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • Colonel Bogus

    by John Blackburn ...
    A phony Russian princess murdered and stuffed in a trunk. A mysterious message - "M.K. will die." A bogus colonel with inscrutable aims. Ruthless killers on the hunt for lost letters from one of the great figures of the 19th century. General Kirk of British Intelligence believes it all adds up to an assassination plot that will throw the world into turmoil. With the help of his new secretary and ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • The Cyclops Goblet

    by John Blackburn ...
    Bill Easter and his common law wife Peggy Tey, two small-time crooks down on their luck, have been hired to help steal the legendary treasure of Renaissance goldsmith Guido Calamai. Calamai's masterpiece, the Cyclops Goblet, rumoured to possess the power to kill whoever drinks from it, is under lock and key at the Danemere Museum, the gift of the rich and eccentric millionaire Sir Thomas Moscow. ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD