Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket featuring a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE--the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment--and of lines that were never meant to be crossed. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The author has signed without inscription on a tipped-in page after front fly leaf. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Huntington Beach, James Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED on title page by Dunning. Originally a paperback in 1981, this is the first hardcover edition. Clean copy. This early standalone novel by Dunning presents a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for a smaller New Jersey paper who has several stories assigned- an Amish woman who becomes a Radio City Rockette, a traveling circus fire that kills an eight year old girl and no one claims the body, and an old FBI investigation of student activists.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-- one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. That is until a cast of mysterious characters descends on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion.. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script.
Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page ("Rodney Wingfield 1990"). The first of the author's Inspector Frost mysteries, originally written in 1972 at the prompting of Macmillan (and spurred on by a non-refundable advance of GBP50), the manuscript was promptly rejected, before eventually being published in Canada in 1984. This UK edition followed some five years later and the Yorkshire Television adoptions staring David Jason appeared soon after. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Lodon, Gollancz , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jane Langton's Homer Kelly mysteries have been delighting readers for over a decade. The bumbling Harvard professor and ex-Boston detective is back, but this time he's venturing far from his usual New England stomping grounds--all the way to Florence, Italy. Sprinkled with brain-teasing clues from Dante's masterpiece, The Dante Game is a suspenseful romp in one of the world's most divine settings.
Softcover. NY, International Polygonics, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages. Known for her hard-boiled mystery plots combined with screwball comedy, Georgiana 'Craig' Rice was the author of twenty-three novels, six of them posthumous, numerous short stories, and some true crime pieces. In the 1940s she rivaled Agatha Christie in sales and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, over the past sixty years she has fallen into relative obscurity. This mystery was first published in 1942. The murder of a show biz midget whom everybody feared and hated brings lots of plot twists and goofy suspects. Lots of surprises. Great fun. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast-a secret mission, a dark voyage. A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa.
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.
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. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. When her father is detained at Heathrow Airport for smuggling, Louise Gerard and her friend Edward Cole investigate, leading to a chase through Paris that forces Louise to realize just how much she does know about the smuggling ring. Clean copy.
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. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow mystery author Barry Estabrook on title page. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective Joe LaLuna, 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. Clean copy
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McBAIN on the half-title page. A Florida orange grower visits the Big Apple and stumbles into twenty-four hours of wild and funny trouble, finding himself robbed, framed for murder, and hunted by an assassin. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An English mystery Introducing Alison Hope and Nick Trevellyan. Rural Hop Valley plays host to a small group of well-drawn characters, most of whom gather at Hope's open house only to find themselves suspect in the bludgeon murder of Hope's cousin late that night. 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, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Rose color cloth with blue design. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Tight copy. Soil on rear cover.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous charts, illustrations and photos in b&w. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. "Signed copy"-sticker on front cover. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, May 31, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover, 286 pages. Small stain on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TILE PAGE. Book and dust jacket show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Covici, Friede, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with title in silver on spine, minor rubbing to edges. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy of this scarce title. There's a distinct lack of glamour to this first Maigret mystery. In itself that's interesting as this is a story centered on an international con-man and an American investor in one of the finest hotels in Paris.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. Orange cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine, black illustrated dust jacket. Clean covers, slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st book, SIGNED BY ERMELINO. Stamped #s on front end paper, & half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title-page. Tight copy with only minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Ballantine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. SIGNED BY GOODMAN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, black spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Unmarked boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned to the school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And young, troubled girls are beginning to die again-as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf, otherwise VG.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In the fifth of Dianne Day's acclaimed mysteries, the intrepid Fremont's first joint sleuthing adventure with her partner, Michael, has explosive consequences that almost prove fatal for them both. Fremont Jones and her "partner in love and work," Michael Archer, have been hired to look into a series of petty vandalisms plaguing the Southern Pacific Railroad. They are riding a train incognito when it is blown to smithereens just east of Salt Lake City. Michael, luckily, suffers only a broken collarbone, but Fremont simply disappears. Holding stubbornly to the belief that she is still alive, Michael sets out to find her.
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.
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