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SINCLAIR,IAIN. WHITE CHAPPELL - SCARLET TRACINGS.
1987 SINCLAIR, IAIN. WHITE CHAPPELL - SCARLET TRACINGS. Uppingham: Goldmark, 1987. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket with one tiny rub mark to head of spine. The plot brings together a particularly predatory and seedy group of booksellers in a hunt for rare books. At the same time they conduct an extensive investigation into the "Jack the Ripper" murders. A serious an exciting novel which uses popular themes and traditions but plumbs them all the way to their murky depths. Recommended.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 6450   details     inquire
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THOMAS,ROSS. BRIARPATCH.
1984 THOMAS, ROSS. BRIARPATCH. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1984]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket, with small closed tear to top edge of front panel. Edgar Award winner for best novel of 1984. Benjamin Dill receives a telephone call informing him that his siste, Felicity, had been killed in a car bomb explosion. Dill returns to his home town to discover who would want to kill his homicide detective sister and why. His search reveals one-time friends who have become enemies, greedy politicians, corrupt cops and petty crooks ---- all who might have had a motive to kill Felicity.
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MANKELL, HENNING. FACELESS KILLERS.
1997 MANKELL, HENNING. FACELESS KILLERS. New York: The New Press, [1997]. First edition. U.S. edition precedes U.K. edition by three years. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Originally published in Sweden in 1991. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Introduces Insp. Wallander to find the murderers of a couple found tortured, beaten and murdered in an isolated farm house. The author won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature award for this title. This well-reviewed book is being compared to the books of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
Price: USD 275.00 other currencies   order no. 24569   details     inquire
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MASTERS, PRISCILLA. CATCH THE FALLEN SPARROW.
1996 MASTERS, PRISCILLA. CATCH THE FALLEN SPARROW. London: Macmillan, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy and Sergeant Mike Korpanski investigate the murder of a ten-year-old boy whose burning body is found beneath the Winking Man, a desolate outcrop from which nature has carved a human face. The child's body is scarred by cigarette burns, his hands tattooed and clothes scruffy, yet he is wearing expensive Reebok sneakers and a solid gold ring on his left hand. Who is this boy, and who is the mysterious old woman who watched his body burn???
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LIN-CHANDLER, IRENE. THE HEALING OF HOLLY-JEAN.
1995 LIN-CHANDLER, IRENE. THE HEALING OF HOLLY-JEAN. London: Headline, [1995]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Introduces Holly-Jean Ho, a half English, half Chinese investigator who is often employed as a conduit between the Chinese community and the police. Holly is asked to look into a string of vicious attacks that have been perpetuated against a group of oriental female students. Her investigation takes her to the diabolical world of the Chinese triads.
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LIN-CHANDLER, IRENE. GRIEVOUS ANGEL.
1996 LIN-CHANDLER, IRENE. GRIEVOUS ANGEL. London: Headline, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Holly-Jean Ho's childhood friend and supermodel is found dead. The autopsy shows heroin traces but Holly-Jean is convinced there's more to the story and begins her investigation, leading her into the dangerous world of commercial beauty .... the home of mad designers, evil agents and drug addicts. Second mystery featuring Holly-Jean Ho.
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ASPLER,TONY THE BEAST OF BARBARESCO.
1996 ASPLER, TONY. THE BEAST OF BARBARESCO. London: Headline, [1996]. First edition. Author's second book. Very fine in dust jacket. A wine lover's mystery which features Ezra Brant to solve the murders of 16 people. All the people were lovers, all shot on a Saturday night, in the back seats of cars with a single bullet in the brain.
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BINGHAM,JOHN THE THIRD SKIN.
1954 BINGHAM, JOHN. THE THIRD SKIN. New York: Dodd, Mead, [1954]. First U.S. edition. Residue of adime-sized sticker left on front fly-leaf, else very good in dust jacket, lightly sunned on the spine and with moderate wear to the extremities. A sensitively portrayed thriller in which a man confesses to his mother his part in a crime; his mother, intent on protecting her son even to the extent of a second killing listens carefully. All in all murder and the terror it engenders strips off the outer layer of men and we see them in their "Third Skin."
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BLOCH, ROBERT. THE COUCH.
1962 BLOCH, ROBERT. THE COUCH. Greenwich: Gold Medal, [1962]. First edition. PBO. Gold Medal S1192. Fine bright copy in pictorial wrappers. Novelization of a screenplay with Owen Crump and Blake Edwards. A man has a terrible secret ... he won't even tell it to his psychiatrist. Walking down the street at any time, he doesn't look different from other people. But, he knows one of them is about to die! The story of a mass-murderer. Scarce.
