Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY DEAVER on the title page to fellow writer Barry Estabrook. A school bus carrying eight deaf school-girls and their teachers brakes suddenly on a flat Kansas highway. Waiting for them are three escaped convicts with nothing to lose. Now, with the girls as their hostages, they have everything to gain. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 353 pages. A lonely veteran's gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim--Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man's pocket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press loves the story and they have collectively dubbed the burglar the Tag Man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. In this unique blend of historical fiction and cutting-edge suspense, author Diane Wei Liang succeeds in delivering an incredible mystery veiled behind the red curtain of contemporary Chinese life and culture. Set in Beijing "The Eye of Jade" introduces readers to the enigmatic Mei Wang, the country's first successful female private investigator, and her struggle to uncover the location of a rare and treasured artifact that is believed to have been absconded from the Luoyang Museum during the Cultural Revolution. For Wang this is a task of special importance, and can only stand to make her later life and reputation glimmer, but as she soon finds in the back alleys, this is not going to be easy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering shows some flecking at edges. Rubber stamp to inside front cover otherwise clean internally.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Little Brown, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to mylar-protected dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Responding to a late-night disturbance call only to be reassured by a blonde woman that nothing is wrong, Paddy Meehan is horrified to learn the following morning that the woman, a lawyer from an upper-crust community, has been murdered.
Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages, decorated yellow cloth cover. Gutter cracked at title page, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 370 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black boards, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate-protection. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
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. New York, Harper, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Blue covers, black spine with gilt titles, color illustrrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, light age discoloration to endpapers, previous owner's pencil notations to rear endpaper, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
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. 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. 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. 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
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, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market sized paperback, originally published in 1971. Clean, bright copy in color wraps.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 2000, 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, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-235, 169, 149 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 135/121 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-321. 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, Berkley Diamond Book, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Berkley Diamond Book #D2041. Pages tanned. Light wear to paper wrappers.
Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #821. Moderate wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Reading crease to spine.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 72. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D391. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library, rep., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #SP407. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Markings on top page block.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover and corner. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #111. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear cover. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #814. Cover art by Milton Charles. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #862. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
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.
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