Description: The price on the listing is for 4 hardback or 3 hardback & 2 paperbacks, but you can choose any number of books from this set of 32 romance paperback (PB) and hardback books. I charge $2 for a hardback and $1 for a paperback. If you want a number of books other than 4, email me a list of the books you want, and I’ll let you know the shipping price. The authors included are Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Victoria Holt, Norah Lofts, Helen MacInnes, Mary Stewart and Phyllis A. Whitney and the books were originally published from 1936 to 1998. They are well-known, award-winning authors who have written in a variety of styles. Check fictiondb.com for more information.“Assignment in Brittany” is missing a corner of the front cover. Otherwise, the books are in fair to good condition without writing on content pages. The hardbacks ‘Crown of Aloes, ’The King’s General,’ ‘My Cousin Rachel,’ 'Agent in Place' and ‘The Wicked Day’ are missing their dust jackets. The dust jackets for the rest of the hardbacks are present but worn. See the photos.Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was an English writer, during her long career, she wrote over 700 books, making her one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century. She sold over 1,000 million copies throughout the world, earning her a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The world's most famous romantic novelist, she also wrote autobiographies, biographies, health and cookery books, and stage plays and recorded an album of love songs. She was often billed as the Queen of Romance, and became one of the United Kingdom's most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social issues.She started her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express. She published her first novel, Jigsaw, a society thriller, in 1923. It was a bestseller. She went on to write myriad novels and earn legions of fans, she also wrote under her married name Barbara McCorquodale. Some of her books were made into films. Ever the romantic, during WWII, she served as the Chief Lady Welfare Officer in Bedfordshire. She gathered as many wedding dresses as she could so that service brides would have a white gown to wear on their wedding day. She also campaigns for the rights of Gypsies, midwives and nurses.Barbara Cartland passed away on 21 May 2000, with 160 still unpublished manuscripts, that are being published posthumously.Catherine Ann McMullen (Catherine Cookson) was born on 27 June 1906 in Tyne Dock, England, UK. She grew up as daughter of Rose and John McMullen, but was the illegitimate daughter of Kate Fawcett, whom she believed to be her older sister, and Alexander Davies, a bigamist. She left school at 13 and she began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and Tom Cookson, a local grammar school master, whom she married on June 1940. She suffered some miscarriages and couldn't have children.She took up writing as a form of therapy to tackle her depression, and joined Hastings Writers' Group. Her first novel was published in 1950. She wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. She also wrote books under her childhood name, Katie McMullen, and under the pseudonym Catherine Marchant. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. She passed away on 11 June 1998 in North East. She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, losing the title only in 2002, four years after her death.Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successful Gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to film: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire.In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.Dorothy Eden was born in 1912 in New Zealand and died in 1982. She moved to England in 1954 after taking a trip around the world and falling in love with the country. She was best known for her many mystery and romance books as well as short stories that were published in periodicals. As a novelist, Dorothy Eden was renowned for her ability to create fear and suspense. This earned her many devoted readers throughout her lifetime.Eleanor Alice Burford (Victoria Holt) was born on 1 September 1906 in Kensington, London, England. She married the leather merchant, George Percival Hibber, who shared her love of books and reading. Eleanor Burford was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities. In 1941, she began signing her novels with her maiden name: Eleanor Burford, later she created her first and most prolific pseudonym: Jean Plaidy. In the 1950's she used the pseudonyms: Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate. In 1960, she created the pseudonyms: Anna Percival and the popular Victoria Holt. In 1972, she created her last pseudonym Philippa Carr. (Some of her novels were reedited as different pseudonyms). She died on January 18, 1993 at sea, somewhere between Greece and Port Said, Egypt. By the time of her death, she sold 56 million copies as Victoria Holt, 14 as Jean Plaidy and, 3 as Phillipa Carr.Norah Lofts, best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic, was born in Norfolk. She taught English and History at a girls' school before turning to writing full time. She also wrote under the pen name of Peter Curtis. A passion for old houses and their history inspired her classic 'House' trilogy, The Town House, The House at Old Vine and The House at Sunset. This meticulously researched trilogy of historical romances spans more than five centuries of Suffolk history, starting with Martin Reed, a fourteenth century serf and concluding with Frances Benyon in the mid 1950s. Lofts wrote more than 50 books, including historical, non-fiction and short stories.