Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #184. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light paper chipping to spine edge. Map on rear cover.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #6052. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis.
Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-279, 139, 149 pages. Small ink notation to first leaf on both titles. Excellent condition.
Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D298. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SAYLOR on title page. Tight copy.
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.
Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #737. Minor wear to wrappers. Light chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on title page. A Mrs. Murphy mystery set in at the annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, the Virginia home of James and Dolly Madison. Like new.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1246.Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY CODY. Like new condition.
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.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1184. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 3rd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY HIAASEN ON TITLE PAGE. Blue boards, red cloth spine with gilt titles, bright color illustrated jacket with acetate protective covering. Slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 362. Art by Rudolph Belarski. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pencil markings on rear wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. On Mardi Gras, civic leader and socialite Chauncey St. Amant is about to be crowned Rex, King of Carnival, when someone costumed as Dolly Parton shoots him dead from his best friend's balcony overlooking the parade. Is the killer aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Female rookie cop Skip Langdon uncovers a cast of intriguing characters, all as much Chauncey's victims as they are suspects in his murder, most of them inhabiting a "poison garden of corruption" and substance abuse where it's not just on Mardi Gras that everyone wears a mask. The first Skip Langdon Mystery. Clean copy. Edgar Award Wimmer, 1991.
Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 2nd, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #s1079. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Small ink notation on 1st page. Light creasing to paper wrappers. Hinge is cracked and separated from spine.
Softcover. NY, Pegasus Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 344 pages. A new Pegasus Crime edition of the landmark noir novel by "the supreme master of suspense." (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review)In Woolrich's iconic tale, Detective Tom Shawn saves a lovely young woman from a suicide attempt one night, and later hears her story. She is in despair because the death of her wealthy father has been predicted by a confidence man seemingly gifted with the power of clairvoyance; a man whose predictions have unerringly aided her father in his business many times before. Shawn and a squad of detectives investigate this dire prediction and try to avert the millionaire businessman from meeting his ordained end at the stroke of midnight. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY COOK on the title-page. As two separate cases begin to merge, private detective Frank Clemons finds the lives of two very different women--Puri Dai, an accused killer and gypsy queen, and an elegant society matron with a secret past--also intertwining. Clean copy.