Mysteries mystery

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

Softcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st pbk, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 248 pages. Bantam #76. Stated 1st, January 1947. VG in orange pictorial wraps with yellow & white lettering & cover art picturing a montage of scenes from the spy novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 292 pages. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket protected by a clear brodart cover. A very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Mysterious Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. SIGNED BY CONSTANTINE. Lovely copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 537 pages, 4 b&w plates by Glackens. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". The story centers on a mysterious robbery at the bank of M. Andre Fauvel, where a significant sum of three hundred and fifty thousand francs has vanished without a trace. As the investigation unfolds, the primary suspect emerges as Prosper Bertomy, the bank's head cashier, leading to a tense exploration of loyalty, betrayal, and the pursuit of justice. Name on front fly leaf, mild scrathes to cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 149/107 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-415. Previous owner's markings on first page of each novel. Light to moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library, rep., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #SP407. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Markings on top page block.

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #833. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Notation on front page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #140. Paper cut along top spine 2.5 inches. Hinge/gutter cracked in front. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, rep, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Paperback. Pocket Book #71. Laminate starting to peel on wrappers, gutter cracked, and moderate edgewear. Ink "X" on spine.

Softcover. NY, Hard Case Crime, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That is how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent - and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Lost for more than half a century and never before published under Cornell Woolrich's real name, FRIGHT is a breathtaking noir crime novel worthy of the writer who has been called "the Hitchcock of the written word" and "one of the giants of mystery fiction." Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Fright, a novel set in 1915. A year from Woolrich's childhood but one he recreates with an astonishing attention to detail. (Slang, music, fashion, the distant echoes of the war being waged in Europe, etc.) Fright is very much a period piece albeit one that is timeless in its treatment of guilt and paranoia. Two emotional states the author had more than a passing familiarity with. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #A133. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Victor Kalin. Ink notation on first page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D338.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Ink notation on first page.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #B207. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #918.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #111. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear cover. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Love and crime may prove too much for Gabe Wager, whose relationship with policewoman Jo Fabrizio is interrupted by old friend Tommy Sanchez's request that he search out Tommy's aloof sons on their secluded ranch. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #787. Light wear on edges. Light creases on wrapper corners and spine. Notation on first page.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #73. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.