- Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: Ostara Publishing (26 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906288283
- ISBN-13: 978-1906288280
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,117,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`I felt a jarring push in my side that took me a long way towards the stairs. I half turned to see the big chap coming up behind me and then another push caught me off balance and I fell down the stairs taking a picture with me, landing in a heap with it at the bottom. There was a taste of salt in my mouth. The tall minatory figure hung over me as I tried to get my breath and think straight. It seemed that I had given offence, in some unknown way, to this huge lunatic. He narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "I'm going to hurt you, sonny." His face remained quite calm.'
Quiet, unassuming rare book dealer Robert Seldon finds himself ensnared in a web of deceit, blackmail and violence as he tracks the missing `Ibiza' letters for a collector of antiquarian books who may just have an ulterior motive. His quest brings him into conflict with a series of characters each more bizarre and menacing than the last across the seedy and superbly-drawn landscape of London on the eve of the Swinging Sixties.
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George Sims was in life a well-known antiquarian bookseller, so naturally he set his first thriller The Terrible Door in the shady world of book-dealers and collectors. On publication it is was famously described as "not so much a whodunit as a who-done-what" and it tells the story of a mild-mannered book-dealer on the trail of some missing literary letters which certain shadowy characters want to possess but no one wants to admit to owning - or ever having seen. This is not a thriller of gunfights, car-chases and cliff-hangers, but rather a spookily atmospheric journey through the underworld of London on the eve of the Swinging Sixties. Sims, who was to elected to the famous Detection Club, died in 1999. During WWII he served in military intelligence in a special communications unit and at the top secret Bletchley Park code-breaking facility
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