mysteries mystery

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."

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Arthur Suydam. THE FINAL CRIME NOVEL FROM THE KING OF PULP FICTION. For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren't actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived--but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything else she had...except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved--or to lose her for good. Like new.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Penzler Publishers, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dance hall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing-and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silence his nagging thoughts. When the dance hall closes, he and Bricky-linked, after many intimate hours, by a budding romance-return to the scene of the crime intending to restore the stolen fortune and begin a new life together, only to discover, upon arrival, that the owner of the property has been murdered. There's evidence present that easily links Quinn to the crime, and he expects that, as soon as day breaks and the authorities learn of the gruesome scene, he will be arrested straight away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st thus, 1946, Hardcover in black cloth. "Deadline at Dawn", a "Tower Mystery", was made into a film by RKO Radio Pictures, starring Susan Hayward, Bill Williams and Paul Lukas. Book is illustrated with black and white photographs from film. Black cloth with green titling on spine, green illustration on front, end papers and title page illustrated with black and white photographs, four pages of black and white photographs in text, as well as several black and white line drawings of clocks. 220 pages. Text pages have tanning due to the cheap paper. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st pbk, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 210 pages. A young man desperately tries to prove himself innocent of a charge of murder and searches through New York City for the real killer. Bookstore stamp to inside front cover, light wear to covers.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1958, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #991. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Previous owner's ink numbers on front fly leaf otherwise VG

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #805. Cover art by Milton Charles.Small ink notation on 1st page.Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

London, MacDonald, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine. Classic period detective novel involving three apparently unlinked sudden accidental deaths. No dust jacket, name on front leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York , Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SANTLOFER on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pseudonym of Gore Vidal. 1st published in 1953. with a new introduction by him.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When the nude, throttled corpse of a childhood friend is discovered shortly after a chance meeting, San Francisco homicide chief Frank Hastings is determined to catch the killer.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B191. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover and corner. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A144. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Cover art by Victor Kalin.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1961, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #d423. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

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. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #122. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Hinge cracked in front.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing Company, 1st, 1943, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Mystery Book #356. Cover art from the movie "Shadow on the Wall".Pencil notations and numbers on first pages. Light creasing to paper wrappers.Map on rear wrapper. Moderate creasing and wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Armchair Detective Library, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pseudonym of Gore Vidal. 1st published in 1952. with a new introduction by him.