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SOUTHERN GHOST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good+ dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 9455More details Price: $12.50 -
MINT JULEP MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore - this one is set at the Dixie Book Festival. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 277 pp,. ISBN: 0-553-094637.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87406More details Price: $25.00 -
MINT JULEP MURDER
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, 1995. First edition - Mystery featuring Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore - this one is set at the Dixie Book Festival. 277 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lamination flaw on front cover.) Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 46473More details Price: $16.00 -
SOUTHERN GHOST
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Putnam, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery set in South Carolina and featuring Annie Darling , the owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore. ISBN: 0-553-073923.
Condition: Very good+ in a very good- dustjacket (some edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 48476More details Price: $12.50 -
DEAD BY MIDNIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie and Max Darling. Annie is the proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore, located on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. 282 pp,. ISBN: 978-0061914973.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 73575More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CHRISTIE CAPER.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1991)
dj. Hardcover - A murder set at a convention for fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries - a bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling. Clue sheets, treasure hunt posters, author's postscript. 295 ppCondition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60281More details Price: $12.50 -
A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Annie and Max Darling. Annie is the proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore. In this book she agrees to teach a class at a nearby college on the three grande dames of the mystery - Christie, Sayers and Rinehart, 215 pp,. ISBN: 0-385-264526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63504More details Price: $16.50 -
LIVING PROOF.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Charlie Resnick mystery. It's early summer and Nottingham is hosting its annual 'Shots in the Dark' crime festival, with best-selling American mystery writer Cathy Jordan as the celebrity guest. ISBN: 0-8050-20454.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (line on bottom edge.).
Book ID: 28405More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SHADOW OF THE MOTH, a Novel of Espionage with Virginia Woolf
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery set in 1917 London. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-714149.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 4804More details Price: $16.50 -
THE PRINCE AND THE PROSECUTOR: A Mark Twain Mystery.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, (1998). The third novel in this series of historical mysteries featuring Mark Twain as sleuth. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-425-149390.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72500More details Price: $9.00 -
DEATH ON THE MISSISSIPPI: A Mark Twain Mystery.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Berkley, (1995.). First edition - The author's first novel, a mystery featuring Mark Twain as sleuth. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-425-149390.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55392More details Price: $12.00 -
A REALLY CUTE CORPSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Bookseller Claire Malloy gets involved in a local beauty festival. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-022719.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj.)
Book ID: 5796More details Price: $18.00 -
BUSY BODIES: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. Hardcover - The 10th mystery to feature amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Claire Malloy. Set in a small Southern town. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939105.
Condition: Good in good only dust jacket (date stamped on front endpaper, few spots to rear endpaper, edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 43962More details Price: $12.50 -
MURDER AT THE MURDER AT THE MIMOSA INN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Claire Malloy mystery, rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition - set at a mock murder mystery weekend. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-552939.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket. (remainder dot, edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 45631More details Price: $18.50 -
OUT ON A LIMB: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourteenth mystery featuring small town Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-312-266804.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to rear flap of dj.)
Book ID: 58266More details Price: $16.50 -
A DIET TO DIE FOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner, part-time sleuth and full-time single mother. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-033265.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 77370More details Price: $28.50 -
BUSY BODIES: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 10th mystery to feature amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Claire Malloy. Set in a small Southern town. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939105.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59582More details Price: $18.50 -
CLOSELY AKIN TO MURDER: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 11th mystery to feature amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Claire Malloy. Set in a small town in Arkansas. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939113.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59583More details Price: $18.50 -
HOLLY JOLLY MURDER: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 12th mystery to feature amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Claire Malloy. Set in a small town in Arkansas. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-525-942408.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59584More details Price: $18.50 -
POISONED PINS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eighth mystery featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner, part-time sleuth and full-time single mother. INSCRIBED on the title page "To--- all the best" 246 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935916.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59589More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER AT THE MURDER AT THE MIMOSA INN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Claire Malloy mystery, rather hard to find in the hardcover first edition - set at a mock murder mystery weekend. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-552939.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 59949More details Price: $35.00 -
TICKLED TO DEATH: A Claire Malloy Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner, part-time sleuth and full-time single mother. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938109.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60234More details Price: $16.50 -
ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's. (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring small town bookseller and single mother, Claire Malloy. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-059566.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (initials on front endpaper)
Book ID: 60280More details Price: $28.50 -
A DIET TO DIE FOR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner, part-time sleuth and full-time single mother. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-033265.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 61906More details Price: $13.50 -
DEAR MISS DEMEANOR
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third bibliomystery featuring Claire Malloy, set in Arkansas. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-312-007027.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65589More details Price: $35.00 -
STRANGLED PROSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing bookseller Claire Malloy and her teenage daughter. A small first printing. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-312764286.
Condition: Just about fine in a good only dust jacket (short closed tears and some creasing to the upper edge of the dj)
Book ID: 65835More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER UPTOWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this author of children's books and adult non-fiction. The murder of a college professor is set in a university environment which Hill knows well as a former Professor and department head of Hunter College. ISBN: 0-88184-7453.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31330More details Price: $15.00 -
THE WITCHES' HAMMER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (1994). First edition - The author's second suspense novel - the murder of a book collector, and a missing rare volume from his library, sets off a chain of sinister events. 401 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 72865More details Price: $18.00 -
THE WORD IS MURDER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another re-invention of the classic crime novel by the author of 'The Magpie Murders.' "One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz." 387 pp. ISBN: 978-0062676788.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 87585More details Price: $18.00 -
THE TWIST OF A KNIFE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in the series of offbeat thrillers featuring disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator and Horowitz himself, as the ghost who documents his murder investigations - However, in a twist, it is Horowitz who is suspected of murdering a critic who panned his play "Mindgame"and arrested and he relies on Hawthorne to prove his innocence. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0062938169.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87603More details Price: $24.50
