Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Glen Orbik. From the Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Comes a Breathtaking Story of Murder and Mischief...IT'S THE STORY of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint...IT'S THE STORY of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them. And it's the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century--and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this tenth novel of the Gabe Wager, Denver PD Homicide series, he confronts the gang violence that takes his nephew's life and threatens to ignite the city.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book, a mystery introducing Long Island detective JoeLaLuna, a "great cop who has hit a bad spot." And then he discovers that the wealthy husband of his former high school sweetheart has been murdered - and she is the most likely suspect.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First published in the UK in 1993.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 391 pages. A very clean, tight copy. In Blood Work, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's. Blood Work won the Grand Prix, the highest honor for a mystery novel in France. It also won the Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel of 1998.
Softcover. NY, Vintage, Unc. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.
Softcover. London, Serpent's Tail, 1st UK, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing top edge, and a couple small spots of foxing to right edge. Dust jacket with thin line of foxing top edge. Otherwise clean tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Lovely copy. Minor shelf-wear to dust jacket, else like new.
New York , Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 185 pages, b&w illustrations by Peter Spier, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, note card from author also laid in.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial front cover. Light fraying to edges. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and bookplate on next page. Illustrations by Frnak Schoonover.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Brown pictorial cover, gilt design, gilt lettering on spine. 10 color Illustrations by H. T. Dunn. Frontispiece illustration. Ilustrated end papers. Small pen marking on front end paper.