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. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Small red ink heart top front end paper, otherwise VG. Dust jacket w/edgewear, chips.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from Swedish by Alan Blair.
Hardcover. NY, World, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1953 under the pseudonym Michael Halliday. A man is blamed for the death of the husband of the woman he loves. Clean copy.
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, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers--the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted athlete herself, she takes pride in successfully competing in a male world. But recently she has been losing prospects on the sign, and her job security is teetering on the edge. When she gets a tip from a close friend and fellow scout about Alberto Cruz, a young phenom in the Dominican Republic, she impulsively catches a flight to Santo Domingo--even though it is out of her territory and she will undoubtedly incur her boss's wrath. If Alberto Cruz is as good as she's been told, the trip will be worth the risk. The risk starts quickly. Not only has Cruz "got it all--the heart, the guts, the aptitude," he may also have "a bad spirit on him." And he's not the only man Cassidy meets on the island who might change her life for good or ill. The other is Joe Galinis, a powerful financier and real estate developer, "one of the most provocative men she has ever met." When Cassidy returns to Los Angeles, she finds herself entangled in a blackmail scheme laced with otherworldly vodou and real-life violence: a tightening triangle of suspicion and deception that leads her to the back rooms (and backstabbing) of high-stakes sports and finance--where she is about to discover that there is a thin line between a competitor and a killer.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages. SIGNED BY GORES ON TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Extremely slight rubbing to boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. The second novel in Friedman's highly-praised mystery-suspense series featuring Georgia Lee Maxwell set in France. Remainder line to top edge. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Congdon & Laffes, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fourth book in highly praised series of Harry Stoner mysteries. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight fading to rear dust jacket panel. Light age toning to top text block edge. Dust jacket in protected plastic sleeve. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, A.L Burt, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Blue covers with black titles, b&w illustrated dust jacket with pink titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Rubbing, edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, dust jacket still very neat with acetate protective covering, pages crisp and unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, remainder stamp on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1905, Hardcover, black cloth with 3-color decoration of horseman's carriage on front cover, red lettering on spine, 372 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with ten plates in b&w by Cyrus Cuneo. Some of the white ink on cover appears to have flaked off. The are 4 lines in pencil on inside front cover. There are several dog-earred pages just before page 300. Otherwise a very nice copy of this first edition by Hornung.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains--but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of the Mob-connected DiPreta family and the Mob thinks maybe Nolan can make it stop. Maybe he can--for a six-figure fee. Originally published as two separate novels (and unavailable in bookstores for 40 years!), DOUBLE DOWN finds Nolan and Jon pursuing the American dream in their inimitable criminal fashion. Flying high off his recent return after more than three decades in SKIM DEEP, Nolan is one of MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins' most unforgettable characters, and DOUBLE DOWN is Nolan at his hard-boiled best. Like new.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages, color frontispiece illustration by Gary Kelley. Deluxe edition by the Franklin Library. Bound in jet black cloth with attractive gilt decorations and titles. Three raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. Printed on high quality, acid free paper. After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.
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. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As Gone With the Wind approaches release, all the stars but Clark Gable prepare to head to Atlanta for the big premiere. Clark and his wife, Carole Lombard, are too distressed to celebrate the opening of the biggest movie of his career because Lydia Austin, a young actress and protege of Carole's, is missing. 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.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #834. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s817. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1910. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to cover wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #193. Chipping to spine edges. Moderate creasing to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. When a legendary freedom fighter is kidnapped, his close friend the Libyan dictator angrily blames the CIA. In retaliation, the Libyans kidnap the U.S. Presidents brother. Enter the Mordida Man--an independent fixer and bribery expert who must find and free the Presidents brother without causing an international incident.
Softcover. New York, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 45. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed. Scarce. Chipped at edges.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 69. Notation in pencil on front cover and first page. Spine lightly cocked. Light wear to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #184. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light paper chipping to spine edge. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #25. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on back. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #218. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #360. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. At the funeral of his Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, only Kinky notices that the body in the casket is not that of John, leading him to solve a mystery with origins in the jungles of Borneo twenty years ago. Bright. clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 356 pages. SIGNED BY CRABBE on the title page. August, 1889. A man lies dead in a darkened construction site near Madison Square Park. The murderer, Jim Tupper, a Mohawk of the Iroquois nation, flees back to the vast Adirondack wilderness. But he has left a trail of death behind, pointing north, straight to where Tom Braddock and his family are vacationing. Worlds collide when Tom's son is caught up in the murder of a young maid at the hotel. To clear him, Tom must capture the killer, whom he believes to be Tupper, launching an epic chase across more than a hundred miles of lakes, rivers, and forest. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on the title page. Discussion of the really bad English and American crime novels of 20th century. Introduction by Ed McBain. Index, bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, reprint, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with light tanning to edges, blue flexible cloth covers with gilt stamping. Blue top edge stain. Introduction by author copyright 1934. Price 95 cents on dust jacket flap. 246 titles on reverse of dust jacket, so NOT the first printing of this edition. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 192 pages. The Woman-Chaser has one of the most interesting plots ever for a crime thriller. Richard Hudson, a crooked, arrogant and vicious car salesman who is really good at his job panics at a meeting of aspiring young reps. He realizes that he is wasting his life in the 9 to 5 grind. It dawns on him that we are on this planet to be creative. So he writes a script with help from his step-father and decides to direct a film based on the script. But when his edited film fails to meet the six reel 90 minute length standard, the studio tries to interfere in the film's future. The crazed car salesman/movie director embarks on a rampage of destruction. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Author's fourth novel, set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. Woodrell reunites the three Shade brothers with their dissolute father. Aged rake and reprobate John X. Shade returns to his native Louisiana bayous, where he reviews his checkered past. Vengeful sociopath Lunch Pumphrey is hot on his trail, bent on recovering $47,000 stored in John X.'s safe, but Shade's young wife has absconded with the money in order to launch her singing career, leaving their daughter, toughly precocious Etta, in her father's care. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace World, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. With minor wear to covers and dust jacket edges.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY COCKEY title page.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CRAIS on title page.
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. Putting his plan in motion to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn't a man at all--she's a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match? Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third installment to Downie's Roman Empire series--the second-century saga of a witty and courageous army surgeon, Gaius Ruso, and his smart and loyal lover, Tilla, a barbarian woman from Britannia--continues in gripping fashion. Ruso returns to his family home in southern Gaul, summoned by a forged letter pleading for his immediate return. Once Ruso and Tilla return, Ruso is thrust into a dangerous quagmire involving a missing ship, huge family debts and, before long, the murder of the family's principal creditor--a crafty phony named Severus--who is poisoned in Ruso's home. While Ruso and his family are quickly suspected of the murder, Ruso and Tilla's attempts to solve the crime are hampered by interfering family members, a lying politician, a greedy banker and a pair of too-eager investigators sent from Rome. Ruso and Tilla must also deal with prejudice, envy and a new religion, Christianity. The plotting is clever and suspenseful, with subtle clues and lots of action, while the setting and supporting cast are vividly drawn. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cape Town SA, Umuzi, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A crime thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR5 on the title page. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army, who've decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. This fifth culinary novel filled with 'five-star' recipes finds Caterer Goldy Schulz called on to prepare a banquet for a cosmetics company who induced animal rights protestors. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Co, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Hardcover with orange stamped lettering. Clean copy. Covers show moderate wear. Gutter cracks throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket spine.
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