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BROWN,CARTER THE EVER-LOVING BLUES.
1961 BROWN, CARTER. THE EVER-LOVING BLUES. [New York]: Signet, [1961]. First edition. PBO. Fine in pictorial wrappers. "His horn caressed the Dixieland lament and the notes came out ripe, rosy, round - making a perfect tribute for the beautiful blues singer who was soon to die ...
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EGAN,LESLEY THE BORROWED ALIBI.
1962 [LININGTON, ELIZABETH]. EGAN, LESLEY. THE BORROWED ALIBI. New York: Harper, [1962]. First edition. Pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington. 3rd book using this pseudonym. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. In 1961 Linington began a second detective series, writing as Lesley Egan. This series has 26 titles in the series and mostly features Detective Vic Varallo. The setting is the Los Angeles metropolitan area, usually in the suburb of Glendale. In this novel, Vic and his wife fix up a room over the garage and rent it to a young insurance man. He seemed likeable but had odd habits, including his ex-wife, Helene. Then Helene was killed and the Varallo's pleasant lodger was charged with her murder.
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FRANCIS,DICK TO THE HILT.
1996 FRANICS, DICK. TO THE HILT. London: Michael Joseph, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Alexander Kinloch is a painter who lives in Scotland and is drawn into the world of horse racing at the request of his dying stepfather. Alexander gets involved hiding a jeweled trophy cup and other treasures, including Bonnie Prince Charlie's jewel-encrusted, solid gold-handled sword, "the hilt," and Golden Malt, a valuable racing horse.
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DEXTER, COLIN DEATH IS NOW MY NEIGHBOUR.
1996 DEXTER, COLIN. DEATH IS NOW MY NEIGHBOUR. London: Macmillan, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. When the Master of Lonsdale College retires, two senior dons are left competing for the single vacancy. A seemingly unrelated murder of a young woman who was shot from close range through her kitchen window as she sat sipping her morning coffee, takes Chief Inspector Morse and his assistant Sergeant Lewis from the strip clubs of Soho to the manicured grounds of the Oxford college.
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HART,FRANCES NOYES CONTACT AND OTHER STORIES.
1923 HART, FRANCES NOYES. CONTACT AND OTHER STORIES. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.First edition. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine. This is the first published collection of short stories by Hart. The title story, "Contact," won second place in the O. Henry Mem'l Award Prize Contest in 1920. The following year, "Green Gardens," another story in this collection, was included in Edward J. O'Brian's volume of best short stories.
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HART, FRANCES NOYES THE BELLAMY TRIAL.
1927 HART, FRANCES NOYES. THE BELLAMY TRIAL. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First edition. Former owner's name else very good in dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine, one closed tear to top edge of front panel, and with light wear to the extremities. This novel is based upon the famous Hall-Mills case, and "unfolds the totally absorbing story of the misalliances and crossed lives of two couples from the gentry of upstate New York; one wife has been murdered, and the husband and the other wife are the accused," so say 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers. The Bellamy Trail was a pioneering work which defined the genre of the court-room mystery drama. The author's fame is based largely on this book. Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone.
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KERR, PHILIP GRIDIRON.
1995 KERR, PHILIP. GRIDIRON. London: Chatto & Windus, [1995]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. An excellent thriller about a building whose computer enables it to do many strange things. The Yu Corporation Building, hailed as a monument to human genius, is quietly snuffing out employees it doesn't like. The brain of the building can't be outsmarted or unplugged!! Story is rich in ideas as well as brutal, brilliant, challenging and packed with suspense.
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MCCLENDON,LISE. PAINTED TRUTH.
1995 MCCLENDON, LISE. PAINTED TRUTH. New York: Walker and Company, [1995]. First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. When the charred remains of a friend's gallery and his dismembered body are found, art expert and gallery owner, Alix Thorssen, begins her own investigation into the "suicide" only to become caught in a web of lies that could make her the next victim.
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MAUGHAM,W. SOMERSET. ASHENDEN OR THE BRITISH AGENT.
1928 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. ASHENDEN OR THE BRITISH AGENT. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First U.S. edition. 8vo. Very good without dust jacket. Queen's Quorum says, "Maugham's ASHENDEN lifts the secret service sleuth high above the conventional conception of the spycatcher. His emphasis is not on plot in the usual blood-and-thunder sense; Maugham is too crafty a craftsman to subordinate realism and depth of characterization to tricks and counter-tricks. Maugham proved that the secret service story, like the detective story, has come of age." A superb story about the British Secret Service. Maugham served in the British Intelligence Service in World Wars I and II. In 1914 he was part of a Red Cross unit in France, later acting as a secret agent in Geneva. In Petrograd he was involved in trying to prevent the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. His experiences are related in this collection and influenced Ian Fleming's Bond stories. QUEEN'S QUORUM 78.
