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ISLAND OF TEARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 48999More details Price: $16.50 -
ISLAND OF TEARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53487More details Price: $15.00 -
OXFORD EXIT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, and the second mystery featuring novelist Kate Ivory, who agrees to take on an assignment to find out what is happening the books of Oxford University - and then she discovers that not only are the books disappearing. A young trainee went missing a year earlier, and she was found murdered. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-684-197294.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 72556More details Price: $16.50 -
LIBRARY: NO MURDER ALOUD.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Fawcett Gold Medal / Ballantine, (1993). First edition - At a famous old California library, private investigator Alex Winter investigates the murder of Perry Webb, a powerful right-winger who was one of the library's most formidable enemies - along with several other mysterious deaths. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-44914822X.
Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages, crease to back cover)
Book ID: 81864More details Price: $8.50 -
EVERMORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Allan Poe emerges in 1889, forty years after his 'staged death' to solve the mystery of Mayerling. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-688-032788.
Condition: Very good in a very good + dustjacket.
Book ID: 13563More details Price: $18.00 -
EVERMORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Allan Poe emerges in 1889, forty years after his 'staged death' to solve the mystery of Mayerling.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 13599More details Price: $28.00 -
EVERMORE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Allan Poe emerges in 1889, forty years after his 'staged death' to solve the mystery of Mayerling. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-688-032788.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (little nick at top of dj spine.)
Book ID: 46455More details Price: $20.00 -
GHOSTWALK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one centered around a real historical mystery involving Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy, and a series of murders in the modern day that may be related to the evidence being uncovered by a writer's research. An intelligent thriller, very highly praised. Illustrations, author's notes. 304 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0385521062.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50302More details Price: $18.00 -
EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - A novel of psychological suspense, set in Boston on Beacon Hill, and featuring bookseller Malcolm Kershaw. "Years ago, Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack - which he titled 'Eight Perfect Murders' - chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History." Now a serial killer is using that list, and the FBI is on his doorstep. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78948More details Price: $21.50 -
THE ANATOMY OF GHOSTS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by this award-winning author set at Cambridge University in 1786 - a former bookseller and the author of a book entitled 'The Anatomy of Ghosts," John Holdsworth, is sent there to discover why a young man who has descended into madness believes that he is being haunted. 410 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 9781401302870.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64282More details Price: $17.50 -
CAROLINE MINUSCULE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery introducing William Dougall, an "engaging and unprincipled graduate student" and his girlfriend Amanda as they hunt for a cache of diamonds. Awarded the CWA New Blood Dagger. nominated for the Edgar for best first novel, 234 pp. ISBN: 0-396081495.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, some wear to dj at top of spine)
Book ID: 71448More details Price: $30.00 -
ROSEMARY FOR REMEMBRANCE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourteenth mystery novel, featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch, and set at a summer course in creative writing. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-094682607.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (the usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74464More details Price: $20.00 -
SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's eighth mystery novel, featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - set at an expensive and successful psychiatric clinic, where the unassuming wife of the director has disappeared. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-09-4643504.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (the usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 74485More details Price: $35.00 -
THE UNQUIET GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's nineteenth mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - after his father's funeral, Lucas Gilchrist discovers that his father had a second family living not very far away, and he determines to find out the truth about this apparent double life. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-841192325.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74655More details Price: $24.50 -
FOUL PLAY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic country house murder mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - a stage adaptation of the best known novel of a 1920s detective writer is the feature of the Centenary celebration on the grounds of the mansion which had been his home. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-094707103.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 76092More details Price: $23.50 -
AN EXPERT IN MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, featuring the golden age mystery writer Josephine Tey Detective Inspector Archie Penrose. Set in the theatre world in London, where Tey's play "Richard of Bordeaux" is ending its long and sucessful run. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0061451539.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder mark, toning to pages, corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 77778More details Price: $16.50 -
LAND OF BURNING HEAT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Signet, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - A bibliomystery set in New Mexico featuring librarian and rare books expert Claire Reynier. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-32346.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61977More details Price: $13.50 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62286More details Price: $18.50 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RED DEMON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73976More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1896. INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. Map, notes. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-670879444.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73977More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE RUNE STONE MYSTERY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1899. INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. Map, notes. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-670888214.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75311More details Price: $30.00 -
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel in the American Chronicles of John Watson, M.D., set in Minnesota in 1896. Map, notes. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-670879444.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (vertical crease to spine of dj).
Book ID: 84530More details Price: $16.50 -
DARKER THAN ANY SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Tai Randolph series. Set in Atlanta where she is running her uncle's gun shop and her best friend from childhood, Rico, is competing for a national slam poetry title. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1590585467.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77960More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ANGEL'S GAME.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another literate bibliomystery, set in a "dark gothic universe" in Barcelona, Spain, by the author of "The Shadow of the Wind." Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. 531 pp. ISBN: 9780385528702.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64314More details Price: $19.50
