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SCHWARTZ,JOHN BURNHAM. RESERVATION ROAD.
1998 SCHWARTZ, JOHN BURNHAM. RESERVATION ROAD. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. A young boy standing by the side of the road is hit and killed by a speeding car. The dead boy's father vows to find his son's killer--who just happens to be the father of a 10-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car at the time of the accident, and in desperate need of a second chance. Recommended.
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GARFIELD,BRIAN. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
1970 GARFIELD, BRIAN. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First edition. Very good in dust jacket with one small closed tear to top edge of rear panel and light wear to the extremities. Arizona setting for murder and destruction in a small town.
Price: USD 185.00 other currencies   order no. 12289   details     inquire
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HARRIS, TIMOTHY. HEAT WAVE.
1979 HARRIS, TIMOTHY. HEAT WAVE. [New York]: Dell, [1979]. First edition. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Based on the screenplay by Herschel Weingrod. Down on their luck, cameraman, Bobby Paradise, and hooker, Tina are thrown together. Shortly thereafter, a high-ranking city official is dead. Between them, Bobby and Tina have enough information to blow the whistle on a scheme that stinks from L.A. to D.C. ---- But Bobby doesn't want to die -----
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HARRISON,JAMIE. THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES.
1995 HARRISON, JAMIE. THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES. New York: Hyperion, [1995]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Someone shoots George Blackwater as he works on his newest screenplay. The killer is assumed to be George's large and angry wife who has been on a rampage since her discovery of her husband's many affairs. But, soon there are more killings and longer lists of possible suspects. Sheriff Jules Clement investigates the killings in Blue Deer, Montana.
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HALEY,RICHARD. THOROUGHFARE OF STONES.
1995 HALEY,RICHARD. THOROUGHFARE OF STONES. [London]: Headline, [1995]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. PI John Goss is summoned by a wealthy and neurotic woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
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HANSEN,ROBERT P. DEADLY PURPOSE.
1958 HANSEN, ROBERT P. DEADLY PURPOSE. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1958. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Neil Mallory went to the city of San Bonito to kill Karl Heintz, a former Korean War sergeant, whose cowardly ways resulted in the deaths of many men. He was surprised when he found him dead. Guess who was the main suspect?!
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HARRINGTON,JONATHAN. THE DEATH OF COUSIN ROSE.
1995 HARRINGTON, JONATHAN. THE DEATH OF COUSIN ROSE. [Aurora]: Write Way Publishing, [1995]. Firstedition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Danny O'Flaherty goes home to Ireland to speak with his cousin Rose about his Irish roots. When he gets there he finds her body, bludgeoned to death. Garda Kelly, a local cop, immediately accuses Danny of Rose's murder. Danny must reveal the killer in order to save himself. He searches through birth, death and church records, talking to community members, unearthing hidden feuds and secret motives. Rich in the flavor of rural Ireland, the characters and the traditions play an important role to enhance this story.
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FRANCOME,JOHN. SAFE BET.
1998 FRANCOME, JOHN. SAFE BET. [London]: Headline, [1998]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. When an ex-jockey Mike Powell is killed in a car crash, best friend and sports journalist Jed Harvard investigates the accident. He discovers that Mike's entire estate was left to an American ... George Parker .... a man that no one in the family has ever heard of. Jed travels to America to track down George and quickly finds that Mike had a very shady past and a number of bitter enemies.
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HEALEY,BEN. THE VESPUCCI PAPERS.
1972 HEALEY,BEN. THE VESPUCCI PAPERS. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1972]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket with rubbing to front and back panels and light wear to the extremities. Harcourt d'Espinal steals a recently discovered painting by Botticelli, a portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, not once but twice. What starts out to be an intriguing caper turns into a deadly game---with someone else calling the shots. Part of the solution lies in a richly bound book of hours.
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HEALEY,BEN. THE STONE BABY.
1973 HEALEY, BEN. THE STONE BABY. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1973]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Harcourt d'Espinal is back again, this time caught up in a plan to sell a forgery of Michelangelo's Sleeping Cupid, which disappeared in 1631. When the statue suddenly appears in Venice, Colonel Raven asks d'espinal to act as his agent for the sale. Raven is planning to get a million dollars for the statue. His client is an American with a small fortune and two large gunmen, and he's planning on spending alot less for the statue --- one way or another!
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COBEN, HARLAN. JUST ONE LOOK.