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MCCLURE, JAMES THE ARTFUL EGG.
1984 MCCLURE, JAMES. THE ARTFUL EGG. [London]: Macmillan, [1984]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Kramer & Zondi investigate the murder of a world-famous novelist ... her naked body was strewn with flower petals and herbs. Is there a method to this madness? Kramer and Zondi investigate, leading them into a world of artists and poets, sculptors and ballet dancers.
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PRONZINI,BILL. PANIC.
1972 PRONZINI, BILL. PANIC. New York: Random House, [1972]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. "Nameless" is trying to find a man who is fleeing from his ex-wife. The man hides out with a children's book writer before he is forced to flee. Some mention of Nameless's pulp collection.
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WILLIAMS,CHARLES THE LONG SATURDAY NIGHT.
1962 WILLIAMS, CHARLES. THE LONG SATURDAY NIGHT. New York: Fawcett, [1962]. First edition. PBO. Gold Medal S1200. Very good in pictorial wrappers. One of his best novels. Living in a small town in France, Barbara Becker is real-estate broker Julien Vercel's sarcastic, self-assured secretary. When Julien's wife's lover is found murdered and then his wife, Julien becomes the chief suspect and goes into hiding. It is up to Barbara to clear Julien's name.
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BRETT,SIMON MRS. PARGETER'S PLOT.
1996 BRETT, SIMON. MRS. PARGETER'S PLOT. London: Macmillan, 1996. First edition. Signed. Very finein dust jacket. Good series in which Mrs. Pargeter's plans to build her dream home are delayed because a body is found in the basement, and her builder, "Concrete Jacket" is arrested for the murder. Someone has set him up ... but who? and why? Evidence continues to build against "Concrete," but he refuses to talk. So, if he won't help himself, Mrs. Pargeter must call upon "the boys" to help her find the real killer.$45.00
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CURTIS, JACK. THE CONFESSOR.
1997 CURTIS, JACK. THE CONFESSOR. London: Orion, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Set in London, a cat-and-mouse game between a policeman and a killer, who is so infatuated with the cop he selects his victims for him. Brilliant thriller.
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FASCHINGER,LILIAN MAGDALENA THE SINNER.
1996 FASCHINGER, LILIAN. MAGDALENA THE SINNER. London: Headline, 1996. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Psychological thriller from Germany about a woman who kidnaps a priest to hear her confession. Her sin: the murders of men who have disappointed her. Her series of male conquests all over Europe, have eventually caused her to punish them--with death. The priest also seems doomed to disappoint her and most likely suffer the consequences. Recommended.
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FRANCOME,JOHN FALSE START.
1996 FRANCOME, JOHN. FALSE START. London: Headline, 1996. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Charlie Patterson and Nick Ryder, lifelong friends, strike gold in their first year of training together. Charlie's step-father buys a scrawny filly from an animal rescue center. To everyone's surprise, she quickly establishes herself as one of the fastest horses of her age. When Charlie's step-father suddenly sells the filly to another yard, the two trainers find themselves embroiled in a mystery where they need to solve a murder in order to stay alive.
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FREEMANTLE,BRIAN CHARLIE'S CHANCE.
1996 FREEMANTLE, BRIAN. CHARLIE'S CHANCE. London: Orion, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Charlie Muffin is relocated back to Russia, only this time to help the old enemy that has become filled with corruption and organized crime. 250 kilograms of uranium and plutonium are missing, and one mafioso plans the ultimate nuclear robbery.
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FYFIELD,FRANCES WITHOUT CONSENT.
1996 FYFIELD, FRANCES. WITHOUT CONSENT. London: Bantam, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The crime of rape calls out for vengeance, but when the accused is a police officer, the outcry and penalty are worse... DS Ryan, friend of Superintendent Bailey, maintains his silence in the face of the charge of rape. When the physical evidence points to him, Prosecutor Helen West and Superintendent Bailey assume his guilt. And then another suspect emerges ... a man who knows the law and how to avoid it; a man who believes that there is no such thing as rape when the victim welcomes him; a man who is able to corrupt the witness.
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BRADBERRY,JAMES RUINS OF CIVILITY.
1996 BRADBERRY, JAMES. RUINS OF CIVILITY. New York: St. Martins, 1996. First edition. Very fine indust jacket. A Princeton professor travels to England to research a new book and visit his former mentor. He arrives at Cambridge University only to learn his old mentor has disappeared and hasn't been seen since rescinding his resignation. Suspicion is he's dead--but is he?
