Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth stamped in purple, 288 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page. When Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library and Susan Remington has disappeared and her wild cats let loose, Asey Mayo must act quickly to avert the panic sweeping over Quanomet. Very minor fade to spine, otherwise a tight clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and tear. Price clipped. Minor spotting on front flyleaf, title page and dedication page. Clear protective cover and in overall clean condition.
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.
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, 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. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd issue, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper and dedication in ink on inside front cover. The second issue or state of the first edition with "Copyright, 1927, 1928, by Charles Scribner's Sons" on the copyright page. Dust jacket with chipping and wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
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. Two identical twin sisters--one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia--are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn't, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about their husbands that shock and disturb them. THE SECRET LIVES OF MARRIED WOMEN is an intense, psychologically penetrating tale of fears and fantasies, the desires that drive us, and how far men will go for the women they love. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell has had her ups and downs with housekeeper Mrs. Malloy, but she misses her when the corpulent, caustic cleaning lady starts moonlighting in a private detective's office--nosing into his homicide files as she dusts them. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pink lettering on the front cover, the spine with white lettering. Tommy Hambledon's first postwar adventure and it leads him on a dangerous chase around London in a search for money and murderers. Bookplate on inside front cover otherwise clean, no markings.
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.
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. 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. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2014, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a special set of rules: no relationships, no ties...no alcohol, no women...no talking...and never, ever look inside the bag you're carrying. For more than ten years, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder, Paul Page was the perfect bagman. But that ended the day he say a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every one of the rules he's lived by to protect the woman he loves--even if it means he might be left holding the bag. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1958 Thompson classic.
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.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Here collected into a single omnibus volume is Len Deighton's s thrilling "Game, Set, and Match" trilogy. Following Bernard Samson, a middle aged and some WHat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret ServiceBerlin Game, first in the trilogy, featured in the ten best spy novels chosen by The Times in June 2020. This edition contains helpful maps of Berlin not included in the original versions. Due to bulky 857-pages DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (JOHN BANVILLE AS BENJAMIN BLACK) ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 254 pages. Light shelf wear, clean copy. Another Tommy Hambledon thriller, this time the British agent is in Berlin investigating a professor who's developed a new exposive.
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. NY, Dutton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Remainder line top bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Woodstock, VT , Countryman Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A darkly comic mystery in which Chief Supt. Colin Harper hopes to find the missing brains of a bank robbing gang who has gone missing with more than his share of the loot, before the vengeful members of the gang go beyond simply kidnapping their leader's daughter.
Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brown is a pseudonym for an Australian academic. Red boards, yellow dust jacket with black titles. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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