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The Green Ice Murdersby: Whitfield, Raoul

The Green Ice Murders
by: Whitfield, Raoul

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #46, digest size with pictorial wraps. 124 pages. Hardboiled detective novel by Black Mask author about a guy released from prison for a crime he didn't commit & determined to go out after the big shot criminals who prey on the little guys. Mild creasing, soil to covers.

Record # 360113

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Manhunt is my Missionby: Marlowe, Stephen

Manhunt is my Mission
by: Marlowe, Stephen

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1116. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Record # 368706

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Nice Guys Finish Deadby: Conroy, Albert

Nice Guys Finish Dead
by: Conroy, Albert

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1079. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge is cracked and separated from spine.

Record # 368724

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Death in the Doll's Houseby: Lees, Hannah; Bachmann, Lawrence

Death in the Doll's House
by: Lees, Hannah; Bachmann, Lawrence

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1943, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #356. Cover art from the movie "Shadow on the Wall".Pencil notations and numbers on first pages. Light creasing to paper wrappers.Map on rear wrapper. Moderate creasing and wear to wrappers.

Record # 368741

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Hearse of Another Color, Aby: Chaber, M.E.

Hearse of Another Color, A
by: Chaber, M.E.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 145 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1259. Cover art by James Meese. Ink notationon first pge. Light creasing to spine and covers.

Record # 368760

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Talent for Murderby: Benton, John L.

Talent for Murder
by: Benton, John L.

Softcover. New York, Green Dragon Books, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Cover art by Hoffman. Light soil, wear and corner crease. First few pages separated from glued binding. Fragile.

Record # 368777

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Odd Woman Out - The Brass Shroudby: Linklater, Joseph; Cassiday, Bruce

Odd Woman Out - The Brass Shroud
by: Linklater, Joseph; Cassiday, Bruce

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 143/177 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-285. Previous owner's markings on first page of each novel. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Record # 368514

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Cairo Garter Murders, Theby: Mason, Van Wyck

Cairo Garter Murders, The
by: Mason, Van Wyck

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Scarce copy.

Record # 368532

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Restless Hands, Theby: Fischer, Bruno

Restless Hands, The
by: Fischer, Bruno

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #833. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Reading crease to spine.

Record # 368549

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Never Walk Alone (The Case of the Dowager's Etching)by: King, Rufus

Never Walk Alone (The Case of the Dowager's Etching)
by: King, Rufus

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 362. Art by Rudolph Belarski. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pencil markings on rear wrapper.

Record # 368565

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Too Friendly, Too Dead: A Mike Shayne Mysteryby: Halliday, Brett

Too Friendly, Too Dead: A Mike Shayne Mystery
by: Halliday, Brett

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #8949. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Record # 368583

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Five Passengers from Lisbonby: Eberhart, Mignon G.

Five Passengers from Lisbon
by: Eberhart, Mignon G.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library, rep., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #SP407. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Markings on top page block.

Record # 368603

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Death Comes Earlyby: Cox, William R.

Death Comes Early
by: Cox, William R.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover and corner. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.

Record # 368630

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Angel's Ransomby: Dodge, David

Angel's Ransom
by: Dodge, David

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D304. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Record # 368652

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The Cornermen by: John Gardner

The Cornermen
by: John Gardner

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A Scotland Yard procedural with the New York Mafia moving in on a pair of psychotic London supercriminals, the Magnus cousins, modeled on the infamous real-life Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. The lead is Detective Inspector Derek Torry, a lapsed Catholic whose fiancee dumps him because of his guilts (he hasn't bedded her once in their two-year engagement). Soon Torry is making it with Jenny, a suspect in a triple bomb-murder, whose former boyfriend was arrested at Dover for smuggling 150 pounds of heroin into the country in his Bentley (she tipped the coppers). Vendettas explode left and right. Clean copy.

Record # 385500

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Casino Royale by: Fleming, Ian

Casino Royale
by: Fleming, Ian

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in black cloth with red heart on front cover, red lettering to spine, stated "First Published 1953" on copyright with no other printings indicated. No dust jacket. Aside from two flaws this copy is a very good-fine copy. There is a light price sticker shadow to front fly leaf. The second flaw is scraping to the bottom fore-edge of front cover., exposing the board underneath. More detailed close-ups available on request. Otherwise a bright, tight copy of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.

Record # 385884

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Heed the Thunderby: Jim Thompson

Heed the Thunder
by: Jim Thompson

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.

Record # 386286

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A Hell of a Womanby: Thompson, Jim

A Hell of a Woman
by: Thompson, Jim

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 185 pages. Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her.

Record # 374739

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The Long Lavender Lookby: John D. MacDonald

The Long Lavender Look
by: John D. MacDonald

Softcover. NY, Fawcett Gold Medal, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 255 pages. A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call southern hospitality...? Mild wear to covers, otherwise VG, clean.