“Helen Clark MacInnes was born on October 7, 1907, in Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. After her M.A. in 1928, MacInnes continued her studies at University College, London, where she received a diploma in librarianship in 1931. While working as a librarian, MacInnes met and married the classics scholar Gilbert Highet on September 22, 1932, and they moved to New York City in 1937. She began her writing career collaborating with her husband to translate German literature, which helped finance their summer travels through Europe. These European excursions gave MacInnes the exposure to the locations which would become the exotic settings of her espionage thrillers in later years. She was also influenced by her husband’s work as an MI6 British intelligence agent. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which were later made into movies. She became a U.S. citizen in 1952.In her later books, she shifted her subject matter from World War II to the Cold War and continued to produce about one book every two years until her final novel Ride a Pale Horse (1984). Gilbert Highet died in 1978 and Helen MacInnes died in New York City on September 20, 1985.”Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001.Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers; she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979). The first of these was turned into a children’s television series in 1991. During years she resided in Scotland, where she died on 9 May 2014.Phyllis A. Whitney was born in 1903 in Yokohama, Japan to American parents. Her childhood of traveling influenced Phyllis and she would later write novels with settings in America, Europe, Africa, and the Orient. By the mid 1960's, Phyllis A. Whitney's popularity had reached international proportions, particularly in England and the Scandinavian countries. With 37 books in print, she was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best genre writers" and "the only American in her field with a major reputation" equal to those of Britain's Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt.Check out my other listings of romance books. Let me know if you want to add books from other listings. Barbara Cartland1. Love Forbidden(PB)1957Historical2. The Odious Duke(PB)1973Historical3. The Husband Hunters(PB)May 1976Historical/Regency Catherine Cookson12. The Love ChildOctober 1991Historical- 1900's-1910's13. The Silent LadyFebruary 2002 Daphne du Maurier20. Rebecca(PB)1938Suspense/ Gothic21. The King’s General194618th Century/Gothic22. My Cousin Rachel1951Suspense/ Gothic Dorothy Eden23. Whistle for the Crows(PB)1962Gothic24. Ravenscroft & DarkwaterRavenscroft1964Suspense/ GothicDarkwater1963Suspense/ Gothic25. The Vines of Yarrabee1969Gothic Victoria Holt27. The Silk Vendetta(PB)September 1987Victorian/ Gothic28. The India Fan(PB)1988Victorian/ Gothic30. The Black OpalAugust 1993Victorian/ Gothic Norah Lofts34. Crown of AloesJanuary 1974Historical/Gothic35. A Wayside TavernJanuary 1980Historical/ Gothic36. PargetersFebruary 1988Historical/Gothic Helen MacInnes38. Assignment in Brittany(PB)March 1942Suspense/WWII39. The Snare of the HunterMarch 1974Suspense40. Agent in PlaceJanuary 1976Suspense41. The Hidden TargetAugust 1980Suspense Mary Stewart42. The Moon-Spinners(PB)1962Suspense/ Gothic43. The Wicked DayOctober 1983Paranormal/ Dark Ages Phyllis A. Whitney44. Hunter’s Green(PB)1968Suspense45. Domino(PB)October 1979Suspense46. EmeraldJanuary 1983Suspense47. Dream of OrchidsJanuary 1985Suspense48. SilverswordJanuary 1987Suspense49. Feather on the MoonFebruary 1988Suspense50. Woman Without a Past1991Suspense51. The Ebony SwanMay 1992Suspense52. Amethyst DreamsJuly 1997Suspense
Price: 8 USD
Location: Conneaut, Ohio
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Publication Year: 1977
Type: Novel
Format: Mixed Lot
Language: English
Book Title: Whistle for the Crows
Narrative Type: Fiction
Author: Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Mary Stewart, Phyllis A. Whitney, Victoria Holt, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Helen MacInnes, Norah Lofts
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Romance
Topic: 1820's-1830's, 1900's-1910's, 1920's-1930's, 19th Century, Alternative History, Dark Ages, Georgian, Gothic, Historical, Medieval, Mixed Lot, Paranormal, Regency, Suspense, Victorian, WWI, WWII
