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Whiskey River (Detroit Crime Series #1) by: Loren D. Estleman
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Whiskey River (Detroit Crime Series #1)
by: Loren D. Estleman

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first novel in the 'Detroit Crime Series' in which the city is treated as an organic entity through various decades of the 20th century, "WHISKEY RIVER" spans from the Prohibition Era to the late 1930s. Constantine ("Connie") Minor is a Detroit-based journalist who has made a name for himself covering the crime beat in the late 1920s/early 1930s. This was a time in which bootleggers and mobsters carved out Detroit into spheres of influence over which they exerted and established firm control over, not only, the illegal importation of alcohol, but also the numbers rackets, and prostitution. Many of the city's cops often looked the other way, picking and choosing what crimes to solve or ignore (courtesy of a bribe). All the while, Detroit's industrial might (as evidenced by the auto industry) continued to grow, giving the city a dazzling prosperity soon to be tempered by the ravages of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Depression. Clean copy.

Record # 378555

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Laguna Heat by: T. Jefferson Parker
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Laguna Heat
by: T. Jefferson Parker

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene of a particularly brutal homicide in which the victim has been doused in turpentine and set ablaze. Shortly thereafter, a second victim is dealt a similar fate, and Shephard finds himself drawn into a complex mystery involving sex, blackmail and murder that stretches back forty years and that also involves members of his own family. Paper tanning slightly. Clean copy.

Record # 378556

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Havana by: Stephen Hunter
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Havana
by: Stephen Hunter

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Clean copy.

Record # 378557

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

L.A. Requiem by: Robert Crais
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L.A. Requiem
by: Robert Crais

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At the core of L.A. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Goodbye, L.A. Requiem is the apotheosis of Crais's writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.

Record # 378558

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Monkology: The Ivan Monk Stories by: Gary Phillips
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Monkology: The Ivan Monk Stories
by: Gary Phillips

Hardcover. Tucson AZ, Dennis McMillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Firmly rooted in the hard-boiled tradition, these 13 stories from Phillips showcase the cool exuberance of black Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk, whose family connections tend to prod him into taking cases no one in his right mind would investigate. Nostalgia is a recurrent theme, as in "Through the Fog Softly," which introduces Monk's father, Josiah Monk, as a soldier in Korea, and in Monk's love of 1950s and '60s cars. Some tales verge on fantasy, such as "The King Alfred Plan," which imagines a scheme to round up blacks into concentration camps. A pseudo-screenplay, "Bring Me the Head of Osama Bin-Laden," is the weakest effort in an otherwise strong collection. At his best, Monk displays something of the cockiness of Robert Parker's Spenser and the racial awareness of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins. Monk has a toughness all his own, however, and a noir sensibility shines brightly in stories like "Lowball" and "The Raiders." Clean copy.

Record # 378559

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

32 Cadillacs by: Joe Gores
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32 Cadillacs
by: Joe Gores

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.

Record # 378560

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Country Dark by: Chris Offutt
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Country Dark
by: Chris Offutt

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, Country Dark is a novel that blends the best of Larry Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around a man who just wants to protect those he loves.

Record # 378611

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Judgment of Deke Hunter by: Higgins, George V.
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The Judgment of Deke Hunter
by: Higgins, George V.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. $8.95 on front flap; Higgins 5th novel; minor shelf rubbing at extremities of dust jacket. Deke Hunter is a Massachusetts State Police plainclothesman. He proves that through hard work, bumbling and pure luck, he can sometimes, surprisingly, produce justice. Clean copy.

Record # 378613

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Outlaws by: Higgins, George V.
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Outlaws
by: Higgins, George V.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of dazzlingly successful armored-car robberies, with no link to the underworld, takes place in the New England of the 1970s. . Young urban terrorists, turned on by the radical politics of the sixties... unwilling to bother with distinctions between ends and means. In this fiendishly well-crafted and explosive novel about betrayers and the betrayed, Higgins shows how the establishment... takes revenge by forging alliances that move its members beyond the law. Clean copy.

Record # 378615

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

How to Murder Your Mother in Law (SIGNED COPY) by: Cannell, Dorothy
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How to Murder Your Mother in Law (SIGNED COPY)
by: Cannell, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CANNELL on title page. Clean, like new. After her obnoxious mother-in-law moves in permanently, Ellie Haskell falls in with three other local women also living with tyrannical mothers-in-law, and their imaginary scheme to solve their problems suddenly turns lethal.

Record # 378713

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Femmes Fatal (SIGNED COPY) by: Cannell, Dorothy
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Femmes Fatal (SIGNED COPY)
by: Cannell, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY CANNELL on title page. Clean, like new. An Ellie Haskell mystery, now the mother of infant twins who feels like the magic has gone out of her life. The fifth mystery by Cannell.

