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MAN WITH AN AXE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, this one involving a manuscript from a long dead cult cartoonist, and bizarre emails. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7089.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 28889More details Price: $18.50 -
NO MAN'S DOG: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, one which opens with his aged mother being nearly slain when a bomb disrupts an orderly environmental protest. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-9200.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87146More details Price: $40.00 -
MAN WITH AN AXE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, involving a manuscript from a long dead cult cartoonist, and bizarre emails. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7089.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81939More details Price: $30.00 -
MAN WITH AN AXE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED(on a postcard), hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detroit Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen, involving a manuscript from a long dead cult cartoonist, and bizarre emails. Promotional postcard SIGNED by the author laid in. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7089.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64649More details Price: $27.50 -
NOT A GIRL DETECTIVE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2005) dj. Hardcover - The author's second mystery - "Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso freely admits that she spent her youth idolizing girl detective Nancy Drew, a fantasy that undoubtedly influenced her grown-up job of writing biographies of dead mystery writers. Researching the life of Nancy Drew creator Carolyn Keene, Cece snoops around at the annual Nancy Drew fan convention in Palm Springs - and discovers a dead body in the swimming pool of her borrowed vacation house." 294 pp. ISBN: 0-060581077.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82805More details Price: $15.00 -
I DREAMED I MARRIED PERRY MASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in both contemporary and historic Los Angeles - "All that writer Cece Caruso -- a thirty-nine-year-old former beauty queen from New Jersey -- really wants to do is finish her biography of Erle Stanley Gardner so that she can finally stop obsessing about Perry Mason. Well, that and find a 1970 silk chiffon Ossie Clark to add to her collection of vintage clothing." SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. Promotional card laid in. ISBN: 0-060581050.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 66663More details Price: $35.00 -
SHAMUS IN THE GREEN ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third mystery - Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso's book on Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-060581093.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 67125More details Price: $25.00 -
KILLER'S INK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First suspense novel written under this pseudonym, introducing Pulitzer prize winning reporter Pete Brady who resigns from the New Orleans paper to buy a small weekly in northern Louisiana - only to encounter murder in his first week there. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-396092799.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65413More details Price: $15.00 -
AND SOON I'LL COME TO KILL YOU.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Villard, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Cambridge, Massachusetts featuring ex-college professor turned free-lance journalist, Liz Connors. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-394584155.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65422More details Price: $18.00 -
ONE FELL SLOOP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set off the coast of Maine, featuring English professor turned sleuth Roz Howard. 294 pp. Map endpapers of Penobscot Bay. ISBN: 0-670-835374.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 54819More details Price: $15.00 -
GRAVES IN ACADEME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second bibliomystery featuring English professor and amateur sleuth Roz Howard. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-670807346.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (small piece torn off upper corner off last two leaves, some general handling wear)
Book ID: 65451More details Price: $14.50 -
THE GOOD KNOW NOTHING: A Tom Hickey Novel.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of textblock) Surprisingly uncommon in hardcover first edition
Book ID: 89095More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GRAND COMPLICATION.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 38171More details Price: $14.50 -
THE GRAND COMPLICATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39303More details Price: $21.50 -
THE GRAND COMPLICATION.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.). A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research - A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-85181.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51256More details Price: $11.50 -
THE GRAND COMPLICATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Hyperion, (2001.). First edition - The author's second novel. A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60818More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GRAND COMPLICATION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young reference librarian is hired by an eccentric bibliophile to do some after-hours research. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2001, in the year of publication. A New York Times Notable book. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75815More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACKWOOD'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A bibliomystery, set in a picturesque English village. Faron has devoted her life to her late father's work, and now after years of declining popularity, it is on the rise again - but while she is on a lecture tour in England an old friend of her father's is found murdered. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312-04299X.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (short edge tears)
Book ID: 15701More details Price: $15.00 -
BLACKWOOD'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A bibliomystery, set in a picturesque English village. Faron has devoted her life to her late father's work, and now after years of declining popularity, it is on the rise again - but while she is on a lecture tour in England an old friend of her father's is found murdered. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312-04299X.
Condition: Near fine in a a good dustjacket (overall edgewear to the dj, some short closed tears)
Book ID: 63067More details Price: $13.50 -
THE THIEF OF VENICE: A Homer Kelly Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourteenth in the Homer Kelly mystery series - in this, Homer is attending a rare book conference in Venice, and Mary is glorying in being an ordinary tourist. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Afterword. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-670-882100.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42877More details Price: $18.50 -
THE TURNER JOURNALS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller by award winning writer Randisi. the only novel written using this pseudonym. Set in New York City. "Paging through his wife's diary after her death from an aneurysm at age 32, hack writer Nick Turner is amazed to read of her many infidelities. He decides on vengeance, and a new serial killer is born. Because the murder methods he uses vary, the NYPD are slow to spot a pattern, but eventually the dogged and utterly unambitious Detective First-grade Dennis McQueen does take note, and the chase is on." (Publishers' Weekly) 278 pp. ISBN: 0-802732607.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 84361More details Price: $21.00 -
COPPER BEECHES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Trident Press, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Philadelphia branch ("The Sons of the Copper Beeches") of the Baker Street Irregulars engage in a competition when one of their members has the temerity to suggest that Sherlock Holmes was only able to solve his crimes because of all the clues Arthur Conan Doyle provided. At stake is a suberb collection of Sherlockiana, but this good-natured chase soon becomes deadly. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-671-270834.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (foxing to the fore-edge of the texblock, and the folds of the dj, creasing to flaps of dj.)
Book ID: 56390More details Price: $18.00 -
THE COVER GIRL KILLER
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hobart Lindsay/Marvia Plum mystery, the fifth in this great series, this one set in the 'dusty world of vintage paperbacks.' SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-312-13455x.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (appears unread, but a hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 28984More details Price: $30.00 -
THE COVER GIRL KILLER
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hobart Lindsay/Marvia Plum mystery, the fifth in this great series, this one set in the 'dusty world of vintage paperbacks.' SIGNED on the title page - at, appropriately enough, a paperback collectors' book fair. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-312-13455x.
Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (a straight and attractive copy, but binding partially cracked before title page.)
Book ID: 31205More details Price: $23.50 -
THE BOOK OF SPIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biblio-thriller featuring a book from Ivan the Terrible's lost library and featuring rare books curator Eva Blake and former intelligence officer Judd Ryder. Author's note, bibliography. 390 pp. ISBN: 978-0312380892.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62423More details Price: $15.00 -
GHOST WALK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Dido Hoare, an antiquarian bookseller and single mother, set in London. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-19417X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59236More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, a bibliomystery set in the years of the Great Depression with two authors of pulp fiction - Walter Gibson, the creator of "The Shadow" and Lester Dent, creator of "Doc Savage" - put aside their rivalry to track down the killer of H. P. Lovecraft, joined in this quest by another young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard. Introduction and epilogue. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287852.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock, light toning to pages)
Book ID: 64765More details Price: $20.00 -
SLEEPING BEAUTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A suspense thriller about a serial murderer and the true-crime book written about the killer. SIGNED by the author. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0083263.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 59951More details Price: $30.00 -
TOASTING TINA: A Jane Stuart and Winky Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biblio-mystery featuring literary agent Jane Stuart, set at a Romance Writers Convention. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-02261.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58188More details Price: $15.00 -
ITALIAN FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A secluded Tuscan villa, a mysterious death, a missing manuscript, a whisp of a ghost and a smart young American woman tumbling helplessly into an unexpected affair." SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-375-405429.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52184More details Price: $30.00
