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Green Light for Deathby: Kane, Frank

Green Light for Death
by: Kane, Frank

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #918.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.

Record # 368657

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Murderers' Rowby: Hamilton, Donald

Murderers' Row
by: Hamilton, Donald

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1246.Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Record # 368704

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Trail of a Trampby: Quarry, Nick

Trail of a Tramp
by: Quarry, Nick

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #824. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Record # 368722

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Wives to Burnby: Blochman, Lawrence G.

Wives to Burn
by: Blochman, Lawrence G.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #134. Cover art by Gerald GreggRear end paper unglued from hinge. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Covers slightly askew.

Record # 368739

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Blood in Your Eyeby: Wilmot, Robert Patrick

Blood in Your Eye
by: Wilmot, Robert Patrick

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #975. Cover art by James Meese. Light creasing to covers.

Record # 368758

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Farewell to the Admiralby: Cheyney, Peter

Farewell to the Admiral
by: Cheyney, Peter

Softcover. New York, Avon Book Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Paperback. Murder Mystery Monthly #30. Moderate soil to wrappers. Creases to rear cover.

Record # 368775

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Yellow Bird: A Doc Adams Mysteryby: Boyer, Rick

Yellow Bird: A Doc Adams Mystery
by: Boyer, Rick

Hardcover. NY, Fawcett Columbine, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 370098

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Death Likes It Hotby: Box (Gore Vidal), Edgar

Death Likes It Hot
by: Box (Gore Vidal), Edgar

Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library, reprint , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pseudonym of Gore Vidal. 1st published in 1954. with a new introduction by him.

Record # 370341

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The Recycled Citizen: A Sarah Kelling Mysteryby: MacLeod, Charlotte

The Recycled Citizen: A Sarah Kelling Mystery
by: MacLeod, Charlotte

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 370361

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Bishop's Pawnby: Perry, Ritchie

Bishop's Pawn
by: Perry, Ritchie

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Enlivened by wit and sarcasm, this fast paced story of international intrigue again features the engagingly irreverent Philis, maverick operative of SR(2), super-secret adjunct of British intelligence." Clean copy.

Record # 370426

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Hurricane Season (SIGNED COPY)by: Friedman, Mickey

Hurricane Season (SIGNED COPY)
by: Friedman, Mickey

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A murder mystery set in Florida in the 1950s. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page.

Record # 370571

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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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At the Hands of Another by: Lyons, Arthur

At the Hands of Another
by: Lyons, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author's 7th private detective Jacob Asch novel. An ex-girlfriend asks Jacob for help proving her husband didn't die of suicide. And then things get complicated.

Record # 371072

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Hang by Your Neckby: Kane, Henry

Hang by Your Neck
by: Kane, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an rubbed, edgeworn and chipped jacket. The third novel in Kane's hardboiled mystery series featuring sophisticated, smart-mouthed NYC private eye, Peter Chambers, this time running an errand for a friend and finding a blonde with a bullet in her head. Paper tanning. Author hams it up on photo on rear panel of dust jacket.

Record # 371234

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QUARRY'S CHOICEby: Max Allan Collins

QUARRY'S CHOICE
by: Max Allan Collins

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man--the ruthless professional known as Quarry can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution. Like new.

Record # 372445

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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 CONFESSIONby: Domenic Stansberry

THE CONFESSION
by: Domenic Stansberry

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell. WINNER OF THE EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL OF THE YEAR! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when Jake's mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it's up to him to prove he didn't do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did? Like new.

Record # 372483

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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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THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEYby: Joyce Carol Oates

THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY
by: Joyce Carol Oates

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her. Like new.

Record # 372652

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The Killer Inside Meby: Thompson, Jim

The Killer Inside Me
by: Thompson, Jim

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.

Record # 374737

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The Criminalby: Jim Thompson

The Criminal
by: Jim Thompson

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page.

Record # 374757

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Whiskey River (Detroit Crime Series #1)by: Loren D. Estleman

Whiskey River (Detroit Crime Series #1)
by: Loren D. Estleman

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.

Record # 378555

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The Anonymous Clientby: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

The Anonymous Client
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. This is the sequel to THE BAXTER TRUST, continuing the story of New Yorker Steve Winslow, a lawyer with only one client.

Record # 378721

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The Silver Locomotive Mystery: The Railway Detective's Puzzling New Case (SIGNED COPY)by: Marston, Edward

The Silver Locomotive Mystery: The Railway Detective's Puzzling New Case (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

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.

