Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site--and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it...and with their lives? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. 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. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Arthur Suydam. THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION. For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren't actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived--but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved--or to lose her for good. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one--by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was ever running into her again. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Who died at High Beck Cottage? Two old ladies had lived there for so long that friends foundit difficult to tell them apart. One was murdered- the other one vanished. A young girl comes from America to unravel the plot. One of the ladies may be her aunt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. When out-of-work lawyer Steve Winslow enlists himself as a New York City cab driver to pay the bills, he thinks he's hit rock-bottom. That is until Sheila Benton, heir to a multimillion dollar fortune, finds his number in the yellow pages and calls upon Steve to defend her. Of course her case is only a minor one. It seems that a blackmailer was found in her apartment in an uncomfortable position -- with a knife in his back.
Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective JoeLaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Meet Ellie Haskell, nee Simons, thin woman, newlywed, potential murderess. Her life in charming Chitterton Fells promises nothing but endless bliss--until she meets two of the most cunning and unlikely private eyes ever to track down a diabolical killer. Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell of Flowers Detection Agency have been called in by a major insurance company to investigate the deplorably high incidence of sudden death among the married men of this picturesque municipality. The spinster sleuths soon discover that all the husbands had been unfaithful and their deaths neatly arranged by an enterprising social organization called The Widows Club. But to find the mastermind behind this insidious ring, the Tramwells need an unhappy and betrayed wife. Enter Ellie, who will endanger life and husband to join The Widows Club and arrange to have her dearly beloved . . . dead. The second Ellie Haskell mystery.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Ms. Moxie Mooney is Hollywood royalty--and she's in trouble. At the summons of his on-again, off-again lover, Fletch drops in on Moxie's film set, located in sunny Florida. If being called up for help by the box office beauty isn't work enough, Steve Peterman, Moxie's sleazy manager, is murdered while the cameras are rolling, and no one managed to see a thing. Despite the obvious lack of evidence, the rumor mill is still quick to churn up a potentially plausible suspect: Moxie. Realizing the need for a little R&R away from prying eyes, he hastily flies Moxie and her drunken father off to Key West. But trouble follows Fletch, in every sense of the word, and soon enough he's playing host to a full house of Hollywood's brightest.I n true Fletch style, he delves into the investigation, dodging police inquiry, betting on race horses, taking a leisurely sail, and talking up his elite houseguests to get the dirt and solve this perplexing murder.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED BY FRANCIS on half-title page. Clean copy. Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood.
Softcover. NY, Dell, 1st pbk., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Dell #181. No marking, minor wear to covers, map on rear cover. Laminate peeling in rear. Pages light toning. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 359 pages. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The second and hardest-to-find book in Jackson's highly-praised mystery-crime series featuring Detroit Detective Sgt. Fang Mulheisen, this time dealing with the murders of five railroad trainmen in a spectacular freight train crash and a hijacked boxcar loaded with automatic rifles as well as several distractions such as a dozen Cuban revolutionaries, a greedy mob boss and a luscious Polish housewife. Light tan spotting area to front fly leaf and front board. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. 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, St Martins Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Richard Coburn, the despised co-owner of the fashionable Avanti nightclub, is shot to death, his widow, sultry Dierdre Coburn, hires Dwyer to investigate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 356 pages. SIGNED BY CRABBE on the title page. August, 1889. A man lies dead in a darkened construction site near Madison Square Park. The murderer, Jim Tupper, a Mohawk of the Iroquois nation, flees back to the vast Adirondack wilderness. But he has left a trail of death behind, pointing north, straight to where Tom Braddock and his family are vacationing. Worlds collide when Tom's son is caught up in the murder of a young maid at the hotel. To clear him, Tom must capture the killer, whom he believes to be Tupper, launching an epic chase across more than a hundred miles of lakes, rivers, and forest. Clean 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. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 353 pages. A lonely veteran's gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man's pocket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press loves the story and they have collectively dubbed the burglar the Tag Man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. In this unique blend of historical fiction and cutting-edge suspense, author Diane Wei Liang succeeds in delivering an incredible mystery veiled behind the red curtain of contemporary Chinese life and culture. Set in Beijing "The Eye of Jade" introduces readers to the enigmatic Mei Wang, the country's first successful female private investigator, and her struggle to uncover the location of a rare and treasured artifact that is believed to have been absconded from the Luoyang Museum during the Cultural Revolution. For Wang this is a task of special importance, and can only stand to make her later life and reputation glimmer, but as she soon finds in the back alleys, this is not going to be easy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Little Brown and Co. , 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, black cloth covers with red lettering. Nice, clean copy of the novel which the Hitchcock film "Spellbound" is based.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, acetate-protected dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket, overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. 342 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. A Kat Colorado mystery.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers with silver titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. No wear to dust jacket or covers, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by BALDACCI.
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.
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