- Keyword = Bibliomystery and crime fiction
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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 -
MURDER AT MONTICELLO: A Homer Kelly Mystery.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: The Viking Press, (2001). First edition - Fifteenth in the Homer Kelly mystery series - in this, Homer has been invited to attend the bicentennial celebration of Jefferson's presidency and finds himself in the middle of controversy over Jefferson's role in history, while a vicious murderer is on the prowl. Illustrated with drawings by the author. xii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-670-882100.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87932More details Price: $20.00 -
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 DANTE GAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Homer Kelly mystery set in Florence and illustrated with line drawings by the author. SIGNED on the front endpaper with an original drawing of Dante. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-670834394.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71342More details Price: $30.00 -
DOROTHY AND AGATHA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fun bibliomystery - Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie, members of the Detection Club, join forces to solve a murder. Set in England in the years between the wars, the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction." A presentation copy, warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - - - It has been great singing with you - Now try to solve this by page 214! with love" 234 pp. ISBN: 0-52524865X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68280More details Price: $30.00 -
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 BOOKMAN'S TALE: A Novel of Obsession.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Penguin, (2013). After the death of his wife, a young American antiquarian bookseller relocates to a small village in England, but a chance discovery of a picture which bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife sets him on the trail that could prove the truth about Shakespeare's legacy. 352 pp plus author's note and an excerpt from his second novel "First Impressions.". ISBN: 978-0143125369.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 69677More details Price: $11.00 -
THE BOOKMAN'S TALE: A Novel of Obsession.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - After the death of his wife, a young American antiquarian bookseller relocates to a small village in England, but a chance discovery of a picture which bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife sets him on the trail that could prove the truth about Shakespeare's legacy. 352 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 978-0143125369.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71378More details Price: $20.00 -
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 EMERALD CAT KILLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final Hobart Lindsey / Marvia Plum mystery. "Hobart Lindsey is called back to the San Francisco Bay Area for one last case. A local book publisher is being sued over a novel that might actually be the last, lost work of a novelist killed over a year ago." SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 978-0312648138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69490More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
ITALIAN FEVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. 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." 259 pp. ISBN: 0-375-405429.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53207More details Price: $18.00 -
TOO BAD TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical thriller set in 1943 in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, as they meet in Tehran to finalize plans for D-Day. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-1594631795.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder dot)
Book ID: 88830More details Price: $20.00 -
TOO BAD TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical thriller set in 1943 in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, as they meet in Tehran to finalize plans for D-Day. SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-1594631795.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder dot)
Book ID: 78131More details Price: $31.50 -
THE SECRET LOVERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth book, third novel featuring Paul Christopher, set in 1960 at the very height of the Cold War. As a former CIA officer, McCarry knows the world of international espionage: Richard Condon comments that he "testifies to the pain, horror and sometimes madness it inflicts on those who perform it." SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-525-199349.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name, scratch on front cover of dj, but overall a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 52051More details Price: $200.00 -
BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: TSR, 1988. Murder at the science fiction con - winner of the Edgar for best paperback original. ISBN: 0-880384557.
Condition: Reading copy only - spine creases, wear to covers.
Book ID: 65537More details Price: $9.00 -
QUIET NEIGHBORS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2018). SIGNED - Novel set in the "oddest bookshop" in a town full of bookshops - Scotland's book town of Wigtown where a librarian fleeing from her life in London finds refuge and friends, but also secrets and the courage to face her past. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0738756172.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74370More details Price: $21.50 -
THE CHILD GARDEN.
Edition: First printing.
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth stand-alone thriller - a series of apparent suicides and accidental deaths have their roots in a long-closed alternative school named Eden - "for happy children." SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0738747620.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76129More details Price: $30.00 -
PAPERBACK THRILLER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel under this pseudonym, a bibliomystery featuring psychiatrist Sarah Chayse - resourceful, determined, analytical, a tough vegitarian and a liberated woman - who is drawn into a problem involving medical ethics and murder. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-895943875.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (slight spine slant, remainder mark, short closed tear and edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 84266More details Price: $16.50 -
THE SHERLOCKIAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Twelve, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - a bibliomystery. Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle team up to solve a real-life mystery, but the journal in which Doyle records the adventure goes missing. In 2010 a Sherlock Holmes scholar announces that he has found the missing journal but shortly afterwards is found dead. SIGNED and Dated by the author 10/16/10 almost two months before the release of the hard cover edition. 350 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51977More details Price: $30.00 -
MURDER AS A FINE ART.
Edition: Limited, signed edition - first thus.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2016. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Literary thriller set in 19th century Victorian London. "Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,"" is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." Number 244 out of 500 copies, signed by Morrell on an illustrated limitation page. Includes an author's afterword and a conversation between Morrell and Robert Morrison, De Quincey's biographer. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1587674181.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 82671More details Price: $50.00 -
MURDER MAKES AN ENTREE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, set in Edwardian England and the first in the series to published in the US. A bibliomystery with murder occuring at a dinner at Broadstairs, the seaside haunt of Charles Dickens . A Victorian whodunit. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-143761.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61780More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BLACK MASK MURDERS: A Novel Featuring the Black Mask Boys: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, & Erle Stanley Gardner.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Black Mask Boys mystery told in the voice of Dashiell Hammett, the first in a series. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-312-140118.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (upper corners of covers bumped, otherwise tight and clean, tear to dj at upper edge of back cover near spine.)
Book ID: 48189More details Price: $25.00 -
SLIGHTLY ABRIDGED: A Nine Muses Mystery: Erato.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bibliomystery featuriong Regency Romance writer Juliet Bodine and a missing manuscript from a notorious courtesan in Regency England. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-312-281854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58329More details Price: $16.50
