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, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. Author is Joyce Carol Oates. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Originally published in UK as Set a Thief.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcver, 275 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BLOCK on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2nd Ed., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. Bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. A stand alone novel from the author best known for his Maigret detective series.
Softcover. New York, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 46. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed. Previous owner's marking on front page. Scarce. Chipped at edges.
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.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 103. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 3rd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #891. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light spine cock. Notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #276. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #173. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #427. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Rudoloh Belarski. Pencil numbers on front fly leaf.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #626. Lightly soiled and spine is cocked. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #554. Cover art by Lou Kimmel. Small ink notation on 1st page. Hinge tender. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1961, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #d423. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #6126. Cover art by Al Brule. Light creasing along spine.
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, 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. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st thus, 1946, Hardcover in black cloth. "Deadline at Dawn", a "Tower Mystery", was made into a film by RKO Radio Pictures, starring Susan Hayward, Bill Williams and Paul Lukas. Book is illustrated with black and white photographs from film. Black cloth with green titling on spine, green illustration on front, end papers and title page illustrated with black and white photographs, four pages of black and white photographs in text, as well as several black and white line drawings of clocks. 220 pages. Text pages have tanning due to the cheap paper. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge. Lieberman's fifth novel features Dr. Paul Konig, New York City Chief Medical Examiner, studying the grisly remains of two -- or is it three -- people pulled out of the East River even as he learns his daughter has been kidnapped and he is thrust into a situation beyond all his considerable experience.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 5th pr., 1928, Hardcover, red cloth covers with a dust jacket that has the top 1" of spine gone. Strange psychological mystery. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 167].
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 233 pages. First edition of the author's 3rd novel and second B. F. Cage story. A story of murder set in Paris.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend--well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves? On the opposite coast, movie star Dawn Devayne--the hottest It Girl in Hollywood--gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried. These two short novels, one hilarious and one heartbreaking, are two of the best works Westlake ever wrote. And fittingly, both became movies--one starring Jack Ryan's Marie-Josee Croze, and one starring Fargo's William H. Macy and Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. 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, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals--and THE COUNT OF 9 is Gardner at his twistiest. Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party when the guests were X-rayed coming and going--least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: an impossible murder. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in--until she met Jack. Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and walk away with a suitcase full of cash. But there's nothing like money to come between lovers--money, and other women. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tyler Jacobson. Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them...and then removing that problem as well. So far he's rid the world of nobody who would be missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights? Like new.
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. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st , 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket 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. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares. aclean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket that's been price-clipped. The author's first novel and first in the Joe Gunther mystery series. Joe drives to New York State to confirm the identity of a man who?s been stalking the Brattleboro area in a murderous rampage, and who up to this moment has been known only as Ski Mask. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.
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