Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. 306 pages. Summoned to the scene of a ghastly crime in her remote Appalachian village, Laura Bruce, the new minister's wife, realizes that Sunday school teacher Nora Crumb's dark visions have come true.
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. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY DIBDIN on front fly leaf.
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, Scribner's , 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.. 270 pages.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages. SIGNED BY FURST on title-page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Blue covers with silver gilded decoration and page block edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-279, 139, 149 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Grosse & Dunlap, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.
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, Pocket Book, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #485. Moderate edgewear on paper wrappers. Gutter cracked on first page. Light creasing to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Popular Library Mystery # G269. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #914. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #734. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Cover art by Frank Cazzorelli.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #140. Paper cut along top spine 2.5 inches. Hinge/gutter cracked in front. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #61. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Edgewar creasing to map on back cover.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1116. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1079. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge is cracked and separated from spine.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1954, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #784. Cover art by Griffith Foxley. Ink notation on first page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #m4229. Photographic cover art. Ink notation on first page. Creasing to wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This is Volumn Three of a Trilogy including: Only the Dead Know Brooklyn and Post-Mortem Effects and Brooklyn Three. With frontispiece map of Brooklyn. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. McBain's first book to feature Benjamin Smoke, a retired Police Officer now Private Detective.
Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1972.
Hardcover. NY, World, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A man moves to a village after being acquitted of murdering his wife and child. When girls from the neighboring school are killed or go missing, the town is ready to explode and Superintendent Folly arrives to sort things out. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library], 1st thus, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in 1968 as a paperback.
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. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with large, striking design of a dragon in yellow on front; lettered in yellow on front and spine; 380 pages. Color frontispiece by Gayle Hoskins (Originally published in Munsey's Magazine). Scarce copy of a mystery pulp writers' first book. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Sherman French and Company, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, teal blue cloth covers with black and white stamping, top edge gilt, 200 pages. Ink name on front fly leaf, mild fading to spine, otherwise a clean, sound copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Robert Maguire. Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON--at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. In 2016, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner's publisher refused it. Now here's the book Gardner wrote to replace it, often considered the best in the series: TURN ON THE HEAT. Hired by a mysterious "Mr. Smith" to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter--while Bertha Cool's attempts to cut herself in on this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stranger's house, on the hunt for $120,000 in embezzled bank funds. It looked like an easy score. But one thing stood between him and the money: the beautiful and deadly Madelon Butler. Like new.
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.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. COMIC BOOKS ARECORRUPTING AMERICA'S YOUTH! Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe--people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books." And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr--comics syndicate troubleshooter--has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader...? Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT pulls back the curtain for an insider's view of the history of comics--and features more than a dozen brand new illustrations in the classic EC style by comic book legend Terry Beatty. Like new.
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