Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. This time the squadmust recover 32 cadillacs stolen from their largest client by Gypsies to be a casket for their dying king. The result is a fast, furious, funny, nonstop action tale with esoteric Gypsy lore and hard-edged investigation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 3rd Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Kensington Publishing , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady's companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Mysterious intrigue ensues in this series debut. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position. So the community is left stunned when Tarleton, deliberately, walks into the path of a speeding train. He is crushed to death on the track, but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest, fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me, notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning. Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend. In it, Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Young Fletch is less than pleased to be writing a business story, something that's well outside his field of expertise. Eager to get back out on the streets, he quickly compiles what he thinks is a well-executed article, complete with quotes from the chairman of the board's recent memos. But when he fails to do his due diligence when researching the company and its associates, he finds himself in hot water ... and now out of a job. The chairman has been dead for over a year. Realizing his mistake, he visits the widow Bradley to make amends -- and to ask a few simple questions. But her strange demeanor and puzzling answers leave Fletch perplexed. He can't help but wonder: Why would a dead man still be writing memos to his associates? Is he even dead? With his interest now thoroughly piqued, fueled by his desire to get the real story and take back his job, Fletch puts his reporting skills to work as he dives into the mystery surrounding the Bradleys' past.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A gripping whodunnit following the detective Sir Henry Merrivale and the Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. The mystery surrounds a man who has conveniently married four women, each of whom promptly disappear on their honeymoons, before he seems to vanish himself. No dust jacket. Book is very good, no markings. By John Dickson Carr under the pen name Carter Dickson.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, Novel involving dope smuggling, one in which the NY State Police play an important role. Foreword by Gardner on a pathology expert to whom he is dedicating this book, 275 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red, leaves tanned. In a worn and chipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Tommy Habledon is both the pursued and the pursuer in this fascinating bit of international intrigue that starts in Sweden and ends on an island off the coast of Spain. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's/Minotaur Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TAYLOR on title page. Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago. Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before. In the fourth installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, 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, Grove Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 425 pages. Translated by Athena Bell. In the American sector of occupied Berlin, in 1945, a boy discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blond, blue-eyed, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. The bodies of other young women are discovered. American and German authorities must work together if they are to stop the slaughter. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcopver in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The eighth novel in Block's award-winning and critically-praised crime-thriller series featuring New York private detective and recovering alcoholic, Matt Scudder, this time searching for the psychopath who has vowed to kill him -- after he has murdered any woman with any connection, no matter how small, to the detective. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. Actor/detective Granville Haynes and his friends from the notorious bar Mac's Place move through a Washington labyrinth of deceit and murder when the memoirs of Granville's CIA father threaten to come to light. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team-the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)-are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Clean copy.
Softcover. Sydney AU, Angus & Robertson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED BY SAYER on the title page. An inner-city community is under threat from the developers and their crooked friends. One woman leads the battle against them, a battle fought in nightclubs and council chambers, in hotel rooms and high on rooftops. Juanita Neilson disappeared from Kings Cross 20 years ago and became part of an urban legend. This is a fictionalized account of what might have happened to this beautiful woman, campaigner, political journalist and society heiress. Clean copy.
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. 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. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 317 pages, SIGNED BY HIAASEN on half title page. Like new in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers. Previously published in 1921 as a magazine serial by The Curtis Publishing Company under the title: "Two and Two". Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, 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, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. New York City in the boomtown '80s, where fortunes are made with the drop of a dime. The lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. Paddy Adare, a failed boxer turned enforcer for the Irish gangs, and Billy, a college graduate toiling in the tunnels as a sandhog before going to law school. As greed and hatred fuel the fight that is blazing in the streets, honor and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. 1st pub. in 1968 under the psuedonym of Jeffery Hudson,
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 1st book by author, remainder mark bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HENDRICKS. Tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. Indianapolis , Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W plates by Frederic Dorr Steele. Hinges partially cracked, otherwise nice, clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint/BC Ed., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, clean unmarked copy with front gutter crack. In a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
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