2004 COBEN, HARLAN. JUST ONE LOOK. New York: Dutton, 2004. First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. Grace Lawson is looking through a newly developed set of pictures when she finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can't identify. But there is one face she recognizes---that of her husband, from before she knew him. When her husband sees the photo, he denies it's him and leaves their home in the middle of the night, taking the picture with him. Grace doesn't know where he is or if he's coming back. Meanwhile she learns that a silent killer is also looking for her husband. Someone who will stop at nothing to find his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.
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HEBDEN,MARK. PEL UNDER PRESSURE.
1983 HEBDEN,MARK. PEL UNDER PRESSURE. New York: Walker and Company, [1983]. First U.S. edition. Light wear to head and tail of spine else fine in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. A young student is found dead -- naked and trussed with rope. Then an small-time crook turns up dead in the trunk of a stolen car. The two crimes initially seem unrelated, but with each new fact that is uncovered, it would be quite coincidental for them not to connected. Insp. Pel is faced with a drug-smuggling racket.
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HENDERSON,M.R. IF I SHOULD DIE.
1985 HENDERSON, M.R. IF I SHOULD DIE. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Inscribed. Review copy. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket. Kay is living peacefully in the California mountains with her husband and son when one day she finds Matt Briggs, prison escapee, standing at her door....ready to pick up where they left off eleven years before. Suddenly Kay finds herself and her child captives by this murderess escapee on a deadly rampage!
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HILL, RICHARD. WHAT ROUGH BEAST?
1992 HILL, RICHARD. WHAT ROUGH BEAST? Woodstock: Foul Play Press, [1992]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Introducing PI Randall Gatsby Sierra, former undercover cop, martials arts expert with training as a Navy SEAL and onetime alcoholic and drug addict. He is searching for his best friend. At the same time there is a serial killer on the loose preying on young women in campgrounds, and fear is spreading. . Sierra knows he has seen this man before, knows that he has met his tormented gaze, and feels sure that they will meet again .....
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HILL, RICHARD. SHOOT THE PIPER.
1994 HILL, RICHARD. SHOOT THE PIPER. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1994]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. PI Sierra is hired to track down Jock MacLeod, a folk hero who disappears in the middle of a "literary" tour along with the only copy of his long-awaited new novel and a large advance. Following Jock to England, it becomes increasingly unclear to Sierra exactly what he's been up to.
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HILL,CHRISTOPHER. SCORPION.
1974 HILL, CHRISTOPHER. SCORPION. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1974]. First U.S. edition. Author's first book. Light wear to head and toe of spine else fine in price-clipped dust jacket lightly soiled on front panel. John Grayson was a solitary man born under the sign of the Scorpion. He thought of himself as aloof until he learned he had one dangerous and exceptional skill which was needed.
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HITCHCOCK,JANE STANTON. TRICK OF THE EYE.
1992 HITCHCOCK, JANE STANTON. TRICK OF THE EYE. [New York]: Dutton, [1992]. First edition. Signed.Author's first book. Edgar award nominee. Fine in dust jacket. A novel of psychological suspense set in a world of art and money where nothing is as it appears. Francis Griffin commissions Faith Crowell, a 39-year-old trompe l'oeil artist, to paint the interior of a ballroom, built 20 years earlier for the debutante cotillion of Griffin's now-deceased daughter, Cassandra. During this assignment, Faith learns that Cassandra's brutal murder remains unsolved, and Mrs. Griffin seems to know more about it than she is telling. Faith digs beneath the surface and uncovers the extraordinary, evil truth dividing appearance from reality. Great read!
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CARTER, JOHN FRANKLIN [PSEUDONYM AS "DIPLOMAT"]. SLOW DEATH IN GENEVA.
1934 CARTER, JOHN FRANKLIN [PSEUDONYM AS "DIPLOMAT"]. SLOW DEATH IN GENEVA. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1934. First edition. 8vo. A few spots to lower portion of cloth, else very good in dust jacket with chip at head of spine, light wear to foot of spine, small chips along extremities. The guest speaker at the World Political Conference being held in Geneva is poisoned before he can give his message. Espionage agents from Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia are suspected of having him murdered before he could divulge his message.
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ROBB, CANDACE. A SPY FOR THE REDEEMER.
1999 ROBB, CANDACE. A SPY FOR THE REDEEMER. London: William Heinemann, [1999]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. In late spring 1370, Owen Archer, ex-soldier and spy, prepares to leave Wales to go home to York when a stonemason in his employ is found hanged. John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, is angered by rumors that Owen has deserted his family and orders his return not realizing that Owen is caught up in a country at war.
