Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering. The acclaimed crime writer's last book (he died in 1930), a collection of courtroom stories featuring Colonel Braxton, "great lawyer, great detective, and gallant gentleman ", and set in Virginia in the 1850's. Both Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen considered Post second only to Poe as an American writer of detective fiction. Clean, square copy.
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.
Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 298 pages. Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell a tale, or rather two tales, one true and one false. Now, an English expert in criminology forces the evidence to tell the truth about what happened and to point out the real murderer. 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.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #150. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #196. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Laminate on paper wrappers starting to peel. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #106. Light peeling to laminate. Map on rear cover. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 111/145 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-357. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #S2180. Cover Art by Robert McGinnis. Light wear on edges. Stamp on inside front wrapper.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #411. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Laminate starting to peel.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D446. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #5386. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #683. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to corners. Light soil to front cover. Cover art by Mike Ludlow.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A former intelligence agent now living in Florida, Marion "Doc" Martin, along with his hippie sidekick, Thomlinson, must clear his uncle of kidnapping and murder charges stemming from his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. Often cited as the "best" Doc Ford novel, the third book to feature Ford. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1837, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEAVER on the title page to fellow writer Barry Estabrook. A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Waiting for them are three escaped convicts with nothing to lose. Now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 307 pages. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg. Collects twenty-two stories. Introduction and checklist of Boucher's fiction by Nevins. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shuggie Akins is a lonely fat boy of thirteen. His mother, Glenda, teases him with her sexual provocations. His father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises his son. Into this mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. It isn't long before he and Glenda begin a torrid affair. What follows is violent, shocking, and totally unpredictable - except that it is totally foreordained. Author's seventh novel. Slight slant to spine.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 3rd of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro - in a search that takes them from Boston to Florida's Gulf Coast. Clean copy.
New York, Scribners, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black stamping, 329 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY FURST on title-page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. A novel of terror set during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. In her twelfth adventure, Ellie Haskell leaves her family at Merlin's Court to travel to her old boarding school, St. Roberta's, at the request of her former headmistress, Mrs. Battle. Someone has stolen the Loverly Cup from St. Roberta's trophy case. The cup is awarded to the winner of the lacrosse championship match, and for the first time in nine years, St. Roberta's has lost the cup and needs to pass it along to the winning school. Ellie returns to St. Roberta's, without her trusty housekeeper and sleuthing partner, Mrs. Malloy, on the pretext of needing some rest. She investigates staff, students, and some former graduates of the school while trying to come to terms with her guilt over her past failure to speak for a fellow student who was wrongly expelled. During the investigation, a beloved teacher, Ms. Chips, dies. Is it an accident, or is it murder?
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a fair to poor dust jacket. Tommy Hambledon joins the chase when an innocent Londoner flees to Paris, pursued by Soviet agents convinced he has secret plans. 192 pages, bound in blue gray cloth, spine lettering white, pages tanned due to cheap postwar paper used. Dust jacket is worn, chipped wit a big chunk of spine gone.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Narrator Kyle Malachi, writing as Stokes Moran, is a syndicated mystery reviewer working on his first mystery novel. His "beautiful agent, " Lee Holland, convinces him to take a $25, 000 assignment from Playboy to find and interview a reclusive bestselling mystery author. The only clue to Seymour Severe's whereabouts is the New Orleans setting of his books. Kyle goes there, spends some time in a dark gay bar, passes out and wakes up in bed next to a naked, dead boy. He flees back to Connecticut, but Lee convinces him he's been hoaxed and must return to the Crescent City where the puzzle finally assembles itself--without any help from Kyle". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , William Morrow, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Part of the Nicholas Barlow series. When his star author turns up dead and his million-dollar manuscript disappears, publisher Nicholas Barlow helps homicide detective Lt. Scanlon search for clues, with Nick's bedridden brother masterminding the investigation from Connecticut. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the 1991 Edgar Award-winning author of New Orleans Mourning comes a witty mystery featuring writer/sleuth Paul McDonald. When his burglar friend Booker "happens" on part of Mark Twain's original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wants Paul to help find its rightful owner. Clean copy.
Softcover. Greenwich NY, Fawcett, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A paperback original. A very good copy in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued, light wear to extremities, Gold Medal Book #s1083. Stated first printing.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon. Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim. Remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. It's 1855. As the Cardiff-bound trai puffs out of Paddington Station, young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot, designed in the shape of a locomotive, by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man and his precious cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, beside an empty valise, the great railway detective Detective Robert Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; and face awhole host of unexpected problems. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve boards with yellow lettering, maroon cloth spine. 321 pages with a (2) on last page indicating second printing. Quite scarce. Top corner of cover bumped.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care? On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light edgewear and rubbing to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy, protected in clear mylar cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Wilson C. Dexter. Bright gilt-decorated cover, spine faded, stamping to front paste-down otherwise VG.
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.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the victim has been doused in turpentine and set ablaze. Shortly thereafter, a second victim is dealt a similar fate, and Shephard finds himself drawn into a complex mystery involving sex, blackmail and murder that stretches back forty years and that also involves members of his own family. Paper tanning slightly. Clean copy.
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