Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.
Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket featuring a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE--the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment--and of lines that were never meant to be crossed. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. $8.95 on front flap; Higgins 5th novel; minor shelf rubbing at extremities of dust jacket. Deke Hunter is a Massachusetts State Police plainclothesman. He proves that through hard work, bumbling and pure luck, he can sometimes, surprisingly, produce justice. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970--and one that's never been published until now. Lost for more than 75 years, THE KNIFE SLIPPED was meant to be the second book in the series but got shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities --however shocking for 1939--shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists. Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
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. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters--so jail is where Harold Kunt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose. HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the MWA Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law--Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Like new.
Hardcover. Tucson AZ, Dennis McMillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Firmly rooted in the hard-boiled tradition, these 13 stories from Phillips showcase the cool exuberance of black Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk, whose family connections tend to prod him into taking cases no one in his right mind would investigate. Nostalgia is a recurrent theme, as in "Through the Fog Softly," which introduces Monk's father, Josiah Monk, as a soldier in Korea, and in Monk's love of 1950s and '60s cars. Some tales verge on fantasy, such as "The King Alfred Plan," which imagines a scheme to round up blacks into concentration camps. A pseudo-screenplay, "Bring Me the Head of Osama Bin-Laden," is the weakest effort in an otherwise strong collection. At his best, Monk displays something of the cockiness of Robert Parker's Spenser and the racial awareness of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins. Monk has a toughness all his own, however, and a noir sensibility shines brightly in stories like "Lowball" and "The Raiders." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third Easy Rawlins mystery.
Softcover. NY, International Polygonics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 and 302 pages, two mystery novels in one volume. Clean, like new. Reprint of two mysteries first published in the 1930s.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's initials front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth Joe Gunther mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in England as "Disposal of the Living".
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with purple WRB and decorative design on cover, purple/red lettering on spine with green filigree. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Back cover with faint staining otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. New York City in the boomtown '80s, where fortunes are made with the drop of a dime. The lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. Paddy Adare, a failed boxer turned enforcer for the Irish gangs, and Billy, a college graduate toiling in the tunnels as a sandhog before going to law school. As greed and hatred fuel the fight that is blazing in the streets, honor and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test.
Hardcover. NY, Saturday Review Press/ EP Dutton,, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Parts of a body are found on farms which are leased as hunting lands by a local hunting club. It's not long before Balzic has figured out the identity of the victim, but pinning the murder on the killer is another matter in this second Balzic mystery.
Hardcover. Denver, McMurray & Beck, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This gritty first novel takes us into the world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish farm ponds, does all the dirty work his boss requires, and silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness and disdain. Since his early teenage years, Ned's life has been marred by anger that erupts and then quickly disappears, leaving him filed with secrets and regret. 280 pages. clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is Gough's third novel featuring the tough duo of police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, who work out of Vancouver, Canada. The interaction, cooperation and unspoken understanding essential to a successful police partnership is one of the most fascinating aspects of Gough's writing as he sends his sleuths into an investigation of a brutal drug-related murder. In tight, hard-hitting prose, Gough delineates a plot in which a monstrously cruel drug king, Gary Silk, orders his underlings to kill one another off after a multimillion-dollar drug deal has gone awry.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by William I. Neuman. Novel set in 1922 in post-revolutionary Mexico, described as "a blending of roman noir with magic realism, a cross between Raymond Chandler and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Third novel published by "Vine", psuedonym of Ruth Rendell.
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.
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, 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, 143 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #899. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers, gutters fragile. Spine cocked lightly.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1078. Cover art by Lou Kimmel. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #994. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers and pages in rear.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #934. Cover art by James Meese. Creasing to cover wrappers and reading crease on spine.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 8th, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #222. Moderate edgewear on paper wrappers. Gutter cracked on title page. Light creasing to wrappers.
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