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Soft Moneyby: Wishnia, K. J. A.

Soft Money
by: Wishnia, K. J. A.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp to top edge.

Record # 105991

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Dream of Darknessby: Ruell (Reginald Hill), Patrick

Dream of Darkness
by: Ruell (Reginald Hill), Patrick

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 200171

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Double Downby: Kakonis, Tom

Double Down
by: Kakonis, Tom

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.

Record # 461962

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Dover Beats the Bandby: Porter, Joyce

Dover Beats the Band
by: Porter, Joyce

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 60457

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The Axeman's Jazzby: Smith, Julie

The Axeman's Jazz
by: Smith, Julie

Hardcover. NY, St, Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 370221

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Astride a Graveby: James, Bill

Astride a Grave
by: James, Bill

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.

Record # 300546

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Case of Thomas N., Theby: Morley, John David

Case of Thomas N., The
by: Morley, John David

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 108519

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Curses!by: Elkins, Aaron

Curses!
by: Elkins, Aaron

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 2867

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I Spy, You Dieby: Brown, Hosanna

I Spy, You Die
by: Brown, Hosanna

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.

Record # 200186

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What Bloody Man Is That?by: Brett, Simon

What Bloody Man Is That?
by: Brett, Simon

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 57990

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Assize of the Dying, Theby: Pargeter, Edith

Assize of the Dying, The
by: Pargeter, Edith

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket.

Record # 8784

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Exit the Milkman: A Peter Shandy Mysteryby: MacLeod, Charlotte

Exit the Milkman: A Peter Shandy Mystery
by: MacLeod, Charlotte

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 370360

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Kaddish In Dublinby: Brady, John

Kaddish In Dublin
by: Brady, John

Hardcover. Toronto, HarperCollins, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 8742

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Michigan Rollby: Kakonis, Tom

Michigan Roll
by: Kakonis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's 1st book.

Record # 7598

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Paramourby: Petievich, Gerald

Paramour
by: Petievich, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While helping conceal a suicide in the White House, Secret Service agent Jack Powers uncovers a high-level espionage ring involving the president's mistress. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 370427

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Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and Other Storiesby: Fraser, Antonia

Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and Other Stories
by: Fraser, Antonia

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 370344

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Right Madness, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Crumley, James

Right Madness, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Crumley, James

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456362

Price: $40.00 
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Always a Body to Trade: A Mario Balzic Mysteryby: Constantine, K.C.

Always a Body to Trade: A Mario Balzic Mystery
by: Constantine, K.C.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 370585

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Sizeby: Gray, A.W.

Size
by: Gray, A.W.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 1253

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The Burglar Who Studied Spinozaby: Block, Lawrence

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
by: Block, Lawrence

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Tan boards, black cloth spine with silver titles, red dust jacket with color illustration and acetate protective covering. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, spine very stiff and tight, covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 806997

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Edsel: A Novel of Detroitby: Estleman, Loren D.

Edsel: A Novel of Detroit
by: Estleman, Loren D.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A hard-hitting tale of power-hungry executives, self-righteous union bosses, ruthless mobsters, and the biggest flop ever to roll off a Motor City assembly line.

Record # 370900

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The Harness of Death by: Sykes, W. Stankey

The Harness of Death
by: Sykes, W. Stankey

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. First Edition of the author's second book. 8vo. 290 pages. Pale green endpapers have pencilled numbers, front hinge starting. Shelf-worn copy.

Record # 371070

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Career In C Major And Other Fiction by: Cain James M.

Career In C Major And Other Fiction
by: Cain James M.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Previously uncollected short fiction; "Career in C Major" appears here for the first time in hardcover book. Edited & introduced by Roy Hoopes.

Record # 371222

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The Franchise Affair by: Josephine Tey

The Franchise Affair
by: Josephine Tey

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st illust. thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth in a slipcase. 254 pages, 10 b&w illustrations by Paul Hogarth. Introduction by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1948. This is the story of an investigation of a kidnapping of a young woman and the abuse by a mother and daughter who live in a house called The Franchise. The young woman gives a detailed description of the attic room where she was supposedly kept and abused, but, Inspector Alan Grant of the Scotland Yard is not so sure.

Record # 387680

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"L" is for Lawless (SIGNED COPY)by: Grafton, Sue

"L" is for Lawless (SIGNED COPY)
by: Grafton, Sue

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Record # 360841

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Jigsaw/The Spoilers/She Was Only the Sheriff's Daughter by: McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter)/ Desmond Bagley/Stanton Forbes

Jigsaw/The Spoilers/She Was Only the Sheriff's Daughter
by: McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter)/ Desmond Bagley/Stanton Forbes

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.

Record # 383792

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Solomons Seal/The Wizard's Daughter/Raven and the Paperhangersby: Hammond Innes/Barbara Michaels/Donald Mackenzie

Solomons Seal/The Wizard's Daughter/Raven and the Paperhangers
by: Hammond Innes/Barbara Michaels/Donald Mackenzie

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.

