Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCARRY on the title page. Clean copy.
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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. 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. 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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1980, 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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. 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. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, 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. 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, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meeting a former lover whose real-estate husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades, where a big business owner is hatching a scheme to promote his cash flow and personal power. Clean copy.
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. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous spoof on the hard-boiled detective genre. Clean, bright copy.
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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eleven stories of suspense illustrated by Arthur Shilstone, 208 pages. Collected are the following: The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost, Through a Dead Man's Eye by Cornell Woolrich, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Green Ice by Stuart Palmer, The Grave Grass Quivers by MacKinlay Kantor, The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner, Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse by August Derleth, The Headmaster by Michael Gilbert, The Adventureof the Seven Black Cats by Ellery Queen, The Wicked Cousin by Leslie Charteris, The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As Gone With the Wind approaches release, all the stars but Clark Gable prepare to head to Atlanta for the big premiere. Clark and his wife, Carole Lombard, are too distressed to celebrate the opening of the biggest movie of his career because Lydia Austin, a young actress and protege of Carole's, is missing. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. When her father is detained at Heathrow Airport for smuggling, Louise Gerard and her friend Edward Cole investigate, leading to a chase through Paris that forces Louise to realize just how much she does know about the smuggling ring. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The highly anticipated first novel in the Inspector Van Veeteren series in now available in English. At last, American readers will be able to enjoy, from its very beginnings, this addictive series by one of Europe's most beloved and best-selling crime writers.cChief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution. But Van Veeteren's suspicions about the identity of the killer are borne out when Mitter also becomes a murder victim. Now the chief inspector launches a full-scale investigation of the two slayings. But it may only be the unspoken secrets of the dead-revealed in a mysterious letter that Mitter wrote shortly before his death-that will finally allow Van Veeteren to unmask the killer and expose the shocking root of this sordid violence.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation. Inspector Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. He was a quiet, utterly dull man, and the only suspicious activity his surviving wife can recall is a series of peculiar phone calls. Repeatedly the telephone would ring, offering nothing but the words of an obscure pop song from the 1960s. This siren song is linked to an identical murder, but the true link between these heinous crimes remains unknown, while a daughter's pride grows with the satisfaction of vengeance and another detective's lover offers telling insights that only an outsider could deduce. With the critical eye and cool observation necessary for a successful chess match, Van Veeteren pursues his subject across the country, wading through outrageous leads and fruitless tips. A breathless thriller full of deception, blackmail, and cold murder, Woman with Birthmark is a chilling read.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. A enthralling mystery of murder, romance and disaster in San Francisco. Slight slant to spine, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, Brodarted dust jacket with 2.95 price present. Stated first printing. Paper tanning, first signature loose but hanging on, front endpaper stamped, rear flyleaf gone, otherwise clean. The dust jacket makes it worthwhile.
Hardcover. NY, Published for the Crime Club By Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Pictorial dust jacket. Bright yellow boards. A struggling mystery writer moves to a country estate for struggling song writers. When they start dying she struggles to summon the help of Detective Knute Severson. She's having a tough time. Remainder spray to bottom edge, uncut front edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 163 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with minor sun-fading. Gray boards. Overall, a clean, tight copy. The first Detective Hank Moody mystery novel, set in New York's East Village.
Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Richard Coburn, the despised co-owner of the fashionable Avanti nightclub, is shot to death, his widow, sultry Dierdre Coburn, hires Dwyer to investigate. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. At the funeral of his Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, only Kinky notices that the body in the casket is not that of John, leading him to solve a mystery with origins in the jungles of Borneo twenty years ago. Bright. clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Sheriff Chick Charleston asks Jason Beard, a deputy, to investigate the murder of an oil company stenographer who secretly moonlighted as a prostitute.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Private detective Dwyer agrees to help Karen Lane, his high school crush, to recover a lost suitcase. Still lovely after 25 years, Karen is also greedy for money and status, but the disillusioned Dwyer takes the assignment, which puts his life in danger. When Karen dies suddenly, the detective goes after evidence that she has been murdered, and perhaps others with knowledge of the facts behind the death of their schoolmate, Sonny Howard, whose drowning has been officially declared a suicide. The tensions multiply, with Dwyer baiting a trap for criminals willing to buy the suitcase holding the source of blackmailer Karen's wealth. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A Scotland Yard procedural with the New York Mafia moving in on a pair of psychotic London supercriminals, the Magnus cousins, modeled on the infamous real-life Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. The lead is Detective Inspector Derek Torry, a lapsed Catholic whose fiancee dumps him because of his guilts (he hasn't bedded her once in their two-year engagement). Soon Torry is making it with Jenny, a suspect in a triple bomb-murder, whose former boyfriend was arrested at Dover for smuggling 150 pounds of heroin into the country in his Bentley (she tipped the coppers). Vendettas explode left and right. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "Mrs. Nelson thinks her husband may be having an illicit affair- a run-of-the-mill situation as far as John Marshall Tanner, one-time lawyer turned investigator, is concerned. Except that the beautiful Mrs. Nelson doesn't want her husband's infidelity documented. The facts must be covered up to protect him from scandal and blackmail. With the first sentences of the book, you will know you are in the hands of a great Chandler fan and detective story craftsman." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Keith Beaumont, an ace British Arctic troubleshooter and scientific expert is despatched to research base Target-5 on the icepack near Greenland to intercept a Soviet defector named Gorov who is carrying secret documents detailing a submarine defence network. The contents could upset the balance of world power, as these stories dictate, so when Beaumont and Gorov are tailed by Soviet airborne assault troops, they must head towards the edge of the ice pack in a perilous journey. This is a short but thrilling novel firmly set in the 1970s. Clean copy.
