mysteries mystery

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Review copy. 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 314 pages. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of dazzlingly successful armored-car robberies, with no link to the underworld, takes place in the New England of the 1970s. . Young urban terrorists, turned on by the radical politics of the sixties... unwilling to bother with distinctions between ends and means. In this fiendishly well-crafted and explosive novel about betrayers and the betrayed, Higgins shows how the establishment... takes revenge by forging alliances that move its members beyond the law. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Denver, McMurray & Beck, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. This gritty first novel takes us into the world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish farm ponds, does all the dirty work his boss requires, and silently shares the family home with his sister Daze, who is nearly blinded by bitterness and disdain. Since his early teenage years, Ned's life has been marred by anger that erupts and then quickly disappears, leaving him filed with secrets and regret. 280 pages. clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. While helping conceal a suicide in the White House, Secret Service agent Jack Powers uncovers a high-level espionage ring involving the president's mistress. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #249. Light soil to rear wrapper, spine creasing and fading. Gutter crack on first page.

Softcover. Cape Town SA, Umuzi, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A crime thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR5 on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. New York City in the boomtown '80s, where fortunes are made with the drop of a dime. The lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. Paddy Adare, a failed boxer turned enforcer for the Irish gangs, and Billy, a college graduate toiling in the tunnels as a sandhog before going to law school. As greed and hatred fuel the fight that is blazing in the streets, honor and loyalty will be put to the ultimate test.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED on front end paper by Simon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. London, Bantam Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FYFIELD on title page. Sarah Fortune, first encountered in "Shadows on the Mirror", is sent to Merton-on-Sea in Norfolk to sort out the inheritance problems of the small town's premier family. But she discovers much more than just an ambiguously-worded will - and also has to confront the pain of her own past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages, decorated yellow cloth cover. Gutter cracked at title page, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third installment to Downie's Roman Empire series--the second-century saga of a witty and courageous army surgeon, Gaius Ruso, and his smart and loyal lover, Tilla, a barbarian woman from Britannia--continues in gripping fashion. Ruso returns to his family home in southern Gaul, summoned by a forged letter pleading for his immediate return. Once Ruso and Tilla return, Ruso is thrust into a dangerous quagmire involving a missing ship, huge family debts and, before long, the murder of the family's principal creditor--a crafty phony named Severus--who is poisoned in Ruso's home. While Ruso and his family are quickly suspected of the murder, Ruso and Tilla's attempts to solve the crime are hampered by interfering family members, a lying politician, a greedy banker and a pair of too-eager investigators sent from Rome. Ruso and Tilla must also deal with prejudice, envy and a new religion, Christianity. The plotting is clever and suspenseful, with subtle clues and lots of action, while the setting and supporting cast are vividly drawn. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with large, striking design of a dragon in yellow on front; lettered in yellow on front and spine; 380 pages. Color frontispiece by Gayle Hoskins (Originally published in Munsey's Magazine). Scarce copy of a mystery pulp writers' first book. Clean.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 103. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. Pick-Up is really two different books contained within a single cover. The first half describes in raw, realistic detail the hopeless, despairing and desperate, lives of a man and a woman, both alcoholics, barely surviving in post World War II San Francisco. The second half of the book consists of one man's account of his first hand experience with the criminal justice system. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, IL, Century Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Paperback. Century Mystery #27. Light soil and mild wrinkling to front cover.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max's life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you. Like new.

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 132/124 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-347. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's initials front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROBINSON on title-page. Tight copy with only minor wear to edges.