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DEIGHTON,LEN. & ARNOLD SCHWARTZMAN. AIRSHIPWRECK.
1978 DEIGHTON, LEN & ARNOLD SCHWARTZMAN. AIRSHIPWRECK. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Len Deighton calls the airship one of the greatest triumphs of structural engineering the world has seen. Through this magnificent collection of photographs, he bears witness to the magic of those gentle, awesome giants of the sky.
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JOHNSON, RYERSON. LADY IN DREAD.
1955 JOHNSON, RYERSON. LADY IN DREAD. New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1955]. First edition.PBO. GM 459. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Tessie Cullen, a beautiful woman living in the sinful city of Coalfield. You see the hoods owned Coalfield and Tessie. Until she fell in love with a lawyer who came to blow the lid off Coalfield and its corruption. Tessie better watch out...murder will be their course of action.
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MALMONT, VALERIE S. DEATH PAYS THE ROSE RENT.
1994 MALMONT, VALERIE S. DEATH PAYS THE ROSE RENT. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1994]. First edition. Signed by the author. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Introduces Tori Miracle to solve a murder in a small Pennsylvania town. The town is preparing for Rose Rent Day, an annual celebration honoring the town's founder who donated land to the churches for the annual rent of one red rose. The tradition lives on but this year it is broken when the guest of honor turns up dead.
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JAMES, P.D. P.D. JAMES OMNIBUS.
1982 JAMES, P.D. P.D. JAMES OMNIBUS. [London]: Faber and Faber, [1982]. First edition thus. Fine in dust jacket. Three of her greatest novels: Unnatural Causes, Shroud For A Nightingale, and An Unsuitable Job For A Woman. In Unnatural Causes, a famous mystery writer is found dead at the bottom of a dinghy, with both hands chopped off at the wrists. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, with help from his remarkable Aunt Jane, must discover who typed the writer's death sentence before the plot takes another murderous turn. In Shroud For A Nightingale, the young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. Finally, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman deals with handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.
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KASMINOFF,ROSS. THE SENTRY.
1995 KASMINOFF, ROSS. THE SENTRY. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1995]. First edition. Signed.Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. A homeless man awakens in agonizing pain to find he is engulfed in flames. Barely able to talk and badly charred the only words he can say are "The Sentry." Fire Marshall Matt Kincaid begins to investigate...following a lead he comes upon the battered body of a girl with the words "The Sentry rules from within and below" written on a wall. Kincaid knows he better move fast before the next person is murdered.
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le CARRE,JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE.
1989 le CARRE, JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. U S edition precedes the U K edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. In Moscow, at a small British trade fair, documents change hands; military secrets that can alter the course of world events. It can destroy the people it touches....especially Barley Blair. Blair is a drinker, saxophonist and derelict publisher. He is perplexed to find the papers addressed to him and to find himself pressed into service by the British Intelligence. Their invitation to heroism lacks appeal until he meets Katya Orlova, the lovely intermediary who offers Blair the"gift of trust."
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le CARRE,JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE.
1989 le CARRE, JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE. London: London Limited Editions, [1989]. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and bound in quarter leather and marbled boards. Fine in glassine dust jacket. In Moscow, at a small British trade fair, documents change hands; military secrets that can alter the course of world events. It can destroy the people it touches....especially Barley Blair. Blair is a drinker, saxophonist and derelict publisher. He is perplexed to find the papers addressed to him and to find himself pressed into service by the British Intelligence. Their invitation to heroism lacks appeal until he meets Katya Orlova, the lovely intermediary who offers Blair the"gift of trust."
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6le CARRE,JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE.
1989 le CARRE, JOHN. THE RUSSIA HOUSE. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1989]. First U K edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. In Moscow, at a small British trade fair, documents change hands; military secrets that can alter the course of world events. It can destroy the people it touches....especially Barley Blair. Blair is a drinker, saxophonist and derelict publisher. He is perplexed to find the papers addressed to him and to find himself pressed into service by the British Intelligence. Their invitation to heroism lacks appeal until he meets Katya Orlova, the lovely intermediary who offers Blair the"gift of trust."
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le CARRE,JOHN. THE SECRET PILGRIM.