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DOBYNS,STEPHEN. SARATOGA BESTIARY.
1988 DOBYNS, STEPHEN. SARATOGA BESTIARY. [New York]: Viking, [1988]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Charlie Bradshaw, now a private eye, has been receiving death threats from a man he convicted twenty years ago. Why? An old case is proving that sometimes secrets refuse to stay buried. The skeleton of a woman believed to have escaped to South America with embezzled funds comes to surface. Charlie feels morally obliged to solve the case.
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TUSSAUD,MADAME. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. OFFICIAL GUIDE AND CATALOGUE.
1929 TUSSAUD, MADAME. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. OFFICIAL GUIDE AND CATALOGUE. [Birmingham and London: James Upton, Ltd.], 1929. Revised and brought up-to-date June, 1929. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers, 80 pp., illustrated, advertisements, index. An exhibition catalogue that depicts members of parliament, the Royal Family, the Great War group, American presidents, ecclesiastical group, historic ministers, Hall of Kings, Hall of Tableaux, and Chamber of Horrors. Commentary is provided for each figure. The Chamber of Horrors provides an insight to the famous murderers of the day. Some pages have been corner creased, but all in all a good copy of an interesting booklet.
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FOLLETT, KEN. WHITEOUT.
2004 FOLLETT, KEN. WHITEOUT. [London]: Macmillan, [2004]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people meet at a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart forever.
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ROBB, CANDACE THE LADY CHAPEL.
1994 ROBB, CANDACE. THE LADY CHAPEL. London: Heinemann, (1994). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. The year is 1365 -- Owen Archer finds himself investigating the death of a man murdered in the shadow of York Minister ... his severed hand is found at Bess Merchet's inn. Owen is sent in pursuit of the room's most recent occupant .... a merchant seen arguing with the dead man. When that same merchant offers a generous sum towards the new Lady Chapel, Owen can't but wonder whether it is blood money! A gripping tale of rivalry and revenge in medieval York!!
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PENMAN, SHARON. THE QUEEN'S MAN.
1996 PENMAN, SHARON. THE QUEEN'S MAN. London: Michael Joseph, 1996. First edition. Signed. Author'sfirst novel. Fine in dust jacket. The year is 1193. King Richard has disappeared on his way back to England after fighting in the Crusades, and his brother John is scheming for the throne. Justin de Quincy, the well-educated but illegitimate son of a bishop, is on a quest to save England ... what has happened to the king, and why? The Queen appoints Justin as her chief investigator. Author is a respected historical writer and this is her first attempt at a mystery.
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[PETERS,ELLLIS]. CARR,JOLYON. MURDER IN THE DISPENSARY.
1999 [PETERS, ELLIS]. CARR,JOLYON. [EDITH PARGETER]. MURDER IN THE DISPENSARY. [Hassocks]: Post Mortem Books, 1999. First edition thus. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Foreword and signed by the publisher, Ralph Spurrier. Fine in boards as issued. In 1938 using the pseudonym "Jolyon Carr," Ellis Peters began her crime writing career with a series of four novels published by Herbert Jenkins. This is the first novel which has remained unreprinted and virtually lost to a legion of devoted readers. The text is reprinted exactly as it first appeared.
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HILL,JOHN SPENCER GHIRLANDAIO'S DAUGHTER.
1996 HILL, JOHN SPENCER. GHIRLANDAIO'S DAUGHTER. London: Constable, 1996. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Second book from the author of The Last Castrato. Nigel Harmsworth, expatriate painter in Tuscany, finds a dead American in a garden, his arms flung wide and a bronze spear of a Mycenaean warrior planted in the middle of his chest. Peter Morgan, partner in a Philadelphia law firm, comes to Italy to pull off the scam of a lifetime. Noone anticipated the decductive powers of D.I. Carlo Arbati, who is in Italy to receive an award for his work of poems. When the poet-detective is drawn into the case, justice will prevail! Author provides a bit of culture in his stories.
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LEE, TAMARA REAP THE WHIRLWIND.
1996 LEE, TAMARA. REAP THE WHIRLWIND. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Psychological thriller about a young woman, who with her teen-age daughter, has settled down with her lover only to be haunted by someone from her past, including her daughter's twin.
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McCORMAC,RORY PLAYING DEAD.
1996 McCORMAC, RORY. PLAYING DEAD. London: Century, 1996. First edition. Author's first book. Finein dust jacket. A young veterinarian, who specializes in race horses, is offered a job in Connemara, Ireland, and soon discovers the horses are being treated with illegal drugs.
