mysteries mystery

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by author Diane Mott Davidson directly on the title page; The first Goldy Bear Mystery. Someone put rat poison in the coffee at the banquet and police have shut down Goldy's catering business until the matter is cleared up. Since this is Goldy's only source of income, Goldy decides she'd better do a little sleauthing of her own. Laid in is a pink sheet of recipes from Goldy's Kitchen. Clean, collectible copy of the first book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Spine slant, light xoil to cover otherwise VG.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Green cloth. Light wear to covers and edges. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SWAN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PARKER with his usual scrawl on the title page. Spenser and his sidekick, Hawk, become entangled in the affairs of the Mafia and in an internecine struggle for control of the Boston underworld when they set out to find the errant spouse of the daughter of big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Yellow cloth covering with black lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge of papers stained blue. Previous owners' names written in red pen on top of front end paper. Related ephemera laid in. B&W photos from Fox Movietone movie. Cover corners bumped, front and back covers slightly marked. A couple spots of discoloration on page edges.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A Sheriff Milt Kovak mystery, set in Prophesy County, Oklahoma. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #343. Map on back cover. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers. Moderate wear on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Gook League of America, reprint, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Dust jacket chipped, worn.

Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #130. Light creasing to cover wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Arbor House, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcver, 275 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Greenwich, CN, Crest Book/Fawcett Publications, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperback. Fawcett/Crest #403. Light rubbing to edges, spine shows moderate wear.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 403 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and light foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #61. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. Edgewar creasing to map on back cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #133. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Map on rear cover. Cover art by Otto Storch.

Softcover. NY, Bantam, uncorr proof, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Paperback proof in blue wrappers. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, International Polygonics, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Douglas G. Greene. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Softcover. Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Gold Medal Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Paperback. Gold Metal Book #150. Cover art by Bayre Phillips. Light creasing to paper wrappers.

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED BY FRANCIS on half-title page. Clean copy. Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 292 pages, SIGNED BY DONALD WESTLAKE(STARK) on title page.

Softcover. New York, Bantam Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 page. Paperback. Bantam Mystery #1927/5. Corner creasing and moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's notation on first page.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st ARC, 1992, Softcover. Advance uncorrected proof in non-pictorial tan card covers. Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer. Publisher's PR release laid-in. Clean copy.