Record # 374759

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Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Archer Mayor

Proof Positive: A Joe Gunther Novel (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Archer Mayor

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MAYOR on the title page. Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling his house with an ever-increasing amount of stuff, until finally, the piles collapsed and he was found dead, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what at first glance looks to be a tragic accidental death of a hoarder, may be something much more-and much deadlier. Ben's cousin, medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, unsettled by the circumstances of his death, alerts Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team. Clean copy.

Record # 387930

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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice/.../I Married a Dead Manby: Robert Polito (Ed.) Robert,McCoy, Horace, Fearing, Kennet

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice/.../I Married a Dead Man
by: Robert Polito (Ed.) Robert,McCoy, Horace, Fearing, Kennet

Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.

Record # 397912

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Blind Descent (SIGNED COPY)by: Barr, Nevada

Blind Descent (SIGNED COPY)
by: Barr, Nevada

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 prelim page.

Record # 358843

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Alley Kat Blues (SIGNED COPY)by: Kijewski, Karen

Alley Kat Blues (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kijewski, Karen

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.

Record # 607807

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QUARRY IN THE BLACKby: Max Allan Collins

QUARRY IN THE BLACK
by: Max Allan Collins

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for. Like new.

Record # 372455

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Advice Limited: A Series of Storiesby: Oppenheim, E. Phillips

Advice Limited: A Series of Stories
by: Oppenheim, E. Phillips

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Eleven stories featuring detective Baroness Clara Linz.

Record # 407439

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The Lost Manuscriptby: Rubem Fonseca

The Lost Manuscript
by: Rubem Fonseca

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated card wrappers. What better place to hide a collection of priceless jewels than among the glitter and ostrich feathers of Rio's Carnival parade? The film-director narrator suddenly finds himself the custodian of such a valuable horde after the nocturnal visit of a young dancer who is soon found murdered. First published in 1988, the novel was a bestseller in Fonseca's home country of Brazil, as well as in Italy and Mexico. The English edition I read was published in 1997 in Britain, translated by Clifford Sanders.

Record # 378882

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Skin Tight by: Carl Hiaasen

Skin Tight
by: Carl Hiaasen

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The third Florida based thriller from this highly praised author: Hillerman called him "the Mark Twain of the crime novel" and Elmore Leonard described this book as "the funniest I've read in a long,long time." In this book, he skewers the cosmetic surgery industry.

Record # 379555

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SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENTby: Max Allan Collins

SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT
by: Max Allan Collins

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. COMIC BOOKS ARECORRUPTING AMERICA'S YOUTH! Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe--people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books." And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr--comics syndicate troubleshooter--has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader...? Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT pulls back the curtain for an insider's view of the history of comics--and features more than a dozen brand new illustrations in the classic EC style by comic book legend Terry Beatty. Like new.

Record # 372545

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Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (SIGNED COPY)by: Brown, Russell A.

Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brown, Russell A.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN on the half-title page. An historical mystery based on and incorporating writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Clean copy.

Record # 378762

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The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novelby: Dunning, John

The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel
by: Dunning, John

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expensive pieces remain. Why would a thief take one priceless book and leave an equally valuable volume on the shelf? Suspecting foul play, Janeway follows the trail of Candice's shadowy past to California's Golden Gate and Santa Anita racetracks, where he signs on as a racehorse hot walker. Eavesdropping on the chatter among the hands, he doesn't like what he hears. And when he goes to the house where Candice died to look for answers, Janeway finds much more than he bargained for.

Record # 378763

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Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (SIGNED COPY)by: Mayor, Archer

Fruits of the Poisonous Tree (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mayor, Archer

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.

Record # 356944

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American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900by: Matthews, Frederick C.

American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900
by: Matthews, Frederick C.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850674

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Raptor: A Novel of Suspense (SIGNED COPY)by: Gieson, Judith Van

Raptor: A Novel of Suspense (SIGNED COPY)
by: Gieson, Judith Van

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.

Record # 469847

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Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters by:

Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters
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Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language. Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naive young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler's most savage portrayal of his adopted city. The Long Goodbye (1953), his most ambitious and self-revealing novel, uncovers a more anguished resonance in the Marlowe character, in a plot that hinges on the betrayal of friendship and the compromises of middle age. Playback (1958), written originally as a screenplay, is Chandler's seventh and last novel. A special feature of this volume is Chandler's long-unavailable screenplay for the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944), adapted from James M. Cain's novel. Written with director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best screenplays in American cinema, masterful in construction and dialogue. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler's personality, is a selection of letters and essays--including "The Simple Art of Murder," in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and on the special qualities of his hero and style. 1076 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 378973

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QUARRY'S VOTEby: Max Allan Collins

QUARRY'S VOTE
by: Max Allan Collins

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. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences, too. Like new.