1991 le CARRE, JOHN. THE SECRET PILGRIM. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First U S edition. One ofan undetermined number of copies with a tipped-in page signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. The Cold War is over but, in order to train new spies for a new world, one must first show them the past. Ned, inspired by his mentor, George Smiley, recounts forty exciting years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East. This book tells of Ned's career .... his triumphs, failures and gradual rise to maturity. This book was the third bestselling hardback novel of 1991 in the UK.
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PARETSKY, SARA. DEADLOCK.
1984 PARETSKY, SARA. DEADLOCK. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. First edition. Signed. Author's second novel. Fine in price- clipped dust jacket with light wear to spine ends. Boom-Boom Warshawski meets with an "accidental death," and leave it to cousin V.I. to solve the crime.
Price: USD 185.00 other currencies   order no. 12503   details     inquire
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KELLY,SUSAN. THE GEMINI MAN.
1985 KELLY, SUSAN. THE GEMINI MAN. New York: Walker and Company, [1985]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lt. Jack Lingemann and Liz Connors investigate the brutal murder of a woman.
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KELLY,SUSAN. THE SUMMERTIME SOLDIERS.
1986 KELLY, SUSAN. THE SUMMERTIME SOLDIERS. New York: Walker and Company, [1986]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Det. Jack Lingemann and Liz Connors are back again. A group calling itself the Peoples Revolutionary Cadre are killing defense workers for every million dollars of military spending by the United States. Terror begins when the third body is found in their front yard with a note in it's pocket addressed to Jack.
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HOWARD "TWO COMBS" JOHNNY. BLOOD MONEY.
1998 HOWARD, "TWO COMBS" JOHNNY. BLOOD MONEY. [London]: Orion, [1998]. First edition. Fine in dustjacket. Set in Sierra Leone in the midst of a civil war, we find an ex-SAS soldier, John Harding, currently a mercenary, is asked to accomplish an impossible mission. The author has used his own experiences of combat missions in Sierra Leone to provide both the background and a blistering authentic thriller.
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KENNEDY, WILLIAM. THE FLAMING CORSAGE.
1996 KENNEDY, WILLIAM. THE FLAMING CORSAGE. [New York]: Viking, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Author's first mystery. Fine in dust jacket. Two women and a man were in a hotel room when a second man burst in transforming the scene into what the tabloids came to call "The Love Nest Killings of 1908." The mystery of the carnage comes fully unraveled when we meet Katrina Taylor and Edward Daugherty and the people in their lives.
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[THOMAS,ROSS]. BLEECK,OLIVER. THE THIEF WHO PAINTED SUNLIGHT.
1972 [THOMAS,ROSS]. BLEECK, OLIVER. THE THIEF WHO PAINTED SUNLIGHT. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1972]. First U.K. edition. U.S. title "The Procane Chronicle." Fine in dust jacket with light wear to head and toe of spine and to fore-edges. Made into a 1976 movie of the same name starring Charles Bronson as Philip St. Ives, with Harry Guardino and John Houseman.
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TODD, MARILYN VIRGIN TERRITORY.
1996 TODD, MARILYN. VIRGIN TERRITORY. London: Macmillan, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Claudia Seferius leaves Rome to escort a young woman back to her grandfather, only to learn the girl is an imposter, and murder is lurking nearby.
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LACEY,SARAH. FILE UNDER: MISSING.
1993 LACEY, SARAH. FILE UNDER: MISSING. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1993]. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket. Leah Hunter is back investigating the disappearance of a man who went to a party and was never seen again.
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LANDRETH,MARSHA. A CLINIC FOR MURDER.
1993 LANDRETH, MARSHA. A CLINIC FOR MURDER. New York: Walker and Company, [1993]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Dr. Samantha Turner suspects something isn't quite right when while attending a medical examiner's lecture, a doctor falls over dead. When she begins to ask questions, more questions arise -- questions about an abortion clinic, a less-than-grieving widow, and a fire-bombing.
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LEATHER, STEPHEN. THE VETS.
1993 LEATHER, STEPHEN. THE VETS. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1993]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Four men who've never met have only one thing in common .... they all fought in Vietnam. All four men sign up for a veterans' tour of Vietnam's former combat zones, but when they meet, they find out that Colonel Joel Tyler has a very different plan for them. He offers the men a chance to turn back the clock, to revive old skills, and to take part in a spectacular robbery.
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LEIB,FRANKLIN ALLEN. FIRE ARROW.
