Mysteries

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1935, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacker. Red cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine is worn and faded. End papers have green and white map design. Very good condition overall.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Green cloth. Light wear to covers and edges. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , true 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket faded, chipped, worn.

Hardcover. NY, Putman, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. A first novel.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's 1st book.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Beech Tree, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lovely copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. When a museum administrator is stabbed to death with a hat pin, popular Boston detective Sarah Kelling must interrupt her seaside idyll to pursue the case.

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is Gough's third novel featuring the tough duo of police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, who work out of Vancouver, Canada. The interaction, cooperation and unspoken understanding essential to a successful police partnership is one of the most fascinating aspects of Gough's writing as he sends his sleuths into an investigation of a brutal drug-related murder. In tight, hard-hitting prose, Gough delineates a plot in which a monstrously cruel drug king, Gary Silk, orders his underlings to kill one another off after a multimillion-dollar drug deal has gone awry.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder spray to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Rae D. Henkle, 1st , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in red on the front and the spine. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. A New England mystery, beginning with a strike at a tannery. Another challenge for Detective Peter Creighton.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt Rine hart winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket chipped, worn. Book is clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by Fletcher Ransom. Light wear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY CLARK on title page. 318 pages. Dust jacket with light scratches, sticker residue. Internally very good.

NY, Morrow, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1947 Goodis classic. A flawless copy of this Black Lizard reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BARR on title page. Autographed copy sticker on dust jacket front cover.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1950, Book: Good, Paperback, unpaginated, stapled binding, color wrappers, 5 3/4 X 7". Cover art uncredited. MMM #49. light wear, soil.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Hardcover with no dust jakcet. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine loose and cocked.

Softcover. New York, Graphic Publications, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. A Graphic Mystery # 26. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Light chipping to spine and edges.

Softcover. Greenwich, CN, Crest Book/Fawcett Publications, 2nd, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Fawcett/Crest #173. Light rubbing to edges, spine shows moderate wear. Ink notation on first page. Tight.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 6th, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #263. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Rear wrapper abrasion to first layer of paper wrapper.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #5932. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D374. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #160. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A133. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, rep, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1029. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Light wrinkle to spine.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #834. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1910. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to cover wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #193. Chipping to spine edges. Moderate creasing to wrappers.

Softcover. London, Pan Books, 1st pbk, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Pan # X154. Clean, paper tanning. First published as a hardcover in 1933.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 177 pages. Originally titled The Gigantic Shadow. The second and last title featuring Inspector Crambo. Dust jacket with edgewear, Owner's name on half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Murder amidst the members of the ultra-exclusive Palm Isle Golf Club lures San Francisco dick Amos McGuffin to the spectacular duffer's paradise where his suspects run the gamut from predatory yacht-owning widows to sinister voodoo priests. Remainder mark bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co. Crime Club, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in black cloth with red stamping. Poor dust jacket with chunks gone from front panel and spine. A group of jewel collectors and dealers gather in the Adirondacks to bid on the mysterious Blue Rajah diamond. Naturally, a murder ensues.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman--how hard could this new one turn out to be?Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be as well...Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover - and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay. Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Block was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America, their highest honor. Like new.