Ruell Patrick Pseud Reginald Hill (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 281 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with rex gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When policemen remove their hats, they do not bring good news. The bare-headed policeman on Trudi Adamson's doorstep brought the worst news possible -- her husband Trent has been burned to death in a freak car accident. Suddenly a widow after years of marriage, Trudi finds herself alone, unprovided for and increasingly aware of her ignorance of her late husband's world. Why had he resigned from his job without telling her? Were was all his money? And more terrifying still: is he really dead? As shock piles upon shock, Trudi is forced to re-examine her belief in Trent, and ultimately in herself. Compelled to leave the cozy nest of her old life, she is out in the open and fighting for her very survival. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper, remainder mark to heal end pages else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Publishers letter laid in. The story of a timid and passive woman seriously wronged by her dead husband who has to peel back her twenty year marital relationship in order to reinvent herself and get on with life. The peeling back proves to be extremely dangerous and one unlikely discovery after another about her husband's business and extra-marital activities threaten to violently end her life. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. 1st U.S. edition, fine in dust jacket. "Eminent British author Reginald Hill, writing as Patrick Ruell, tells a feverishly suspenseful story here. A political assassin identified only by the terse surname Jaysmith, is sent to England's Lake District, where he misses his target, Steven Bryant. Since his forte, "the long kill" with the aid of a telescopic lens, is becoming impossible due to his failing eyesight, he phones in his resignation to the man he knows as Jacob in London. Later, the ex-gunman buys a cottage and meets a young widow, Anya Wilson, her small son and her father, whom Jaysmith recognizes as Bryant. The future seems bright for Jaysmith as he and Anya plan marriage, but Jacob suddenly materializes with armed hirelings to dispose of Steven and Anya. Alerted to a conspiracy, Jaysmith braves overwhelming odds in the shoot-out that caps the novel's shocking disclosure. This taut thriller is a tour de force enhanced by the author's evocations of the English countryside's natural splendor." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Hard Cover. F-. First US. F-/F-. 8vo. original black cloth backed boards gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. 206 (last blank). A near fine copy.

VIII+ 276pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A fine copy. First edition. Patrick Ruell is a pseudonym of Reginald Hill.