Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim. Remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.
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.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve boards with yellow lettering, maroon cloth spine. 321 pages with a (2) on last page indicating second printing. Quite scarce. Top corner of cover bumped.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Edward Gorey.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care? On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light edgewear and rubbing to pictorial dust jacket, else a very neat, tight copy, protected in clear mylar cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Wilson C. Dexter. Bright gilt-decorated cover, spine faded, stamping to front paste-down otherwise VG.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover - and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay. Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Block was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America, their highest honor. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the victim has been doused in turpentine and set ablaze. Shortly thereafter, a second victim is dealt a similar fate, and Shephard finds himself drawn into a complex mystery involving sex, blackmail and murder that stretches back forty years and that also involves members of his own family. Paper tanning slightly. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Here collected into a single omnibus volume is Len Deighton's s thrilling "Game, Set, and Match" trilogy. Following Bernard Samson, a middle aged and some WHat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret ServiceBerlin Game, first in the trilogy, featured in the ten best spy novels chosen by The Times in June 2020. This edition contains helpful maps of Berlin not included in the original versions. Due to bulky 857-pages DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (JOHN BANVILLE AS BENJAMIN BLACK) ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 254 pages. Light shelf wear, clean copy. Another Tommy Hambledon thriller, this time the British agent is in Berlin investigating a professor who's developed a new exposive.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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