Record # 378747

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The H.L. Mencken Murder Caseby: Don Swaim

The H.L. Mencken Murder Case
by: Don Swaim

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1948 is a leap year and a good one for Harry S. Truman. The second-hand book dealers on Manhattan's Fourth Avenue are in full swing. Howard inherits his father's shabby bookshop, but Howard isn't a true bookman, and he knows how little money there is in the business--until a seemingly priceless manuscript falls into his lap. But there's something odd about it. Howard decides to check out his treasure with an acerbic fellow in Baltimore, a man Howard's late father believed could solve all literary problems: H. L. Mencken. The results are deadly. Clean copy.

Record # 378865

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The Spring Cleaning Murders (Ellie Haskell Mystery)by: Cannell, Dorothy

The Spring Cleaning Murders (Ellie Haskell Mystery)
by: Cannell, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell and husband Ben live in Chitterton Fells, where he runs a restaurant and she keeps house, tends their three-year-old twins, and occasionally investigates local murders. While attending a club meeting, Ellie discovers the fallen body of her new chairwoman, immediately suspects murder, and begins some insistent interrogating. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.

Record # 378903

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Fletch

Fletch

Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Fletch, as unbridled as ever and still living the good life in Italy on his ill-gotten fortune, gets a surprising visit from two surly FBI agents. The pair offers him a deal: either he attend the American Journalism Alliance convention and work as an undercover spy for them, or be shipped back to headquarters and face jail time for tax evasion. Reluctantly agreeing to the scheme, he catches a red-eye flight back to the States. But just as rubber hits tarmac in Virginia, news breaks on a murder at the convention. The victim -- a newspaper tycoon and former employer of I. M. Fletch -- was no stranger to enemies. And at a hotel full of reporters who'd all had their dealings with the tyrannical leader, everyone's a suspect.

Record # 379173

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Otherwise Known As Murder: A Mystery Introducing Stokes Moran (SIGNED COPY)by: McGaughey, Neil

Otherwise Known As Murder: A Mystery Introducing Stokes Moran (SIGNED COPY)
by: McGaughey, Neil

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Narrator Kyle Malachi, writing as Stokes Moran, is a syndicated mystery reviewer working on his first mystery novel. His "beautiful agent, " Lee Holland, convinces him to take a $25, 000 assignment from Playboy to find and interview a reclusive bestselling mystery author. The only clue to Seymour Severe's whereabouts is the New Orleans setting of his books. Kyle goes there, spends some time in a dark gay bar, passes out and wakes up in bed next to a naked, dead boy. He flees back to Connecticut, but Lee convinces him he's been hoaxed and must return to the Crescent City where the puzzle finally assembles itself--without any help from Kyle". Clean copy.

Record # 379344

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Sirens & Sinners: A Visual History of Weimar Film 1918-1933by: Hans Helmut Prinzler

Sirens & Sinners: A Visual History of Weimar Film 1918-1933
by: Hans Helmut Prinzler

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Celebrates the height of Weimar cinema through images and commentaries on more than seventy of its finest films Between the First and Second World Wars, Germany under the Weimar Republic was the scene of one of the most creative periods in film history. Through the silent era to the early years of sound, the visual flair and technical innovation of its filmmakers set an international standard for the powerful possibilities of cinema as an art form, with movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Metropolis, and M building a legacy that shaped the world of film. Here is a showcase of more than seventy films, selected to give a wide-ranging overview of Weimar cinema at its finest. Every genre is represented, from escapist comedies and musicals to gritty depictions of contemporary city life, from period dramas to fantastical visions of the future, with themes such as sexuality and social issues tackled by iconic stars like Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks. A wealth of film stills captures the bold vision of great directors like Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, while the text sets the historical scene and gives intriguing insights into what the films meant to the society that created them.

Record # 380760

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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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Ground Moneyby: Burns, Rex

Ground Money
by: Burns, Rex

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This seventh novel in the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series has Wager trying to help one of his childhood heroes, Tommy Sanchez, an aging ex-rodeo star find his two adult sons who may be on the wrong road, endangering themselves and Wager. Clean copy.

Record # 382285

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The Loss of the Culion/Saratoga Swimmer/Dupeby: Jeffrey Ashford/Stephen Dobyns/Liza Cody

The Loss of the Culion/Saratoga Swimmer/Dupe
by: Jeffrey Ashford/Stephen Dobyns/Liza Cody

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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 # 383451

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The Case of the Crimson Kiss/The People on the Hill/The Inside-Out Heist by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Velda Johnston/Thomas B. Reagan

The Case of the Crimson Kiss/The People on the Hill/The Inside-Out Heist
by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Velda Johnston/Thomas B. Reagan

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 # 383796

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The Autumn Dead: A Jack Dwyer Mysteryby: Gorman, Ed

