Mysteries mystery

Hardcover. NY, Published for the Crime Club By Doubleday, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Pictorial dust jacket. Bright yellow boards. A struggling mystery writer moves to a country estate for struggling song writers. When they start dying she struggles to summon the help of Detective Knute Severson. She's having a tough time. Remainder spray to bottom edge, uncut front edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 381. Moderate wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Hinge creases, minor soil to front cover. Stamp inside front cover.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's back, Grandmother Pearl has just signed the family property over to the Almighty. In the literature of the American prairie, few families are as brawling, as benighted, or as outrageously vital as the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska. And when Jim Thompson chronicles their life and times, the result suggest Willa Cather steeped in rotguut--and armed with a .45. Clean, unread copy.

Softcover. New York, Pocket Book, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Paperback. Pocket Book #485. Moderate edgewear on paper wrappers. Gutter cracked on first page. Light creasing to wrappers.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, first printing of the Tower Books Motion Picture edition, August 1946. In a very worn, tape-repaired dust jacket that shows scenes from the 20th Century-Fox film starring Peggy Ann Garner & Randolph Scott.

Softcover. New York, A Signet Book, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Paperbook. Signet Book #S2180. Cover Art by Robert McGinnis. Light wear on edges. Stamp on inside front wrapper.

Hardcover. New York , Little Brown and Co., 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, black cloth covers with red lettering. Nice, clean copy of the novel which the Hitchcock film "Spellbound" is based.

Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Third novel published by "Vine", psuedonym of Ruth Rendell.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 157 pages. The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s. "She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely.Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eye shadow on her eyelids You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing." With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 109. Light wear to paper wrappers. Pages tanned. Moderate soil on rear.

Hardcover. New York, Putman, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BARR. 309 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #209. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light fade to spine. Map on rear cover. Light corner crease to front cover.

Softcover. New York, Avon Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Paperback. Avon Book #479. Light wear to paper wrappers. Spine creased lightly.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.

Softcover. Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, LA's nerviest, curviest PI is up to her navel in trouble again, and this time she's being framed for murder. The Victims: Honey's boy toy Rip Spensor, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback who got sacked by a steamroller ("ground right into the asphalt"), and Angela Scali, an Italian Hollywood beauty that set out for an innocent weekend at a nudist colony run by some quirky evangelical Christians and ended up hanging dead in a romantic mountain glade ("the grass underneath red with her blood"). What connects the two: Both were associated with a certain blonde gumshoe with an unmistakable 38-22-36 figure and a license to carry. Looks like Honey has gotten caught in a sticky situation . Clean copy

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 111/145 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-357. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #147. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Map on rear cover.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 2nd, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #734. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover. Cover art by Frank Cazzorelli.

Softcover. New York, Popular Library Mystery, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Popular Library Mystery # 69. Notation in pencil on front cover and first page. Spine lightly cocked. Light wear to paper wrappers.

Softcover. Greenwich, CN, Crest Book/Fawcett Publications, 2nd, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Paperback. Fawcett/Crest #173. Light rubbing to edges, spine shows moderate wear. Ink notation on first page. Tight.

Softcover. New York, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Double Novel. 164/156 pages. Ace Double Novel #D-225. Previous owner's markings on first pages of each side. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly tanned. Creasing and wear to spine.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #5386. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert Stanley. Light crease and fade to spine and front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Crime Club Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 181 pages. This is the third book in the series about a New York cop named McQuaid. The book opens with McQuaid agreeing, against his better judgment, to do a favor for a woman he doesn't know. He winds up spending the night in her apartment, and partially because of fatigue and partially because of having had too much to drink, he falls into a deep sleep on her couch. When he wakes up the next day, the woman has been murdered. McQuaid knows nobody's going to believe his story, so he calls in sick and begins to try to solve the case himself. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #135. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Light crease to front cover. Laminate starting to peel. Map on rear cover.