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HELLER, MANDASUE. THE GAME.
2005 HELLER, MANDASUE. THE GAME. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [2005]. First edition. Fine in finedust jacket. Mary James is a bright, confident and rebellious teenager who never sticks to the rules. Thrown out of the family home, she soon learns how tough life can really be. With her new job at Henshall's factory under threat, she is relieved when older, more sophisticated Lynne offers her a room in her apartment. While Mary sticks to a straighter path, her roommate walks the streets for extra cash. Then, one night, Lynne brings two men back to the apartment, both desperate for alibis for murder, and Mary finds herself involved in a far more dangerous game.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 21857   details     inquire
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VAN DINE, S.S. PHILO VANCE RETURNS. 8 ORIGINAL LOBBY CARD SET.
1947 VAN DINE, S.S. PHILO VANCE RETURNS. 8 ORIGINAL LOBBY CARD SET. Unknown. Set of eight original11" x 14" colored lobby cards of Robert E. Kent's original screenplay. The movie was directed by William Beaudine and produced by Howard Welsch. This 1947 PRC [Producers Releasing Corp.] film starred William Wright as Philo Vance. Other cast members were Terry Austin, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, Ramsey Ames, Damian O'Flynn, and Frank Wilcox. All eight cards have minor pin holes most likely caused by straight pins displaying them, and two have short pieces of paper tape affixed to the back side, else all in near fine condition. Uncommon.
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POWERS, CHARLES T. IN THE MEMORY OF THE FOREST.
1997 POWERS, CHARLES T. IN THE MEMORY OF THE FOREST. New York: Scribner, [1997]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author's only book (he died in 1996 after completing this book). A distillery worker's body is found in the forest just outside a small town in contemporary Poland, still a culture in transition. When Leszek, a young farmer, begins looking into the unexplained murder of his childhood friend, he uncovers difficult truths about war crimes committed by members of his own family, and finds the answers to the puzzle in the forest where the past and present come together.
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YORKE, MARGARET. ACT OF VIOLENCE.
1997 YORKE, MARGARET. ACT OF VIOLENCE. [London]: Little, Brown and Company, [1997]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. The murder of a man who worked hard in his neighborhood to stop vandalism and violence, brings tensions to the surface of a small community. Parents are forced to consider that their children might be involved in the killing. Meanwhile, a released murderer who is living nearby is absolutely enthralled with the crime.
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SCHUTZ,BENJAMIN M. ALL THE OLD BARGAINS.
1985 SCHUTZ, BENJAMIN M. ALL THE OLD BARGAINS. [New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1985]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket, evenly browned along top edge of both panels and spine. The search for a missing girl, believed to have gotten into drugs, porno, and hooking, leads Leo Haggerty into the sordid underworld.
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TAYLOR, ANDREW. DEATH'S OWN DOOR.
2001 TAYLOR, ANDREW. DEATH'S OWN DOOR. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [2001]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Set in the 1950's, reporter Jill Francis and Insp. Richard Thornhill tackle their most frustrating adventure when a widower with a distinguished war record is found dead...supposedly from suicide.
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CLEVERLY, BARBARA. THE PALACE TIGER.
2004 CLEVERLY, BARBARA. THE PALACE TIGER. London: Constable, [2004]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. India 1922. A tiger has turn man-eater and is terrorizing the northern villages of the Princely State of Ranipur. Governor Sir George Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands, Scotland Yard detective, to join in a hunt for the beast as the guest of the maharajah. The Holland and Holland rifle will be perfect for the tiger, but why will he need the latest small Browning M pistol? The Maharajah, an ally of the British, is dying. The first heir to the throne has already died in a panther-wrestling incident. A second violent death occurs as Joe approaches the city. Is a killer prowling the corridors of the palace of Ranipur? Surrounded by scheming characters both Rajput and European, Joe must track down a clever murderer. Under the mocking eye of the ruthless Chief of State Police, Joe finds his way through a maze of intrigue to corner, at last, the Palace Tiger.
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DINALLO, GREG. FINAL ANSWERS.
1992 DINALLO, GREG. FINAL ANSWERS. New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. During a business trip to Washington, Cal Morgan, a Vietnam vet, and his wife, Nancy, visit the Vietnam Memorial. They are shocked to see Cal's name on "The Wall." Cal remembers that his dogtags and ID were lost when he tripped a bomb, and he now he realizes that someone died with his ID. He is determined to discover whose name really belongs on the memorial. He, Nancy and Kate Ackerman, an MIA's wife and activist dedicated to resolving the fates ... the Final Answers ... of Vietnam soldiers still listed as missing. Their digging results in Nancy's murder! Cal teams up with Kate to discover why as they are led through the Washington bureaucracy, the sultry nightclubs of Bangkok, and to the den of a drug kingpin in the steamy jungles of Laos. A chilling and disturbing thriller.
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TAPPLY,WILLIAM G. DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT.