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MEADE, GLENN. SNOW WOLF.
1996 MEADE, GLENN. SNOW WOLF. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Author's 2nd book. A fine thriller set in 1953 about two CIA agents (male & female) sent to Russia to assassinate a powerful figure there. But as soon as they arrive on Russian soil the KGB is alerted to their mission and sets out to find them. An unexpected group is also trying to find them. Good pace. Recommended.
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RENDELL,RUTH THE KEYS TO THE STREET.
1996 RENDELL, RUTH. THE KEYS TO THE STREET. London: Century, 1996. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. For those who live around London's Regent's Park, the homeless are an eye-sore and a nuisance. Only Mary Jargo has compassion for the unfortunates. When someone begins murdering members of the homeless community and lancing them on the spiked fencing surrounding the park, only Mary seems to notice.
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DAVIS,VAL TRACK OF THE SCORPION.
1996 DAVIS, VAL. TRACK OF THE SCORPION. New York: St. Martins, 1996. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. New Mexico setting where a WWII bomber is found buried in the desert with its mummified crew still on board. Strange because the plane is riddled with bullet holes as if it had been shot down.
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THORNTON,BETSY THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY.
1996 THORNTON, BETSY. THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY. New York: St. Martins, 1996. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. Set in Arizona, a man commits suicide and the investigator of his death recognizes him as someone she knew 20 years before. She can't believe he'd take his own life. Randall Hartman was an energetic left-winged activist --- not a man to kill himself!
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MCWATERS,OFFICER GEORGE S. KNOTS UNTIED: OR, WAYS AND BY-WAYS IN THE HIDDEN LIFE OF AMERICANDETE
1871 MCWATERS, OFFICER GEORGE S. KNOTS UNTIED: OR, WAYS AND BY-WAYS IN THE HIDDEN LIFE OF AMERICAN DETECTIVES. Hartford: J. B. Burr and Hyde, 1871. First edition. Cloth, 665pp., frontis, preface, num. illus., intro. Former owner's name, else good copy. A narrative of marvelous experiences among all classes of society, criminals in high life, swindlers, bank robbers, thieves, lottery agents, gamblers, necromancers, counterfeiters, & burglars. Officer Waters encountered "all types" and offers some interesting in-sights into his work as a detective in the 19th century.
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FORSYTH,FREDERICK ICON.
1996 FORSYTH, FREDERICK. ICON. London: Bantam, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Russia and it's 1999. The country is in economic collapse and social meltdown of hyper-inflation, chaos, corruption, and crime. But a savior looms on the horizon; someone who can reform the country. However a secret document, stolen from his desk, leaves no doubt that this man is no savior but a new Adolf Hitler. Three men are chosen to return to Russia and terminate this UPF Party member. But with Forsyth the story is much more involved than a simple assassination.
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[HORNIG, DOUG]. McSHERRY, WAUGH, & GR SUNSHINE CRIME.
1987 [HORNIG, DOUG]. EDITED BY FRANK D. McSHERRY, CHARLES G. WAUGH, AND MARTIN H. GREENBERG. SUNSHINE CRIME. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, [1987]. First edition. Near fine in pictorial stiff wrappers. The South .. white sandy beaches, red-brown tobacco fields, magnificent rivers, and Appalachian mountains; gracious hospitality, charming manners, and courtesies that have been around for generations. Could crime possibly flourish in these sunshine states??? Contains "Access to Power", a Loren Swift short story, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1986. Also included are selections by John D. MacDonald, Thomas Adcock, Melville Davisson Post, et al.
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MURRAY, WILLIAM. THE HARD KNOCKER'S LUCK.
1985 MURRAY, WILLIAM. THE HARD KNOCKER'S LUCK. [New York]: Viking, [1985]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. "Shifty" Lou Anderson finds himself falling in love with a beautiful shoplifter who has a clairvoyant ability to spot winning horses in her dreams. Obviously they were made for each other.
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MURRAY, WILLIAM WHEN THE FAT MAN SINGS.
1987 MURRAY, WILLIAM. WHEN THE FAT MAN SINGS. New York: Bantam Books, [1987]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. "Shifty" Lou Anderson is a professional sleight-of-hand magician whose real love is gambling. On evening at the gambling tables, Shifty lends rich, rotund operatic teno, Fulvio Gasparini, his "hot hand." Now Fulvio wants Shifty to be his personal "good luck charm" and watch over his gambling activities. But then Shifty meets Gasparini's friends .....
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MURRAY, WILLIAM. THE KING OF THE NIGHTCAP.
