mysteries mystery

Hardcover. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #360. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 1478. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear. Cover Art by Walter Popp. Tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Books/Permabooks, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #1109. Cover art by James Meese. Crease along spine.

Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nominated for the Edgar award, and basis of the Michael Douglas film. New York City psychiatrist Nathan Conrad possesses everything required for a good, normal life--a successful practice on Central Park West, an adoring wife and a lovely daughter. He also has a reputation for dealing with the hard cases that most of his uptown colleagues prefer to pass on: catatonics, schizophrenics, the criminally insane. In this taut, superbly plotted thriller, Klavan, an Edgar-winner also writing as Keith Peterson, interweaves Dr. Conrad's disparate worlds to riveting effect. Soon after he begins treating a young woman accused of a particularly brutal murder, Conrad receives a chilling phone call at home. Suddenly his safe private life becomes a nightmarish game board, with Sport and Maxwell, two vividly drawn psychopaths, key players in his terrifying ordeal. Maxwell smiles and hums when he hurts people; Sport finds this a handy behavior in an accomplice. And the reader, meanwhile, roots for Dr. Conrad all the way to this brisk novel's heart-stopping conclusion. SIGNED BY KLAVAN on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket chipped, worn. Book is clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. Author is Joyce Carol Oates. A cultured, upper-class man finds himself drawn to the beautiful, helpless plaintiff in an assault case for which he is juror, only to be lured into a world in which nothing is what it seems.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains--but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of the Mob-connected DiPreta family and the Mob thinks maybe Nolan can make it stop. Maybe he can--for a six-figure fee. Originally published as two separate novels (and unavailable in bookstores for 40 years!), DOUBLE DOWN finds Nolan and Jon pursuing the American dream in their inimitable criminal fashion. Flying high off his recent return after more than three decades in SKIM DEEP, Nolan is one of MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins' most unforgettable characters, and DOUBLE DOWN is Nolan at his hard-boiled best. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend--well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves? On the opposite coast, movie star Dawn Devayne--the hottest It Girl in Hollywood--gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried. These two short novels, one hilarious and one heartbreaking, are two of the best works Westlake ever wrote. And fittingly, both became movies--one starring Jack Ryan's Marie-Josee Croze, and one starring Fargo's William H. Macy and Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with spotting, light soil to cover, chips to corners. 1" stain along bottom edge of rear panel.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #160. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Map on rear.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stroughton, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 283 pages, blue cloth covers, spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Crime Club, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Atlanta GA, Longstreet Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Shamus Award-winning Estleman's eighth mystery featuring Detroit private detective Amos Walker.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY McBAIN on the half-title page. A Florida orange grower visits the Big Apple and stumbles into twenty-four hours of wild and funny trouble, finding himself robbed, framed for murder, and hunted by an assassin. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-63, 201, 127 pages. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Greenwich, CN, Crest Book/Fawcett Publications, 2nd, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperback. Fawcett/Crest #191. Light rubbing to edges, spine shows moderate wear. Light markings on front wrapper.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Hill writing as Patrick Ruell. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st UK, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.