1984 TAPPLY, WILLIAM G. DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1984]. Firstedition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. The Gresham family is filled with death -- First Dud Greshamcommits suicide with a shotgun. Then his son Winchester is killed in Vietnam. Now, Winchester's brother, George, is found dead --- his body washed ashore after a plummet from a cliff. A suicide note is found in his pocket --- but, was it suicide or was it murder? Introduces Boston attorney Brady Coyne to investigate.
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TAYLOR,ANDREW WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD.
1984 TAYLOR, ANDREW. WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Dougal and Hanbury are back in the author's second book. A bit of blackmail convinces Dougal to agree to keep an eye on the leader of a crazy survival group for his old pal, Hanbury. No sooner had Dougal begun his watch than the barman who tried to warn him off is murdered. Suddenly big, beautiful, black Zelda appears, and just as suddenly she is kidnapped from Dougal's apartment. Dougal's natural desire to rescue her plunges him into a nest of criminal activities.
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THOMAS,ROSS CAST A YELLOW SHADOW.
1967 THOMAS, ROSS. CAST A YELLOW SHADOW. New York: William Morrow, 1967. First edition. Inscribed.Former owner's name, else fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Directed by an anonymous perpetrator to kill a South African prime minster, soldier of fortune Michael Padillo is told that his partner's kidnapped wife will die if he fails to comply.
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THOMAS,ROSS. OUT ON THE RIM.
1987 THOMAS, ROSS. OUT ON THE RIM. New York: Mysterious Press, [1987]. First edition. Inscribed. Fine in dust jacket. Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is suddenly fired from his job and then given the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist. Stallings is wary and enlists the help of a team of assistants --- Artie Wu and his partner, Quincy Durant. Obviously, good patriots don't want to hand over all that money to the bad guys. Better they keep it for themselves --- so they decide to steal the money!
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TUROW, SCOTT. PRESUMED INNOCENT.
1987 TUROW, SCOTT. PRESUMED INNOCENT. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1987]. First edition. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket. Chief Deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich is asked to investigate the rape and murder of one of his colleagues ... Carolyn Polhemus, a beautiful and promiscuous divorcee ... and Rusty's old lover! Rusty soon finds himself the prime suspect in Carolyn's murder. The evidence against him is serious .... calls made from his home to hers on the night of the murder, a bar glass with his fingerprints on it, carpet fibers matching those at his house are found at her home, etc. Soon Rusty is not only fighting for his marriage and his career, but now he's fighting for his life!
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AARONS, EDWARD S. ASSIGNMENT--MADELINE.
1958 AARONS, EDWARD S. ASSIGNMENT--MADELINE. Greenwich: Fawcett, [1958]. First edition. PBO. Gold Medal 799. Reader's crease else very good in pictorial wrappers. Sam Durell of the CIA had never known a woman as beautiful as Madeleine nor had ne known one as guilty. Hard-boiled mystery.
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THOMAS,ROSS. MISSIONARY STEW.
1983 THOMAS, ROSS. MISSIONARY STEW. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1983]. First edition. Inscribed. Fine in dust jacket. Political fund-raiser, Draper Haere, is backing California Governor-elect in the next Presidentail election. He's looking to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in Central America. The information is needed for his boss --- dirt on his boss's opponent for the next election! Enter journalist Morgan Citron, who is hired by Haere to investigate a cocaine war and uncovers a scandal involving the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.
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TALESE, GAY [EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY]. THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1987.
1987 TALESE, GAY [EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY]. THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1987. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Robert Atway, Series Editor. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light soiling to front panel. Assembled are some of the very best essays published in 1987, with an eye toward the risky, the provocative, the unexpected. The editor looked for well-known writers who were breaking old barriers. Essays that inform, amuse, provoke, and tug at the heart. Contains Robert Stone's "A Higher Horror of Witness: Cocaine's Coloring of the American Psyche."
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JECKS, MICHAEL. A FRIAR'S BLOODFEUD.
2005 JECKS, MICHAEL. A FRIAR'S BLOODFEUD. [London]: Headline, [2005]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The year is 1324 and Baliff Simon Puttock's servant, Hugh, has been granted leave to look after his wife and help raise her child. A gang of men break into their home and attack the family. When Simon and Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, arrive on the scene, the cottage has burned to the ground with bodies from within already buried. The fire raged so fiercely, all believe Hugh died inside; however, appearances can be deceptive. Upon learning of territorial battles between two neighbors, Baldwin and Simon suspect a darker truth.
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ROBERTS, DAVID. SWEET POISON.
2001 ROBERTS, DAVID. SWEET POISON. London: Constable, [2001]. First edition. Author's first mystery. Fine in dust jacket. Introducing Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne in the first of a series, a classic murder mystery set in the 1930's. The Duke of Mersham is hosting a party at his country house at the time one of the guests is poisoned. Was it an accident or something far more sinister? Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne to investigate.