Record # 383450

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Killers are my Meatby: Drum, Chester

Killers are my Meat
by: Drum, Chester

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #693. Cover art by Gerry Powell. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Cover has embossed markings from pencil markings on front cover.

Record # 368695

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Web of Murderby: Whittington, Harry

Web of Murder
by: Whittington, Harry

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #740. Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Record # 368713

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Deadly Belovedby: Ard, William

Deadly Beloved
by: Ard, William

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1958, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #991. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Record # 368731

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Loving and the Dead, Theby: Brown, Carter

Loving and the Dead, The
by: Brown, Carter

Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #1654. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light crease to covers. A Carter Borwn Mystery Series.

Record # 368751

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Just So Farby: Miller, Floyd

Just So Far
by: Miller, Floyd

Softcover. New York, Popular LIbrary, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Eagle Book #EB96. Spine edge tanned. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to cover wrappers.

Record # 368767

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Cripple Creek: A Novel by: James Sallis

Cripple Creek: A Novel
by: James Sallis

Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Sallis's beautifully written second book to feature Turner, an ex-cop and ex-con (after 2004's Cypress Grove), Turner is working as a deputy sheriff in Cripple Creek, Tenn., a small town where crime is minor and strictly local. Then, late one night, Sheriff Don Lee arrests drunk driver Judd Kurtz with $200,000 in a nylon gym bag hidden in the trunk of his car. Kurtz breaks out of the town jail, seriously wounding two officers in the process. Turner's investigation leads him to an organized crime connection in nearby Memphis that enmeshes him in a web of escalating violence.

Record # 379069

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Murder Can't Stopby: Ballard, W.T.

Murder Can't Stop
by: Ballard, W.T.

Softcover. New York, Graphic Publications, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. A Graphic Mystery # 26. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Light chipping to spine and edges.

Record # 368524

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Little Trampby: Brewer, Gil

Little Tramp
by: Brewer, Gil

Softcover. Greenwich, CN, Crest Book/Fawcett Publications, 2nd, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Fawcett/Crest #173. Light rubbing to edges, spine shows moderate wear. Ink notation on first page. Tight.

Record # 368541

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D.A. Calls it Murder, Theby: Gardner, Erle Stanley

D.A. Calls it Murder, The
by: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 6th, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #263. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Rear wrapper abrasion to first layer of paper wrapper.

Record # 368559

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Murder and the Married Virgin: A Mike Shayne Mysteryby: Halliday, Brett

Murder and the Married Virgin: A Mike Shayne Mystery
by: Halliday, Brett

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #5932. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Record # 368577

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Corpse Came Calling, The: A Michael Shayne Mysteryby: Halliday, Brett

Corpse Came Calling, The: A Michael Shayne Mystery
by: Halliday, Brett

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #168. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Map on back.

Record # 368597

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Recipe for Homicideby: Blochman, Lawrence G.

Recipe for Homicide
by: Blochman, Lawrence G.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #833. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. First page partially separated.

Record # 368621

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Stacked Deckby: Kane, Frank

Stacked Deck
by: Kane, Frank

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by robert McGinnis.

Record # 368643

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Crooking Finger, Theby: Adams, Cleve F.

Crooking Finger, The
by: Adams, Cleve F.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #104. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Frot wrapper is separated from spine. Pencil notation to first page.

Record # 368662

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Double for Death - A Tecumsen Fox Mystery by: Stout, Rex

Double for Death - A Tecumsen Fox Mystery
by: Stout, Rex

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with spotting, light soil to cover, chips to corners. 1" stain along bottom edge of rear panel.

Record # 105561

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Blood Sugar (SIGNED COPY)by: DeFilippi, Jim

Blood Sugar (SIGNED COPY)
by: DeFilippi, Jim

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

Record # 385913

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille Reporter  by: Leroux, Gaston

The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille Reporter
by: Leroux, Gaston

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, frontis. with tissue guard., 277 pages. Original blind decorated black cloth with embossed illustration to front board. A mystery novel by the author of The Phantom of the Opera, one of the first in the 'locked room' sub-genre, first published in 1908 by Daily Mail (UK) and Brentano's (US) (Adey [Locked Room Murders] 1201). It has been adapted to film several times. The S.S. Van Dine Detective Library edition. Name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386849

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The Last Good Kissby: James Crumley

The Last Good Kiss
by: James Crumley

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares. aclean copy.

Record # 374752

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Cut Numbers by: Tosches, Nick

Cut Numbers
by: Tosches, Nick

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle.

Record # 387305

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Prayers for Rain by: Lehane, Dennis

Prayers for Rain
by: Lehane, Dennis

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. Clean copy.

Record # 396446

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Hunting Season (SIGNED COPY)by: Barr, Nevada

Hunting Season (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 title page. Autographed copy sticker on dust jacket front cover.

Record # 358844

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Fallen, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Parker, T. Jefferson

Fallen, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Parker, T. Jefferson

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456475

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Brokenby: Don Winslow

Broken
by: Don Winslow

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, pulse-pounding, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway. With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction. Clean copy.

Record # 379250

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