Record # 378714

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (SIGNED COPY) by: R S Downie
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Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (SIGNED COPY)
by: R S Downie

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean, like new.

Record # 378715

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Wrong Gun: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)
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The Wrong Gun: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fifth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.

Record # 378717

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Underground Man: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)
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The Underground Man: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new.

Record # 378718

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Baxter Trust by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)
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The Baxter Trust
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. When out-of-work lawyer Steve Winslow enlists himself as a New York City cab driver to pay the bills, he thinks he's hit rock-bottom. That is until Sheila Benton, heir to a multimillion dollar fortune, finds his number in the yellow pages and calls upon Steve to defend her. Of course her case is only a minor one. It seems that a blackmailer was found in her apartment in an uncomfortable position -- with a knife in his back.

Record # 378719

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Naked Typist: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)
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The Naked Typist: A Steve Winslow Courtroom Drama
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. The fourth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. A lawyer who sleeps with his secretary, will do anything to get his client off, has his own private eye, and battles a frothing prosecuting attorney.

Record # 378720

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Anonymous Client by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)
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The Anonymous Client
by: Hailey, J. P. ( Parnell Hall)

Hardcover. NY, Donald I. Fine, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. Clean, like new. This is the sequel to THE BAXTER TRUST, continuing the story of New Yorker Steve Winslow, a lawyer with only one client.

Record # 378721

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla; A Hildegarde Withers Story by: Palmer, Stuart
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The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla; A Hildegarde Withers Story
by: Palmer, Stuart

Hardcover. NY, The Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran & Co.,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in red. Dust jacket cover panel tipped onto inside front cover with flap copy opposite on front fly leaf. Attractively done. A Hildegarde Withers mystery. Classic crime tale from the 1930s set south of the border in old Mexico. 293 pages.

Record # 378723

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

To Live and Die in Dixie (SIGNED COPY) by: Trocheck, Kathy Hogan
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To Live and Die in Dixie (SIGNED COPY)
by: Trocheck, Kathy Hogan

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY TROCHECK on the title page. The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity Set in Atlanta, Georgia.

Record # 378724

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Let There Be Blood: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Jakeman, Jane
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Let There Be Blood: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jakeman, Jane

Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY JAKEMAN on the title page. 1st Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.

Record # 378725

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Egyptian Coffin: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery by: Jakeman, Jane
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The Egyptian Coffin: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery
by: Jakeman, Jane

Hardcover. London, Headline , 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 2nd Lord Ambrose title in an historical mystery series, based in 1830's England. Clean, like new.

Record # 378726

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Fool's Gold: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery by: Jakeman, Jane
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Fool's Gold: A Lord Ambrose Historical Mystery
by: Jakeman, Jane

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.

Record # 378727

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Burry Man's Day: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Catriona McPherson
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The Burry Man's Day: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Catriona McPherson

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCPHERSON on the title page. The author's second murder mystery story featuring Dandy Gilver. Clean, like new.

Record # 378728

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Jersey Monkey (SIGNED COPY) by: Gallison, Kate
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Jersey Monkey (SIGNED COPY)
by: Gallison, Kate

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy has been signed on the half title page, with an inkstamped monkey. A Nick Magaracz detective story by the author (AKA Irene Fleming) of the Mother Lavinia Grey series and and 'Girl on the Run'. Clean, like new.

Record # 378729

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

A Hopeless Case: A Mystery Novel (SIGNED COPY) by: Beck, K. K.
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A Hopeless Case: A Mystery Novel (SIGNED COPY)
by: Beck, K. K.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BECK on title page. Clean, like new.

Record # 378730

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Shadow in the Corn by: Foss, Jason
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Shadow in the Corn
by: Foss, Jason

Hardcover. NY, Severn House , 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Vikki Corbett, a junior reporter for a provincial newspaper, joins forces with Dr. Jeffrey Flint, an irreverent archaeologist lecturer with an interest in alternative lifestyles, to investigate the disappearance of one of Flint's students.Clean, like new.

Record # 378732

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

The Tijuana Bible by: Goulart, Ron
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The Tijuana Bible
by: Goulart, Ron

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Cartoonist Jack Deacon is astonished when a colleague he had not seen in years, Mutt Shermer, dies in his yard from gunshots. He is even more surprised when he finds beautiful Sally Westerland hiding in his closet. Jack and his fellow cartoonists ponder these events at a Connecticut diner, but it is not until a package addressed to Sally arrives at Jack's house, where Sally once lived, that things fall quickly into place. In the package is a "Tijuana bible," and in its pages is a coded map leading to a collection of "Golden Age" comics worth millions. Clean, like new.