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WILLIAMS,DAVID PRESCRIPTION FOR MURDER.
1990 WILLIAMS, DAVID. PRESCRIPTION FOR MURDER. London: Macmillan, [1990]. First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. The Closter Drug Co. is going to double in value as soon as it perfects its cure for migraine. But when a director is kidnapped, instead of a ransom, they demand the other directors sell their company shares at a crippling loss. No one understands what the kidnappers are gaining by doing this until banker, Mark Treasure, works out what's really occurring. Even he is too late to prevent two murders and a stock market scandal that threatens to wipe out the company.
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WEINMAN, IRVING. HAMPTON HEAT.
1988 WEINMAN, IRVING. HAMPTON HEAT. New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Review copy with slips laid-in. Fine in dust jacket. When the body of a local historian (an expert on the rights of the area's Shinnecock Indians) is found buried in the sand, and a century-old Indian deed to a valuable strip of property disappears, DI Lenny Schwartz investigates. His investigation leads him to a corrupt cop, a ruthless land developer, old Russian master painters, and to the Shinnecock Indians.
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MACLEAN, ALISTAIR. SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD.
1958 MACLEAN, ALISTAIR. SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD. London: Collins, 1958. First edition. Tiny bump to base of spine, else near fine in dust jacket lightly soiled on rear panel. A nautical adventure set in Southeast Asia during World War II, and the grim aftermath of Singapore's capture by the Japanese.
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JAMES,P.D. MURDER IN TRIPLICATE.
2001 JAMES,P.D. MURDER IN TRIPLICATE. London: Belmont Press, 2001. First edition. Limited to 50 copies bound with a cloth spine and numbered 201 to 250. This is copy 220. Signed by the author and the illustrator, Eileen Hogan. As new in two-tone cloth and boards, decorated paper label on front cover, and gold stamping on spine. Foreword by P.D. James. Three short stories, which have not been collected before, Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers, an Adam Dalgliesh mystery, The Victim, and The Mistletoe Murder.
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GODDARD,TARIQ HOMAGE TO A FIRING SQUAD.
2002 GODDARD, TARIQ. HOMAGE TO A FIRING SQUAD. [London]: Sceptre, [2002]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Very fine in dust jacket. Set in Spain at the close of the Spanish Civil War, we find four men with the task of assassinating the politician Don Rojo. A very impressive and surprising debut, and runner-up for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Definitely worth your time and highly recommended.
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CHESBRO, GEORGE C. TWO SONGS THIS ARCHANGEL SINGS.
1986 CHESBRO, GEORGE C. TWO SONGS THIS ARCHANGEL SINGS. New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket. When his artist friend/martial arts instructor, Veil Kendry, disappears, dwarf detective Mongo has only three clues ... a bullet hole, a cryptic oil painting, and an envelope addressed to Mongo, containing $10,000. His investigation into Veil's past reveals that while in Viet Nam and Laos, as highly trained CIA operative ... code-named Archangel ... Veil had been assigned to a dangerous and corrupt special mission. Now, decades later, Veil's former CIA control is about to become secretary of state, and Veil is the only one who can stop him. Mongo follows the dangerous trail to the Capitol, where a nation's future is at stake.
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BROWN, LIZBIE. BROKEN STAR.
1992 BROWN, LIZBIE. BROKEN STAR. London: Constable, [1992]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Author's first mystery. Set in a village outside Bath, tension between the impoverished gentry and the newly rich leads to murder. Larry Aitken assumes that with his purchase of the Manor House he has the right to run things --- including the local church. When a fatal poisoning occurs at the Manor, Aitken hires young Bath PI Max Shepard to find out who's responsible. With the help of widow Elizabeth Blair, the two soon uncover some skeletons in the closets of Bath!
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MILLS,JAMES. HAYWIRE.
1995 MILLS, JAMES. HAYWIRE. [New York]: Warner Books, [1995]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Douglas Fleming's business is about to go bankrupt when a friend offers him the deal of a lifetime. All he has to do is travel to Venezuela, pick up $100 million in bearer bonds, bring them back to the US, and collect his $100,000 commission. Knowing that the bonds are probably drug related doesn't bother Doug, at least not until his son disappears. The child is carrying around a toy lion stuffed with the $100 million in bonds!!
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GARRISON, PAUL. FIRE AND ICE.
1998 GARRISON, PAUL. FIRE AND ICE. [London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1998]. First edition. Finein dust jacket. Somewhere in the vast and merciless ocean, an obsessed, vengeful madman holds Michael Stone's wife and daughter captive. With the aid of no more than a canoe and the stars, Michael must find and rescue his kidnapped family. He must conquer deadly winter gales and turbulent tides in order to reach the teeming cities of the Far East. Once there, cold-blooded assassins are awaiting .. who are they?
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TREMAYNE, PETER. A PRAYER FOR THE DAMNED.
