Softcover. London, The Hogarth Press Ltd, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. A mystery featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and a pricless bronze lamp from Egypt. First published in 1949. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. Alan Furst's suspenseful, fast-paced thriller captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. He brings Paris and occupied France to life, along with courageous citizens who outmaneuver collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and spies, risking everything to fulfill perilous clandestine missions.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As Gone With the Wind approaches release, all the stars but Clark Gable prepare to head to Atlanta for the big premiere. Clark and his wife, Carole Lombard, are too distressed to celebrate the opening of the biggest movie of his career because Lydia Austin, a young actress and protege of Carole's, is missing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Hardcover, Black boards with green lettering, no dust jacket, 310 pages. Mild shelf wear, no markings. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends to celebrity smiles finds a top model dead in his chair. Perkins & Tate slog on valiantly in aid of a dental practice that has gone bonkers. A hilarious cast of characters on the premises includes an inventor of a new anesthetic, a mad former Army dentist who believes that both World Wars are yet to be won and who, accordingly, gives orders to all and sundry, a sadistic driller who aims for the neck, and a waiting-room full of celebrities brought together by faculty grins and personal designs on the dentist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third outing for Vermont cop Joe Gunther. A murdered stockbroker sets a sticky case into motion for Lt. Gunther. Three bodies later, Gunther must unravel a sinister puzzle involving drugs, a naive young police officer, and someone bent on revenge.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1996, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Author's fifth novel in which narrator Doyle Redmond, a crime novelist, returns to the Ozarks from California in a Volvo he stole from his estranged wife and reconnects with his roughneck heritage: gun-crazy grandpa and older brother, big-breasted gals, marijuana farms, and a 50-year-old blood feud with the infamous Dolly clan.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st, 1999, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 284 pages. Previous owner's light marking on front fly leaf. "Possibly she even realized, or half-realized, that there was something wrong with her life.... She wondered whether what had happened to the park had happened to her: a dark, rushed change that would never change back." This is England's mystery writer Bill James describing a 13-year-old girl known as Noon, soon to be shot dead while working as a drug courier near a rundown park. Her death sets off a series of explosions in James's latest book in his wonderfully dark and exquisitely written Harpur & Iles series.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover with gray cloth covers with black lettering, decoration. Light spotting to covers otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. Clean, tight copy in a very nice dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 414 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with silver and blue metallic titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. UK, The Chicken House, 1st UK, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. First English translation of German mystery novel. Faint age toning to top and bottom text block edges. Scarce. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, MacMillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Red boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Spine very faded, edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped, slight foxing to inside of dust jacket and endpapers, pages clean, crisp and marked; overall a neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. With minor wear to covers and dust jacket edges.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. SIGNED BY DOBYNS ON TITLE PAGE. Blue covers with black spine, color illustrated dust jacket with mylar-protective covering. Dust jacket lightly chipped, though still very neat and tight with mylar, unmarked boards, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, dj price clipped , small abrasion to front panel otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st published as paperback in 1953; this is 1st hardcover edition; dust jacket price clipped. 160 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1969.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When the nude, throttled corpse of a childhood friend is discovered shortly after a chance meeting, San Francisco homicide chief Frank Hastings is determined to catch the killer.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1954. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-373, 127, 129 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2nd Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. A stand alone novel from the author best known for his Maigret detective series.
Softcover. New York, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 45. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed. Scarce. Chipped at edges.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #249. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Gutter crack on first page.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 381. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Hinge creases, minor soil to front cover. Stamp inside front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #829. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Schulz. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.