1989 MURRAY, WILLIAM. THE KING OF THE NIGHTCAP. New York: Bantam Books, [1989]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. When a track errand-runner disappears with a bundle of cash, Shifty follows the trail to Tijuana. There, instead of recovering the money, Shifty finds that he is part owner of a broken-down horse, the result being he is drawn into investigating a web of scams involving the drugging of horses and the smuggling of priceless Mayan artifacts across the border inside gorilla masks.
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GADNEY,REG THE ACHILLES HEEL.
1996 GADNEY, REG. THE ACHILLES HEEL. London: Faber & Faber, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Alan Rosslyn has a mission--to destroy a syndicate engaged in crimes against children; including the manufacture of pornography. However this time some very wealthy and internationally prominent people are involved and they're more than equal to the task to prevent their lucrative business from being destroyed. Fast-paced thriller.
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ADAMS, JANE. KILLING A STRANGER.
2006 ADAMS, JANE. KILLING A STRANGER. [Surrey]: Severn House, [2006]. First world edition. Fine indust jacket. Rob Beresford is accused of murdering Adam Hensel, a man from the other side of town. There seems to have been no link between the two and Rob had never been in trouble with the police. His mother, Clara, is devastated and strongly believes that he is innocent. Naomi is drawn into the case because the detective handling the case is her boyfriend, Alec. A surprising alliance is formed between Clara and Ernst Hensel, father of the dead man. It becomes clear to Naomi that there is a story behind the facts of the case; perhaps one that has its roots in the past.
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[HILLERMAN,TONY]. WORDS, WEATHER AND WOLFMEN - CONVERSATIONS WITH TONY HILLERMAN.
1989 FRANKLIN,ERNEST [HILLERMAN, TONY]. WORDS, WEATHER AND WOLFMEN - CONVERSATIONS WITH TONY HILLERMAN. Gallup: The Southwesterner Books, 1989. First edition. One of 350 copies signed by Hillerman, Franklin, and Ernie Bulow. Fine in dust jacket.
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[HILLERMAN, TONY]. WEAVING MYSTERIES THAT TELL OF LIFE AMONG THE NAVAJOS.
1990 [HILLERMAN, TONY]. WEAVING MYSTERIES THAT TELL OF LIFE AMONG THE NAVAJOS. Washington: Smithsonian, 1990. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Interview and discussion with Hillerman found in Smithsonian magazine, December, 1990, Volume 21, Number 9. Hillerman reveals he ignored his agent's advice when he told him, "I think you should take out the Indian stuff."
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HILLERMAN,TONY. TALKING MYSTERIES: CONVERSATIONS WITH TONY HILLERMAN.
1991 HILLERMAN, TONY AND ERNIE BULOW. TALKING MYSTERIES: CONVERSATIONS WITH TONY HILLERMAN. Illustrations by Ernest Franklin. Albuquerque: Univ. of NM Press, [1991]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Includes a Jim Chee mini-mystery. Good content.
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GRAVES,ROBERT COUNT BELISARIUS.
1938 GRAVES, ROBERT. COUNT BELISARIUS. London: Cassell, [1938]. First edition. Former owner's nameand some light foxing to fore-edges, else fine in price-clipped dust jacket with moderate wear to the extremities.
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STONE,MICHAEL THE LOW END OF NOWHERE.
1996 STONE, MICHAEL. THE LOW END OF NOWHERE. New York: Viking, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. 'Streeter' is an ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, and ex-bouncer who becomes a smooth, honest to God bounty hunter in the streets of Denver. When a blonde bombshell hires him to find her drug-dealing boyfriend's hidden money, he discovers the competition to be quite unsavory. First Streeter mystery.
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STROBEL,MARION KISS AND KILL.
1946 STROBEL, MARION. KISS AND KILL. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. Frontpanel of original dust jacket neatly affixed to front free fly-leaf, else very good in fine dust jacket. The second of the author's two mysteries. Lacy Lincoln investigates murder at a fashionable resort in the Adirondack Mountains of New York state.
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CHASE,JAMES HADLEY. I'LL BURY MY DEAD.
1954 CHASE, JAMES HADLEY. I'LL BURY MY DEAD. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1954. First U.S. edition. Fine in moderately rubbed dust jacket and with former owner's signature. Someone killed Nick English's brother. The police ruled it a suicide. Nick knew better and decided to find the killer on his own.
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HUXLEY,ELSPETH. THE MERRY HIPPO.
1963 HUXLEY, ELSPETH. THE MERRY HIPPO. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, lightly soiled on the rear panel. Set in Africa, a Royal Commission is sent to Hapana to take advice on constitutional arrangements for independence of that colony. A member of the Commission is leaking information to the press and at the same time members of the Commission are being murdered.