1988 LEIB, FRANKLIN ALLEN. FIRE ARROW. [Novato]: Presidio, [1988]. First edition. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket. A planeload of U.S. military dependents is hijacked by terrorists and taken to a Libyan air base. A complex military rescue operation is mounted. Can World War III possibly be averted? An engaging high-tech military thriller.
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DEXTER, COLIN. MORSE'S GREATEST MYSTERY AND OTHER STORIES.
1993 DEXTER, COLIN. MORSE'S GREATEST MYSTERY AND OTHER STORIES. London: Macmillan, [1993]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Published together for the first time are ten wonderful short stories by Colin Dexter, including two new mysteries written especially for this anthology.
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LEONARD,ELMORE. GLITZ.
1985 LEONARD, ELMORE. GLITZ. New York: The Mysterious Press, [1985]. First edition. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in decorated cloth. Slipcase. Miami police detective Vincent Mora has gone to Puerto Rico to recuperate after having been shot. While there he falls for a prostitute, and is being watched by a man he should have killed but only put in jail and who wants revenge.
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LEVINE,PAUL. TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD.
1990 LEVINE, PAUL. TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD. New York: Bantam Books, [1990]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Dr. Roger Salisbury is being charged with medical malpractice in the death of Philip Corrigan. Philip's daughter believes Dr. Salisbury and her stepmother plotted to kill her father so she hires Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter.
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[GRUBER,FRANK]. BOSTON,CHARLES K. THE SILVER JACKASS.
1941 [GRUBER, FRANK]. BOSTON,CHARLES K. THE SILVER JACKASS. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1941]. First edition. Three small numbers in ink on rear pastedown sheet, else fine bright copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to head and toe of spine and the extremities. Gruber's only book using this pseudonym.
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LOVE,WILLIAM F. THE CHARTREUSE CLUE.
1990 LOVE, WILLIAM F. THE CHARTREUSE CLUE. New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1990]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Father William Fuller goes to New York City to work on his Ph.D. Using a false name, he gets involved with a woman and wakes up one morning to find her stabbed to death beside him. Worried that his true identity will be revealed, he goes to Bishop Francis X. Regan who shields him from the police and calls on ex-cop/private detective Davey Goldman for help.
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LOVE, WILLIAM F. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MURDER.
1991 LOVE, WILLIAM F. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MURDER. New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1991]. First edition. Inscribed. Fine in dust jacket. A young fundamentalist preacher arrives in New York City to convert the entire city to Jesus, instead he ends up in jail accused of killing three prostitutes and a model. Auxiliary Bishop Francis X. Regan and PI Davey Goldman to investigate.
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LOWE,KENNETH. HAZE OF EVIL.
1953 LOWE,KENNETH. HAZE OF EVIL. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Pseudonym of Elma K. Lobaugh. Pages evenly browned else very good in dust jacket with small chips missing to head and toe of spine and with moderate wear to the extremities. Steve Caldwell, the new superintendent of the steel mill investigates the murder of one of the mill hands.
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LUNDY, MIKE. RAVEN.
1985 LUNDY, MIKE. RAVEN. Secaucus: Lyle Stuart Inc., [1985]. First edition. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket. A young couple necking in Van Cortlandt Park are taken at gunpoint to another location. She is raped while he is tied up in another part of the building. Then the two are put into the trunk of the car and dropped at different locations. The girl is dead.....the boyfriend is charged with murder.
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LYALL, GAVIN. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME.
1964 LYALL, GAVIN. THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [1964]. First edition.Author's second novel. Former owner's name and date on front fly-leaf else fine in dust jacket with two tiny chips to front panel and light chipping to head and tail of spine. Bill Cary flies surveys for mineral companies and pilots hunters around the remote forests of Lapland. Late in the summer, strange people start appearing north of the Artic. Now the action begins.
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LYALL, GAVIN. THE CONDUCT OF MAJOR MAXIM.
1982 LYALL, GAVIN. THE CONDUCT OF MAJOR MAXIM. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1982]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. When Corporal Blagg shot down a German registrar of births and deaths, the Secret Service turned their back on him. His only hope lies with Major Harry Maxim of Number 10 Downing Street.
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DILNOT,GEORGE. THE BLACK ACE.
1929 DILNOT, GEORGE. THE BLACK ACE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First U.S. edition. Cloth rubbed on the spine and lightly soiled on the rear panel, else very good in a fine bright dust jacket. The "Black Ace" is involved in many crimes, and his identity is yet unknown. He is an idealistic crook who punishes those who are able to escape the law. Eleven clues to his identity are given on the rear panel of the dust jacket.
