Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Lending library stamp, lettering on front and rear end papers. 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. New York, Metropolitan Book Series, 1st Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. cover boards bound in red cloth, has just a little chipping to edges/corners and very light fading to spine (normal agewear, see image). Pages and edges have a small amount of tanning from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. New York City in the boomtown '80s, where fortunes are made with the drop of a dime. The lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. Paddy Adare, a failed boxer turned enforcer for the Irish gangs, and Billy, a college graduate toiling in the tunnels as a sandhog before going to law school. As greed and hatred fuel the fight that is blazing in the streets, honor and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test.
Hardcover. Denver, McMurray & Beck, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This gritty first novel takes us into the world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish farm ponds, does all the dirty work his boss requires, and silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness and disdain. Since his early teenage years, Ned's life has been marred by anger that erupts and then quickly disappears, leaving him filed with secrets and regret. 280 pages. clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. When a museum administrator is stabbed to death with a hat pin, popular Boston detective Sarah Kelling must interrupt her seaside idyll to pursue the case.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Detective Dave Robicheaux re-turns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers. "Not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly reinvented the crime and mystery genre," said novelist Jim Harrison, and in Sunset Limited Burke continues to carve out new territory.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Slight wear to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.
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. London, Gollancz, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is Gough's third novel featuring the tough duo of police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, who work out of Vancouver, Canada. The interaction, cooperation and unspoken understanding essential to a successful police partnership is one of the most fascinating aspects of Gough's writing as he sends his sleuths into an investigation of a brutal drug-related murder. In tight, hard-hitting prose, Gough delineates a plot in which a monstrously cruel drug king, Gary Silk, orders his underlings to kill one another off after a multimillion-dollar drug deal has gone awry.
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, 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, 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, Dutton, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. 1st pub. in 1968 under the psuedonym of Jeffery Hudson,
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light spots to top edge otherwise clean & unmarked. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KING on title page.
Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 433 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORBES on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. A novel based upon the author's medical research and imagination. Minor tape repair to dj. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Black Classic Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
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Used & Collectible Mystery & Crime Fiction
The mystery section collects used, rare and out-of-print crime, detective and suspense fiction. Golden-age puzzles, hardboiled thrillers, and modern police procedurals all get shelf space. You'll find Elmore Leonard's Touch, Joseph Wambaugh's The Black Marble, Michael Dibdin's The Dying of the Light and Ross Thomas's Out on the Rim.
Hardboiled and classic-puzzle readers alike will find plenty here, including H.R.F. Keating's The Strong Man and signed copies such as George Higgins's Trust. Editions run from paperback reading copies to collectible first-edition hardcovers in original jackets, and scarcer titles tend to move quickly.
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