Record # 372443

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MONEY SHOTby: Christa Faust

MONEY SHOT
by: Christa Faust

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she'd been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she'll get to the bottom of what's been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way. First publication anywhere! First female author in the history of Hard Case Crime Rolling Stone on MONEY SHOT: "An instant pulp classic." Bloomberg News on MONEY SHOT: "Christa Faust's MONEY SHOT has to be an early contender for mystery debut of the year...MONEY SHOT has no peer in hardboiled writing about the sex industry." Like new.

Record # 372660

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The Burry Man's Day: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY)by: Catriona McPherson

The Burry Man's Day: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Catriona McPherson

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCPHERSON on the title page. The author's second murder mystery story featuring Dandy Gilver. Clean, like new.

Record # 378728

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Bridesmaid Revisited (Ellie Haskell Mystery)by: Cannell, Dorothy

Bridesmaid Revisited (Ellie Haskell Mystery)
by: Cannell, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell visits three elderly women, the bridesmaids from her late grandmother's wedding, who have informed her that her grandmother needs to communicate a message to her from beyond the grave.

Record # 378905

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Final Count, Theby: McNeile, H. C.

Final Count, The
by: McNeile, H. C.

Hardcover. New York, Doran, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Hardcover. Clean, bright copy. Lacks Dust jacket. Bulldog Drummond adventure.

Record # 304047

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Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mystery)by: Cannell, Dorothy

Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mystery)
by: Cannell, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie and Ben Haskell, along with their employee Mrs. Malloy, travel to Cragstone House in Yorkshire after Ariel Hopkins, daughter of Ben's cousin, Tom, asks for Ellie's help in investigating the strange, somewhat ghostly goings-on at the gothic manor. Tom and his wife, Betty, recently purchased the manor from the financially strapped Lady Fiona after they won the lottery. Betty is convinced Lady Fiona murdered her husband, who has disappeared. With the cook laid up with an injured ankle, Ben takes over the cooking, and Ellie handles the investigating. Ellie's life becomes more complicated when Ben meets up with an old girlfriend, and it seems the flame has been rekindled. Humor, quirky characters, and gothic underpinnings. The 12th Ellie Haskell mystery.

Record # 378904

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The Satan Sampler by: Canning, Victor

The Satan Sampler
by: Canning, Victor

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages. When Richard inherits the family estate in Herefordshire, he finds it has been leased to a charitable organization which is not as it seems. Attempting to break the lease, he is endangered by a sinister intelligence organization. Clean, very good in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Record # 370093

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Double Agent, Theby: Teilhet, Hildegarde Tolman

Double Agent, The
by: Teilhet, Hildegarde Tolman

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

Record # 104978

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Perfume of the Lady in Black, Theby: Leroux, Gaston

Perfume of the Lady in Black, The
by: Leroux, Gaston

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages, decorated yellow cloth cover. Gutter cracked at title page, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 512413

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HONEY IN HIS MOUTHby: Lester Dent

HONEY IN HIS MOUTH
by: Lester Dent

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Ron Lesser. If you were small-time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you'd listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble. You'd pay attention when the dictator's sultry mistress started putting the moves on you. And in the dead of night, when no one was watching, you might just hatch a plot to get it all for yourself: the money, the girl, and the stash of stolen loot she's conspiring to spirit out of the country. Like new.

Record # 372503

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Glass Cage, The - An Unconventional Detective Storyby: Wilson, Colin

Glass Cage, The - An Unconventional Detective Story
by: Wilson, Colin

NY, Random House , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges.

Record # 509426

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UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATHby: Charles Willeford

UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATH
by: Charles Willeford

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out--and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era. On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime published Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford's rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut. Like new.

Record # 372465

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THE DEAD MAN'S BROTHERby: Roger Zelazny

THE DEAD MAN'S BROTHER
by: Roger Zelazny

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough--but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger. Now the CIA is offering to clear up the murder charge, but only in return for a favor: They want Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the trail of a renegade priest who has gone missing with millions in church funds. What's the connection? The priest's lover, a woman Ovid knew in his smuggling days. Like new.

Record # 372482

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Hit List (SIGNED COPY)by: Block, Lawrence

Hit List (SIGNED COPY)
by: Block, Lawrence

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.

Record # 358835

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Black Heart, Theby: Horler, Sydney

Black Heart, The
by: Horler, Sydney

Hardcover. New York, Crime Club/Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, orange cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, small soil smudge to rear cover. Otherwise, very good.

Record # 403008

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Death Of An Ambassadorby: Manning Coles

Death Of An Ambassador
by: Manning Coles

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. 189 pages, a Tommy Hambledon mystery, some fading to dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 381909

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