Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on top and fore edge, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, George Doran, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. No colophon on (C) page. Spine cocked.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Meet Ellie Haskell, nee Simons, thin woman, newlywed, potential murderess. Her life in charming Chitterton Fells promises nothing but endless bliss--until she meets two of the most cunning and unlikely private eyes ever to track down a diabolical killer. Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell of Flowers Detection Agency have been called in by a major insurance company to investigate the deplorably high incidence of sudden death among the married men of this picturesque municipality. The spinster sleuths soon discover that all the husbands had been unfaithful and their deaths neatly arranged by an enterprising social organization called The Widows Club. But to find the mastermind behind this insidious ring, the Tramwells need an unhappy and betrayed wife. Enter Ellie, who will endanger life and husband to join The Widows Club and arrange to have her dearly beloved . . . dead. The second Ellie Haskell mystery.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. Exposing the humor in violence and the seamy side of riches, Canning follows the maneuvers of Sir Anthony Swale, an aristocrat who has spent his privileged life in quest of rare art treasures, many of them from behind the Iron Curtain. Small inials on front pastedown otherwise clean in a bright unclipped dust jscket.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Review copy. 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lawyer-sleuth Lennox Kemp becomes involved in a twenty year old murder case, and must discover if secretary Queenie Mangan really died in a fire--and if she didn't, who was the victim?
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. On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it. Like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Anita Carbone was a good girl--and it bored her. That's why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate--a man whose unnatural appetites led to murder. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. So this girl walks into a bar...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list... Like new.
Softcover. Norfolk VA, Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 249 pages. Best-known for her novels, Margaret Millar also wrote a handful of short stories, tales much admired by peers (including her husband Kenneth Millar, who used the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) but never collected in book form. Now Macdonald's biographer Tom Nolan has gathered and introduced those stories in this volume, which includes two all-but-unknown novellas from the 1940s. Here are half-a-dozen exhibits in evidence of the case made by English author and critic H.R.F. Keating, who judged: "No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club , 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in red. 319 pages. Red dyed top edge. Light toning throughout, previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Otherwise clean. A strange epidemic is sweeping the Riviera. In desperation the French authorities call upon Dr Petrie to find an answer. During this crisis, a mysterious siren on the beach captivates Alan Sterling. She tells him her name only ? Fleurette ? and flees. When Petrie's lab cultures show up sleeping sickness and plague, they call in Sir Denis Nayland Smith. It is not long before their investigations lead them to Fleurette ? and to Dr Fu Manchu.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an orange cloth binding. Light shelf wear, soil. By the author of the Fu Manchu stories, this novel is a mixture of romance & secret-service intrigue set amidst the milieu of a vaudeville troupe of the East.
Softcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, Uncorr. Proof wraps, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Uncorrected proof. Like new.The book opens with the disappearance of a man named Franko Bradovich in Kosovo. Franko, a native Montanan posing as a local, was a spy of sorts, an operative who was helping the Lucani (a loose affiliation of DEA, FBI, CIA, etc. agents operating outside the law) bust a drug trafficking scheme from Bulgaria through Kosovo and Serbia to Europe. Franko was living with the family of a farmer named Daliljaj (and was in love with the farmer's daughter Fedima) and an apparently helpful American-raised Slav (Bozi Bazok), who's become part of the Serb army's shock troops, has warned Franko that the army was headed toward them with bloodshed in mind. Later, though, Franko, who's been posing as a drug trafficker, is brought in by local police for questioning and is beaten--making Bazok's helpfulness questionable at best. Either way, Franko can't really afford to stick around. Bazok agrees to help him and, reluctantly, Daliljaj, Fedima, and their relatives, escape the sweep, in exchange for the massive quantities of drugs he believes Franko is hiding. But Bazok betrays him and slaughters Daliljaj and all of Fedima's other family while they wait for Franko to return with transport. When Franko returns, Bazok has disappeared, taking Fedima with him.
Hardcover. Bos, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pseudonym of Gore Vidal. 1st published in 1952. with a new introduction by him.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. When her revenge-hungry ex-husband, Jilly, is unexpectedly released from jail, Ann Kalkadonis fights for her four-year-old daughter's life when the latter is kidnapped by Jilly and a former cellmate.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A Sheriff Milt Kovak mystery, set in Prophesy County, Oklahoma. Clean copy
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.
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. NY, Mysterious Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This first American edition of collected true-crime pieces from the '50s and '60s by the master author of Epitaph for a Spy, Journey Into Fear, The Light of Day et al. belongs on every fan's bookshelves. Ambler's polite, leisurely stroll down memory lane is a delight. He deals with classic villains from England (Jack the Ripper), Scotland (William Burke and William Hare) and France (Marcel Petiot) along with more recent miscreants: England's James Hanratty (1961) and America's Raymond Finch and Carole Tregoff (1960). Ambler also turns his good-natured, sharp eye on film-writing and the pleasures of Maxim's, and there are lovely semifictional pieces on spies and spy-spotting. Especially delicious is the tale of "Annettee" in 1937 Tangier. There's nothing heavy here, and even Ambler's opposition to the death penalty is quietly posited. His new introduction has its share of graceful nuggets, too.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. No dust jacket, hardcover with black slipcase. Purple illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8 color plates throughout by A. Richard Allen. Introduced by Ruth Rendell.
Hardcover. Leipzig, BernhardTauchnitz, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcovers, 3 volumes bound in 2), green cloth with black calf spines, raised bands, gilt lettering. 341, 350, 346 pages. Minor scuff to raised bands on second volume. otherwise clean copies.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Navarro and Briggs mystery. "Missing drawings by a German artist of the '20s and '30s and art masterpieces hidden by the Nazis provide the motive for two murders in this absorbing mystery.A tough female police detective, a triple-crossing dame and an alleged Mafia biggie complicate Navarro's and Briggs's task..."
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-373, 127, 129 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 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.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #479. Mild soil to covers. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #805. Cover art by Milton Charles.Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1948, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #207. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge glue undone in front. Map on rear wrapper.
Softcover. New York, New American Library of World Literature, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Paperback. Signet Book #G5794. Water stain to page block, moderate creasing along spine. Edge wear to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Avon Books Comapany, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #112. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Rubbing to spine.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 107/149 pages. Ace Double Novel #F-125. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned.
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