Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1020. Cover Art by Clark Hulings. Ink notation on first page. Light wear to edges of paper wrappers.
Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Century Mystery #27. Light soil and mild wrinkling to front cover.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages. A fast-paced thriller about a psychopath stalking Brooklyn. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth Joe Gunther mystery.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from Swedish by Alan Blair.
Hardcover. NY, World, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Originally published in the UK in 1953 under the pseudonym Michael Halliday. A man is blamed for the death of the husband of the woman he loves. Clean copy.
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. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Remainder stamp on bottom edge. Lieberman's fifth novel features Dr. Paul Konig, New York City Chief Medical Examiner, studying the grisly remains of two -- or is it three -- people pulled out of the East River even as he learns his daughter has been kidnapped and he is thrust into a situation beyond all his considerable experience.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with large, striking design of a dragon in yellow on front; lettered in yellow on front and spine; 380 pages. Color frontispiece by Gayle Hoskins (Originally published in Munsey's Magazine). Scarce copy of a mystery pulp writers' first book. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering. The acclaimed crime writer's last book (he died in 1930), a collection of courtroom stories featuring Colonel Braxton, "great lawyer, great detective, and gallant gentleman ", and set in Virginia in the 1850's. Both Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen considered Post second only to Poe as an American writer of detective fiction. Clean, square 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. Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences, too. 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, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Ricky Mujica. THE ONLY THING HARDER THAN GETTING INTO THE MOB...IS GETTING OUT. For Anthony Russo, an Atlantic City mobster's son, the chances of escaping a life of crime are slim. They hinge on his plan to back a washed-up boxer's comeback bid, and that, in turn, hinges on winning the help of a sexy round card girl who's gone toe-to-toe with the current champion--in the bedroom. New York Times best-selling author of Slipping Into Darkness, Slow-Motion Riot, and The Intruder. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel. Like new.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Clean copy. A new paperback edition of the neo-noir novel book critics have called Willeford's best. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination - to further his career. Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford expands his noir palette to include hues of sunny Florida and weird tints of Surrealism when Figueras takes a job for an art collector who doesn't care how his art is collected, even if it involves murder. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. This time the squadmust recover 32 cadillacs stolen from their largest client by Gypsies to be a casket for their dying king. The result is a fast, furious, funny, nonstop action tale with esoteric Gypsy lore and hard-edged investigation. Clean copy.
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. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BROWN on the half-title page. An historical mystery based on and incorporating writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Kensington Publishing , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady's companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Mysterious intrigue ensues in this series debut. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position. So the community is left stunned when Tarleton, deliberately, walks into the path of a speeding train. He is crushed to death on the track, but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest, fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me, notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning. Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend. In it, Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Clean copy.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Young Fletch is less than pleased to be writing a business story, something that's well outside his field of expertise. Eager to get back out on the streets, he quickly compiles what he thinks is a well-executed article, complete with quotes from the chairman of the board's recent memos. But when he fails to do his due diligence when researching the company and its associates, he finds himself in hot water ... and now out of a job. The chairman has been dead for over a year. Realizing his mistake, he visits the widow Bradley to make amends -- and to ask a few simple questions. But her strange demeanor and puzzling answers leave Fletch perplexed. He can't help but wonder: Why would a dead man still be writing memos to his associates? Is he even dead? With his interest now thoroughly piqued, fueled by his desire to get the real story and take back his job, Fletch puts his reporting skills to work as he dives into the mystery surrounding the Bradleys' past.
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.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 244 pages. Clean copy. A new Perry Mason story, originally published by Morrow in 1943. Murder, embezzlement, cross examination, a buried alarm clock make this another gripping Perry Mason mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in textured green boards, white lettering on spine, 190 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped, with a scar on front panel where a sticker was removed. The book itself is clean and tight. A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como - and evaporates. British Intelligence Agent Hambledon's job: find him.
Hardcover. NY, Harpers & Brothers, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering on spine. No names, clean text. No dust jacket.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Connelly?'s fourth book. LAPD detective Harry Bosch continues the search for his mother?'s killer. Clean, bright 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, Books, Inc,, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A mid 1940s reprint of an early 1930s Sir Henry Merrivale locked room mystery. John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Entrusted to transport two prisoners to death row, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is wounded when one of them, Jimmie Lee Boggs, escapes, an act that causes Robicheaux to put all of his efforts into revenge.
Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Originally published in paperback by Signet Books, December 1961. Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's not all right is being a deputy sheriff, where if it weren't for family misfortune, he might have been a doctor instead. Lord's got one ace-in-the-hole -- the land deed that makes him the biggest landowner in the county, just as the oil companies have started to move in. When Tom's approached by Aaron McBride of Highlands Oil and Gas with a contract to set up pipelines on his property, he's more than happy to sign on the dotted line with barely more than a cursory glance at the paperwork -- it just might be Lord's way out of a life he never wanted in the first place. But when Lord finds out just what that contract entailed, things start to go sour for Aaron McBride -- and fast. Because in this Texas town, Lord's the law -- and there's nothing more dangerous than a cop with nothing left to lose. Clean, unread copy.
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. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring tough Boston PI Patrick Kenzie, his 'connected' partner Angie Gennaro and sometimes sidekick Bubba. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages. The final Lew Archer mystery, in which the detective investigates a missing painting and uncovers buried secrets that echo the violence of the past. 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. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Two private investigators--Bill Smith and Lydia Chin--investigate a construction site plagued by thieves and a murder, in a case that leads them into the darkest depths of the underworld.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, September 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 383 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER AND TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 254 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket missing 2.25" of paper from bottom portion of spine, chipping and pieces missing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 354 pages. SIGNED BY GORES ON TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Extremely slight rubbing to boards, beautiful dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line to bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus the Finder has been summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up.
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