2006 TREMAYNE, PETER. A PRAYER FOR THE DAMNED. [London]: Headline, [2006]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. February, AD 668, and Cashel is full of distinguished visitors. Under the old Irish custom, Fidelma of Cashel and Eadulf of Seaxmund's Ham, having been joined together for a year and a day, are to be married. But on the eve of the ceremony, the divine Abbot Ultan is found murdered in his guest chamber. Worse yet the King of Connacht has been seen fleeing from the scene and is charged with the murder. He demands his right to appoint Fidelma in his defense. Quickly Fidelma discovers that Abbot Ultan is not the divine man he was thought to be with many of the guests having cause to hate him. It is a long weekend of suspicion, fear and more death before Fidelma and Eadulf are able to reveal the truth behind Ultan's murder.
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le CARRE,JOHN. THE SECRET PILGRIM.
1991 le CARRE,JOHN. THE SECRET PILGRIM. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1991]. First edition. 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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KLEIN,ZACHARY. STILL AMONG THE LIVING.
1990 KLEIN, ZACHARY. STILL AMONG THE LIVING. New York: Harper & Row, [1990]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Boston PI Matt Jacob cuts himself off from life until two seemingly unrelated cases come together to trap him in a web of adultery, betrayal and murder.
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BREAZNELL, GENE. THE STAR OF SUTHERLAND.
1990 BREAZNELL,GENE. THE STAR OF SUTHERLAND. New York: Walker, [1990]. Advance press kit for the author's first book. Complete with author's photograph and publicity information. Fine in pictorial folder.
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WILTZ,CHRIS. THE EMERALD LIZARD.
1991 WILTZ, CHRIS. THE EMERALD LIZARD. [New York]: Dutton, [1991]. First edition. Review copy. Finein fine dust jacket. A phone call from an old girlfriend pleading for help leads private eye Neal Rafferty into danger set in the Crescent City where crime is always hot and full of suspense.
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O'KEEFFE,PAT THERMAL IMAGE.
2002 O'KEEFFE,PAT. THERMAL IMAGE. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [2002]. First edition. Signed. Author's first novel. Fine in dust jacket. London firefighter Steve Jay has money problems so he accepts a job as a loss adjuster to make extra cash. What he uncovers is much more than he ever expected when he becomes involved in a nightmare of arson and murder.
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THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA. MAIDEN MURDERS.
1952 THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA. MAIDEN MURDERS. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952]. First edition. Moderate wear to head and tail of spine and to the extremities else fine in moderately worn dust jacket sunned on the spine. Introduction by John Dickson Carr. A collection of twenty first published short stories by some of the greatest writers, along with two first unpublished short stories. Contributions by: Anthony Boucher, Stanley Ellin, Kenneth Millar, Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, et al.
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CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS DOUBLE TRAGEDY. AN INSPECTOR FRENCH STORY.
1943 CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS. DOUBLE TRAGEDY. AN INSPECTOR FRENCH STORY. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. First U.S. edition. 8vo. Light offsetting to rear endpapers from a newspaper clipping, else fine, bright copy in a bright, unfaded dust jacket lightly rubbed at head of spine and to top edge of front panel. A gambling accountant, murders his wife's uncle, and fakes a robbery to explain the loss of the jewels he has stolen.
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RING,RAY. ARIZONA KISS.
1991 RING, RAY. ARIZONA KISS. Boston: Little, Brown, [1991]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Macky, after he runs a photo expose of criminal doings in a local mine, is approached by the beautiful Alice Malone to expose one of the area's most feared citizens --- a judge who fights pit bulls illegally. As Macky goes undercover, he finds himself in a maze of deception, blackmail, and murder.
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WATSON, M.D., JOHN H. THE AFFAIR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED PUBLISHER.
1983 WATSON, M.D., JOHN H. THE AFFAIR OF THE UNPRINCIPLED PUBLISHER. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1983. First edition limited to 275 copies. Dr. Watson provides uncontestable proof of an encounter between Sherlock Holmes, the world's most celebrated detective, and Thomas Wise, the Victorian era's grandest forger. As new, in printed wrappers.
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ALLBEURY,TED DEEP PURPLE.
1989 ALLBEURY,TED. DEEP PURPLE. London: New English Library, [1989]. First edition. Signed. Fine indust jacket. Two Russian defectors tell two inspectors remarkably similar stories, each man's story proving the other to be a fraud. Which man is telling the truth?
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HEBDEN, MARK. A KILLER FOR THE CHAIRMAN.
1972 HEBDEN,MARK. A KILLER FOR THE CHAIRMAN. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1972]. First U.S. edition. Small sticker mark on front paste-down sheet, else fine in dust jacket. British Intelligence agent Harry Dempsey is sent to China to put one of his fellow agents, who has gone berserk, out of action. The agent is set on assassinating Mao, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. With relations finally improving between East and West, such action would be disastrous. Dempsey must stop the assassin in some way --- in any way!!