Record # 378733

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Deadline (SIGNED COPY) by: Dunning John
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Deadline (SIGNED COPY)
by: Dunning John

Hardcover. Huntington Beach, James Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED AND DATED on title page by Dunning. Originally a paperback in 1981, this is the first hardcover edition. Clean copy. This early standalone novel by Dunning presents a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for a smaller New Jersey paper who has several stories assigned- an Amish woman who becomes a Radio City Rockette, a traveling circus fire that kills an eight year old girl and no one claims the body, and an old FBI investigation of student activists.

Record # 378739

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery With Cliff Janeway (SIGNED COPY) by: John Dunning
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The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery With Cliff Janeway (SIGNED COPY)
by: John Dunning

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DUNNING on title page. Cliff Janeway, a book dealer, agrees to collect a woman who has skipped bail in Seattle. But when he arrives, he realizes he's been employed to find a rare edition of "The Raven". He also learns that those who are known to have owned copies of the book have met untimely deaths. The second book in the Cliff Janeway series. Clean copy.

Record # 378740

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Mystery Roast by: Gadol, Peter
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The Mystery Roast
by: Gadol, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Eric Auden, recently estranged from his wife and the world, finds himself one snowy day in New York's greatest art museum confronting the cool marble contours of the Goddess of Desire, forty-five centuries old and still a bit of a flirt. Helplessly enchanted, and hoping to revise his life, he steals her." Clean copy.

Record # 378742

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Against the Brotherhood:A Mycroft Holmes Novel by: Quinn Fawcett
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Against the Brotherhood:A Mycroft Holmes Novel
by: Quinn Fawcett

Hardcover. NY, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Quinn Fawcett is the name used by Bill Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Their first novel, featuring Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft. Clean copy.

Record # 378743

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

MURDER ON THE BRIGHTON EXPRESS (SIGNED COPY) by: Marston, Edward
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MURDER ON THE BRIGHTON EXPRESS (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart London to Brighton Express. A man watches from shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the station. Chaos, fatalities and unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails on the last leg of its journey. What led to such devastation, and could it simply be a case of driver error? Detective Inspector Colbeck, dubbed the 'railway detective' thinks not. But digging deep to discover the target of the accident takes time, something Colbeck doesn't have as the killer prepares to strike again. Clean copy.

Record # 378746

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Silver Locomotive Mystery: The Railway Detective's Puzzling New Case (SIGNED COPY) by: Marston, Edward
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The Silver Locomotive Mystery: The Railway Detective's Puzzling New Case (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. It's 1855. As the Cardiff-bound trai puffs out of Paddington Station, young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot, designed in the shape of a locomotive, by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man and his precious cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, beside an empty valise, the great railway detective Detective Robert Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; and face awhole host of unexpected problems. Clean copy.

Record # 378747

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Railway Viaduct: The Latest Case for The Railroad Detective (SIGNED COPY) by: Marston, Edward
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The Railway Viaduct: The Latest Case for The Railroad Detective (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that the corpse has nothing on him to indicate his identity, they are baffled until a young woman comes forward to explain that the murder victim, Gaston Chabal, is an engineer, working on a major rail link in France. As the case takes on an international dimension, problems accumulate. The detectives wonder if the murder is connected to a series of vicious attacks on the rail link that is being built by British navvies under the direction of a British construction engineer. Colbeck and Leeming have to survive personal danger, resistance from the French government, broadsides from their Superintendent, and many other setbacks before they solve the crime. Clean copy.

Record # 378748

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Excursion Train (SIGNED COPY) by: Marston, Edward
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The Excursion Train (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. In Victoria's England, a rowdy crowd boards the Great Western Excursion train on their way to an illegal bare-knuckles fight in Maidenhead north of London . A brutal murder on the train brings Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck to stop the train murders, by a murderer who uses a noose as a death weapon--is this a 'public execution, a retribution killing? Clean copy.

Record # 378749

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Catering To Nobody: A Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Davidson, Diane Mott
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Catering To Nobody: A Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Davidson, Diane Mott

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by author Diane Mott Davidson directly on the title page; The first Goldy Bear Mystery. Someone put rat poison in the coffee at the banquet and police have shut down Goldy's catering business until the matter is cleared up. Since this is Goldy's only source of income, Goldy decides she'd better do a little sleauthing of her own. Laid in is a pink sheet of recipes from Goldy's Kitchen. Clean, collectible copy of the first book in the series.

Record # 378760

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Killer Pancake: a Culinary Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Davidson, Diane Mott
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Killer Pancake: a Culinary Mystery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Davidson, Diane Mott

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. This fifth culinary novel filled with 'five-star' recipes finds Caterer Goldy Schulz called on to prepare a banquet for a cosmetics company who induced animal rights protestors. Clean, like new.

Record # 378761

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (SIGNED COPY) by: Brown, Russell A.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brown, Russell A.

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.