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MOODY,SKYE KATHLEEN RAIN DANCE.
1996 MOODY, SKYE KATHLEEN. RAIN DANCE. New York: St. Martin's, [1996]. First edition. Signed. Author's first mystery. Fine in dust jacket. Set in the Northwest, we find a young woman trying to solve a murder case in a small Puget Sound community.
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TAYLOR,PHOEBE ATWOOD. THE SIX IRON SPIDERS.
1942 TAYLOR, PHOEBE ATWOOD. THE SIX IRON SPIDERS. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1942). First edition. Fine in dust jacket with one tiny chip to head of spine and light wear to the extremities. Asey Mayo finds a dead body in his own house, dead by a heavy blow from a new iron spider [frying pan]. Asey's cousin is the prime suspect, and so it becomes urgent to solve the crime. If only there weren't so many iron spiders exactly alike ... Jonah Ives carries one in the basket on his bike; another is found on the seat of the Hazards' car, June Mundy is seen trying to bury her iron spider in the sand; and Mrs. Tuesome tries to toss her frying pan into the ocean. Not only are people seen in the most unlikely places and doing the most unlikely thing, but Asey is even more preoccupied with the fact that a pair of sneakers has disappeared from the feet of the corpse. What is going on???
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[GRANT, MAXWELL]. GIBSON, WALTER B. PROFESSIONAL MAGIC FOR AMATEURS.
1947 [GRANT, MAXWELL]. GIBSON, WALTER B. PROFESSIONAL MAGIC FOR AMATEURS. New York: Prentice-Hall,[1947]. First edition. Fine copy in dust jacket with small (1/2") closed tear to back and slight chipping to top of dust jacket spine. Former owners signature. A book of how to perform magic tricks under any circumstance.
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GRANT, MAXWELL. NORGIL. MORE TALES OF PRESTIGITECTION.
1979 GRANT, MAXWELL. NORGIL. MORE TALES OF PRESTIGITECTION. New York: Mysterious, 1979. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Signed. Norgil the Magician returns to battle the giants of crime using the elements of magic. Contains 8 novelettes.
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GRANT, MAXWELL. NORGIL. MORE TALES OF PRESTIGITECTION.
1979 GRANT, MAXWELL. NORGIL. MORE TALES OF PRESTIGITECTION. New York: Mysterious, 1979. First edition. Lettered copy. Fine in dust jacket. Slipcase. Norgil the Magician returns to battle the giants of crime using the elements of stage magic. Contains 8 novelettes.
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ADAMS, HAROLD. THE NAKED LIAR.
1985 ADAMS, HAROLD. THE NAKED LIAR. New York: Mysterious, [1985]. First edition. Signed. Very finein dust jacket. Trixie Cook's husband is dead, and the cops think she's killed him. Carl Wilcox is willing to give her the benefit of the doubt ... after all, he too has been accused of murder once or twice in the past. It doesn't take long for Carl to realize that the young widow is being framed. The problem is proving it to people who do not want to listen.
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ADCOCK, THOMAS. THROWN-AWAY CHILD.
1996 ADCOCK, THOMAS. THROWN-AWAY CHILD. New York: Pocket, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Signed. Set in New Orleans, NYPD detective Hockaday is told by his new mother-in-law that two racist cops are hunting for her cousin, Perry Duclat, a former prisoner and now suspect for murder. The victim is Perry's former cellmate ... his mutilated body was found branded with a bizarre acronym ... MOMS. Hock's investigation leads him to family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and revenge.
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ADCOCK, THOMAS. DEVIL'S HEAVEN.
1995 ADCOCK, THOMAS. DEVIL'S HEAVEN. New York: Pocket, [1995]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dustjacket. The partner of Hockaday's wife is found naked and mutilated in his up-town New York City apartment. Only after his death is it revealed that he was an after-hours drag queen. Is his death related to the other homosexual deaths being committed around the city and being written off by police as suicides?
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ADCOCK,THOMAS. DEVIL'S HEAVEN.
1995 ADCOCK, THOMAS. DEVIL'S HEAVEN. New York: Pocket, [1995]. First edition. Signed. Review copy.Fine in dust jacket. The partner of Hockaday's wife is found naked and mutilated in his up-town New York City apartment. Only after his death is it revealed that he was an after-hours drag queen. Is his death related to the other homosexual deaths being committed around the city and being written off by police as suicides?
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ADCOCK, THOMAS. DROWN ALL THE DOGS.
1994 ADCOCK, THOMAS. DROWN ALL THE DOGS. New York: Pocket, [1994]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The death of Father Tim and the disappearance of Davy Mogaill, both links to Hockaday's father, make Hock a prime suspect.