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BLACK, CAMPBELL. ASSASSINS AND VICTIMS.
1969 BLACK, CAMPBELL. ASSASSINS AND VICTIMS. London: Macmillan, [1969]. First edition. Fine in dustjacket with 1" closed tear on front panel and wear to the extremities. Mystery in which the course of events is precipitated by the incessant whining and barking of a dog. Black has also published mystery novels under the pseudonyms of Thomas Altman and Campbell Armstrong.
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WHEAT,CAROLYN. MEAN STREAK.
1996 WHEAT, CAROLYN. MEAN STREAK. New York: Berkeley, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Edgar nominee for best novel. Cass Jameson's former husband wants her to defend him in a case of bribery. She believes in his innocence, but when witnesses start turning up dead, she has to convince herself that her client isn't guilty.
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ROBERTS, JOHN MADDOX. THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATES.
2005 ROBERTS, JOHN MADDOX. THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATES. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, [2005]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Decius must investigate the murder of the ruler of the island of Cyprus. He had been a guest in the ruler's home and must find and punish the guilty party. One of the possible suspects is Cleopatra, heir to the Egyptian throne.
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CRUMLEY, JAMES. THE LAST GOOD KISS.
1978 CRUMLEY,JAMES. THE LAST GOOD KISS. New York: Random House, [1978]. First edition. Fine in dustjacket. PI Sughrue and poet/novelist Trehearne are in search of Betty Sue Flowers, a barmaid's daughter who disappeared ten years ago. Some insist that Betty Sue is dead -- her body lost in the river after a car accident. They even have the death certificate to prove it! But then, a postcard arrives from Betty Sue -- the trail is faint but Sughrue and Trehearne quickly learn that she has made a porn flick and has spent some time in prison -- the result of something to do with the mob.
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FYFIELD,FRANCES. DEEP SLEEP.
1991 FYFIELD, FRANCES. DEEP SLEEP. London: Heinemann, [1991]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Silver Dagger Award winner. Pip Carlton is a good son, devoted husband and respected pharmacist ... he's loved by everyone. When his wife supposedly dies peacefully in her sleep, Pip is distraught and looks for comfort from his assistant ... moving on with his life while ignoring rumors about his wife's death. Helen West, Solicitor and Crown Prosecutor, isn't so sure that Margaret Carlton simply passed away in her sleep. Along with Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, the two investigate.
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ADCOCK,THOMAS. DARK MAZE.
1991 ADCOCK, THOMAS. DARK MAZE. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. First edition. Signed. Edgar nominee.PBO. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think much about it when an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue ... that is until the killings began. How can Hockaday stop the murderer ... especially the kind of killer who makes killing an art.
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ALEXANDER, PATRICK. SHOW ME A HERO.
1980 ALEXANDER, PATRICK. SHOW ME A HERO. New York: Viking Press, [1980]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. The Falcon is an underground hero ... if captured, the state is safe, if not, anything can happen. But who is The Falcon?
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SKLEPOWICH, EDWARD. DEATH IN THE PALAZZO.
1997 SKLEPOWICH, EDWARD. DEATH IN THE PALAZZO. [New York]: Scribner, [1997]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Urbino Macintyre is embroiled in the affairs of widowed, English-born Barbara, Contessa da Capo-Zendrini. Barbara is hosting a weekend party aimed at a reconciliation with her late husband's family, the Zenos. Before the weekend is over, there will be one death and another hanging in the balance.
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DIAMOND, SARAH. COLD TOWN.
2001 DIAMOND, SARAH. COLD TOWN. [London]: Orion, [2001]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. When Terry Fielding finds himself in a loveless marriage, he begins an affair with Rosina. It seems that nothing matters as long as they're together...spending long nights together in cheap hotels and telling each other everything including the time he murdered his sister when he was ten-years-old and how he's planning to do the same thing to his wife. Together the soulmates plan her murder and their escape. The problem is, they really aren't soulmates after all and by the time Terry realizes just how far apart they are, it's too late to do anything but the last thing on earth he must do.
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ARMSTRONG, T.J. WALTER AND THE RESURRECTION OF G.
1995 ARMSTRONG, T.J. WALTER AND THE RESURRECTION OF G. London: Headline, [1995]. First edition. Very fine in dust jacket. The two sections of the novel, medieval and present day, correspond to an occult system. Walter is a gifted young singer who leaves his home in Germany in search of fame and love. His adventures lead him through 12th century Europe. Fast-forward to the 20th century ---- An Oxford don dies, leaving specific instructions in an occult manuscript based on Walter's life.