The Autumn Dead: A Jack Dwyer Mystery
by: Gorman, Ed

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Private detective Dwyer agrees to help Karen Lane, his high school crush, to recover a lost suitcase. Still lovely after 25 years, Karen is also greedy for money and status, but the disillusioned Dwyer takes the assignment, which puts his life in danger. When Karen dies suddenly, the detective goes after evidence that she has been murdered, and perhaps others with knowledge of the facts behind the death of their schoolmate, Sonny Howard, whose drowning has been officially declared a suicide. The tensions multiply, with Dwyer baiting a trap for criminals willing to buy the suitcase holding the source of blackmailer Karen's wealth. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385498

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The Devil Knows You're Dead: A Matthew Scudder Mysteryby: Block, Lawrence

The Devil Knows You're Dead: A Matthew Scudder Mystery
by: Block, Lawrence

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Matt Scudder title. SHAMUS AWARD WINNER. Block's recovering alcoholic Matt Scudder is an example of an evolving series character. Once isolated by guilt, angst, and booze, Scudder was the quintessential loner. Now, as his never-ending recovery continues, his world has begun to expand. He has a true friend in Mick Ballou, a sidekick in street urchin T. J., and a lover in former hooker Elaine. Hired by the brother of a mentally handicapped vet accused of the murder of attorney Glenn Holtzmann, Scudder finds that the victim was both less and more than he appeared to be. Much to his surprise--because he loves Elaine--Scudder becomes involved with Holtzmann's widow. The resolution of the case is a logical surprise that will leave readers contemplating an indifferent universe.

Record # 385882

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Texas By the Tailby: Jim Thompson

Texas By the Tail
by: Jim Thompson

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Clean, unread copy. Originally published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, February 1965. To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be the worst of all -- his girlfriend and partner-in-crime Red would double-cross him in a heartbeat if she knew just how short on cash they really were. And if Red ever finds out about the wife Corley neglected to mention, there's a good chance that Corley might not survive the night. At first, Mitch was sure Texas would be the perfect place for him and Red to run their game -- there are players in nearly every back room and side-street across the state and here, the pockets run just a little deeper. But Corley forgot about one thing: Texans don't forgive easily. And there's nothing they hate more than a cheater. Texas by the Tail is a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.

Record # 386287

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New Orleans Mourningby: Smith, Julie

New Orleans Mourning
by: Smith, Julie

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On Mardi Gras, civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant is about to be crowned Rex, King of Carnival, when someone costumed as Dolly Parton shoots him dead from his best friend's balcony overlooking the parade. Is the killer aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Female rookie cop Skip Langdon uncovers a cast of intriguing characters, all as much Chauncey's victims as they are suspects in his murder, most of them inhabiting a "poison garden of corruption" and substance abuse where it's not just on Mardi Gras that everyone wears a mask. The first Skip Langdon Mystery. Clean copy. Edgar Award Wimmer, 1991.

Record # 387525

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Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel (SIGNED COPY)by: Archer Mayor

Three Can Keep a Secret: A Joe Gunther Novel (SIGNED COPY)
by: Archer Mayor

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.

Record # 387936

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The Cross: A Thriller, A Love Story, A Tale of the City (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Mandy Sayer

The Cross: A Thriller, A Love Story, A Tale of the City (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Mandy Sayer

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.

Record # 398259

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Emerald Clasp, Theby: Beeding, Francis

Emerald Clasp, The
by: Beeding, Francis

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.

Record # 405671

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Down on Ponce (SIGNED COPY)by: Willard, Fred

Down on Ponce (SIGNED COPY)
by: Willard, Fred

Softcover. Atlanta GA, Longstreet Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

Record # 450194

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Dancer with One Leg (SIGNED COPY)by: Dobyns, Stephen

Dancer with One Leg (SIGNED COPY)
by: Dobyns, Stephen

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.

Record # 453164

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Hanging Garden, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Rankin, Ian

Hanging Garden, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rankin, Ian

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.

Record # 453202

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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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Basket Case (SIGNED COPY)by: Hiaasen, Carl

Basket Case (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hiaasen, Carl

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.

Record # 602517

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Thirteen (13) Steps Down (SIGNED COPY)by: Rendell, Ruth

Thirteen (13) Steps Down (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rendell, Ruth

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.

Record # 607809

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Million-Dollar Suitcase, Theby: MacGowan, Alice/Perry Newberry

Million-Dollar Suitcase, The
by: MacGowan, Alice/Perry Newberry

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.

Record # 610962

Price: $35.00 
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Little Scarlet (SIGNED COPY)by: Mosley, Walter

Little Scarlet (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mosley, Walter

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.

Record # 807164

Price: $40.00 
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Strong Man, Theby: Keating, H.R.F.

Strong Man, The
by: Keating, H.R.F.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st Eng, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 2097

Price: $12.00 
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Natural Causesby: Valin, Jonathan

Natural Causes
by: Valin, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Congdon & Weed, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 3057

Price: $12.00 
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