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WILTZ,CHRIS. A DIAMOND BEFORE YOU DIE.
1987 WILTZ, CHRIS. A DIAMOND BEFORE YOU DIE. New York: Mysterious, [1987]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A simple marital investigation turns into a Pandora's box of corruption and murder after PI Neal Rafferty agrees to look into a politicians' illegal affairs.
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THAYER,LEE THEY TELL NO TALES.
1930 THAYER, LEE. THEY TELL NO TALES. New York: Sears Publishing Company, Inc., [1930]. First edition. 8vo. Very light rubbing to black ink on the orange cloth, and very lightly foxed on top edges, else near fine in a fine, bright dust jacket. Peter Clancy and his butler-valet, Wiggar, become involved in a perplexing murder case that begins aboard a Pacific liner enroute to the U.S. from China. Clancy follows clue after clue until he finally solves the mystery that began in China and ends up in an unbelievable situation in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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OLDFIELD,PAMELA THE BUTTERFLY BOX.
1996 OLDFIELD, PAMELA. THE BUTTERFLY BOX. London: Michael Joseph, [1996]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Thriller from a writer of romantic novels, about a complex, yet seemingly close family. A family member dies and they're questioned by the police if it's an accident or suicide. Then the next death occurs and locked in the house, they know a murderer is among them.
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ALLBEURY, TED. A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS.
1990 ALLBEURY, TED. A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS. London: New English Library, [1990]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Did Winston Churchill betray the SOE network codenamed "Scorpio" to appease Joseph Stalin? MI6 Officer Harry Chapman, ordered to provide an explanation, begins his investigation, but finds the records were destroyed and the one person who knew the truth is dead.
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MCQUILLAN,KARIN DEADLY SAFARI.
1990 MCQUILLAN, KARIN. DEADLY SAFARI. New York: St. Martins, [1990]. First edition. Review copy. Fine in dust jacket.
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GREGORY,PHILIPPA THE LITTLE HOUSE.
1997 GREGORY, PHILIPPA. THE LITTLE HOUSE. London: HarperCollins, 1997 First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Does Ruth have the perfect marriage in the perfect little house near the perfect mother-in-law? Or is she enmeshed in a horrific conspiracy to rob her of her baby? Reminiscent of Ruth Rendell, this sharply observed and progressively more sinister tale does not supply the answer until the whiplash of a double twist in the outcome.
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TAYLOR,ANDREW THE FOUR LAST THINGS. THE ROTH TRILOGY.
1997 TAYLOR, ANDREW. THE FOUR LAST THINGS. THE ROTH TRILOGY. London: HarperCollins, [1997]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. The first novel in the trilogy, a gripping and terrifying gothic psychodrama set against the changing face of the Church of England. Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched away from her babysitter and taken by her captor to live in a new home--but Lucy's not like the other visitors and she quickly strikes through Angel's defenses to something both vulnerable and volatile at the core. To the outside world Lucy has disappeared into a black hole with no clues to her whereabouts--until the 1st grisly discovering in a London graveyard. More such finds are to follow, all at religious sites, and, in a city haunted by religion, what do these offerings signify?
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CHALFOUN,MICHELLE ROUSTABOUT.
1997 CHALFOUN, MICHELLE. ROUSTABOUT. London: HarperCollins, [1997]. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in fine dust jacket. Mat is a female tent-rigger who has been raised in the circus but is determined to break away and find true love. A vibrant and inspirational debut novel.
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AVALLONE, MICHAEL. MANNIX.
1968 AVALLONE, MICHAEL. MANNIX. New York: Popular, [1968]. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Is Iris Foley really what she seems ... a beautiful, rich jetsetter? Of is she the most lethal Red Chinese agent operating in the United State? Joe Mannix to stop Iris from being the pawn in a fantastic plot.
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MOODY, SUSAN. FALLING ANGEL.
1998 MOODY, SUSAN. FALLING ANGEL. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1998]. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Flora's husband wanted children; Flora didn't. So much so, that her marriage to Oliver has broken down. But what happens when circumstances leave her in charge of her sister's little girl and Flora feels she doesn't have maternal instincts? Then tragedy strikes and Flora looks for the guardian angel she so desperately needs. Well-plotted and a fine atmospheric thriller.
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LEWIS,ROY. SUDDENLY AS A SHADOW.
1997 LEWIS, ROY. SUDDENLY AS A SHADOW. London: HarperCollins, [1997]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Arnold Landon mystery in which murder occurs because developers want to turn an ancient burial site into a business and leisure complex.
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