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O'DUFFY,EIMAR. THE BIRD CAGE.
1933 O'DUFFY, EIMAR. THE BIRD CAGE. New York: H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., 1933. First U.S. edition. Author's first mystery. Review copy with slip affixed to front fly-leaf. Lightly foxed on front and rear endpapers, and to the fore-edges, else very good, tight copy in dust jacket, moderately foxed on verso, but not evident on the artwork. London Times Literary Supplement says,: "A well-constructed and admirably written detective story in which an exceptionally clever criminal succeeds in making the police believe that the murder is the work of another man."
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HILLERMAN,TONY. SKINWALKERS.
1987 HILLERMAN,TONY. SKINWALKERS. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First edition. Signed. Advance Reading Copy. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Three unsolved homicides and an attempted murder have left the Navajo Tribal Police baffled. Are the murders somehow connected, although they occurred 120 miles apart? Or are they random acts of violence? First appearance of both Navajo tribal detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in a murder investigation that takes them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft. Anthony Award winner for 1988.
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MAHANNAH,FLOYD. STOPOVER FOR MURDER.
1953 MAHANNAH, FLOYD. STOPOVER FOR MURDER. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, [1953]. First edition. Inscribed. Very good in dust jacket. Set in a small town near Lake Tahoe, a man is dropped into a maelstrom of murder and hate.
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SHEARING,JOSEPH. AUNT BEARDIE.
1940 SHEARING, JOSEPH [GABRIELLE, MARGARET]. AUNT BEARDIE. New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, [1940].First U.S. edition. Pseudonym of Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell. Very good, tight copy in dust jacket lightly restored on the verso of head and toe of spine. Splendid story of murder and suspense set in the France of 1794, where two young girls flee from terrorism. The story is again taken up 30 years later when one of the girls is now married to an Englishman of high position, and is herself the mother of an eighteen year old daughter. The daughter is aware that some dark horror from the past is overshadowing her mother's outwardly calm and happy life. What happened 30 years before that plagues her until this day? Fine suspense.
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POLITO, ROBERT. SAVAGE ART - A BIOGRAPHY OF JIM THOMPSON.
1995 POLITO, ROBERT. SAVAGE ART - A BIOGRAPHY OF JIM THOMPSON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The author of some of the darkest and most celebrated modern crime novels. Thompson's life was as dark and frightening as his fictional attacks on the American dream.
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GOODENOUGH, SIMON [PLANNED & EDITED BY]. A STUDY IN SCARLET.
GOODENOUGH, SIMON [PLANNED & EDITED BY]. A STUDY IN SCARLET. New York: Quill/105, n.d. First U.S.edition. A Sherlock Holmes murder dossier based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. "An American visitor is found murdered in mysterious circumstances in a London house. A woman's wedding ring, cigar ash, the monogram on a handkerchief, and a message written in blood are all among the clues that lead Holmes to a second blood-bespattered body in a hotel bedroom where a box of poisoned pills enable him to put his finger on the murderer and reveal a desperate plot of love and revenge that has its roots in Salt Lake City." Fine in stiff pictorial slipcase with original unopened shrinkwrap. Complete with Dr. Watson's private papers, notes, telegrams, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, and real clues. If you can't solve the mystery you can always open the sealed section for the solution to this famous mystery.
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PETIEVICH,GERALD. MONEY MEN AND ONE-SHOT DEAL.
1981 PETIEVICH, GERALD. MONEY MEN AND ONE-SHOT DEAL. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981]. First edition. Author's first book. Uncorrected proofs. Fine in printed wrappers. These stories are set in Los Angeles, and are about two cases of Treasury Agent Charles Carr. He has a knack of irritating his agency superiors, mainly because he's successful in his own innovative and independent ways. In Money Men, Carr is working a stakeout when an undercover agent is murdered. Feeling responsible, Carr goes after the killers with a passion that far outreaches his duty. In One-Shot Deal, Carr is assigned to capture a brilliant and murderous counterfeiter who has managed to steal government security paper. His purpose is to forge $10 million in U.S. Treasury notes.
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MACLEISH,ROD. CROSSING AT IVALO.
1990 MACLEISH, ROD. CROSSING AT IVALO. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1990]. First edition. 1990 Edgar Award nominee. Fine in dust jacket. The principal architect of the Soviet "Star Wars" system is kidnapped and his abductors offer him for sale to the Soviets and Americans. The Russians don't want anyone to have him and the Americans want to learn all that he knows.