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NEVINS,JR.,FRANCIS M. AND MARTIN H. G DEATH ON TELEVISION. THE BEST OF HENRY SLESAR'S ALFRED HITCHCOCK
1989 NEVINS, JR., FRANCIS M. AND MARTIN H. GREENBERG (EDITED BY). DEATH ON TELEVISION. THE BEST OF HENRY SLESAR'S ALFRED HITCHCOCK STORIES. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1989]. First edition. Inscribed by Henry Slesar; "of all the collections, I think I felt a bit more 'immortalized' by this one, probably because of the 'University' imprimatur. This was especially important since I never had the chance to go to college. Now I feel I have, in a peculiar way." Fine in dust jacket.
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[AMIS, KINGSLEY] AS ROBERT MARK. COLONEL SUN.
1968 [AMIS, KINGSLEY] AS ROBERT MARKHAM. COLONEL SUN. New York: Harper & Row, [1968]. First U.S. edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the head of spine. "M" is kidnapped from his home and taken to Greece. James Bond follows and develops an unusual alliance with GRU. This alliance is needed as "M" is the captive of Colonel Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army and will be used with Bond to disrupt a Mediterranean-based spymaster's meeting.
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[COMIC BOOK]. SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON. VOL. 1, NO. 26, FEB.-APR., 1958.
1958 [COMIC BOOK]. SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON. VOL. 1, NO. 26, FEB.-APR., 1958. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1958. First edition. Colored pictorial wrappers, 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" comic book, illustrated. Fine copy.
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HILL, REGINALD. FELL OF DARK.
1971 HILL, REGINALD. FELL OF DARK. London: Collins, [1971]. First edition. Signed. Author's secondbook. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and the extremities. Interestingly Fell of Dark is the author's first written, but second published book. With a broken marriage, Harry Bentick, who is recuperating from a nervous breakdown, heads for the Lake District. He's not sure whether he's going in search of something or simply running away. After spending some time in his hotel room with a couple girls he'd just met, Harry finds himself accused of their rapes and murders. Suddenly there's no doubt about his reason for being in the area ... He's running!
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SHAY,DON & RAY CABANA, JR. [EDITORS]. INTERVIEW WITH KARL MALDEN.
1967 [MALDEN,KARL]. SHAY, DON AND RAY CABANA, JR. [EDITORS]. INTERVIEW WITH KARL MALDEN. East Longmeadow: Kaleidoscope, 1967. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A 14 page interview with Karl Malden with many photographic stills from many of his movies. Credits include "On the Waterfront," "The Cincinnati Kid," "Dead Ringer," "Murderer's Row," "Nevada Smith," "One-Eyed Jacks," "Gypsy," and many more.
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BARNARD, ROBERT. A CITY OF STRANGERS.
1990 BARNARD, ROBERT. A CITY OF STRANGERS. New York: Bantam Press, [1990]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The low-class, rough Phelan family has unexpectedly come into a fortune. When they attempt to buy a house in up-market Wynton Lane, their dreams are thwarted. What begins as village snobbery soon leads to bloodshed and murder!
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[CAMERON, KENNETH]. BARTRAM,GEORG FAIR GAME.
1973 [CAMERON, KENNETH]. BARTRAM, GEORGE. FAIR GAME. New York: Macmillan, [1973]. First edition. Fine in lightly creased dust jacket with small chip missing from bottom edge of back panel. Author's first book. The survival of one man, a corporate librarian, when pitted against sophisticated men and machines. The librarian is kidnapped and then released with the warning, "if we catch you before the police do, we'll kill you." Pseudonym of Kenneth Cameron.
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LEONARD,ELMORE. THE TALL T. TWO COLOR PRESSBOOK.
1957 LEONARD,ELMORE. THE TALL T. TWO COLOR PRESSBOOK. N.P.: Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1957. First edition. 12" x 16" oblong format, 12 pp., printed in black and blue on white paper stock, illustrated. Included are examples of advertising mats, poster formats, full-page promotional of ideas for drive-in theaters, and an illustrated blurb about the special movie-tie-in paperback from Avon, mistakenly described as a "novelization of the picture." The film, directed by Bud Boetticher, with Burt Kennedy as screenwriter, starred Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva, and others. The Tall T was originally published as The Captive and appeared first in Argosy Magazine in 1955. It is the story of a former ranch foreman and a newlywed couple who are held hostage by ruthless bandits at a deserted stagecoach station. The talent of the three primary contributors to this film is well recorded with Boetticher, who died in 2003 has developed a cult-like following for a number of his films. Kennedy went on to direct, as well as write, both western and crime movies, and television. Elmore Leonard has become a hugely popular writer of bestselling crime novels as well as well as movie and television screenplays based upon his books. Fine, unused and never folded pressbook.
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LEWIS,ROY. A FORM OF DEATH.
2000 LEWIS, ROY. A FORM OF DEATH. [London: Allison & Busby Limited, 2000]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Eric Ward thinks his marriage is fine until he finds out his wife is seeing someone else. Angry, he finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful stranger. When she is found murdered, Ward scrambles to find the girl's killer before being accused, which would ruin his future.
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DOHERTY,PAUL. MURDER IMPERIAL.
