Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 339 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 325 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 294 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with his typical abbreviated signature on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 406 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket."A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old school friend's son has gone missing, the ghost of Jack Morton is inhabiting Rebus' dreams, a part-time poisoner is terrorizing the local zoo and a freed paedophile rouses the vigilante."
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, 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.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Previous price sticker on front flap of price-clipped dust jacket, small cut on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. St. Lucia, Qld ; New York, University of Queensland Pr, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Tan cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges. With an introduction by Bronwen Levy. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Otto Penzler Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover reprint of author's first book originally in paperback. 256 pages. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has wear and some fraying to top edges. Remainder line on bottom edge. Inside is nice and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial legacy. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business. "What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved. Now there are guys doing this who cope with it by making it personal. They find a reason to hate the guy they have to kill. I don't know what's a sin and what isn't, or if one person deserves to go on living and another deserves to have his life ended. Sometimes I think about stuff like that, but as far as working it all out in my mind, well, I never seem to get anywhere." But while Keller might be a pragmatic and crack assassin, he's also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody else. There was a psychotherapist once. A dog. Even a woman. And though he's got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes confidante, and his precious stamp collection, these days, it doesn't seem to be enough.
Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. First legal thriller by this Edgar-award winning author of the Harry Bosch series, set in Los Angeles county. Winner of the 2006 Macavity Award, and basis for the movie of the same name.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Minor foxing on top and fore edge, light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
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, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author's 2nd book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
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. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, visiting his friend Melrose Plant in Long Piddleton, looks into the murder of Simon Lean, whose body is discovered stuffed into an antique secretaire a abattant. Working with help from the usual cast of zany characters, Jury goes about his business in his customary leisurely and self-assured manner and pieces together a very strange tale of greed, jealousy, and murder.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Silver gilt lettering on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Izzi's first book, a mystery set in Chicago.
Hardcover. New York, Walker & Co, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf. Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st UK, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 152 pages. Carl Zuckmayer's famous tale about love, guilt, entanglement, and man's search for mercy is one of the better-known examples of German literature regarding Mainz carnival. The novel was published first in English language, translated by John Geoffrey Gryles Mander and Necke Mander in 1961. Name and small notation on front fly leaf, foxing on edges and endpapers.
Softcover. NY, Hard Case Crime, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent - and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Lost for more than half a century and never before published under Cornell Woolrich's real name, FRIGHT is a breathtaking noir crime novel worthy of the writer who has been called "the Hitchcock of the written word" and "one of the giants of mystery fiction." Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Fright, a novel set in 1915. A year from Woolrich's childhood but one he recreates with an astonishing attention to detail. (Slang, music, fashion, the distant echoes of the war being waged in Europe, etc.) Fright is very much a period piece albeit one that is timeless in its treatment of guilt and paranoia. Two emotional states the author had more than a passing familiarity with. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 366 pages, 4 b&w plates by Bayard Jones. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story depicts the first case of Monsieur Lecoq, an energetic young policeman and an officer nicknamed Father Absinthe, as they seek out the facts behind the case against the Widow Chupin. Why is she accused of helping another commit a murder? And why another man known only as May in custody? What is the connection? Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 533 pages, 4 b&w plates by Victor Perard. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story revolves around a wealthy banker named Andre Fauvel, who is found dead in his office one morning. The police quickly suspect his son, Raoul, who has a reputation for being a spendthrift and is known to have had a strained relationship with his father. However, Raoul insists on his innocence and enlists the help of his friend, detective Monsieur Lecoq, to clear his name. Other People's Money is a thrilling mystery novel that explores the corrupt world of finance in 19th-century France. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 436 pages, 4 b&w plates by Louise L. Heustis. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". Emile Gaboriau created master detective Monsieur Lecoq, who would appear in a number of books. In The Widow Lerouge (L'Affaire Lerouge), however, Lecoq was a young man on the police force, and it is his senior and mentor Pere Tabaret (also known as Tirauclair) who is center stage. The book begins with the murder of the Widow Lerouge and young inspector Lecoq is on the scene straightaway. The complexity of the case however forces Lecoq to invite detectives Tabaret and Daburon to help and they bring their own methods to the case. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 585 pages, 4 b&w plates by Bayard Jones. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". A captivating mystery novel that delves into the intricate web of honor, betrayal, and justice within the context of French literature. Gaboriau's novel follows a gripping narrative centered around a detective's quest to unravel the secrets and intrigues surrounding a family's honor. Set against the backdrop of France, the story unfolds with meticulous detail, drawing readers into a world of suspense and psychological depth. As the detective delves deeper into the case, he uncovers layers of deception and familial secrets, leading to shocking revelations and unexpected twists. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 537 pages, 4 b&w plates by Glackens. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story centers on a mysterious robbery at the bank of M. Andre Fauvel, where a significant sum of three hundred and fifty thousand francs has vanished without a trace. As the investigation unfolds, the primary suspect emerges as Prosper Bertomy, the bank's head cashier, leading to a tense exploration of loyalty, betrayal, and the pursuit of justice. Name on front fly leaf, mild scrathes to cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 376 pages, 4 b&w plates by Jule Guerin. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story is set in France and revolves around the mysterious murder of the Countess de Tremorel. The Countess is found dead in her bedroom at the Chateau d'Orcival, and all evidence points to her husband, the Count de Tremorel, as the killer. However, the Count claims to have been asleep at the time of the murder, and there are several other suspects with motives for the crime.The investigation is led by detective Lecoq, who is known for his keen intellect and deductive reasoning. He is assisted by his colleague, Monsieur Tabaret, who is also known as "Old Tabaret" and is a master of disguise. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Crime Club Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 181 pages. This is the third book in the series about a New York cop named McQuaid. The book opens with McQuaid agreeing, against his better judgment, to do a favor for a woman he doesn't know. He winds up spending the night in her apartment, and partially because of fatigue and partially because of having had too much to drink, he falls into a deep sleep on her couch. When he wakes up the next day, the woman has been murdered. McQuaid knows nobody's going to believe his story, so he calls in sick and begins to try to solve the case himself. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st US, 1863, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 278 pages. Black & white illustrations by John McLenan. Frontispiece of Collins with tissue guard. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Water stain to top corner of pages throughout. Front hinge cracked at top. Spots of discoloration throughout. Soiling and rubbing to covers. Fading to spine.
NY, Random House , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, Book Club Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 182 pages, dust jacket with light edgewear. Light spine fade.
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, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 243 pages, acetate-protected dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket, overall a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, Arthur Westbrook Co., 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback pulp detective mystery from about 1920. A sequel to the author's "The Coral Pin". Yellowing paper and a poor printing job, typical of these dime novels. An attractive color cover with light creasing, edgewear. Back cover missing.
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.
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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.
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