Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon. Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon. Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Tan boards, black cloth spine with silver titles, red dust jacket with color illustration and acetate protective covering. Extremely slight wear to dust jacket, spine very stiff and tight, covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth novel, and one of the best, in the award-winning Block's bestselling mystery series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, New York City bookseller and burglar. Bernie's second-hand bookstore is turning a small profit until his new landlord wants to raise his rent $10,000 per month. So going back to his former profession of burglar, he slips into a supposedly un-tenanted apartment, steals a very large amount of untraceable cash and spots a naked man, dead, in the bath. The apartment just happens to be his new landlord's brother-in-law's, and, not only is the cash missing, but a million-dollar baseball collection is also missing and Bernie's been framed for it. Clean copy.
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.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, 244 pages. Clean copy. A new Perry Mason story, originally published by Morrow in 1943. Murder, embezzlement, cross examination, a buried alarm clock make this another gripping Perry Mason mystery. 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.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, Novel involving dope smuggling, one in which the NY State Police play an important role. Foreword by Gardner on a pathology expert to whom he is dedicating this book, 275 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket, 245 pages. The second mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and his Bantu assistant Sergeant Zondi.
Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1993, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by author Diane Mott Davidson directly on the title page; 303 pages. This delightfully wicked mystery features food expert Goldy Bear, seen last in Dying for Chocolate . Goldy, 31 and the divorced mother of a 12-year-old son and the owner of Goldilocks Catering ("Where Everything Is Just Right!") in Aspen Meadow, Colo., caters as many as three events a day, even while solving a murder or two. After catering the senior class dinner at the exclusive but undistinguished Elk Park Prepatory School, Goldy discovers the body of the class valedictorian, Keith Andrews, strangled by one of her extension cords. Tom Schulz, gourmet cook, Goldy's lover and head homicide detective for the Aspen Meadow police, quickly discovers that Keith may have been an extortionist and a thief. Probing further, he and Goldy find that the senior class (oddly restrained in their response to the murder) and their rancorous parents are a group for whom obsession with grades, nasty competition over college slots and blatant bribery are the norm. The book proves to be a light but delicious combination of unique personalities, first-rate recipes and sustained suspense, with only a surfeit of red herrings for leftovers. Clean 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. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, colorful dustjacket with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. "Here, long after anyone would have expected it, is the voice of James M. Cain, as fresh and as relevant as ever. THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS will involve you, and then shock you with an ending you'll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader's novel that's also a literary event." --STEPHEN KING "James M. Cain was one of the founders of American hard-boiled fiction, and it's not a stretch to say that it's his voice one hears echoed in most of the Gold Medal novels of the 1950s. That makes Hard Case Crime the ideal publisher for THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS. How considerate of the postman to ring a third time, delivering Cain's final gift to us thirty-five years after his death." --LAWRENCE BLOCK
Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, colorful dust jacket with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army, who've decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life. Like new.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Richard B. Farrell. WINNER OF THE EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL OF THE YEAR! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when Jake's mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it's up to him to prove he didn't do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did? Like new.
Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages. The first known mystery written by an African-American, set in 1930s Harlem. Rudolph Fisher, one of the principal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, weaves an intricate story of a native African king, who, after receiving a degree from Harvard University, settles into Harlem in the 1930s. He becomes a "conjure-man," a fortune-teller, a mysterious figure who remains shrouded in darkness while his clients sit directly across from him, singly bathed in light. It is in this configuration that one of these seekers of the revelation of fate discovers he is speaking to a dead man. Thus a complex mystery begins, involving suspects and characters who are vividly and richly portrayed, and who dramatically illuminate for the reader a time, a place, and a people. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Robert McGinnis. Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, seventy-five thousand dollars may not sound like much. But it's all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when it's snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back. A simple favor--but as the bodies pile up...dead men and beautiful women...the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell he's gotten himself into, and just who or what is the mysterious Consummata? Begun by mystery master MICKEY SPILLANE in the late 1960s and completed four decades later by his buddy MAX ALLAN COLLINS (Road to Perdition), The Consummata is the long-awaited follow-up to Spillane's bestseller The Delta Factor--a breathtaking tale of treachery, sensuality, and violence, showcasing two giants of crime fiction at their pulse-pounding, two-fisted best. Like new.
Softcover. Norfolk VA, Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 249 pages. Best-known for her novels, Margaret Millar also wrote a handful of short stories, tales much admired by peers (including her husband Kenneth Millar, who used the pseudonym Ross Macdonald) but never collected in book form. Now Macdonald's biographer Tom Nolan has gathered and introduced those stories in this volume, which includes two all-but-unknown novellas from the 1940s. Here are half-a-dozen exhibits in evidence of the case made by English author and critic H.R.F. Keating, who judged: "No woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret Millar." Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Ken Laager. Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man's mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her. But the punk was innocent. He'd been set up to take the fall by some cutie who was too clever by half. My job? Find that cutie--before the cutie found me. The MWA Grandmaster's first novel--published for the first time ever under the title he originally intended it to have! When originally published as THE MERCENARIES, the book was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel Westlake has won three Edgar Awards and received numerous other honors, including an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of "The Grifters". Like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. No dust jacket. A young English scholar is driven by recurring dreams to become a classical scholar, which later enables him to save a woman in Greece who, during a revival of ancient pagan rites and beliefs, is falsely accused of witchcraft. Mild shelf wear, spine shows fading, clean.
Hardcover. Lodon, Gollancz , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jane Langton's Homer Kelly mysteries have been delighting readers for over a decade. The bumbling Harvard professor and ex-Boston detective is back, but this time he's venturing far from his usual New England stomping grounds--all the way to Florence, Italy. Sprinkled with brain-teasing clues from Dante's masterpiece, The Dante Game is a suspenseful romp in one of the world's most divine settings.
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 "The Buck Passes Flynn by: Gregory Mcdonald")
 "The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza by: Block, Lawrence")
 "The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery by: Lawrence Block")
 "The Burry Man's Day: A Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Catriona McPherson")
 "The Case of the Buried Clock by: Gardner, Erle Stanley")
 "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 Fabulous Fake/Girl on a Hire Wire/The Love-Death Thing by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Rae Foley/Thomas B. Dewey")
 "The Case of the Irate Witness/The Phone Calls/A Shadow of Himself by: Erle Stanley Gardner/Lillian O'Donnell/Michael Delving")
 "The Case of the Musical Cow by: Gardner, Erle Stanley")
 "The Caterpillar Cop by: James McClure")
 "The Cereal Murders: A Culinary Mystery (SIGNED COPY) by: Diane Mott Davidson")
 "The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case by: Baxt, George")
 "THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by: James M. Cain")
 "THE COMEDY IS FINISHED by: Donald E. Westlake")
 "THE CONFESSION by: Domenic Stansberry")
 "The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by: Fisher, Rudolph")
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 "The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries by: Millar, Margaret")
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 "The Dancing Floor by: Buchan, John")
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