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MAHANNAH,FLOYD. STOPOVER FOR MURDER.
1953 MAHANNAH, FLOYD. STOPOVER FOR MURDER. [New York]: The New American Library, [1953]. First paperback edition. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Set in a small town near Lake Tahoe, a man is dropped into a maelstrom of murder and hate. Well written mystery.
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MARLOWE,DEREK. ECHOES OF CELANDINE.
1970 MARLOWE, DEREK. ECHOES OF CELANDINE. New York: The Viking Press, [1970]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. Mallory is a professional assassin who has decided that it's about time for him to retire .... He's getting older and isn't as competent as he once was. He returns home only to find his wife, Celadine, missing. Mallory's attempts to find her lead him through a labyrinth of mysterious motives, plots, and counterplots. At the same time he must carry out an assignment for yet another paid murder.
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MARLOWE,DEREK. NIGHTSHADE.
1976 MARLOWE, DEREK. NIGHTSHADE. New York: The Viking Press, [1976]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. Edward and Amy Lytton travel to the Caribbean to try to regain a part of their former happiness. Instead they find themselves haunted by dreams and fears that lie within themselves and are brought terrifyingly to the surface on the fertile soil of Haitian mysticism.
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MARLOWE,DEREK. MEMOIRS OF A VENUS LACKEY.
1968 MARLOWE, DEREK. MEMOIRS OF A VENUS LACKEY. New York: The Viking Press, [1968]. First U.S. edition. Author's second novel. Fine in dust jacket. In his coffin awaiting judgement, a once-celebrated playboy and eccentric reflects on the life of debauchery that led him prematurely into limbo.
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MARLOWE,DEREK. SOMEBODY'S SISTER.
1974 MARLOWE, DEREK. SOMEBODY'S SISTER. New York: The Viking Press, [1974]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. PI Walter Brackett investigates the death of a young girl ... her life cut short when her car crashes into the girders of the Golden Gate Bridge. Brackett soon realizes that the wrecked car wasn't hers ..... she was too young to be driving. Then, the only witness to the "accident" is murdered. Who was this young girl, and was her death really an accident?????
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MARLOWE,PIERS. A KNIFE FOR YOUR HEART.
1966 MARLOWE, PIERS. A KNIFE FOR YOUR HEART. London: John Gifford Limited, [1966]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Frank Drury investigates the murder of a woman who was found with a Stone Age knife protruding from her breast.
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MARLOWE,STEPHEN. VIOLENCE IS MY BUSINESS.
1958 MARLOWE, STEPHEN. VIOLENCE IS MY BUSINESS. Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, [1958]. First edition. PBO. GM 769. Very good in pictorial wrappers. PI Chester Drum finds that tragedy is his only client and the final payment is made in bullets.
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MARLOWE, STEPHEN. [LESSER, MILTON]. THE SEARCH FOR BRUNO HEIDLER.
1966 MARLOWE, STEPHEN [LESSER, MILTON]. THE SEARCH FOR BRUNO HEIDLER. New York: The Macmillan Company, [1966]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light soiling to back panel and creasing to front flap. Pseudonym of Milton Lesser. Ted Dunbar's assignment is to track down the highest-ranking Nazi still at large.
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WEBER,KATHARINE. THE MUSIC LESSON.
1999 WEBER, KATHARINE. THE MUSIC LESSON. London: Phoenix House, [1999]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Patricia Dolan, a lonely librarian, has begun an affair with a cousin she didn't realize she had. As she falls deeper in love, she learns he has been sent in order to recruit her in a political plot to steal a precious painting for ransom from the Queen.
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HAINING,PETER. [EDITED BY]. MURDER ON THE RAILWAYS.
1996 HAINING, PETER. [EDITED BY]. MURDER ON THE RAILWAYS. [London]: Orion, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Are your fellow passengers innocent travelers or potential killers? Was that noise the sound of the carriage wheels or the noise of a violent struggle? Was that the train's whistle or was it the death scream of a victim? A collection of stories featuring some of the most famous trains and some of the best-known fictional characters. Stories by Patricia Highsmith, Elmore Leonard, Michael Innes, Stanley Ellin, Ken Follett and more.
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MCCULLOUGH, DAVID WILLIS [EDITED BY]. CITY SLEUTHS AND TOUGH GUYS.
