Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page. Note signed by him laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown cloth cover with gilt title. 318 pages. Previous owner inscription in front endpapers. Otherwise clean. B&w line plates by Frank Merrill.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover First Edition. 4 black & white illustrations, 1 diagram. Previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaf, blank prelim page otherwise clean. Brown cloth, black decoration on front, spine with gilt lettering. Publisher's ad. in rear for the "Leavenworth Case" by the same author. Set in Upstate New York, we follow a team of detectives and attorneys as they try to solve a murder. In the period preceding the advent of advanced forensics, the process is totally dependent on the skills and logic of the men tasked with bringing justice. Known as the "Mother of the Detective Novel," Green shaped the structure of the modern detective novel and gave it a distinctive American style. Light shelfwear, edgewear to cover edges. Opened roughly at page 433, otherwise very good.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, uncorrected proof in mauve wrappers. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHIELDS on the title page. A fresh, crisp copy of his third book.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book and SIGNED BY KRAMER on title page.

Hardcover. London, Whitefriars Press, 1st fascimile, circa late 1800, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 volumes of Surtees' novels, with illustrations by John Leech in all except Hawbuck Grange, which is illustrated by H. K. Browne & W. T. Maud (aka "Phiz"). Subscription edition of original first editions published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., Gilt decorated covers on red cloth board with uncut pages. Light corner and edge wear on all volumes, minor stains on some volumes. Overall, clean and tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 667 pages. Red cloth, gilt titled spine. Limited to 1000 copies. Good slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in color by John Leech. Spine faded, slipcase shows edgewear, some fraying.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an rubbed, edgeworn and chipped jacket. The third novel in Kane's hardboiled mystery series featuring sophisticated, smart-mouthed NYC private eye, Peter Chambers, this time running an errand for a friend and finding a blonde with a bullet in her head. Paper tanning. Author hams it up on photo on rear panel of dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Orion, 1st UK, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Lovely copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows minor wear. Hardbound.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclpped dust jacket. 306 pages. Summoned to the scene of a ghastly crime in her remote Appalachian village, Laura Bruce, the new minister's wife, realizes that Sunday school teacher Nora Crumb's dark visions have come true.

Hardcover. New York, Carroll and Graf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 301 pages. Author Chris Bohjalians 2nd book. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with light fading to spine. Internally very good. Marcia Middleton finds the body of her husband, Brian, hanging from the attic rafters of their new house in Deering, Vt. Relocated New Yorkers, the couple had moved only a month before--shortly after Brian had confessed to an adulterous affair. An autopsy reveals that the victim was dead before his body was hoisted. Once the police learn about Brian's indiscretion and his wife-beating, they label Marcia a murder suspect.

Softcover. NY, Avon, 1st pbk, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 199 pages. pictorial wrappers. Murder Mystery Monthly 38. The third Hannah Van Doren mystery. Light wear, mild soil.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth pictorially stamped in color and gilt, top edge gilt. Juvenile classic illustrated with 8 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Wharton Edwards. 380 pages, clean copy.

New York, McLoughlin Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 186 pages. Beige cloth boards, with color illustration of two children on front. Gold lettering front, black on spine. Color and b&w illustrations by May Audubon Post. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket with chipping, top of spine with 1" gone. 325 pages. 4 color and 8 b&w illustrations by Clara Burd. Edited by Ruth Ewing Hilpert.Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Previous owner's small embossed stamp on title page, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.