2003 DOHERTY, PAUL. MURDER IMPERIAL. [London]: Headline, [2003]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. In the beginning of the fourth century, Rome appears to be emerging from a turbulent past,Emperor Constantine is the present ruler. With the help of his mother, Helena, he plans to strengthen his victory by harnessing the power of the increasingly influential Christian Church. His loyalties are questioned when several murders are committed.
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LORAINE, PHILIP. AND TO MY BELOVED HUSBAND...
1950 LORAINE, PHILIP. AND TO MY BELOVED HUSBAND... New York: The M.S. Mill Co., and William Morrow& Co., 1950. First U.S. edition. Author's first book. Fine bright copy in dust jacket. Published in U.K. as White Lie The Dead. A wealthy but aging woman is the wife of a local Adonis. One evening while sipping her sherry she fell over dead. Accident? Suicide? Murder? Beautiful copy.
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BOYLE,ALISTAIR. THE MISSING LINK. A GIL YATES PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR NOVEL.
1995 BOYLE, ALISTAIR. THE MISSING LINK. A GIL YATES PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR NOVEL. London: Knoll, [1995]. First edition. Very fine in dust jacket. Author's first book. Malvin Stark, alias Gil Yates, to locate the missing daughter of a wealthy, conniving father who is also an arms dealer.
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BERG, BARRY. HIDE AND SEEK.
1989 BERG, BARRY. HIDE AND SEEK. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Richard Knowles is a fifteen-year-old kid on the streets of New York. With only seventy cents in his pocket, he finds four pounds of cocaine sewn into his jacket ... a jacket given to him by his father, a wealthy businessman. Now, Richard has people looking for him ... his father who's after the coke and two cops who are after the lost kid with some very dangerous cargo. Edgar Award winner.
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BLACKBURN, JOHN. THE CYCLOPS GOBLET.
1977 BLACKBURN, JOHN. THE CYCLOPS GOBLET. London: Jonathan Cape, [1977]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Down on their luck, Bill and Peggy Easter are hired by leaders of the British Loyalists to mutilate a Renaissance gold goblet. But why???
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KEENE, DAY. DEATH HOUSE DOLL.
1953 KEENE, DAY. DEATH HOUSE DOLL. New York: Ace Books, [1953]. First edition. PBO. Ace D-41. Ace Double bound in with Thomas B. Dewey's Mourning After, which is the first paperback appearance of this novel. Corner crease to the Mourning After, and light stress marks to the spine, else a good copy of a scarce title. In Death House Doll, Mona Ambler sits on death row with a secret that she refuses to reveal ... even to Mike Duvall. Maybe Mona had shot and killed the jewelry salesman; maybe she was a thief; but she'd also been the wife of Mike's brother, and Mike just couldn't believe that Mona was guilty. As Mike investigates, it soon becomes apparent that Mona knows something that could blast the city wide open! Alive, she was worth a fortune .... Dead, she was a racketeer's life insurance! In Mourning After, Joe Spider must find Dolly Spangler. Not only is he sweet on the gorgious blonde, but he finds out that a couple of big-city goons are also after her. Soon Joe discovers that Dolly has a whole nightside to her life that nobody in town suspected.
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BLOCH,ROBERT. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF GRAVES.
1979 BLOCH, ROBERT. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF GRAVES. New York: Mysterious, 1979. First edition. One of 26 lettered and signed copies. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Slipcase. Sixteen stories by the master of the macabre mystery.
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BONIFACE,MARJORIE. WINGS OF DEATH.
1946 BONIFACE, MARJORIE. WINGS OF DEATH. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., [1946]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with two small closed tears (one to front and one to back panel) and light chipping. Polomar Lodge is surrounded by an atmosphere of tragedy. Suddenly, there is a distant pistol shot, the sound of an explosion, the cry of a woman, and all the guests at the lodge are enmeshed in a drama.
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BOSSE, MALCOLM. THE MAN WHO LOVED ZOOS.
1974 BOSSE, MALCOLM. THE MAN WHO LOVED ZOOS. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1974]. First edition. Very good in price-clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket with moderate wear to the extremities. When Warren Shore, a disturbed Vietnam veteran, who lives with his librarian aunt, comes across a busload of forty dead bodies, he robs them. Professional assassin Alexander Boyle is well-aware of the bodies and soon, Warren is dead. Only his aunt connects her nephew's death with the discovery of the busload of bodies.
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BOYER, RICK. THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.
1976 BOYER, RICK. THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA. New York: Warner, 1976. First edition. Signed. PBO. Author's first book. Very good in pictorial wrappers. The giant rat of Sumatra appeared briefly in Sherlock Holmes" "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire." Watson had promised Holmes that he would keep the chronicle about the giant rat a secret until 1976. So finally the story of terror about a "giant rat," and Hound of the Baskerville's villain, Stapleton, can be revealed! A Sherlock Holmes adventure Conan Doyle could not bring himself to tell!