Record # 378762

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel by: Dunning, John
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The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff Janeway Novel
by: Dunning, John

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expensive pieces remain. Why would a thief take one priceless book and leave an equally valuable volume on the shelf? Suspecting foul play, Janeway follows the trail of Candice's shadowy past to California's Golden Gate and Santa Anita racetracks, where he signs on as a racehorse hot walker. Eavesdropping on the chatter among the hands, he doesn't like what he hears. And when he goes to the house where Candice died to look for answers, Janeway finds much more than he bargained for.

Record # 378763

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Facades: A Novel by: Lundgren, Eric
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The Facades: A Novel
by: Lundgren, Eric

Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sven Norberg searches for his mezzo-soprano wife in the midwestern town of Trude. Clean copy.

Record # 378764

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Stationmaster's Farewell (The Railway Detective Series) by: Edward Marston
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The Stationmaster's Farewell (The Railway Detective Series)
by: Edward Marston

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed. With a scorned jilted lover, a resentful colleague and a violent elder brother among the many suspects, the detectives must use all their skill and wit to solve the case. Clean copy.

Record # 378825

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Peril on the Royal Train (The Railway Detective Series) by: Edward Marston
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Peril on the Royal Train (The Railway Detective Series)
by: Edward Marston

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster. Clean copy.

Record # 378826

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Easeful Death by: McInerny, Ralph M.
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Easeful Death
by: McInerny, Ralph M.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "A tour de force of black humor, Easeful Death pits a "dead" man against his double-dealing, back-stabbing family and fans in an offbeat, ironic game of subterfuge." Clean copy.

Record # 378854

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Revenge of Kali-Ra by: Beck, K. K.
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The Revenge of Kali-Ra
by: Beck, K. K.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-- one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. That is until a cast of mysterious characters descends on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion.. Clean copy.

Record # 378855

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Huckleberry Fiend by: Smith, Julie
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Huckleberry Fiend
by: Smith, Julie

Hardcover. NY, The Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From the 1991 Edgar Award-winning author of New Orleans Mourning comes a witty mystery featuring writer/sleuth Paul McDonald. When his burglar friend Booker "happens" on part of Mark Twain's original manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wants Paul to help find its rightful owner. Clean copy.

Record # 378857

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Last Suppers (SIGNED COPY) by: Davidson, Diane Mott
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The Last Suppers (SIGNED COPY)
by: Davidson, Diane Mott

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY DAVIDSON on the title page. Goldy Bear's fiance, Detective Tom Schultz, discovers the Reverend Theodore Olson lying in a pool of bloodright before Tom and Goldy's wedding ceremony was about to begin, but when police arrive to investigate Olson's murder Schultz is nowhere to be found. Clean copy.

Record # 378860

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Blood Sugar by: DeFilippi, Jim
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Blood Sugar
by: DeFilippi, Jim

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective JoeLaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect.

Record # 378861

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

CORPORATE BODIES. A Charles Paris Mystery (proof) by: Simon Brett
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CORPORATE BODIES. A Charles Paris Mystery (proof)
by: Simon Brett

Softcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st ARC, 1992, Softcover. Advance uncorrected proof in non-pictorial tan card covers. Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer. Publisher's PR release laid-in. Clean copy.

Record # 378863

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The H.L. Mencken Murder Case by: Don Swaim
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The H.L. Mencken Murder Case
by: Don Swaim

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1948 is a leap year and a good one for Harry S. Truman. The second-hand book dealers on Manhattan's Fourth Avenue are in full swing. Howard inherits his father's shabby bookshop, but Howard isn't a true bookman, and he knows how little money there is in the business--until a seemingly priceless manuscript falls into his lap. But there's something odd about it. Howard decides to check out his treasure with an acerbic fellow in Baltimore, a man Howard's late father believed could solve all literary problems: H. L. Mencken. The results are deadly. Clean copy.

Record # 378865

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Eight of Swords by: Skibbins, David
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Eight of Swords
by: Skibbins, David

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition first printing of the first novel by this author and the first novel in the Warren Ritter series. A strange thing was happening to Warren Ritter. He certainly didn't believe in the tarot. He was a businessman, setting up a folding table on a San Francisco street where a stream of passersby could bring him as much as a hundred dollars a day when the weather was right. But he was beginning to notice more and more that what he had learned to predict from his tarot cards seemed to be coming to pass with an unsettling regularity. It made him do odd things. Like stop teenage Heather Wellington's tarot at nine cards instead of ten. The first eight had been ominous, the ninth more upbeat, so Warren simply stopped the reading there. It was only after Heather had left that he looked at number ten-it was the Death card. Clean copy.

Record # 378866

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 


  

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.

Since these are used and rare books, condition and availability vary by copy. Order your next mystery online.