Mysteries

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1980, 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sheriff Chick Charleston asks Jason Beard, a deputy, to investigate the murder of an oil company stenographer who secretly moonlighted as a prostitute.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Here collected into a single omnibus volume is Len Deighton's s thrilling "Game, Set, and Match" trilogy. Following Bernard Samson, a middle aged and some WHat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret ServiceBerlin Game, first in the trilogy, featured in the ten best spy novels chosen by The Times in June 2020. This edition contains helpful maps of Berlin not included in the original versions. Due to bulky 857-pages DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Louie the loan-shark's life is a big nothing until he becomes caught up in his uncle's scheme to rig the state lottery, and then he has more excitement than he can handle.

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2012, 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 at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises some thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The Boston police find that not only is the loot similar to what's being stolen in Vermont, but it may have the same destination. Word is out that someone powerful is purchasing these particular kinds of items in the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Mass. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America , 4th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 990 pages. James M. Cain's pioneering novel of murder and adultery along the California highway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), shocked contemporaries with its laconic toughness and fierce sexuality. Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) uses truncated rhythms and a unique narrative structure to turn its account of a Hollywood dance marathon into an unforgettable evocation of social chaos and personal desperation. In Thieves Like Us (1937), Edward Anderson vividly brings to life the dusty roads and back-country hideouts where a fugitive band of Oklahoma outlaws plays out its destiny. The Big Clock (1946), an ingenious novel of pursuit and evasion by the poet Kenneth Fearing, is set by contrast in the dense and neurotic inner world of a giant publishing corporation under the thumb of a warped and ultimately murderous chief executive. William Lindsay Gresham's controversial Nightmare Alley (1946), a ferocious psychological portrait of a charismatic carnival hustler, creates an unforgettable atmosphere of duplicity, corruption, and self-destruction. I Married a Dead Man (1948), a tale of switched identity set in the anxious suburbs, is perhaps the most striking novel of Cornell Woolrich, who found in the techniques of the gothic thriller the means to express an overpowering sense of personal doom. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages, hardcover with gray cloth covers with black lettering, decoration. Light spotting to covers otherwise very good, clean.

Softcover. Atlanta GA, Longstreet Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Remainder line top bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 317 pages, SIGNED BY HIAASEN on half title page. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 340 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers. Previously published in 1921 as a magazine serial by The Curtis Publishing Company under the title: "Two and Two". Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. SIGNED BY MOSLEY ON TITLE PAGE. Black covers, red spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket. Covers unmarked, very slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages crisp and unmarked; a beautiful copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's 1st book.

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, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Author's 1st book. Nice, bright copy with a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Decorated endpapers. Former library book with residual labels, seals and markings. Covers bound in navy blue, some age wear: fraying to top and bottom of spine, corners of covers, yellowing to pages and edges, spine broken at front and back endpapers, but still intact. In very good condition for its age.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Hill writing as Patrick Ruell. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A Eugenia Potter Mystery based on characters by Virginia Rich. Light fade to dust jacket spine otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, International Polygonics, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Douglas G. Greene. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Edward J. Clode, 1st , 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 302 pages. Previous owners signature on front inside cover. Most of white on crystal ball decoration gone. Four small holes in back cover hinge. Rubbing and corner wear to covers. Melville Davisson Post (1869 ? 1930) was an American author, who wrote detective fiction. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing "Uncle Abner". This volume is the 3rd in a series revolving around Randolph Mason, a lawyer whose knowledge of the law is so great that he can get away with just about anything.

Hardcover. NY, Soho, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE on title page. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, A.L Burt, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Blue covers with black titles, b&w illustrated dust jacket with pink titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Rubbing, edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, dust jacket still very neat with acetate protective covering, pages crisp and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf otherwise VG

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very nice, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. P.I. Marsh Tanner thought he knew his secretary Peggy well. But he didn't know half as much as the phone caller, the mystery man who called Peggy at home and threatened her with mutilation if she refused to tell him her most intimate secrets and desires. And he could never have imagined that Peggy might grow to love the calls as much as she hated them. But in the treacherous, twisted days that were to follow, there was much about Peggy--and himself--that Marsh Tanner would wish he didn't know....

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.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1954. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLOCK on title page.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-439, 112, 144 pages. Mild crease to Punchbowl cover. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 111/145 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-357. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Softcover. New York, Perma Books, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages. Paperback. Perma Mystery #M4200. Light wear to wrappers. Previous owner's notation on first page. Pages tanned.

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #833. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Reading crease to spine.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 362. Art by Rudolph Belarski. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pencil markings on rear wrapper.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #8949. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #25. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on back. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A144. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D304. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1184. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 3rd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1130. Cover art by Barye Phillips. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.