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[BROWNE, HOWARD]. EVANS, JOHN. HALO IN BRASS.
1951 [BROWNE, HOWARD] EVANS, JOHN. HALO IN BRASS. London: W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd., [1951]. First paperback edition. Pocket Book 709. Fourth and last of his excellent Paul Pine novels. Fine, unread copy. Inscribed and signed, "For____ Howard 'John Evans' Browne. This one took seven months to finish! In fact, I gave up on it three times before I could finish it!" In addition to the growing ranks of Howard Browne collectors, Halo In Brass has been much sought by readers and collectors of lesbians, ever since Barbara Grier gave it an impressive A** rating in The Lesbian In Literature. Face up across the bed lay the body of a naked woman, a sun-tan stocking twisted tightly around her neck. Detective Paul Pine investigates, taking him from rooming houses to mansions; from a night club to a world of women without men .... and to people who didn't want their secrets spread around! Scarce.
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ABRAHAMS,PETER TONGUES OF FIRE.
1982 ABRAHAMS, PETER. TONGUES OF FIRE. New York: Evans, [1982]. First edition. Author's 2nd book. Fine in dust jacket.
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WIRE, H.C. MARKED MAN.
1934 WIRE, H.C. MARKED MAN. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First edition. Small chip missing from bottom of spine, else very good in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Set on the C C Ranch in central Nevada, a man is murdered and many people are suspected. The man was unpopular and many had reason to want him dead....but who did it?
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GODDARD,ROBERT. PLAY TO THE END.
2004 GODDARD, ROBERT. PLAY TO THE END. London: Bantam Press, [2004]. First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of a play only to be visited that night by his estranged wife, Jenny, now living with wealthy entrepreneur Roger Colborn. She's worried about a strange man who has been watching her. Roger has ignored her concerns, and she's hoping that Flood will follow the man to his home and confront him. Reluctantly, Flood agrees. After arriving at his house, he meets Derek Oswin, an unemployed loner who blames Colborn for his father's death from cancer due to poor working conditions at the defunct factory run by Roger and his father. Flood sees an opportunity to win Jenny back before he fully understands the risks he is taking.
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THOMPSON, JIM. [A SWELL-LOOKING BABE]. UN CHOUETTE PETIT LOT.
1968 THOMPSON, JIM. [A SWELL-LOOKING BABE]. UN CHOUETTE PETIT LOT. [Paris]: Gallimard, [1968]. First French edition of "A Swell-Looking Babe." PBO. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Bill "Dusty" Rhodes dropped out of college to take care of his adeptive father. He resents his father and misses his mother, who died a few years before. Terribly depressed, Dusty is now working as a bellhop at the Hotel Manton. When Marcia Hillis, a swell-looking babe, becomes a guest at the hotel, he knows she's the one chance he's got of filling the void. But then late one night Marcia calls him to her room. Why??? [a]
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GREGORY,SUSANNA A BONE OF CONTENTION.
1997 GREGORY, SUSANNA. A BONE OF CONTENTION. [London]: Little, Brown and Company, [1997]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Third chronicle of physician Matthew Bartholomew set in Cambridge, mid 14th century. Matthew is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the King's Ditch. The next day he is again called to the Ditch ... a student's body has been found there. And then Dominica, former lover of the dead student and daughter of Waterstone, the well-known Principal of a Cambridge student hostel, disappears. Finally, a skeletal hand is found in the Ditch ... a hand that is thought to be a holy relic. Bartholomew's investigation reveals that the hand is wearing a ring identical to a pair that were worn by Dominica and her ex-lover. Are these events connected?
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BOLITHO, JANIE. THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
2002 BOLITHO, JANIE. THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE. London: Constable, [2002]. First edition. One 1/4" closedtear to bottom of front panel and also to back panel else fine in dust jacket. Hannah's baby boy and her best friend, Sonia, have disappeared. Hannah's husband, Laurence, left her when he found out she was pregnant. Sonia had always claimed that she disliked children, but when Hannah breaks into Sonia's now-empty flat, she notices imprints of a cradle on the carpet! Then police inform Hannah that they have discovered that Laurence is piloting a yacht back from the Azores and there's a baby on board. When he arrives in England, Laurence is pulled in for questioning and released ... and then he too vanishes! In the meantime Marty is renovating a farmhouse she inherited from her mother. Who is she hoping will visit? Why does she refer to the adjoining barn as "The Slaughterhouse?"
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BRONSON-HOWARD, GEORGE. THE BLACK BOOK.
1920 BRONSON-HOWARD, GEORGE. THE BLACK BOOK. New York: W. J. Watt & Company, Publishers, [1920]. First edition. Former owner's name on front paste-down sheet but hidden by the front dust jacket flap. owner's name on rear fly-leaf, else very good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with small chip missing from bottom edge of spine, and light