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.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps 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. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action--but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill's latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his sleeve. LUCKY AT CARDS is a major discovery: This is the book's first publication in 37 years, and first publication ever under Lawrence Block's real name! Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Like new.
Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 3rd Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. London, Victor Gollancz, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear, soil, and rubbing to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Authors 1st novel. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate. Clean copy. Classic early 20th century Crime Club mystery series volume, this set in England with the opening chapter at the narrator's "club", "In Which I make Drummond's Acquaintance".
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie Haskell and husband Ben live in Chitterton Fells, where he runs a restaurant and she keeps house, tends their three-year-old twins, and occasionally investigates local murders. While attending a club meeting, Ellie discovers the fallen body of her new chairwoman, immediately suspects murder, and begins some insistent interrogating. The ninth Ellie Haskell mystery.
Hardcover. NY, William Sloane Associates, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Bright, clean copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket. A man crossing a London street is killed. He is carrying four blackmail letters. Mostly set in France, the basis for the 1968 MGM film directed by Richard Thorpe.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.
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. When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target? Like new.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam , 1st, May 31, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover, 286 pages. Small stain on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
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. Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction--and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together--but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States? Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But David's nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason--and had driven his wife to murder. Now David's got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn't even know--since if he can't, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 198 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve. Mystery novel featuring Victor Platz, sidekick of series character Charlie Bradshaw, who agrees to collect a suspicious suitcase in Montreal & winds up in a mess of trouble.
Hardcover. NY, The Literary Guild of America , BC Ed., Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Book Club edition. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S., A Toast to Tomorrow ( Pray Silence in Britain), along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday, was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama, intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft, the dean of mystery historians, called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with light chipping. This is a historical mystery novel about a police officer who is transported back in time to 1829 when the British police was first formed. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.
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. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. Advertisement and biographical brochure from publishers laid-in. Light blue boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Clean boards and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
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, St. Martin's Press , 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historical mystery story set in the reign of King Henry 8th.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket creased, otherwise clean, like new.
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. New York, Ballantine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages. SIGNED BY GOODMAN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, black spine with silver titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Unmarked boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned to the school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And young, troubled girls are beginning to die again-as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .
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. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth covers with silver titles, silver metallic dust jacket with black graphic illustration and black titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy. Adopted off the streets as a child by a policeman's family, NYC policewoman Kathleen Mallory had never shaken the wild nature of her youth, and when her adoptive father is murdered during a series of stabbings, she is driven to find the truth. A first novel.
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. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A captive British Intelligence Agent, after he is freed in a prisoner exchange, goes after the ones that betrayed him.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Murder amidst the members of the ultra-exclusive Palm Isle Golf Club lures San Francisco dick Amos McGuffin to the spectacular duffer's paradise where his suspects run the gamut from predatory yacht-owning widows to sinister voodoo priests. Remainder mark bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Co. Crime Club, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in black cloth with red stamping. Poor dust jacket with chunks gone from front panel and spine. A group of jewel collectors and dealers gather in the Adirondacks to bid on the mysterious Blue Rajah diamond. Naturally, a murder ensues.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an rubbed, edgeworn and chipped jacket. The third novel in Kane's hardboiled mystery series featuring sophisticated, smart-mouthed NYC private eye, Peter Chambers, this time running an errand for a friend and finding a blonde with a bullet in her head. Paper tanning. Author hams it up on photo on rear panel of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, 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, 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.
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.
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 "Natural Causesby: Valin, Jonathan")
 "Shellaby: Vachss, Andrew")
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