Kenneth Hillier's Literary Abstracts
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Hugh Clevely's 'The Gang-Smasher 1928
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The Crime-Book Society No. 1 Having nearly finished collecting the Jarrolds 'Jackdaw' Crime Series , I have - like a moth to a c...
Marthe McKenna's 'Hunt the Spy' 1939/40?
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Jarrolds publishers - 1939/40? I began collecting the Jarrolds 'Jackdaw' Crime Series paperbacks a few years ago and have managed...
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Rudolf Tesnohlidek's 'The Cunning Little Vixen' 1985
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First English edition - 1985 Vixen Sharp-Ears was a real fox who had real adventures with a real forester in the 19th century. Rudolf Tesn...
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Frances Pitt's 'Toby, My Fox-cub' 1929
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Arrowsmith first edition - 1929 Another Fox story; in fact, a third one from Frances Pitt , who wrote Tommy White-Tag (see my Blog for 2...
Sunday, 15 June 2025
Nancy Goldstone's 'The Rebel Empresses' 2025
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson first edition - 2025 I was delighted when I read about this dual-biography in the 15th March issue of The Spectat...
Sunday, 8 June 2025
ed. David Holmes 'A History of Market Harborough' Volume 2 2024
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A History of Market Harborough Vol. 2 - 2024 After the excellent standard set by Volume I (see my review in The Local Historian Vol.52 No.4 ...
ed. Len Holden 'A History of Market Harborough' Volume 1 2022
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A History of Market Harborough Vol. 1 - 2022 Up until the seventeenth century, Harborough ceded first place to Great Bowden. The latter ha...
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