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Issue Points - Notes |
| The Quickness of the Hand |
Andre Deutsch |
1952 |
Red cloth, gilt letters. DJ 9/6 |
| Rebound |
Heinemann |
1961 |
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| A Season of Nerves |
As Above |
1962 |
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| Hammerhead |
As Above |
1964 |
US: 1964 Morrow |
| Let Sleeping Girls Lie |
Heinemann |
1965 |
US: 1966 Morrow |
| Shamelady |
As Above |
1966 |
American: 1966 Morrow |
| Once in a Lifetime |
Heinemann |
1968 |
US: 1968 Morrow as
Sergeant Death |
| The Man Above Suspicion |
As Above |
1969 |
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| Asking for It |
Heinemann |
1971 |
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© Classic Crime Fiction
Dust Jacket Artwork by Sherborne
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Further Information
Pseudonym of Stephen Coulter born 1913, main series
character Charles Hood.
Extract
RAYNER hadn't been in the place two weeks before he knew there was something wrong about the couple upstairs.
It came to him as the sort of conviction about some people he would pick up for the rest of his life, the product of a sense, once atrophied, now re-educated by H.M. Commissioners . . . He hadn't tried to find out what was wrong about the pair on the floor above. They left him alone: and that was what he wanted.
Rayner pulled up his coat collar against the evening rain, walking down Lupus Street past the fish and chip shop and the pin-table Amusement Arcade towards the house. In front of the Victorian fagade of the corner pub, men and women stood drinking Guinness and laughing |
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