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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.
Since these are used and rare books, condition and availability vary by copy. Order your next mystery online.
 "The Shanghai Factor (SIGNED COPY) by: McCarry, Charles")
 "Death in the City/Fatal Finish/Troubled Waters by: Anderson, J.R.L.; D'Alton, Martina; Lemarchand, Elizabeth")
 "A Problem in Prague/A Cracking of Spines/Killed in the Act by: Noah Webster/Roy Harley Lewis/William L. De Andrea")
 "Desire to Kill/Murder In Paradise/Fair Game by: Anna Clarke/Jocelyn Davey/Gerald Hammond")
 "Hand of Fate; The Copenhagen Connection; The Faraway Drums by: Underwood, Michael; Elizabeth Peters; Jon Cleary")
 "Dead Matter/Roast Eggs/The Death-Cap Dancers by: Steven Frimmer/Douglas Clark/Gladys Mitchell")
 "Death in a Cold Climate/The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain/ Passing Strange by: Robert Barnard/Alisa Craig/Catherine Aird")
 "The Loss of the Culion/Saratoga Swimmer/Dupe by: Jeffrey Ashford/Stephen Dobyns/Liza Cody")
 "The Money Men/The Dark Wind/Double Jeopardy by: William Haggard/Tony Hillerman/Michael Underwood")
 "The Sitting Duck/Line Up for Murder/Death By Sheer Torture by: George Bagby/Marian Babson/Robert Barnard")
 "Curtain Fall/The Foretelling/Spy on the Run by: Eileen Dewhurst/Caroline Crane/Marc Lovell")
 "Everglades by: White, Randy Wayne")
 "Big Fish by: Perry, Thomas")
 "King Silky by: Rosten, Leo")
 "The Last Coyote by: Connelly, Michael")
 "Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives by: Hitchcock. Alfred")
 "The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case by: Baxt, George")
 "Splinter of Glass/The Kid Who Came home With a Corpse/Flight Into Fear by: John Creasey/Hampton Stone/Duncan Kyle")
 "All Grass Isn't Green /The Protege/The Spanish Prisoner by: Fair, A. A./Charlotte Armstrong/Frank Gruber")
 "Jigsaw/The Spoilers/She Was Only the Sheriff's Daughter by: McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter)/ Desmond Bagley/Stanton Forbes")
 "The Case of the Fabulous Fake/Girl on a Hire Wire/The Love-Death Thing by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Rae Foley/Thomas B. Dewey")
 "Reardon/Autumn of a Hunter/What Did Hattie See? by: Robert L. Pike/Pat Stadley/ Kelley Roos")
 "Death Wish/Appointment with Yesterday/The Champagne Killer by: Brain Garfield/Celia Fremlin/Hugh Pentecost")
 "The Case of the Crimson Kiss/The People on the Hill/The Inside-Out Heist by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Velda Johnston/Thomas B. Reagan")
 "The Case of the Irate Witness/The Phone Calls/A Shadow of Himself by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Lillian O'Donnell/Michael Delving")
 "The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared/Sadie When She Died/A Tough One To Lose by: Doris Miles Disney/Ed McBain/Tony Kenrick")
 "Two Little Rich Girls/The Fly on the Wall/Seafire by: Mignon G. Eberhart/Tony Hillerman/Bill Knox")
 "Why She Cries, I Do Not Know/Tthe Deadly Homecoming/The Protectors by: Whit Masterson; Theodore George; William Haggard")
 "BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE/MURDER'S A WAITING GAME/FIVE PIECES OF JADE by: Forbes, Stanton/Gilbert, Anthony/Ball, John")
 "Gideon's Art/If You Want to See Your Wife Again.../The Mourning Tree by: J.J. Marric/John Craig/Velda Johnston")
 "Wait for Death/Sleep Without Morning/Death in a Sunny Place by: Creasey, John/Rae Foley/Richard Lockridge")
 "A Plague of Violence/Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate/the Green Hell Treasure by: Pentecost, Hugh/Disney, Doris Miles/Fish, Robert L.")
 "The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax/Alp Murder/Miss Seeton Draws the Line by: Dorothy Gilman/Aaron Marc Stein/Heron Carvic")
 "To Cache a Millionaire/The Case of Robert Quarry/A Person Shouldn't Die Like That by: Margaret Scherf/Andrew Garve/Arthur D. Goldstein")
 "Dinky Died/The Blessing Way/The Dead Sea Cipher by: Tobias Wells/Tony Hillerman/Elizabeth Peters")
 "Fly By Night (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Wallace, Carol McD.")
 "Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery by: Nesser, Hakan")
 "Woman With Birthmark An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery by: Nesser, Hakan")
 "Casa Madrone by: Mignon Eberhart")
 "See Them Die: An Inner Sanctum 87th Precinct Mystery by: Ed McBain")
 "Have Mercy Upon Us by: Tobias Wells")
 "Moth in a Rag Shop by: Chambers, Robert")
 "A Cry of Shadows: A Jack Dwyer Mystery by: Gorman, Ed")
 "Frequent Flyer by: Friedman, Kinky")
 "Playing Catch-Up by: Guthrie, Jr., A.B.")
 "The Autumn Dead: A Jack Dwyer Mystery by: Gorman, Ed")
 "The Cornermen by: John Gardner")
 "Grave Error by: Greenleaf, Stephen")
 "Target Five by: Colin Forbes")