1989 MCCULLOUGH, DAVID WILLIS [EDITED BY]. CITY SLEUTHS AND TOUGH GUYS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Authors include Georges Simenon, John D. MacDonald, Ed McBain, Chester Himes et al.
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MCALLISTER,LEE. SQUAW DANCE.
1991 MCALLISTER, LEE. SQUAW DANCE. Reno: TJE, [1991]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. The old Navajos warn that someone, somewhere plans to set off a series of powerful explosives. Matt Sloan, Head of San Francisco Police Bomb Squad to investigate.
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GRAHAM,ANNE E. & CAROL EMMAS. THE LAST VICTIM.
1999 GRAHAM, ANNE E. & CAROL EMMAS. THE LAST VICTIM. [London]: Headline, [1999]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. In August, 1889, twenty-seven year old Florence Maybrick is sentenced to death for poisoning her husband, James Maybrick. But who exactly is James Maybrick and how is he connected to the rash of terrible murders in London's East End? This is the story of the turbulent life of Florence Maybrick, her marriage to a man widely believed to have been Jack the Ripper, her trial and her death.
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MCCABE,PETER. WASTELAND.
1994 MCCABE, PETER. WASTELAND. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1994]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Will Dunbar is accused of murder based on circumstantial evidence. A star witness's testimony frees him but Will is determined to find out who set him up and why.
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MCCABE,PETER. CITY OF LIES.
1993 MCCABE, PETER. CITY OF LIES. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1993]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Introducing crime reporter Mike Kincaid who tries to help solve a murder.
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GREEN, JEN [EDITOR]. READER, I MURDERED HIM.
1989 GREEN, JEN [EDITOR]. READER, I MURDERED HIM. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket. Introduction by Alison Hennegan. Sixteen crime stories written by, for, and about women ... stories with women as victims, as sleuths, and as murderers. Stories of women driven to the ends of their ropes, and who decide to take matters into their own hands. Included is Sara Paretsky's story, "A Taste of Life," about a young girl dominated by her mother. Amanda Cross contributes a story of a woman who realizes that her only value to society lies in her checkbook, and so she devises an ingenious way to make her presence truly felt. Also included is Val McDermid's first mystery short story, A Wife in a Million. The collection delves into the minds of women, coming up with motives and means. Also includes original stories by Jane Burke, Susan Dunlap, Sheila Radley, et al.
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MCQUILLAN,KARIN. ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD.
1993 MCQUILLAN, KARIN. ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD. New York: Ballantine Books, [1993]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Jazz Jasper, now living in Africa, is asked to investigate the murder of a man whose "Save the Elephants" foundation opposes the illegal slaughter of elephants.
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MELVILLE, ANNABELLE M. RUE THE RESERVOIR.
1956 MELVILLE, ANNABELLE M. RUE THE RESERVOIR. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, [1956]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket with light crease to back panel and with faint evidence of a small sticker removal on back panel. State Trooper Andy Boudreau investigates the murders of Paul Grandell and Bessie Freemyer who met their deaths together in the dark waters of the Reservoir. There were several people who had reason to rue the Reservoir that summer .... Ann Lucas, who witnessed a scene across the Reservoir that froze her with horror; Benjie Grandell, who found along the Reservoir's steep banks a hiding place for a deep, dark secret; Harry Freemyer, the husband of the dead woman, who was tormented by the mere presence in town of a girl straight out of his past; and even Paul's brother, who stood to profit in a business way from Paul's death. Who's responsible????
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MEREDITH, D R. THE SHERIFF AND THE PANHANDLE MURDERS.
1984 MEREDITH, D.R. THE SHERIFF AND THE PANHANDLE MURDERS. New York: Walker and Company, [1984]. First edition. Author's first book. Review copy. Light residue from sticker on front pastedown sheet else fine in dust jacket. Introducing Sheriff Timothy Matthews who investigates two brutal murders. The strange thing was there hadn't been a murder in more than 80 years. Texas setting.
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MEREDITH, D.R. THE SHERIFF AND THE PHEASANT HUNT MURDERS.
1993 MEREDITH, D.R. THE SHERIFF AND THE PHEASANT HUNT MURDERS. New York: Ballantine, [1993]. Firstedition. PBO. Near fine in pic. wrappers. Set in the Texas Panhandle we find 8000 hunters out for the kill on the first day of the annual pheasant hunt. A ruthless banker who is the most hated man in the county, is killed during the hunt and Sheriff Matthews has a murder on his hands.
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