Mysteries

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third novel in Israel's mystery series featuring private detective B.F. Cage, this time investigating French professional basketball, drugs and the Paris underworld.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Hard-boiled novel set in Chicago - this was supposed to be Izzi's breakout novel, but unfortunately it was a commercial failure - and caused a contentious falling out between Izzi and the publisher, with Izzi accusing Bantam of failing to promote it, With yellow wrap-around band present.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As head of the British secret police in Cairo in 1908, Captain Cadwallader Owen is called the Mamur Zapt. In his fourth appearance (after The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous ), Owen receives complaints from a spate of English visitors and Egyptians that they are being followed; then a Customs Department official is shot at. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. David Cleveland, the official investigator for the English Jockey Club, is sent to Norway to help investiagte the disappearance of an English steeplchase jockey.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth Overlook, 1st UK, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 290 pages. A novel based in Stalinist Russia around an historical episode involving the poet, Osip Mandelstam.

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 268 pages. Amos Hatcher, a private investigator specializing in art crimes, soon realizes that the solution to two murders hinges on identifying a stolen art object that is only presumed to exist. The first Amos Hatcher mystery, by American art historian and author Oliver Banks (1941-91).

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman. From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner--at his death the best-selling American author of all time--comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder--and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime's revival of this classic (and long-unavailable) detective series. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket, 245 pages. The second mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and his Bantu assistant Sergeant Zondi.

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. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Missionary Stew follows Draper Haere on a frenetic hunt to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an named Central American country, and he hires Morgan Citron's investigative talents to help get to the bottom of things. Remainder stamp to bottom edge, otherwise a 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, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On Mardi Gras, civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant is about to be crowned Rex, King of Carnival, when someone costumed as Dolly Parton shoots him dead from his best friend's balcony overlooking the parade. Is the killer aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Female rookie cop Skip Langdon uncovers a cast of intriguing characters, all as much Chauncey's victims as they are suspects in his murder, most of them inhabiting a "poison garden of corruption" and substance abuse where it's not just on Mardi Gras that everyone wears a mask. The first Skip Langdon Mystery. Clean copy. Edgar Award Wimmer, 1991.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #901. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #909. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Paperback. Popular Library Mystery #76. Cover art by Hoffman. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 2nd, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #2821. Moderate crease to center front cover wrapper.

Softcover. New York, Dagger House, 1st, 1946, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Paperback. Red Dagger Mystery #23. Crease to front cover. Light wear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Five-Star Mysteries, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Five-Star Mystery # 41. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Staple binding visable on front and rear hinge. Spine faded and frayed.

Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #106. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spine faded and has ink 'x" over "the" on spine.

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #G2312. Moderate wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 109. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, rep, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D327. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine. Notation on first page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #745. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Chipping to top corner. Light wave to pages.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #75. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover.Spine heavily faded, chipped and worn. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D338.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Keith Beaumont, an ace British Arctic troubleshooter and scientific expert is despatched to research base Target-5 on the icepack near Greenland to intercept a Soviet defector named Gorov who is carrying secret documents detailing a submarine defence network. The contents could upset the balance of world power, as these stories dictate, so when Beaumont and Gorov are tailed by Soviet airborne assault troops, they must head towards the edge of the ice pack in a perilous journey. This is a short but thrilling novel firmly set in the 1970s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ontario, Viking Canada, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FINDLEY on the title page. Vanessa Van Horne investigates the seeming connection between the tearing down of the Aurora Sands Hotel and the mysterious death of wealthy businessman Calder Maddox. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Originally published by Lion Books as a paperback in 1954. By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good. Clean, unread copy.

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. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team-the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI)-are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and back-up. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen year old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.At the same time, an old, retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn't murdered. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out that she was indeed once "Governor for a Day," over forty years ago, but that she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something that she saw all those years ago. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CLARK on the title page. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after a tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world's saddest sandwich shop. Kevin's determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming, including a visit from a mysterious stranger who wanders into the shop armed with a threatening "invitation" to join a multimillion-dollar scam. Before long, Kevin will need every bit of his legal savvy just to stay out of prison. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GILES, like new.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in a windblown resort in Cornwall, a tale of passion, greed, and murder unfolds as Lennox Kemp is drawn to a beautiful, mysterious women, a gruesome killing takes place, and he searches for clues. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 3rd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY HIAASEN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, red cloth spine with gilt titles, bright color illustrated jacket with acetate protective covering. Slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Two lifelong lovers sort through their shared history of secrets and suspicions, dating back to World War II, to find the truth behind a fatal weekend that became a public scandal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A gripping whodunnit following the detective Sir Henry Merrivale and the Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. The mystery surrounds a man who has conveniently married four women, each of whom promptly disappear on their honeymoons, before he seems to vanish himself. No dust jacket. Book is very good, no markings. By John Dickson Carr under the pen name Carter Dickson.

Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page ("Rodney Wingfield 1990"). The first of the author's Inspector Frost mysteries, originally written in 1972 at the prompting of Macmillan (and spurred on by a non-refundable advance of GBP50), the manuscript was promptly rejected, before eventually being published in Canada in 1984. This UK edition followed some five years later and the Yorkshire Television adoptions staring David Jason appeared soon after. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Ivory covers with green band on spine. Minor flaw on front of cover. Dust jacket pristine. Comes with an acrylic cover for jacket. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dr. Crandall Taylor--or rather the actor who plays him--is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now-cancelled American soap opera has become a prime time retro cult hit. This newfound stardom isn't wasted on him. Anxious to keep his brutal past a secret from fans, he's enjoying all the fruits that fame has to offer: adulation, entree into the trendiest clubs, and sex. What he really wants is to fund a feature film.Crandall uses his charm and intellect to draw into his narcissistic web four women: a horny network executive; an internet porn star; a bookish university student with a nasty bent; and the fetching starlet wife of an arms dealer. Crandall accepts both the crime lord's cash and his beautiful wife's advances. Big mistake. Now Crandall must channel his violent, megalomaniacal dark side just to stay alive--and on the run.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author's 2nd book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

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. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 406 pages. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

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.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. Evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man--the ruthless professional known as Quarry can keep Climer from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, reprint/BC Ed., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, clean unmarked copy with front gutter crack. In a lightly worn, rubbed dust jacket.

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

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.