Mysteries

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, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A former Las Vegas showgirl names Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. When the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay. The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders--and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter. 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. First publication ever! By the Edgar award-winning author of SONGS OF INNOCENCE and LITTLE GIRL LOST (written as "Richard Aleas")Told in 50 chapters, each chapter named after one of the first 50 books in the series.Featuring a full-color insert section containing images of the first 50 Hard Case Crime covers! Publishers Weekly on FIFTY-TO-ONE: "High-speed action and nonstop thrills highlight the 50th novel from Hard Case Crime...Ardai sets an impressive standard for the new wave of pulp crime fiction...Breathless action and entertaining characters make this a page-turner from start to finish. " Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough--but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger. Now the CIA is offering to clear up the murder charge, but only in return for a favor: They want Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the trail of a renegade priest who has gone missing with millions in church funds. What's the connection? The priest's lover, a woman Ovid knew in his smuggling days. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, barely scraping by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse--as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead...and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his fierce and growing craving for a fix. Ed McBain was one of the most popular mystery writers of all time, creator of the 87th Precinct series and recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. SO NUDE, SO DEAD was his very first crime novel--and this is its first appearance in print in more than half a century. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise very good.

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.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages. Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering. This was filmed in 1990 by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake and starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Mulholland Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. It was supposed to be only a temporary job -- something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his feet back on the ground and raise enough money for medical school. After all, there's nothing wrong with being a bellboy at a respectable hotel like the Manton -- that is, until she came along. Marcia Hillis. The perfect woman. Beautiful. Experienced. Older and wiser. The only woman to ever measure up to that other her -- the one whose painful rejection Dusty can't quite put from his mind. A richly-imagined crime narrative of the Oedipal and betrayal, A Swell-Looking Babe is Thompson at his very best -- a cornerstone in Thompson's enduring legacy as the Dimestore Dostoyevsky of American fiction. Clean copy.

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. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 2nd Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. This fifth culinary novel filled with 'five-star' recipes finds Caterer Goldy Schulz called on to prepare a banquet for a cosmetics company who induced animal rights protestors. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Part of the Nicholas Barlow series. When his star author turns up dead and his million-dollar manuscript disappears, publisher Nicholas Barlow helps homicide detective Lt. Scanlon search for clues, with Nick's bedridden brother masterminding the investigation from Connecticut. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. On the LNWR train a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, con-man, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve: a ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover. Clean copy.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Fletch's newfound son Jack has just heard from an old flame who's about to marry a billionaire's son -- that is until her future father-in-law suffers several near-fatal accidents. The potential victim -- the inventor of the perfect mirror, which allows people to see themselves exactly as others do -- lives in his own secluded compound, so Jack gets a job as pool hand on the estate to get closer to the action. Now Jack's life may be in danger, and he will need his inimitable father's help to discover -- before it's too late -- whose reflection hides a killer's heart.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous mystery set in the hills of Tuscany. Clean 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?

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red, leaves tanned. In a worn and chipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Tommy Habledon is both the pursued and the pursuer in this fascinating bit of international intrigue that starts in Sweden and ends on an island off the coast of Spain. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's/Minotaur Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TAYLOR on title page. Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago. Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before. In the fourth installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When their two-million-dollar Japanese smuggling assignment hits a snag, professional gunrunners Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, risk nuclear disaster to complete their task. 248 pages, clean 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.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 425 pages. Translated by Athena Bell. In the American sector of occupied Berlin, in 1945, a boy discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blond, blue-eyed, she had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. The bodies of other young women are discovered. American and German authorities must work together if they are to stop the slaughter. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcopver in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The eighth novel in Block's award-winning and critically-praised crime-thriller series featuring New York private detective and recovering alcoholic, Matt Scudder, this time searching for the psychopath who has vowed to kill him -- after he has murdered any woman with any connection, no matter how small, to the detective. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THOMAS on the title page. Actor/detective Granville Haynes and his friends from the notorious bar Mac's Place move through a Washington labyrinth of deceit and murder when the memoirs of Granville's CIA father threaten to come to light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's fourth book. Basis for the movie by the same name starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. The Dorchester neighborhood is no place for the innocent, the young, the defenseless or the pure. This is a territory of broken families, bitter cops, whacked out ex-cons, and a mother who watches herself on the nightly news as her missing child floats further and further into the unkown. Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, don't want this case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they embark upon an investigation and ultimately risk losing everything- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives-to find this little-girl-lost. Capturing the voices that echo within blue collar Boston, Dennis Lehane is a master storyteller, who weaves together embittered people, tattered emotions, and brutal crime to create relentless, heart-pounding novels of suspense. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penzler Publishers, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dance hall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing-and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silence his nagging thoughts. When the dance hall closes, he and Bricky-linked, after many intimate hours, by a budding romance-return to the scene of the crime intending to restore the stolen fortune and begin a new life together, only to discover, upon arrival, that the owner of the property has been murdered. There's evidence present that easily links Quinn to the crime, and he expects that, as soon as day breaks and the authorities learn of the gruesome scene, he will be arrested straight away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The true first (UK). Paper tanning slightly at edges.

Hardcover. New York, A Dutton Book, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Lovely copy. Minor shelf-wear to dust jacket, else 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. 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. New York , Knopf, Book Club Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 182 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Light spine fade.

Hardcover. New York, A.L. Burt, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 305 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 372 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, bright 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. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacke with mild wrinkle.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.1st published in the UK 1994. Remainder line top edge.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Small red ink heart top front end paper, otherwise VG. Dust jacket w/edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&W illust by John T. McCutcheon. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Lending library stamp, lettering on front and rear end papers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam's, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Seasoned Detective Sergeant Stanley Moodrow of Manhatten faces off with a deranged enemy, Johny Katanos, whose sick acts of violence push Moodrow into a relentless manhunt that may boast no survivors.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket flaps have glue residue where once pasted to end papers otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 2nd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dunne/St. Martin's, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In High Lonesome Road, the third in the Chloe Newcombe series set in the high Arizona desert, the Cochise County Library bookmobile driver is found murdered at one of her stops. When Chloe is called out to assist the woman who discovered the body, she learns that the driver is Erica Hill, an old friend of her brother's from long ago in Venice, California. Erica was beautiful and flamboyant, a former heartbreaker who has changed her life to be a good mother to her sixteen year old son Troy. When Troy is accused of his mother's murder Chloe is convinced he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer , in the process revealing a shocking secret from Erica's past.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.